Change log :: What's new here?

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Change Log: What's new here?

"Nothing lasts forever in this world where
one season changes into another." (Genji -- Murasaki Shikibu)

Items with yellow background indicate added or changed content. Items with orange background tend to be more "technical", improving the structure of the site, but not necessarily significantly affecting end-user content.

I started this log 07 July 1997; prior changes are not included. This web site was established ca. 01 Dec 1996. I frequently add new material. I even more often revise and rework what's already here.

I rarely remove anything. Crescit eundo....

THINK

Whatever else you do: Add value! ("value added")

Date

What was done (We learn by doing....)

09Sep20

Updated IHS page to pray for a USA "Pussy Riot" band to pray to The Virgin Mary to put Donald J. Trump away.

11Jul20

More acronyms added to "My favorite aconyms".

28Sep18

Updated my resume.

19Dec11

Added to page about my father's life story, information from email I received from one of his salesmen: "Dec 2011 note" with footnote, fn.124.

25Mar11

Abiko Maine Coon cat died 23 March 2011. Abiko was a very good, and perhaps also a wise cat.

18Feb10

The oldest page on this website of which I still have a copy 'turned 13' this day: Mouse cartoons, dated: "18 Feb 97".

19Dec09

I got an H1N1 "Swine Flu" shot this day.

24Aug09

I have a piece of very good luck returning a piece of very poor quality merchandise. Also: Beware of assemble-it-yourself furniture put together with "cam locks"!

29Dec08

Annals of [felid] aging: Abiko (maine coon cat) had radioactive iodine treatment for hyperthyroid condition. 4 months later the treatment appears to have been successful and Abi's thyroid is normal.

29Jun08

Changed: Words I can't Stand to: Words I find offensive. And added: Words I just find annoying (i.e., unlike the preceding type, not really hurtful or demeaning).

20Jun08

Added new entries to list of: Words I can't Stand.

16Jun08

Playhouse in front yard of new house. A shrine to the spirit of dwelling?

18Apr08

Added XHTML 1.0 version of my Homepage.

15Apr08

Added new section to lists of various kinds of things: Words I can't Stand.

06Apr08

I downloaded Apple's Safari 3.1 web browser for Windows; pages with Java Applets no longer crash the browser. Everything on this website displays well in Safari 3.1.

05Apr08

Changed HTML doctype tags in HTML 3.2 pages on this website from '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">' to '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">' because I found that is the preferred HTML 3.2 doctype declaration.

31Mar08

Added important information for when you get a colonoscopy: doctors often do not look for the most dangerous abnormalities.

23Mar08

Added picture that is not a Frank Gehry design for an art museum in Lhasa Tibet.

07Feb08

Annals of aging: This day I had my 4th colonoscopy.

13Jan08

Added new material to collection of puns and riddles.

03Sep07

Going around in circles: Forgetfulness on my way to work one morning....

16Jun07

Annals of recycling: My newspaper recycling bin and the papers in it, stolen, on a late Spring Sunday mid-afternoon.

16Jun07

Apple released their Safari web browser for Windows; I downloaded it and this website displays nicely in it (except that pages with Java Applets crash the browser). [See also: 25Sep05 entry.]

05Apr07

Updated my resume to add job promotion from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer.

31Mar07

Pictures of Mimi at Chinese Bluegrass concert, from local newspaper, one day before her 6th birthday.

17Mar07

At work, I unexpectedly participated in a "mini-Y2k" hysteria over daylight saving time (DST) moving forward 3 weeks and many computer programs needing to be patched to show the new time. Silly me, I was not expecting any more computer date problems until the UNIX 32 bit epoch overflow in 2038.

04Nov06

"Germs Never Sleep".

29Oct06

Added picture: Moon seen thru new house foyer window (29 Oct 06, ca. 17:26).

~~24Jun06~~
22Oct06

Another adventure in my new home (here: 2 earlier adventures...). Note: Clicking the little "new house" icon [

] always takes you to a different adventure of my new life in the new house.... [This item originally posted 24Jun06; updated 22Oct06.]

27Aug06

New material added to "Quotes I like" pages (item #268).

15Jul06

Seltzer water not being available at lunch, I undertake an experiment and try to drink: Ginger Ale.

27Jun06

Time-crunch anxiety about possibly not getting a shower after my workout "supercharges" me to do extra on the stepmill: Read row #2 in: fn.119

15Jun06

Added new material to my aphorisms pages (item #103).

11Jun06

Univ. of Pennsylvania figures out how to use student blogs for managing and judging students' progress thru the educational program: fn.120

(Compare my idea of students creating cumulative portfolios of their work.)

10Jun06

Added picture of Al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, dead, after U.S. forces got him 07Jun06 with 2 precision guided 500lb bombs during a meeting in a "safe house", looking like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn alive.

09Jun06

In new house: I open back door to get air and do not notice screen is open; Abiko gets out. Fortunately, when I do finally notice the screen is open, I easily find Abiko and she comes back in as soon as I call to her.

23May06

Moving Day; house doors open for movers to take stuff out; Misu gets chance to get out but does not escape (Mirabile Misu, again) ~ Also: Misu reminds me of Pikachu (Pokemon).

20May06

"Bigger houses, longer commutes" -- trading living room for living: fn.117

19May06

Watch the show....

19May06

Spring 2006 in Iraq: "Now I know it is time to go."

14May06

Why we all need to return to traditional moral values.

07May06

Does George W Bush support the right to use contraception?

05May06

Added collection (ca. 32) Mimi's baby pictures from China and just after she came to U.S.

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