Just as a little test, I’ve hooked up 2 news feeds from other sites: Extremetech and Wired. It was a bit of work, but it seems solid now. It almost makes this web site seem like a real one 
Check them out in the lower right hand corner of this browser window.
I spent last Saturday skiing up at Dodge Ridge, 3 hours from the Bay Area in CA. You can look at the photos from the trip on the photos page.
Enjoy.
I have come far in a short time, grasshopper. Having just spent a week learning the intimate details of BASH scripting there is now site wide web statistics for any who wish them. I’d say that “I am the man” except for the overwhelming feeling of numbness.
I’ve slept maybe 4 hours a night since taking on this task. I think I’ll turn in early tonight. Maybe some Zzzz’s will be good for a change, and help distract me from the clearly bad plan of working on the web site after I come home from working on the computer all day long.
I’ve just sent out a bounce check message and found that several people on my newsletter list are no longer where they once were. Worse still is that I have no idea when they stopped being valid addresses. As I continue through the cleanup I imagine I’ll find some more that are DOA.
In the meantime, if you want to add yourself back in, visit the newsletter link above and sign up. It’s easy and it’s free.
After a lot of pain, my Tahoe trip pictures are posted. Take a look at them here.
I tried to do something helpful earlier and it backfired on me. In an attempt to cut down on the error messages from the various search engine robots hitting this site I decided to redirect an old directory to this new blog on the home page. Problem is, that breaks other scripts running on the same directory. So now I choose: do I help the robots or help the people?
For now, I choose people, although the logs say that robots outnumber people 8 to 1 on this site. Perhaps someday that trend will reverse and my errors will subside. Until then, no such luck.
I’ve now gone through the whole site and made the main pages consistent and readable. For the most part, broken links and bad formatting have been banished. A host of upgrades to the scripts driving the site are now in place. Only error messaging and subdirs remain a problem.
Ah the joys of web site renewal. I think I’m ready to call it good enough and move on to something productive… like writing!
It looks like most of the guts of the CSS page script is now in place. The site is starting to look a bit better. Sometimes I wonder why I do all this. Oh well, off to bed.
Behind the scenes of this site a lot of scripts are changing. This is happening to allow me to do content on a more regular basis without breaking navigation, flow, and most importantly to not have to do lots of work. It looks like it is mostly working for now. More tests soon.
I’ve posted my pictures from this past weekend’s air show at Moffett Federal Airfield in Sunnyvale, CA. You can find them here.
Since some amount of people have asked, I shot these pictures with a Canon 10D D-SLR camera, ground shots with a Canon EF 24-85mm USM lens, and air shots with the Canon EF 75-300mm IS USM lens. I happily filled a 512MB compact flash card with the days shots. Enjoy!
