(What have you missed since the last time you checked here?)
02-21-2016 Completely re-designing the web site to convert from
Joomla to WordPress. We will still be pointing to the old
ancient web pages with pictures, at least for now.
10-07-2012 Added new page for 2012 computer upgrade.
04-22-2012 The photo galleries and sound page were broken due to
problems with free Joomla plug-ins which would not work as
advertised. I do not have time to fool with them so I have
pointed to the copies from the old web site. I will
modernize these at a later date when I get around to it.
04-01-2012 Upgrading the CMS from Joomla 1.5 to 2.5
03-25-2012 Added an MP3 player to the sounds page, added the
beginnings of a 2012 blog
03-26-2011 Redesigning web site to work with a content management
system (CMS)
05-15-2009 Added new pictures of kitten Gizmo, added updated
pictures of Queen Creek House
03-12-2009 Added a page showing my latest computer upgrade,
there is a link to it from the "Current Interests" page.
03-08-2009 Added a new page for the new kitten Gizmo and also
added
a new page for group photos of the four current cats
05-25-2008 Added new pictures of the cats to the three individual cat pages and also the comtemporaries page for Jack, Butterscotch, and Nero.
03-26-2008 Added the String Transformation Utility to the list of recent software projects I have done. Linked the software projects page to the "current interests" page. Updated the "current interests" page to indicate that old projects are not new projects. Updated "professions" page to indicate I want to return to software development
01-13-2008 Added new pictures of Nero, including baby pictures and also teen-ager pictures. Added new pictures of him with his new brothers on their comptemporaries page, added a picture to Jack's page of how he looks after he plays with the kitten all day.
06-24-2007 Added new pictures of Nero with his new brothers on their comptemporaries page
06-21-2007 Added page with pictures of new kitten Nero and also a comptemporaries page showing him with Jack and Butterscotch
06-13-2007 Added more pictures of home construction
06-01-2007 Added more pictures of my home construction, added pages showing the construction progress for the east and west sides of my neighborhood. It is now four weeks until I close on my new house, assuming everything goes as planned.
05-02-2007 Finished the page showing the progress of my home construction to date
05-01-2007 Finished the page showing the model home for the house I am having built in Queen Creek.
04-28-2007 Added a link on the AZ Page to the apartment complex in Ahwatukee, added a new link on the houses page to the new house being built in Queen Creek - no pictures yet, but we have some blank pages to put the pictures now when I get around to it.
04-21-2007 Totally re-designing web site for new domain, combining five web sites into one and also putting back content that was previously deleted due to disk space limitations. The old web site allowed me five sites of 10MB each for a total of 50MB. In the new location, my entire web site will be in one place and I will have 100 times the disk space.
02-26-2006 Added a link to my new Blog for 2006
05-29-2005 Removed the page of "Our House" pictures since there is no more "Our House" since we are getting divorced. Created a new "North Scottsdale Apartment" page in the Arizona section to show where I am living as a single guy with my cats. This update was done with Microsoft Frontpage for the first time - Mozilla Composer had some bugs and was too difficult to use.
05-08-2005
New pictures of Jack, Butterscotch, Midnight and all cats
together.
Added page for 2004 Toyotas
12-22-2003
Added pictures of the inside of Our
House
with our furniture and belongings
11-19-2003
Added pictures of Jack, Midnight, Butterscotch, and all cats
together
10-05-2003
Added page for Jack. Added page for pictures with
Butterscotch,
Midnight, and Jack together. Added picture of
Butterscotch
08-01-2003
Modified Pet Page to add updated text reflecting the date when
Misha
was put to sleep. Added the nickname to Butterscotch description,
HuskyFluffer
07-10-2003
Added pictures of Butterscotch, Butterscotch and Misha together,
Butterscotch,
Misha, and Midnight together
06-22-2003
Moved pictures of Duron Motherboard Upgrade to another web space
to
solve quota problems - Cox was getting upset with me. Also
activated
my sound files on another web space, the links on the main web
space
now
lead to this new location.
02-10-2003
Added more pictures of Midnight and Midnight with Butterscotch,
added
page of pictures with Misha, Butterscotch, and Midnight together
02-04-2003
Added page of Midnight pictures and page for Butterscotch with
Midnight
11-03-2002
Added web page of recent motherboard upgrade, it can be accessed
from
current
interests page.
09-09-2002
Added pictures of Northeast Phoenix home.
08-10-2002
Added pictures of Misha, Butterscotch, and the two of them
together
in Contemporaries section
Added dust storm page to Arizona section
08-06-2002
Added pictures of new 2002 Saturns, fixed birth date for
Butterscotch
05-03-2002
Added more pictures of pool construction.
04-19-2002
Moved web site to Cox
Added page for pool construction, added more pictures to AZ sunset
page, added more pictures to Butterscotch page, added a page for
Misha
and Butterscotch together
04-16-02
In preparation for moving my web site to Cox, split it into three
pieces
- main, Arizona, and houses.
01-22-2002
Removed page for North Phoenix home, added page for West Phoenix
home.
01-14-2002
Added page for North Phoenix home.
12-17-2001
Fixed thumbnails on Gilbert page so they display large
pictures
12-10-2001
Added a pet page for Butterscotch.
11-30-2001
Created Grand Canyon page.
Created Gilbert Page, have not yet linked thumbnails.
We received word that Excite@Home might be turned off today
because
they are bankrupt. We use them to connect to the Internet so
I
was
trying to get these changes implemented.
11-29-2001
Fixed links on sounds page. Long ago I deleted the sound
files
to save space. I put the sound files on the Geocities web
server
but never fixed the links.
Added Arizona page with links to Phoenix Trip and
Phoenix
New Home pages. Added links to Arizona Sunset Page,
Gilbert
Page, and Grand Canyon Page which have not yet been
created.
Deleted pictures of Williamsburg home and LITH home to make more
room.
Created Arizona Sunset Page.
03-17-2001
Fixed links on two pages of pictures for Phoenix home and
model.
Added pictures to Phoenix trip page for non-home related pictures
from
our second trip out there.
03-16-2001
Added more pictures of new Phoenix home, added page of pictures
for
model.
02-25-2001
Added more pictures of our trip to Phoenix. Started a page
covering
our new home and move to Phoenix in May-June.
02/02/2001
Added pictures of our trip to Phoenix, added a page for the Saturn
LS2, fixed a problem on the Timmy page, a thumbnail was pointing
to the
wrong full sized picture.
07/23/2000
Added pictures of Saturn - DRLs and under the hood.
07/15/2000
Sharpened original pictures of Saturn, moved pictures of smashed
Saturn
from storm page to Saturn page, added pictures of fixed Saturn,
added
page
for used Saturn SC2.
06/25/2000
Added interior pictures of Kelmscott house.
06/24/2000
Added a page for the Kelmscott model which we are
purchasing.
We have given up on the Williamsburg. Added pictures of
exterior
of house.
05/28/2000
Added a couple of new pictures to Williamsburg page.
Added page to show damage from 5/18 storms. My Saturn was
smashed
in the storm, so access the storms page by going to my Saturn page
and
clicking on the link to view the Smashed Saturn.
05/07/2000
Added a bunch of pictures to Williamsburg page.
05/01/2000
Added update to main page concerning home update. Created
first
Williamsburg page with one picture.
03/19/2000
Added new pictures of model home, replaced some cloudy pictures
with
sunny pictures
03/15/2000
Added picture of Teri with me to show what size she was.
03/10/2000
Added new pictures of model home, made existing pictures larger by
scanning prints instead of using low resolution pictures from the
Kodak
floppy.
03/03/2000
I have located some pictures of Teri and have quietly added
them
to my web site. What I mean is, I am not going to tell
anyone (least of all my wife!). When she was in my life, I
think
many people wondered why I wanted her around. Some
people thought she was ugly, and my dad thought she was
suicidal.
She was, however, part of my life and has just as
much right to be on my web site as anyone else does!
Also added more pictures to the Timmy and Misha Contemporaries page
01/19/2000
Added a picture to the Timmy page. Sharpened a
picture
on the Misha page and change size of thumbnail to
standard.
Added page of pictures for multi-purpose control panel and placed
link
to it on past interests page.
01/16/2000
Changed the portal page to point to the AOL web
site.
Changed the main page of Mediaone to point to the portal. I
am
now
totally on AOL. I hope that everyone can find me here.
Added
Misha pictures
01/14/2000
Updated sounds page and Andre page for two new
sounds
- Andre barking and me as a young lad.
Figured out how to get more disk space on AOL servers, uploaded
sound
files and re-enabled links on sounds page. I will not
perform any
more updates until I kill the Mediaone site - it is too confusing
having
my web site in two places!
01/13/2000
Uploaded web site to AOL servers. Removed sound files to
conserve
disk space, had a hard time fitting all the pictures. In
testing
the web site, found and fixed problems with links on parents
page
which MUST have been there in Mediaone version - updated parents
page
and
updated on both servers. Testing AOL version of web site.
01/12/2000
Changed files on web page so they are MP3 format instead of ASF
format.
They are about the same size, they are higher quality, and more
people
will be able to play them.
01/12/2000
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
We are moving out of our home which means our cable will be turned
off, which means we will not have Internet access through our
cable
company,
which means this web site cannot exist where it currently
is. I
am
packing up the web site and getting ready for the big move!
It
will
be a roaming web site. I am changing links on all pages so
nothing
points to Mediaone, our cable company. I am changing the home
page to alert people there is a move in the works!
12/14/1999
Added pictures and information relating to new house we are
building
in Round Lake Beach. Removed pointers to my wife's business
which
has been closed after one year of operation due to lack of
sufficient
customers.
10/25/1999
Added animated GIFs to some pages to spice things up a bit -
they're
fun!
10/16/1999
Added an Andre page of pictures which can be accessed from
the
pets
page.
09/19/1999
Added pictures and pages for 1995 Plymouth Voyager and 1999 Saturn
SL2.
09/06/1999
Added pictures to Anton page.
09/05/1999
Finished redesign of all pages, removed vacation pictures - web
site
is now down to 3MB after having been 10MB.
09/04/1999
Began changing the way that thumbnails are generated to save disk
space.
Thumbnails were getting confused - pictures of forests were
changing
into
old buildings, pictures of cats were turning into horses.
Something
had to be done. Things will be confused here for a
while.
Finished
web pages anton.html thru koleen.html, and misha.html.
Forgot
about
6000ste.html
08/28/1999
Added additional content to past interests page.
Added
pictures of 1976 Volare wagon and crash, 1983 Chrysler Town and
Country
Wagon, and 1984 Pontiac 6000 STE.
08/25/1999
Added pictures for Wisconsin vacation with Koleen to North Woods
and
Madison.
08/23/1999
Totally changed main page, added cars page, current
interests page, past interests page, history
page,
and
professions
page, removed all this information from home page and
added
pointers
on
main page to these new pages.. Move index of
important
people to main home page, deleted "People" page.
07/25/1999
Added high-resolution pictures of Timmy. These are the only
pictures
I have of him from my Advantix camera.
There were other pictures taken of him using
this
camera which were destroyed. These pictures were also
thought to be forever lost, but were recently
located
when I was searching for something else. On the
subject of items being destroyed, his voice was
digitally recorded and those files are thought to be
forever lost - if you never see his voice on
here,
that is why.
Added underscores between thumbnails on all web pages to force
spacing
between them. I kept adding
tabs between them and whenever I published the
web
page it would delete the spacing between
the thumbnails and run them together - drove me
crazy! I don't have time to experiment with the
"correct" way of doing it, but the underscore
seems
to work.
Added a "return to home page" selection to most pages so if people
are several levels down they
can easily return to the top level.
07/13/1999
Added high-quality stereo recording of me and my mother to sounds
page
05/15/1999
Added a page of sounds
Added an FAQ page for the sound format
Added a page for my dad (Anton Persson) and put a token picture
out
there for now
Added a link for the sounds page to Anton, Mildred,
and
Grandparents
pages.
Added references to Koleen's
business
web site.
04/23/1999
Added a couple of pictures of Timmy
Added a couple of pictures of my parents
Changed the size of thumbnails on pages to make them of a more
uniform
size - in some cases the clarity was affected, but
the full-size picture will still look the
same.
I thought the thumbnails looked sloppy, and I found a simple way
to
resize
them.
There's not much time now to work on the web page, so updates are
likely
to be infrequent....
03/20/1999
Added this updates page so people can tell what changed
since
the last time they surfed here.
Added a page of pictures of my wife Koleen.
Added pictures of my "oldest friend" Keith to the friends page.
Added pictures of my mother at my wedding to the Mildred
page.
Added pictures to Misha and Timmy contemporaries page.
03/05/1999
Added a page of pictures for my mother Mildred who recently passed
away.
Added more pictures of my parents together to the parents
page.
Added a contemporary page for Andre and Peter in the pets
section.
02/08/1999
This web site, which I had wanted to create for a LONG time, was
finally
created because Timmy, who was my favorite
cat (don't tell Misha that), died. I
wanted
to get some pictures of him out on the web as a way of working
through
the
grief I was feeling. There were several
updates
between 2/8/99 and 3/5/99, but I was not tracking updates at the
time.