Some long overdue maintenance was performed on the site this year. I cleaned up broken hyperlinks to external sites that are no longer there. I also rewrote the code to some older pages to make them work better, even when the outward appearance doesn't change much. I've also added many more new pages than have been added in several years.
20071223 The Bicycling Guitarist home page has its photograph replaced with one from the newspaper article A bicycling troubadour in the Roseburg, Oregon News Review of October 15, 2007.
20070824 2007 Awards page is for awards won by my web site this year.
20070822 I added Charles Morreale at Misamari to the China-Burma-India section of my web site after being contacted by his son via email.
20070727 I converted the XHTML 1.0 source code of all the pages back to HTML 4.01. The consensus among experts in HTML newsgroups is that serving XHTML as HTML is pointless, and if they are served as XML then the most popular web browser won't render the pages.
20070715 G. K. Chesterton has a few of the many sayings attributed to this man.
20070713 The Blind Men and the Elephant is a famous nineteenth-century poem based on earlier stories from India and elsewhere. The author, John Godfrey Saxe, proposes that differing religions may be different the way the elephant is described in the poem.
20070626 the essence of Buddhism is my interpretation of the essential meaning of Buddhism, influenced by the controversial scholars Joseph Campbell and Alan Watts. I also added Miluna as the second video on the pet videos page of Airo Astarhy. It features the two cats Milo and Luna who love each other but are separated by fate.
20070622 Other people's materal hosted on my web site is a list of web pages I am hosting online on my web site for other people. On those web pages, the authors always have had credit given to them for their content. I did the XHTML and CSS coding to present the content of these pages in a manner consistent with the rest of my web site. As with all such coding I've done, I had a LOT of help from newsgroups and discussion forums.
20070618 Luna Rising is the introduction of Luna kitty to this web site. Cat Stories by Bill G. are being hosted on my web site.
20070613 Interesting facts about Christianity is a page that every fundamentalist Christian should read. On a more satirical note, Jesus was a Horse Thief is an easy-to-play song I wrote about a curious incident described in the Gospels.
20070604 A cute little kitty called Caldecat is to honor and mourn my beloved calico cat (feared dead when this page was posted June 4, sadly confirmed two days later). The previous version of this page is renamed Caldecat joins us.
20070603 Insubstantial Pageant has quotations about the nature of reality by William Shakespeare, Bill Hicks and yours truly.
20070525 My FAVORITE pages on this web site.
20070520 Poetry is the index page for this new section of my web site. Human is a long poem I wrote in high school about the experience of being human. Puddle of Puke is a humorous song I wrote in 1990 about throwing up Chinese food.
20070519 Entropy is a song I wrote in 1986 that asks some of the most fundamental questions a human can ask about existence.
20070518 The Pianist as a historical document is an essay I wrote for a university class back in 2004 about the award-winning film directed by Roman Polanski.
20070514 Dogs is the index page to another new section of my web site. Chopper describes the dog that has lived with me since the summer of 2006.
20070508 Meaning of Life is something I've always wondered about personally. Here is what I've realized so far.
20070501 Two poems I wrote in high school are both from 1977, thirty years on. They are both about high school life. One poem is about a bad report card and the other is about the announcement of a quiz.
20070430 Philosophy and Metaphysics is the index page to the first new section of my web site in a long time. The first entry is Ye are gods that offers a Hindu interpretation of Christianity.
20070427 Some silly coincidences in my life is about the mysterious links between the Red Baron, the bicycle on which I ride, the car I drive, and a Native American symbol for the universe. I also rewrote the comments to “Eyes of Blue” to mention the connection between some of that song's lyrics and certain Eastern philosophies. I was not aware of these connections, at least not at the level of ordinary consciousness, when I wrote that page many years ago.
20070324 Reply to Fundamentalist Christians was added so I wouldn't have to keep writing the same things over and over again to people who question me about the FACT of evolution.
20070215 A YouTube video of our pets was made by my friend Airo Astarhy.
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