The Site

History

It would appear that the site was begun in the beginning of December 2002. In the end of December 2003, the site may have been made public. Sometime in the end of March or the beginning of April 2004 I divided my quotes up and moved them to "quotes/". Around the 15th of April, 2004, I deleted much of the site. I was trying to remove a bad symbolic link whose name began with a "?", so I typed "rm ?*". Unfortunately, ? is a shell wildcard character, so I deleted all the files in my public_html folder. I spent the next few days trying to find the pages in my Linux and Windows caches, and reformatting my netscape mirror (dating from December-ish). On April 19th, 2004, I wrote this page to replace my old "me" page. At nearly midnight, Tuesday, April 20, 2004, I recopied my website and made it live.

Newly created site history is now being moved over to news so you might to go there. That is also the location of my blog.

Validation

This site is usually valid HTML Strict 4.01, except in a few cases

• Links - HTML Transitional to allow for the start attribute
• Server generated index pages
• Pages brought over from ealex292 or mirrors

Future

• Finish this section... :)

• Add CGI

  1. Core features - mostly abandoned

     1. Basic find-and-replace from database - DONE May 30, 2004

     2. Adding a "protocol" system

        db

        insert from db (1)

        cgi

        from CGI headers

        rep

        by rows (whereclause@file) (3-4)

        inc

        a file (?)

        opt

        with options for the database (5)

     3. Displaying the whole db - PENDING - Probably done by a template for 4

     4. Repeating for multiple rows

     5. Allowing <SELECT...><OPTION...> selection by CGI scripts

  2. Applications to site

     • CGI/DB based news - DONE August 28, 2005 (blog system) (improvements continue, however - date is of completion of editing)

     • Links & "web browser"

     • Database quotes

     • Book reviews and forums (?)

     • User System - see the system plan

• Add writings (content)

  • Fairness in Education

  • Free will, choice, and brainwashing

  • Linux and Vi tutorial

• Program downloads

• Reorganize css

  • Multiple styles
  • Divide it up
    • branding stylesheet to change between my site, scout site, etc.
    • colors stylesheet with backgrounds
    • Importance stylesheet imported by colors
    • main stylesheet with font sizes

Acknowledgements

This site has depended on several others. Andrew for helping me to find backgrounds, and telling me to include DOCTYPE definitions and to start syntax checking my pages. It was probably Reid who first got me interested in writing some CGI scripts (which are still being worked on). I also thank squidfingers for their repository of backgrounds which I was using for a long time. The various books I've read are also helpful. I've used HTMLHelp.com a lot, and what would the web be without the W3C and their validator A growing part of the styling comes from the Paly website.

Server names

I had a fair bit of trouble choosing the name for my first web server (angkor), and now I'm stuck choosing my second. The UNESCO World Heritage Center deserves thanks for their list of world heritage sites, after which my father and I have named servers. I've decided to post a list of the ones that for one reason or another seemed like particularly good possibilities here.

• Butrint
• Borobudur (Temple Compounds) — Xen host machine
• (Maya Site of) Copan — Xen guest and webserver
• (Pre-Hispanic City of) Chichen-Itza
• (Old City of) Dubrovnik — Laptop
• Delos
• Ephesus (also Wikipedia) — Temporary laptop
• Fortaleza
• Ferto — External hard drive, currently attached to Dubrovnik's hardware
• Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd --- Ubuntu desktop VM (never really functional, not used)
• Quebrada of Humahuaca --- Windows install on my laptop (2nd gen)
• Ilulissat (basically a massive glacier) --- Linux install on my laptop (2nd gen)
• Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes --- Windows VM on my laptop
• Kronborg Castle (aka Elsinore, from Hamlet)
• Tipasa
• (Pre-Hispanic Town of) Uxmal

Short lists

G

• Gondwana
• City of Graz
• Churches and Convents of Goa
• Old Town of Ghadames
• Old Town of Galle
• Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd
• Gough
• Church Village of Gammelstad
• Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
• Gros Morne
• Historic Town of Goslar
• The Monastery of Geghard

Pictures & Backgrounds

1. Squidfingers
2. Snowman (future)
3. Christmas tree
4. Abraham Lincoln (background is lighter, and has less contrast
6. Blue flower (again, several modifications have been made)

Searching for me

google

• "Paly login"
• Morrowind map java resources (seems to have dropped)
• "catch 22 quotes" --- it seemed to have dropped, but as of December 23, 2005 it was back to the first page of results
• other, more sensible stuff...

MSN search

• "catch 22 quotes" (as of September 5, 2005, my Catch 22 quotes page was the first hit, with my general humor page as the second)