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Detritus | About
the Author
What's New on the Site
- July, 2008
The redesigned Weather pages are mostly online now, and my membership
in the StrikeStarUS network has gone through. I still need to get the
ranging calibrated, but the guy running the network appears to be real
slow at responding to email.
- July, 2008
I've added a Boltek Lightning Detector to the Weather Station and picked
up a copy of NexStorm to handle running it and exporting the data to the
Local Weather webpage. I really do need to redo that whole part of the
website to improve the usability and better document what all I'm doing.
I've also added a streaming audio feed for the local NOAA Weather Radio
station. You can access the feed directly through my icecast server, or
through the redistribution feed I send to Weather Underground.
- Oct, 2007
Redo the WebCam page to reflect the history of that project and what's
currently in use. Add a new dedicated weather camera that has the
temperature embedded in it, so I have something I can publish at Weather
Underground.
- Sept, 2007
Add the latest GEOS Sat Image to the weather page, along with a marker for
the location of Otis Orchards. Add some experimental stuff to the WebCam
page, I'm testing a motion detection program that runs on the webserver.
I also fixed the page so that it appears to work with Internet Exploiter now.
- May, 2007
Add the 1 Watt Luxeon Flashlights to the Custom LED Flashlights Products
page. These things leave you seeing spots for quite awhile if you look
straight into them when they're on and I know they make 3 Watt LED's in the
same size. The battery live would probably be measured in minutes
though. :)
- Feb, 2007
Add the LED Mushrooms to Custom LED Flashlights Products page.
- Jan, 2007
For those who might be interested, I thought I'd mention that for the last few
years I've been keeping a Live Journal
that occasionally includes bits of stories in progress, as the inspiration hits me.
- Oct, 2006
Update my biography, it's been a good summer and the future looks bright.
I also managed to get together with some old friends and hit Wolf Lodge for the
first time in years, for my birthday. I'd forgotten how good those steaks taste!
- Sept, 2006
Update TOCMaker to account for TurtleBeach changing the magic cookie
needed by the 'kick' code in the last versions of the firmware they released
to the public. I've also added a new download for the standalone
player interface that I originally wrote as part of the plugin for HomeSeer.
- June 15, 2006
Update my biography with what's been going on job wise the last three years.
- Feb 5, 2006
I've created a webpage for the LED
flashlights that I make for people and it's complete enough that it's
time to make it public.
- May 31, 2005
Since I'm on vacation this week, I took the time to make some changes to
my WebCam page. The update includes documenting the current camera I'm
using, moving the camera itself and puzzling out enough JavaScript to add
a popup window that refreshes every five seconds directly from the camera.
- Dec 17, 2004
A couple of months ago I migrated my webpages to a new server I'd been
experimenting with. I only just found out last night that the new server
still had a config file that prevented people from getting to my stories.
Because I'd been looking at them via local files, I didn't realize the
server was blocking access to them. It's been fixed now and I'll have
to find a friendly Pegasi to spank me for being stupid.
- Aug 14, 2004
Earlier this summer I got an offer from a new fan of the Nas Kan series
to edit them free of charge. I think he's crazy, but the first of
the newly edited stories is now available for people to read.
I've also updated the old YiffNet memorial webpage to include pointers
to the two IRC networks that people ended up on after YiffNet closed
down. I can occasionally be found in #furry on the Anthrochat
network, look for UniKyrn hiding in the shadows.
- July 2004
After waiting more than 8 years, QWest finally has DSL available
in my rural location so the site can now survive people reading
stories while I'm also trying to get work done. I've also been
contacted to SofaWolf Press about "Best of Show" becoming available as
an e-book, we'll see how that turns out.
- Aug 15th, 2003
Because "Best of Show" has appearently been published now, and I don't
have the backup site available for the stories, I've restored access
to my own copies.
- Jan 10th, 2003
Resurrect an ancient page from tau-ceti to see if I can sell some Michael Whelan lithographs that I own.
- Jan 9th, 2003
Because of recent attacks against this server, the stories areas has
been disabled while I consider their long term fate.
- Dec 10th, 2002
Create a virtual hosted site for the old www.isc-br.com domain that
catches all the insanely stale references to a site that hasn't existed
in years. Way too many people are still trying to track down firmware
for ancient Olivetti products and are running into Olivetti North
America links that use that old sitename.
- Dec 4th, 2002
Place a warning on the front page about how I'll treat networks that I
catch ignoring the robots.txt file or doing mass downloads.
- Oct 30th, 2002 (Happy Birthday)
Move the entire site from the old UnixWare system to my more modern
OpenBSD server.
- Oct 14th, 2002
Add a WatchThatPage button to the AudioTron page.
Document the new -u flag for the TOCMaker program.
Add a new section that documents all the bug reports and enhancment
requests I've submitted to TurtleBeach and their current status.
- Sept 17th, 2002
Add a bit more history to my bio page.
Add a section to the AudioTron page about how to use ATWavTag with
Exact Audio Copy.
- Aug 14th, 2002
Add the initial information and links from the detritus page to the
WXSat page.
Update my personal bio area, it was really out of date.
- June 5th, 2002
Add links from the webcam and weather images on the main page to their
respective webpages.
- June 3rd, 2002
Add the snapshot from my webcam and the composite weather data image
from my Vantage Pro weather station to the main page.
- Jan 10th, 2002
Add the latest Black Rose story to the site.
Move the hosting of the image files to my local site where possible.
Change the Christmas on Velar formating from txt to html.
- Jan 2002
Light up my personal copy of the website since the copy at my ISP died
when a server failed.
