20080603 Lynn's Schwinn describes the recent rescue of another Schwinn Sportabout ten-speed bicycle from a trash dumpster. This page includes a poem I wrote to commemorate the event.
20080511 I converted the 2005 video of The Bicycling Guitarist from .mov to .mp4 file format and added this to the videos page in addition to the .mov file already there.
20080505 The audio files for the songs from R College Story are posted now as mp3 files instead of the 1990s vintage RealPlayer G2 rm files. The audio files for the songs from R Blonde Story are resampled at twice the sound quality of the files they replace. The file sizes are also twice as large, but that isn't as much an issue these days as it was in years past.
Following the advice from some web authoring forums and newsgroups, in January I slightly modified the HTML and CSS code. These are subtle improvements that for the most part make no difference in how visitors perceive the site.
20080130 I make changes to the directory structure of graphics for the awards pages and the pet pages of my web site. I didn't change the URLs of any of the pages, just those of the graphics associated with those pages. This is to simplify my web site in preparation for major changes this year. Stay tuned!
20080129 Help as metaphysics is my analysis of the lyrics to the Beatles song Help! These thoughts came to me rather suddenly on January 29, 2008. This is my newest and now one of my favorite pages.
20080125 I ceased catering to the inability of Netscape 4 browsers to read standards-compliant web page code. In other words, I stopped using the @import trick to fool Netscape 4 browsers since very few people still use these once-dominant but very buggy web browsers. I merged index_filter.css into index.css and merged style_filter.css into style.css, then deleted the two filter stylesheets.
20080122 I changed the CSS code of my home page by changing a div's class to ID instead (this is all geek to me). By doing this I was able to delete class="link" from each button's HTML code (thanks Edwin, who actually wrote the improved CSS). Finally getting the hang of the use of ID in CSS, I also deleted an unnecessary CSS class from all pages that have the navigation bar, cleaning up the HTML code a bit (thanks dorayme).
20080114 My site map page was one that did not have the otherwise ubiquitous navigation bar at the top of the page. I remedied that to be consistent (thanks bragadocchio), and also made it so the link in the navigation bar doesn't change color when the mouse cursor hovers over it when one is on the page that is linked to (thanks Stan Brown).
“New Stuff in 2003” describes the changes made to this web site in that year.
“New Stuff in 2004” describes the changes made to this web site in that year.
“New Stuff in 2005-06” describes the changes made to this web site in those years.
“New Stuff in 2007” describes the changes made to this web site in that year.