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Last Update Archives

Archives of the "Last Updates" from the home page.


9/21/08
A Festival text2speech page has been created. Have your text converted to a computerized voice.

6/08
The site is up and running stronger than before.

4/12/08
Due to server motherboard failure and desktop failure there are few sections that just are not available. Services will be restored in some capacity when time permits.

1/5/08
First update of 2008 - exciting. The adlib section has been completly re-written to be programatically more functional, it is also very simple for me to add new stories.

12/2/07
Set up the webcam again, added a time-till-refresh field.

11/3/07
Removed the graphical layout, cleaned up the look of the site.

10/15/07
Modified the home page and updated the 'about' page. Added a picture to the 'about' page as well.

7/4/07
Added a Favicon and changed the page title format.

6/20/07
Updated the content on the "About" page and added an option to enable/disable the refresh on the "Webcam" page.

4/6/07
What?! An Update? First one of 2007. Wow...
Anyway, I removed a couple links from the navigation because I have yet to take the time to add any content on the pages. I am working on small features that will assist with administration. Someday I will have a forum up, but I have to take the time to customize it - not that anyone would use it anyway. At the time of this post, I am working on a tutorial. I would like to add at least one thing to this website that another person could actually use. I have never written a good tutorial before and I am learning that it takes a lot of time to make a good one.
If by some chance someone actually reads this that I don't talk to daily, I would not mind some feedback on the site concerning what I could do to it to make it more user friendly or just better to use. I am not talking about adding content to make more people come, but things that would make it more useable. Use the e-mail link at the bottom of this page.

12/30/06
A few changes today. The webcam is back up again, I ran the fancy USB extension cable finally. I pointed it at the back of my desk so that you may be able to see the top of my head from time to time. I re-named the projects section to "PHP Work" because it sounded a bit more appropriate. Two sections were added to the site: "Software" and "Misc". I have been looking in to adding a form to the site. No I do not expect it to get used, but thats ok - something fun to do.

11/24/06
One of the projects that I have been wanting to make has finally been finished. I designed a hit counter for the site that uses my database. At the bottom of every page there is a new line that says how many times a page has been visited and when it was last visited. I will have to live with it counting every page load for now, but that is alright. Because I am using the database to store the counts it was really easy for me to create a statistics page showing all the information.

11/7/06
I added a pictures section. I may add other pictures to it later, but for now it will only be for the "Great Snoqualmie Flood of 2006." I also took the webcam down again due to server relocation.

10/15/06
The webcam is back up again. I have moved it to show what is outside my window. I can use it to check the weather. I know on a sunny day that it will not show much of anything, but I figure I will give it a try.

9/5/06
The webcam is down due to server re-location and lack of cabling. I have some ideas in the works but I do not know if any of them will be good. We will see if I have a way to put the camera back up again.

9/4/2006
Over labor day weekend I made and moved to the silver layout that you are looking at. It's a simple design that I feel is functional. I also did a lot of work with the back end of the site. Much of the site is now a template so that it can be easily changed.

8/22/2006
I finally completed my first real web-app. I was making a guestbook for may father's site so people could post messages. I shouldn't really call it a guestbook because it is more of a message poster. I will clean it up as time goes on and I will make it so that a small amount of code can be added to a page which will configure it. It will be very versatile so that I can continue to use it in the future for many applications. I will also tweak it one day so I can use it here to post my updates rather than just placing them directly in as HTML.