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July 28, 2001: It's been around six months since the last update, the biggest change being a replacement site menu which won't crash browsers 50% of the time - like the last one did. Most of the links from one page to another within Fred's Web Site have been fixed after the move from one ISP to another, although I'm sure there's still a few I haven't caught. I suspect that I could have gotten this done a lot faster had I not chosen to through a change in marital status & all the paperwork that goes with it... Well anyway, work continues on this site, and I'll be updating my web pages a little more frequently than before.
January 24, 2001: I've managed to move my entire website over to Earthlink, after having been given a one week notice from my old ISP that they were going to close up my accounts as they were going out of the ISP business. Not everything is working, though, some images and pages don't load properly, some javascript is still malfunctioning. I expect to get these problems fixed over time, though. Meanwhile, if you've managed to find my web page, have a look around.
October 30, 2000: Seems like I've been doing other things that are keeping me away from working on my website... Anyway, four months have passed since the last update, and I figured I'd at least update one page that seriously needed it. Since the world of television is constantly changing, most of my "Television & Radio" page had become rife with obsolete links & stuff that had just plain gone dead. So I updated it. A lot of links to old, cancelled television shows were removed, and some links were updated to point to the right places. A few new things were even added, like the live webcams from KMGH (the local ABC affiliate). Now that it's winter, maybe I can update this site more frequently, since I'm not out working on the yard so much. Don't forget to vote! We've got to do better than the turnout in 1996...
June 09, 2000: The new navigation menu is complete, and is installed on most of my web pages. It took a long time to get it working, but it saves a lot of space on my server compared to the old one I had, and is less processor-hungry than it's predecesor. The "Weather" page got most of my attention during this last update period, mostly to correct links that weren't pointing to the right information anymore. It seems that the webmasters of most of the weather sites I reference on that page justify their jobs by constantly changing the addresses of their web pages. Some new stuff was added to the "Weather" page, including local & national soil moisture level maps and a precipitation forecast map (important to those with yards), a windchill map, and in the 'Other' section, a daily earthquake report map (you never know when that information might come in handy...) The list of ISP's and their spam complaint addresses in the "Spam Wars" section has now surpassed 300, and I've continued to make minor changes to improve the "Spam War Tools" page.
April 19, 2000: I didn't dissapear, although it's been three months since I've posted an update for my site... I've been working on a new navigation menu that uses javascript rather than compiled java code to replace the processor-power hungry menu on the front page & the pull-down menus on most of my other pages - so while there hasn't been much change lately to what you're seeing now, it is changing in the background... Meanwhile, I've cleaned out a few dead links on the "FJL Today" page, and added some more commercial sites to the "Television Commercials" page including: 'Petstore.com', 'Petsmart', 'Petco', 'iydkydg', 'Orthotri-cyclen', 'Xenical', 'Sonata', 'Prozac', 'John Elway AutoNation', and 'Discount Tires'.
January 15, 2000: Apparently, the web is Y2K compliant... "Fred's Engineering Stuff" was given a thorough cleaning to remove and/or repair some dead links, while some new stuff was added: In the Information About Other Stuff section, 'Pneumatics 101' was added. In the Hardware & Stuff section/Catalogs of Catalogs area, 'Data Galaxy' became the replacement for 'Industry.net' with more faster stuff, and the 'Universal Parts Center' was added. In the H&S/Online Companies section, 'Parker', 'Ingersoll-Rand', 'Ross Controls', and 'numatics' were added. The "Spam Wars" page was split apart into three sectons to make it easier to download & read. The number of complaint addresses for ISP's that have made my list has exceeded 200. See the top of "Spam Wars" for more information about changes to those pages.
November 18, 1999: If you haven't noticed yet, there's a countdown timer on the front page ticking away until the third Hubble Service Mission - actually called service mission 3A - which is really needed since on November 13th a fourth gyroscope (out of six) failed in the space telescope, forcing it into safe mode where it can't carry out it's observations. The "Space" page sections about AXAF, Hubble, and SIRTF were all updated with little bits of new information. My friend Manus hit the big time when his game Diplomatic Pouch was released as a computer game by Hasbro Interactive. You can find links to it on the "Off Center" page in the Manus section, and on the "Computer Stuff" page in the Computer Games section. On the "TV Commercials" web page, the count is up to 210 websites from TV commercials, with the addition of 'Stamps.com', 'fitskin.com from Noxema', 'Meineke mufflers', the 'Turbonium' site from Volkswagen, 'FTD', 'Xerox', and 'Kleenex'.
October 14, 1999: Added the search engines 'LookSmart', 'Northern Light', 'Ask Jeeves' and 'Snap' to the multi-search engine utility along with a new column of search engines which search reference information including a Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, and 'Bartletts Quotations' at the bottom of the front page. After installing Windows 98 on my computer, I now have MS Internet Explorer as an integrated part of my operating system, so I decided to have a look at this website from it's perspective, and have been reworking (that means fixing something, for you non-engineers) various pages as needed to display properly under IE - I managed to fix a few, but it's an ongoing project with any website.
September 01, 1999: Added several search interfaces to all sorts of information on the "Library", "Kidstuff", and the parents/teachers resources page which can be reached from the "Kidstuff" page, to make getting to information more direct. Also on the "Kidstuff" page, the 'Hamster Dance', the 'Fishy Dance', the 'Cow Dance' were added, along with the site that these entertaining sites all originate from. Also added was the 'Nickelodeon Channel'. After having done that, I proceeded to start over and do it all again after a hard drive crash...
July 01, 1999: I didn't dissapear off the face of the earth, but the data on my hard drive (including the web pages I was updating) did. I was able to restore my pages from a backup, but I lost all the work in progress. In the upcoming update, I will be adding search engine interface forms to the "Kidstuff" and "Library" pages to sites that use search engines to look up data. Also look for even more links to those websites that are advertised in television commercials, some of which are added at each update.
April 15, 1999: I was away for a while with such projects as my taxes, helping my first grader with her science project, and repairing my fence after one of our rocky mountain hurricane-force windstorms, but I was still able to update the site somewhat... In the "Space" section, a paragraph has been added about STS-103, an unplanned service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope to replace failing components of it's guidance system, and a paragraph about SWAS's record-breaking performance has been added to the "SWAS" page (accessible from the "Space" page). The list on the "TV Commercials" web sites page has broken 200 with the addition of 'Flonase', 'Detrol', 'Foreclosure Magazine', 'Chevron', 'Dole', '1-800-Contacts', 'Wrangler', and 'E*Trade'.
February 13, 1999: Extensively overhauled the "Space" page to clean up dead links, update some information, and to expand the information about the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the SIRTF observatory, and added links to a NASA page that shows you where Hubble is right now, and to the 'Hubble Pictures of the Month'. Added the 'Denver Museum of Natural History' and 'Homework Central' to the "Kids Stuff" page. Added the 'Swedish Chef, Jive, Valspeak, or Pig Latin' translator to the "Weird Stuff" page. Added 'Reuters Aerospace News' to "FJL Today". Created a 'Maps' section on the "Library" page, and while there added the 'Terraserver' satellite image database. On the "Television Commercials" page, added the 'Cheese' website, along with 'Tyson Foods', 'Louis Kemp', 'Hasbro', Victoria's Secret', 'Land Rover', 'monster.com', and 'Budweiser'.
January 1, 1999: Cleaned out and fixed dead links throughout the "Engineering" page and while there added links to online catalogs, catalog request forms, and some other online goodies in the Hardware & Stuff section. Cleaned up the links on the "Weather" page - for some reason weather related web information always seems to change locations... Added local and national television news sites to the Daily News section of "FJL Today". Added 'Summit Racing', another 'Columbia House' link, 'Elway Auto Nation', 'HUD', 'Carnival Cruises' and 'Rite Aid' to the "TV Commercials" page. More enhancements to the "Spam Wars" pages as usual, see those pages for more on their updates. Tax Day is coming - you can get the not-so-common tax forms and help with them by clicking on the IRS icon on the front page.
October 27, 1998: A project I worked on for three years named SWAS is finally being launched three years after being delivered to NASA. The "SWAS" page had to have some updates, of course. Added the 'Old Farmer"s Almanac' to the forecasts sections of both the local and national weather sections of the "Weather" page. Added the Allenspark 'Elkstreet' webcam to "The Net" and to the "Weather" page. Also on "The Net", most of the dead links have been cleaned out, and the sick ones (those whose addresses changed) were fixed, and a section on internet privacy has been created. The Television Commercials section of the "Television" page was separated out into it's own page. While there, three more sites were added, 'Mail Boxes Etc.', 'Tollhouse Cookies', and 'AutomallUSA'.
September 09, 1998: On the "Television" page in the commercials section; added 'Ryder' moving trucks, 'M&M' candies, the 'Ireland' tourism site, 'Simple Green', 'Nike', 'Home Depot', 'Febreeze', 'Willy Wonka"s Candy Factory', 'Chef Boyardee', and 'Isuzu'. Added a free encyclopedia to both the "Library" page, and the "Kidstuff" page - it's no Brittanica, but it IS free... With all the talk about the Windows CIH virus lately, I've started a section about Computer Virii and Virus Hoaxes on the "More Computer Stuff" page. Put 'The Answering Machine' (interesting messages to put on your machine for callers) on the "Oddstuff" page. Added links to 'Watlow' and 'Minco', makers of electric heating element hardware, to the "Engineering Stuff" page, including links to the Watlow heat transfer reference section, and the Minco free software utilities. Added the 'Dead People Server' to the "Oddstuff", "Library", and "Television" pages. Added 'The Mechanical Universe', a physics telecourse from PBS to the "Kidstuff", and "Parents" teaching resources pages. Finally, the 'Denver Sidewalk' has been added to the Entertainment section of "FJL Today".
August 02, 1998: Mostly cosmetic changes for this update... The columns of little green slow-loading Java Applet buttons on each page were replaced with simpler (and much smaller) pull down menus for moving around these web pages. Also added a multi-search-engine interface to the bottom of the front page, which allows searching 1 to 4 search engines at once. Since the Spam Wars pages are always being updated with new tools, etc., I've created their own update status banners on those pages.
June 08, 1998: Repaired & added to the webcam links from KUSA in the Eye-berspace section of "The Net". Added KUSA's webcams and a new webcam with a view of the Boulder's Pearl Street Mall to the "Weather" page. Added the Broomfield news to the Local section of the online newspapers in "FJL Today". Added 'Alamo Rent-A-Car', 'Great Clips', 'Mr. Reach', and 'Prilosec' to the Commercials section of the "Television" page. Added two more of Consumer.net's traceroute servers to the "Spam Wars" page, and created a page with just the tools shown on that page, for anyone who's already familiar with how to use them and who doesn't want to read through the rather detailed instructions on how to trace a spammer. Also added a search form to use Alta Vista's "host:" search capability, which can be used to obtain a list of all the pages on a web site without actually having to visit the site, to the "Spam Wars" pages.
April 19, 1998: Added more search tools for tracing spammers who send stuff from Canada, and Europe & the surrounding area, to the "Spam Wars" page, along with more information about spotting and reporting fraudulent spam. SpaceNews was removed from "FJL Today" after they decided to charge $$ for all their news, and was replaced with the 'Houston Chronicle Space Central'. Also added 'The Onion' to "FJL Today". Added more current weather conditions links from the Weather Underground for Broomfield, Boulder and several Colorado cities to the "Weather" page. Added the 'ThamesCam' to the Eyeberspace section of "The Net". Added 'Macmillan Publishing' and their online bookshelf to "The Library", and the "Kid Stuff" parents & teachers page. Added the latest estimated launch date for SWAS to it's page. Added several links about space science that were already on the "Space" page to the "Kidstuff" page. Added the 'MIT Biology Hypertextbook' to the "Parents & Teachers" education page. Added the 'Bottled Water Web' and the 'Cereal Mascot Conspiracy' to the "Off Center" page. Added 'Keds', 'Castrol' (oil), 'McDonalds' (food?), 'Outback' (food!), 'Frigidaire', 'Scotts' (lawn stuff), 'Dollar Rent-A-Car', 'Mercedes', and 'Goodyear' to the Commercials section of the "Television" page.
March 08, 1998: Added 'SpaceCast', Sky & Telescope's 'Sky Online' and RMN's 'Exploring Space' to the Space News section of "FJL Today". Added another Boulder, CO webcam from Compatible Systems to both the "Weather" and Eye-berspace section of "The Net" pages, and a link to the 'WebCam Webring', to the Eye-berspace section of "The Net". Added a new section to the "Weather" page containing Extra Terrestrial weather and the Internet Weather Report. Rearranged the Information About Materials section of the "Engineering" page again, seperating the metals from the non-metals from the general material information, and added links to 'The Aluminum Association', the 'American Iron and Steel Institute', the 'International Titanium Association', 'The Copper Page' and 'American Metal Market' to the new Materials Section. Added the 'Handbook for Technical Project Engineers', the 'Rapid Prototyping Resource Center' to the Other Information section of the "Engineering" Page. Also added a link to the freeware zip and unzip software 'Info-Zip' to both the "Engineering" and "More Computer Stuff" pages. Added even more stuff to the Resources section of "Spam Wars".
February 08, 1998: Extensively revised the front page with a more compact java site map and added the 'Internet Traffic Report', and moved the original text site map to another page (for those few who don't run java). Added new java navigation buttons to each major page. Turned the 'Spam Wars' section of "The Net" into it's own page since it was getting so big and extensively revised it, adding new tools and sites for combatting spam (junk email). Added 'Principle Metals' to the Information section of the "Engineering" page. Added 'Children's Storybooks Online' to the "Kidstuff" page, added 'ZOCOR', 'Suretrade.com', 'Shuteye', 'Ragu', and 'Prilosec' to the Commercials section of the "Television" page. "The Frederal Center" and the "Corporate Sites" pages have been moved to a new section called "Old Stuff", since I haven't been able to find anything new to put on them for over some time.
January 13, 1998: Overhauled the "Weird stuff" page to clear out the dead links, etc., and added a link to Manus' new game, 'Payola' along with a dozen or so more new odd items, including the 'Boulder Vegetable Rights Association', 'Bureau of Missing Socks', and the 'Early 80s Preservation Society', and moved the 'Lego' and 'Crayola' sites to the "Kidstuff" page. Overhauled the "Kidstuff" page to break apart the various links according to subject, and added several links to each section, including the parent's page. Expanded the 'Star Trek' section of the "Television" page to include some stuff about what Viacom is trying to do to websites carrying Star Trek information, and added two large sections about 'Babylon 5' and 'The Sci-Fi Channel'.
December 15, 1997//: Split the Information Sources portion of the "Engineering" page into two parts, one part focused on materials, the other on other stuff. In the Information About Materials section, added the 'Slime page' to the list item for 'Polymers dot com', two sites with material outgassing information from NASA were added, along with a site containing Material Safety Data Sheets. Also added in this section was a page I reconstructed (and improved upon, from another site) containing various engineering properties of some common (and not-so-common) engineering materials. In the Information About Other Stuff section, added a site containing conversions from nearly any english measure to the SI units system. On the "Television" page, added 'Avis', a Campbell's soup site, 'IMITREX', and one other. The "FJL Today" page was overhauled to remove dead links and to add instant access icons for several of the comics in the Comics section, and links were added to get the freeware Sherman's Lagoon screen saver. Added two search engine interfaces to the bottom of the front page, to 'Yahoo!' and 'HotBot', with more to come later.
November 13, 1997//: Added 'Reekos Mad Scientist Lab' to the "Kidstuff" page. Added the 'Kellogg's' site, with links to their 'Cocoa Frosted Flakes', 'Apple Jacks', 'Cornpops', 'Pop-Tarts', and 'Rice Krispies' cereal pages, along with 'Own-A-Car', 'Columbia' (sportswear), and 'Sylvan Learning Centers', to the Commercials section of the "Television" page. Updated the "Space" page, with a revised description of AXAF, and a newer artists rendering of SIRTF, and I was finally able to find a picture of CGRO to add to it's brief description.
October 12, 1997//: Added 'The Infomercial Index' just above the list of TV commercial web sites on the "Television" page. In the regular TV commercial section, added 'Quaker Oats', 'Weather Shield', 'Skytel', 'Cowtown' (from the beef council), 'Nestle' (chocolate), 'Bertolli' (olive oil), 'Bolla' (wines), 'Maaco', and 'Dockers'. Overhauled the "Weather" page, and added several more links to information that seems to round it out more.
September 09, 1997//: Added 'Mentadent', 'Valtrex', 'Soloflex', 'Nordic Track', 'Rheem' (air conditioners, etc), 'Quantum' (infomercials), 'WCW Wrestling', 'Levi's', (outer clothes) 'BVD' (under clothes), 'Brita', 'Malt-O-Meal' and 'Allegra' to the Commercials section of the "Television" page. After re-counting, there is approximately 125 different web sites collected from TV commercials in that section. Overhauled the "Engineering" page to repair dead links, and to reformat it a bit. Added Microsoft's engineering web page 'Start Magazine' to the CAD section of the "Engineering" page, and added 'Maxon Motors', 'BSA Ball screws', 'Southco', and 'Igus' companies to the Hardware and Stuff section of the "Engineering" page.
August 20, 1997//: I'm learning to use a new web page editor and have been simultaneously getting a 5 year-old ready for Kindergarten... Updated my SWAS page, and my Pegasus XL page, both accessible from the "Space" page, which has been updated itself. Also accessible from the "Space" page, is a new page I've created about the ZENO project - one of the first projects I worked on at Ball. Added 'Kentucky Fried Chicken', 'Taco Bell', and 'Duracell' to the Commercials section of the "Television" page.
July 30, 1997//: Added all the sub-web sites that 'c|net' hosts to the "Computer Stuff" page. Added 'MovieLink' (where you can find out where & when movies are playing in the Denver area), to "FJL Today" in the More Entertainment section. On the "Weather" page, the images sent by EarthWatch Communications have been enlarged slightly, so that more detail can be seen. The "Space" page has been revised a bit to organize the information on it better, and to try out some new page layout techniques I've been reading about. Updated the SWAS launch date and added a little more information on the SWAS page (accessible from the "Space" page, in the Ball section). Discovered the name and company of one of the worst offenders of junk emailing, and added details about him to "The Net" page at the bottom of the Fighting Spam section.
July 04, 1997//: Added a bit more to the last step of fighting junk email to "The Net". Created a page that loads a picture of 9th and Pearl in Boulder, CO that provides the time you loaded it, and then reload's itself every five minutes, the same as the frequency of the picture from Boulder. The 9th and Pearl page is accessible from the "Weather" page, in the Colorado section. On the "Television" (and radio) page, added 'The Peak (96.5)' to the Radio section. Added 'Geico' and 'Bud Ice' (penguins) to the "Television" page.
June 29, 1997//: Added a link to a 'Periodic Table of the elements' to the "Engineering" page. Added the 'c|net TV' live webcam to the Eyeberspace section, and after more than a month of writing and re-writing, a new section called 'Spam Wars' was added to "The Net" page.
May 12, 1997//: The number of links to different Television Commercial web sites on my "Television" page now exceeds 100 with the addition of 'General Motors', 'Ford', and 'Chrysler' and their subdivisions that have displayed web addresses in TV commercials, along with 'Equal' (the fake sugar stuff), 'Lifesavers' (the real sugar stuff), 'John Elway' (car dealerships page), 'Old Spice', another 'US West Yellow Pages' site, 'FTD' (the flower people), 'Subway', 'Revlon', 'Sears' 'Mastercard', 'Toro', 'Owens Corning', 'Nissan' 'Metlife', 'Gatorade', 'Sprint' and 'DirecTV'. The 'Owens Corning Glass Fiber Composites' site turned out to be a good resource to add to the Information Sources section of the "Engineering" page.
April 26, 1997//: Took a little time off from publishing to do my taxes, recover from a disk drive crash, etc., but still managed to do the following: Added a link to a 'CAGE code' lookup service provided by the Defense Department to the "Engineering" page (with a link to it's related FAQ for those who don't know what a CAGE code is). Added 32 (more or less) new webcam sites to the Webcams (Eye-berspace) section of "The Net" including several Denver and Boulder views, three from California, four from NASA, one from Finland, two from Paris, and one from London.
April 02, 1997//: Now that heavy coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing trial has started, the news section of "FJL Today" has expanded considerably with the addition of national news carriers 'CNN Interactive', the 'New York Times', the 'Los Angeles Times', the 'Washington Post', the 'London Times', 'MSNBC' and 'Infoseek' in the Full News Coverage portion of the News table, which now spans two rows. Also, a Local News row was added to the News table with links to the 'Denver Post', the 'Rocky Mountain News' and the 'Boulder Daily Camera'. On the Engineering page, added the 'Mechanical Analysis Home Page' to the Information section; and 'Deltron Precision, Inc' and the 'Motion Control Home Page' to the Hardware section.
March 24, 1997//: More stuff added to the Commercials section of the "Television" page include 'Miller Lite', 'Tuffshed', 'Burlington Coat Factory', and 'Frigidaire'. Added 'Edmund Scientific', 'National Instrument', 'Digikey', 'Keithley Metrabyte', 'MathWorks', 'PEM', and 'WM Berg' to the "Engineering" page in the Hardware section, and 'Polymers DotCom' in the Information section. Changed the links to NICMOS and STIS in the Hubble section of the "Space" page to point to web pages created at Ball for those instruments, since the former links to the Space Telescope Science Institute seem to have dissapeared (our pages are a bit more informative, too), and added the 'National Air and Space Museum'. Added 'Trivial Pursuit' and 'Film.com' to the Entertainment section of the "FJL Today" page, and added the 'Earth and Sky Radio Series' and 'Space News' to the space related news section of "FJL Today". Added 'Nordic Track' and 'Lloyds of London' to the "Corporations" page. Added 'The Learning Page of the Library of Congress', 'Funky Dinosaur Land', 'Virgin Communications Sound and Vision' site and the 'Earth and Sky Radio Series' to the "Educational Resources" and to the "Kidstuff" pages. Added 'Roget's Internet Thesaurus', 'Ask the Dietitian' and 'AT&T's 800 Directory' to the Reference section of the "Library" page. Added the 'Jargon File Resources a.k.a. The New Hackers Dictionary' to both the "Computer Stuff" and "The Net" pages. Added another Netscape trick, 'about:plugins' to the Netscape Tricks section of the "Computer Stuff" page.
March 11, 1997//: On the "Television" page: Links to the 'Internet Movie Database' and a search form for accessing the database were added near the top; In the Commercials section 'Fantastic Sams', 'Minwax', 'Autobytel', 'RE/MAX', 'Motorola cellular phones', 'Pepcid AC', and 'Econolodge' were added; In the Video Games section a link was added to Sega's online hints section. The Sega hints link was also added to the "Computer Stuff" page as well. On the "Space" page, created links to two sites that broadcast periodically refreshed images from NASA's video broadcast system, and two links to sites that carry NASA Select Television across the 'net via streaming video using the VDO plugin, and added links to 'Spacelink' and their 'Daily Hubble Status Reports'.
February 21, 1997//: The second Hubble servicing mission was a success, and the front page has been returned to normal, except for the new clock which is visible to Java enabled browsers. The links to the 'NASA webcams', and to the 'Countdown/Mission' page were added to the "Space" page, and the 'Daily Shuttle Status Reports' have been added to the "FJL Today" page in the Space News section. More information about one particular Hubble photo of the EGG clusters of the Eagle Nebula and how it's been used in both a Star Trek movie and in an episode of Babylon 5 were added to the Hubble section of the "Space" page.
February 01, 1997//: Added links to the front page and the "Space" page for space shuttle mission STS-82, the Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission #2, during which two Ball Aerospace instruments named NICMOS and STIS are to be installed. For those with Java enabled browsers, a countdown clock which turns into a mission duration clock, was added to the front page. The clock can be detached from the web page by holding the mouse pointer over it, clicking on it, and then while keeping the pointer over it, hitting any key (spacebar seems to work best). Do the same over the detached window to close it.
January 28, 1997//: Went thru my pages and cleaned up the zombie links (still alive here, but dead or moved at the other end). Added a link to the 'CIA World Factbook', the 'Madden Library' and the 'Kelly Blue Book' on the "Library" page.
January 12, 1997//: Fixed a problem with at least three images among my pages that weren't loading correctly. Added 'Sierra software', 'Access software', and 'The Cheat Zone' to the Games section of the "More Computer Stuff" page. Added a link to Microsoft's free software area to the Software and Hardware section of the "More Computer Stuff" page. Expanded on the Manus section of the "Odd Stuff" page to include links to the 'Diplomatic Pouch' game, and to the 'Manus Hand Fan Club'. Adjusted the link to TV1 on the "Television" page to point to a working server. Added a link to the Shuttle information site in the News section of the "FJL Today" page. The "Engineering" page now has a section related to CAD stuff, including links related to Autocad, CADDS, and I-DEAS. [ By the way, the HAL 9000 was first fully powered up on this date according to the book 2001: A Space Odyssey ].
January 2, 1997//: Moved the FJL Today section of the first page to it's own page, entitled "FJL Today". Updated and added to several of the existing comics links, and added 'Rose is Rose', 'Arlo & Janis', 'Drabble', 'Born Loser', 'Fisher', and 'Ozone Patrol' to the Comics section on the "FJL Today" page.. Added 'Zone Interactive' and 'Nando.net' to the daily news section of the "FJL Today" page. Rearranged the News section of "FJL Today" to try and organize the information somewhat. Moved the 'Yahoo' link from the front page to "The Net" page. Added 'Mazda', 'Midas', 'Cadillac', 'Nicorette', 'Macy's', 'Columbia House', and 'Packard Bell' to the Commercials section of the "Television" page.
December 20, 1996//: Added USA Today's 'High Tech' news to the "Net" page. Added 'Kaufmans', 'Jeep', 'UMB' bank, 'Zales Diamonds', and 'L. L. Bean' to the Commercials section of the "Television" page. Removed the Daily Media 'Daily Brain Teaser', 'Daily Trivia Question', and 'Daily Computer News' from the front page, the "Comics" page, and the "Net" page, respectively; after observing that Daily Media, Inc. hadn't updated their feed for a month. Moved the comics back to the front page.
December 05, 1996//: Added 'NASDAQ' to the front page. Added 'www.gamecenter.com' to the Computer Games section of the "Computers" page. Added a link to a second SIRTF press release in the SIRTF section of the "Space" page. Added the 'No Cavities Clubhouse' to the "Kids Stuff" page. Added 'Philips Magnavox', 'Trendmasters', 'Lotus', 'Colgate', 'Sharp Electronics', 'NASDAQ', 'Red Lobster', 'Canon`s PowerShot Camera', 'Chia', 'The Clapper', 'Fisher-Price`s Wonder Tools', and another 'Tide' site to the Commercials section of the "Television" page. Added 'Electronix Express', to both the "Engineering" and the "Educational Resources" pages. The "Engineering" page was revised to include lots more links to engineering information resources and more hardware resources.
November 11, 1996//:Added a link to 'Headline News (about space, from The Observatorium)' 'AP Online' and the 'New York Times Syndicate' to the News section of the front page. Added more computer techology news site links to the "Net" page. Added the voter turnout statistic to the 'Campaign 96' link on the "Frederal" page. Added the 'Yellow Pages', 'America's Dumbest Criminals', 'Ace Hardware', 'Ethan Allen', and '1-800-FLOWERS' to the TV Commercials section of the "Television" page. Added several links from 'The Observatorium', information about remote sensing, and more educational links to the "Space" page. Updated my SWAS page (accesible from my "Space" page) after the SAC-B/HETE Pegasus XL launch incident.
November 03, 1996//:Added 'Pyst' and c|net's new site, 'download.com' to the Games and Software sections, respectively, of the "Computer Stuff" page. Added 'The Corporation' to the "Weird Stuff" page, and to the "Corporations" page. Added a link to a new "Educational Resources" page from the "Kidstuff" page, which can help teachers use the resources of the 'net in the classroom. I created the page primarily as an experiment to see what kinds of resources were available, and of what type. Updated the Star Trek: First Contact links; and KUSA finally made it to the web, so I added them to the "Television" page in the NBC section. Also on the "Television" page in the commercials section, added 'Farmers Insurance', 'Carstar', and 'Wal-Mart'. Added the STS82 (second Hubble servicing mission) patch logo to the Hubble section of the "Space" page and added details of what hardware Ball developed for the AXAF observatory.
October 16, 1996//:Added National Geographic to the front (cool sites & daily news) & "Library" pages. Added 'Science Made Stupid' to the "Weird Stuff" page. Added the 'National Enquirer' to the front page. Revised the Games section of the "Computer Stuff" page to remove some dead links, and to add 'Hyper@ctive', a link to game help, a link to game patches, and link to Yahoo's Computer Games section. Added two more links to the 'Earthwatch' section of the "Weather" page: the Heavy Precipitation Forecast and the Severe Storms Outlook, and added the appropriate codes to the "Weather" page to make it update itself every 10 minutes in Netscape. Moved the comics to their own page, and added a Daily Trivia question to the new page. Added a Daily Teaser to the front page, and Daily Computer & 'Net News to the "Net" page.
October 05, 1996//:Almost tripled the number of links to resources for kids on the "Kids" page. Added 'Mitsubishi', 'American Express' and '1STBank' to the Commercials section of the "Television" page. Added a 'PBS' section to the "Television" page. Created a separate page for the weather, and added 'TV Weather Dot Com' to it.
September 28, 1996//:Added my first Java applets: The time & date at the top of the first page were replaced with an active Java clock which shows the time & date in one image, also added a simple piece of Java dynamic art to the "Net" page.
September 25, 1996//:Changed the current weather map to three maps on the front page after the old one up & died. Checked all the links on the "Television" page and either fixed or removed the dead ones, Added 'TV Guide' to the "Entertainment" section of the front page, added the different TV guide resources from the front page to the top of the "Television" page, and 'News Babes' in the Stuff that doesn't fit in anywhere else section.
September 16, 1996//:Repaired links to 'Shermans Lagoon' in the "Comics" section. Added 'Kodak', 'LensCrafters', 'Claritin' (whatizthat?), 'Maytag', 'Coca Cola' to the "Television" page.
September 05, 1996//:Made some changes to the "Television" page, as Paramount is starting to bring their "Star Trek: First Contact" pages online.
September 03, 1996//:Added 'Time Life', and a link to the 'Brady Bunch movie' to the Commercials section of the "Television" page. Added an image for the upcoming 'Star Trek' movie, and a link to 'UPS' to the "Television" Page. Added images of AXAF and SIRTF, and more information about SIRTF to the Hubble section of the "Space" page.
August 20, 1996//:Added 'Volkswagen', 'Burt', 'Lexus', 'JCPenney', 'Blockbuster', 'MGM/UA', the 'As Seen On TV' site, 'Armed Forces', and the 'Gummi Savers' sites to the Commercials section of my "Television" page. Also added a link to the 'Babylon 5 fan club' to the B5 section of the "Television" page. Added 'Game Players' to the computer games section of the "Computer Stuff" page. Added the 'Congressional Member' web page index to the "Frederal" page.
August 12, 1996//:Added more information for connecting a home computer to the net and more info about internet basics to "The Net". Added links to information on Star Trek VII, First Contact, opening 11/22/96 to the "Television" page, along with links to 'MTV' and the 'Captain Kirk sing-along page' and the 'TV and Commercial Theme music' site.
August 09, 1996//:Added the local FOX network affiliate to the "Television" page. Started a section on the "Television" page with links to web sites featured in TV product commercials. Added a link to 'USA Today's Weird News' on the front page in the "Everyday Stuff" section.
July 23, 1996//:Revised the table of contents on the first page to take up less vertical space by spreading it across three columns, and fixed a couple of bugs in the "Weather" section.
July 19, 1996//:Added Pathfinders "Web Basics Help" and a link to 'The Net' magazine to the "Net" page. Added a section on Netscape tricks to the "Computer Stuff" page. Added c|net's www.search.com to the "Search For Spock" page, which is in the library section.
July 05, 1996//:Added the 'Happy Puppy' to the "Games" section of the Computer stuff page. Added and revised links to the 'Weather Channel' in the "Weather" section of the top page (at least now there's an alternate source of weather info besides Intellicast), and another source of Denver weather current conditions from U of Mich.. Added a link to the 'hidden Mickeys' of the Disney parks to the "Kids Stuff" page. Added another link to the ZENO project in the "Space" page. Added more arrow buttons to each page to go forward or backward to the next page in the table of contents on the first page.
June 26, 1996//:Decided I like the Netscape page editor (but it could use a few improvements). Overhauled my entire page structure breaking my single, huge web page into several smaller chunks that will load faster and allow for more variety - everything that used to be in my web page is still here somewhere...
June 11, 1996//:Started experimenting with Netscape 2.0 Gold editor... We'll see how well it works...
June 08, 1996//:Massively revised my "Why I created this page" page, to add instructions for filling out the sign up forms for getting a personal account at CSN. Also, added links to 'The Webbie Web', several versions of 'Cinderella' and 'Little Red Riding Hood' in the "Kids" section, Time's 'News Now' in the "Everyday" section, the 'Duracell' page in the "Unusual" section, added 'c++', 'VRML', 'Color Name Mapping', and 'Tips 'n Tricks' material in the "Computers" section.
May 25, 1996//: Rearranged the "Weather" section to divide it into Colorado & National segments, added Severe Weather information links, the UV forecast is back, so I updated it's link. Added AT&T's 'LeadStory' to the "Daily" section. Changed the title of the "Federal Section" :-)
May 22, 1996//: Found the web page full of instructions for the visitor counter and found out how to add clocks, dates, and change the fonts. Then added the current date & time to the top of the page, and a current central time display next to the weather image in the "Weather" section.
May 18, 1996//: Added a link to the 'SeaWIFS' successful Pegasus rocket launch to my Pegasus page (get there by going thru my 'SWAS' link in the "Space" section).
May 17, 1996//: Added a visitor counter to the top of the page, and a date and time clock of sorts to the "Everyday" section. Added a Link to 'SIR-C/X-SAR' in the "Space" section.
May 14, 1996//: Changed the weather graphic in the "Weather" section after Intellicast altered the format of the image that used to be there, to where I can't link to it. Added the Ball 'job listings' to the "Corporations" section.
May 12, 1996//: [Finally recovered from massive disk trouble on the computer where I compose this page.] Removed links to dead TV shows in the "Television" section, and while I was there, added links to a second 'Sliders' page from Fox, 'Conan' and 'Later' from NBC, 'KMGH', an early link to 'KUSA', and the 'History channel'. Added 'This day in History' (from the History channel) to the "Everyday" section. Added links to the rumor pages for 'Star Trek VIII' in the "Star Trek" section.
April 29, 1996//: Added the 'KSC' Press releases and 'Yesterday@NASA' to the "Everyday" section. Added a new press release to my 'Pegasus' launch vehicle page - it's certified for flight again (to see it, go to the "Space" section, select the 'SWAS' item, and then the 'Pegasus' item). Revised the table in the "Comics" section, added 'Luann', 'Doctor Fun', 'Cafe Angst', 'USS Utopia'. Added the 'StarCatcher' and 'Quest' educational links in the "Space" section. Revised the 'KCNC weather' and added the 'Denver 5 day forecast' from USA TODAY to the "Weather" section.
April 02, 1996//: Added a webcam portraying Finland viewed from the Finn-Russian border. Added a table with 10 Time Warner entries in the "Magazines" section. Created a small group of "Java" entries in the "Webcams" section. Added a third Babylon 5 site to the "Television" section.
March 17, 1996//: Added 'Inktomi', 'ALIWeb' and 'WWWWorm' to my "Search for Spock" page in the "Reference" section.
March 16, 1996//: Added 'NASA Tech Briefs', NASA's 'Space Access and Technology', the 'International Women in Technology campus' and 'TechWeb' to the "Engineering stuff" section. Added 'MapQuest' to the "Reference" section. Added 'ABC' television in the "Television" section. Added a hyper- table of contents at top.
March 13, 1996//: Added a link to the 'EarthWatch' (the one I worked on hardware for) web page in the "Businesses" section. Added the 'WebCrawler' to my "Search for Spock" page in the "Reference" section. Added 'AMP' and 'Algor' to the "Engineering" section. Added 'Project OPEN' to the "Getting Started" section.
March 07, 1996//: Changed the top of the page a bit. Created a page of internet search engines, accesible at the top of the "Reference" section, added 'A quote from Spock' in the "Television" section.
February 28, 1996//: Cleaned or fixed dead links, so this revision was fairly extensive... Added links to a few radio station web pages; like KPBI, KRFX (The Fox), and KALC (Alice) in the "Television" section, and changed the title of that section a bit... Added 'US WEST's Yellow Pages' in the "Reference" section, with a link to their first city, Boulder. Added a link to 'HST Astrometry' in the "Space" section. Added the US Navy's 'Real Time clock' to the "Government" section. Added a few more 'Ziff Davis' magazines to the "Magazines" section. The 'C-SPAN', 'House of reps', and 'US Senate' now have web pages along with gopher links. Added the WWW version of the 'Virtual Ref. Desk', 'Zip + 4' lookup from the USPS, 'Bartlett's Quotations', and an 'Acronym Dictionary' in the "Reference" section. Added 'MAD TV', 'Strange Luck', 'The History Channel', 'The Sci-Fi Channel' and 'A&E TV' to the "Television" section. Re-wrote some of the "Sounds" section. Added 8 entries to the "Engineering" section (mostly new vendors).
February 15, 1996//: Updated link to the 'Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' in the "Starting points" section. Made a few revisions in the "Space" section, including: Links to the 'ZENO', 'Compton Gamma Ray Observatory', and 'AXAF' projects, my own page for the 'COSTAR' link (since Goddard SFC's went away), and created my own SWAS page; since Goddard SFC keeps forgetting to update theirs. Added two entries to the "Federal" section, 'FEDIX' and their 'List of Federal Government WWW sites'.
February 09, 1996//: Added 'NASA's planetary photojournal' to the "Space" section, added KCNC's Denver cameras to the "Looking through the web" section, added the 'Netly News' to the "Daily" section, added a link to current movie schedules for Denver in the "Daily" section, added 'John Denver' to the "Unusual" section, added 'KCNC's weather forecasts' to the "Weather" section.
January 31, 1996//: Added more information to the page I've been compiling about the Pegasus XL rocket (in the "Space" section) at the end of the 'SWAS' sentence, added 'MicroScapes' to the "Every Day" section, added 'Campaign `96' to the "Federal" Section.
January 20, 1996//: Added this page, added a 'do it yourself' government on/off switch to the "Federal Section", added a link to the 'Treasure Chest' of Sherman's Lagoon in the "Comics" section.
January 14, 1996//: Revised the "Hacking" section with some background on the subject, removed the 'Weekly Trivia' link from the "Everyday" section [I'm looking for another site], added 'Blockbuster video's latest releases' to the "Everyday" section, added 'Comedy Central' to both the "Television" and "Looking thru the Web" sections, added a link to a humorous image in the "Federal" section, added the 'Dysfunctional Family Circus' to the "Comics" section.
December 30, 1995//: Improved some elements of the "Weather" section, added more service mission info to the Hubble portion of the "Space" section, re-arranged the "Comics" section a little bit using a table system, added three more software sites to the "Computers" section, added link for getting Gameboy & SNES secret codes in the "Video Game" section, added info about future shuttle missions and on getting a shuttle launch pass in the "Space" section, added a link to GRB TV in the "Television" section, changed TV1's link in the "Everyday" section.