2000 Archives

  This page documents any revamping, modification, changes or additions I've made to my web page during 2000. More recent changes are found on the most current Recent Changes page.

  • Total Hours This Year: 112. (Note: Not all changes had time spent recorded.)

  • (12/24/2000). Time spent: 5 minutes. 1- Added another book to my list of Books I've Read.

  • (12/15/2000). Time spent: 5 minutes. 1- Added another book to my list of Books I've Read.

  • (12/12/2000). Time spent: 10 minutes. 1- Added another book (and did minor tweakings) to my list of Books I've Read.

  • (12/8/2000). Time spent: 45 minutes. 1- Added a couple more Books I've Read. 2- Created a new page of Books I Own, which has format but no content, yet.

  • (12/7/2000). Time spent: 20 minutes. 1- Added a couple more books in progress to the Books I've Read page.

  • (12/6/2000). Time spent: 1.25 hours. 1- Worked on my Books I've Read page, adding books that I've read portions of, but not yet completed, to the bottom of my list.

  • (12/5/2000). Time spent: 15 minutes. 1- Worked on my Personal Goals page.

  • (12/4/2000). Time spent: 1.75 hours. 1- Fixed a few broken links around the site. 2- Added two pictures to Lindsey's blurb of her hang-gliding, and of her with her Aussie friends, Troy and Jonie. 3- Put the fchange class into the Bit About me main page. 4- Updated my Goals.

  • (11/29/2000). Time spent: 1.25 hours. 1- Added a couple more books to the Books I've Read page. 2- Made tiny updates to my resume. 3- Discovered that classes (CSS) put into the <table> tag works in IE, but doesn't work in Netscape unless placed in the <td> tag; therefore, added an in-line style for <td> for the few pages who have the "fchange" class used, so it will "work" in both Netscape and IE. 4- Worked on the Book Recommendations page, making the rest of the books titles' link to their listings on Amazon.com. 5- Fixed a couple of broken links.

  • (11/28/2000). Time spent: 3.5 hours. 1- Found, typed up and added more lyrics to my My Music page. 2- Divided the Recent Changes section further, changing it from "new" and "archives" to the "current year" and anything older archived by year. 3- Changed the dates on older recent changes pages into four-digit year format, and put them in bold, like on this page, for consistency.

  • (11/27/2000). Time spent: 2.5 hours. 1- Edited my pics.pl perl script to create the Lyrics perl script, where you can select lyrics from any of the songs I've sung. 2- Added a new column to my My Music page for "Lyrics," so that you can look at the lyrics for any given song, using the modified perl script I tweaked in (1).

  • (11/26/2000). Time spent: 15 minutes. 1- Added a couple more books I completed to my Books I've Read list.

  • (11/22/2000). Time spent: 4 hours. 1- Worked on adding books to the Books I've Read page, and then linked the books to their Amazon.com listings. 2- Added a few books to, improved the aestheticism, added/re-organized categories, and added links to Amazon.com listings on my page of Book Recommendations.

  • (11/21/2000). Time spent: 1.75 hours. 1- Fixed broken links, and made minor modifications to a couple of pages.

  • (11/20/2000). Time spent: 4.75 hours. 1- Fixed a lot of broken links. 2- Added/edited a few questions on my Anneke A-Likeness Test. 2- Fixed some tags for increased browser compatibility. 3- Fixed a few spelling mistakes. 4- Worked on Language Frameworks for an additional 1.5 hours beyond the 4.75 on Anneke.Net.

  • (11/19/2000). Time spent: 1 hour. 1- Fixed bad links around my site, mainly in the People section, so far.

  • (11/17/2000). Time spent: 40 minutes. 1- Working on converting my Books I've Read page into XML/XSL, if it's possible to use XSL on this server. (Discovered it wasn't.)

  • (11/16/2000). Time spent: 1.5 hours. 1- Updated 10 more blurbs in the People section.

  • (11/15/2000). Time spent: 1 hour. 1- Created a Book Recommendations page. 2- Linked my Books I've Read page into my Bit About Me page, and made minor other tweakings.

  • (11/10/2000). Time spent: 1 hour. 1- Made some more updates to some blurbs in the People section.

  • (10/25/2000) Time spent: 1 hour. 1- Updated the site map a bit more, adding the Linux Seminars pages. 2- Put the stylesheet and breadcrumb trail in the Linux Seminars section, which I'd somehow missed doing before.

  • (10/20/2000) Time spent: 7.25 hours. 1- Deleted and edited more blurbs in my People section. 2- Optimized the jpg on the Bit About Me section. 3- Expanded my site map.

  • (10/19/2000) Time spent: 6 hours. 1- Optimized the image map on my home page in Fireworks, to be around 32k instead of 96k, for faster downloading. 2- Added a few new blurbs, deleted others, and edited some of the rest in my People section, many of which were outdated, and fixed the color schemes.

  • (10/18/2000) Time spent: 5.5 hours. 1- Put my music into a table for easier readability, and adding one song (Both Hands) to the list from elsewhere in my site. 2- Made minor modifications on my Vocal Experience page. 3- Added eight MP3s, so that I now have the complete recordings of the Shocker CD online.

  • (10/17/2000) Time spent: 6.5 hours. 1- Created a site map.

  • (9/28/2000) Time spent: 25 minutes. 1- Got rid of a lot of gifs I was no longer using. 2- Added a few new categories and things to my Favorite Things page.

  • (9/23/2000) Time spent: 45 minutes. 1- Added style sheets to one of two perl scripts 2- fixed a couple broken links.

  • (9/9/2000) Time spent: 15 minutes. 1- Updated my Music Collection page.

  • (9/8/2000) Time spent: 20 minutes. 1- Added a new song (MP3) of mine on my music page. 2- Tweaked the music page a bit.

  • (8/31/2000) Time spent 5.75 hours. Ta-Da! Finally finished all of the following: 1- Added CSSs to the entire site. 2- Added breadcrumbs (a trail of links in the upper left corner mapping out the site hierarchy to the current page) to the entire site. 3- Made sure all titles followed the same standard, matching the breadcrumb trail. 4- Made all the footers consistant, and fixed a multitude of broken links. 5- Updated various pages along the way. Done!

  • (8/30/2000) Time spent: 7 hours. 1- Took out some pre tags and formatted various pages in the Coursework section. 2- Added style sheets to various pages. 3- Corrected and added titles. 4- Corrected footers. 5- Added breadcrumbs. 6- Fixed poor HTML code.

  • (8/29/2000) Time spent: 1.5 hours. 1- Added more style sheets, standardized and corrected footers, and corrected/standardized titles.

  • (8/21/2000) Time spent: 1.25 hours. 1- Added a Recent News page to the Bit About Me section. It's something like a diary, but with less very personal information, but rather just new happenings in my life. 2- Added CSSs and breadcrumbs to more of my site, specifically within the Education section.

  • (8/19/2000) Time spent: 2.25 hours. 1- Added CSSs and breadcrumbs to the Architecture and 2/3rds of the Computers, HTML & Linux section.

  • (8/18/2000) Time spent: 2.5 hours. 1- Added CSSs and breadcrumbs to the work experience section, except for portions of the archived sites in my web portfolio. 2- Added CSSs, breadcrumbs, and fixed titles in the My Travels section.

  • (8/17/2000) Time spent: 3.5 hours. 1- Saved songs recorded on my MD into .wav format using Acoustica, and cropped the .wav files. 2- Imported the .wav files into mp3 format. 3- Uploaded 4 new mp3s and migrated all 17 mp3s from my other account onto Anneke.Net. 4- Updated my music page to reflect the new additions.

  • (8/16/2000) Time spent: 1.5 hours. 1- Added breadcrumbs and stylesheets to the Memories section, and all sub-pages. 2- Reorganized, added breadcrumbs and CSS's, and added 2 more html documents in the Singing section.

  • (8/15/2000) Time spent: 2.75 hours. 1- Created a CSS for Anneke.Net. 2- Added the style sheet to this page and the Bit About Me section and its subdirectories and contained pages. 3- Added 'breadcrumbs' to the aforementioned pages.

  • (7/9/2000) Time spent: 1 hour. 1- Small changes on my resume, the pictures page, and other tiny tweakings.

  • (6/29/2000) Time spent: 15 minutes. 1- Added meta tags and a table to the Singing page.

  • (6/19/2000) Time spent: 40 minutes. 1- Added meta tags (keywords) to the index page, capital punishment section, and Adolf Loos section.

  • (6/8/2000) Time spent: 40 minutes. 1- Edited a few blurbs in the People section.

  • (5/13/2000) Time spent: 15 minutes. 1- Made minor modifications to my Anneke A-Likeness Test.

  • (5/12/2000) Time spent: 1.5 hrs. 1- Separated my prose into separate web pages. 2- Put BGCOLOR tags into some pages, so it will show up with a white background on UNIX browsers, as well as on Mac & PC platforms.

  • (5/7/2000) Time spent: Approx 4 hours. 1- Replaced some of the 'spacer' (Netscape-supported) tags with 'nbsp' (Netscape & IE-supported) tags. 2- Ran a link-checker against some of the pages and fixed various broken links. 3- Ran an html-code checker against some pages and fixed some poor (but functional) code.

  • (5/6/2000) Time spent: Approx 7-10 hours. 1- Redid the front image map on Anneke.Net. 2- Created a few new sections and reworked some of the directory structure of Anneke.Net to accompany the newly updated image map.

  • (4/25/2000) 1- Changed the To-Do list format on this page. 2- Reorganized/cleaned up the front Bit About Me page. 3- Added an architecture page. 4- Finished and brought online the revamped Pictures section.

  • (4/24/2000) 1- Worked on the new pics.pl-script version of the pics section, not yet live. 2- Added someone to the People I Know section.

  • (4/15/2000) Time spent: Approx 10 hours. 1- Began working on modifying people.pl perl script in the People I Know section to be used in the Pictures section, which is currently fairly graphics intensive. 2- Completely revamped the aesthetics and color scheme of the Bit About Me section, as well as editing some of the corresponding content.

  • (3/13/2000) Ta-Da!! Finished fixing the colors and cross-referenced links in all 85+ blurbs in the People I Know section. Now all I have to do is revise the content of the blurbs themselves ;).

  • (3/12/2000) With Dave DeMaagd's help and perl-script-writing abilities, revised the People I Know section for a much more dynamic and faster way to look up people. Thanks Dave!! I still have to fix the internal cross-referencing links within each blurb, as well as revise the blurbs themselves, which are sorely outdated.

  • (3/5/2000) Made minor modifications to the People I Know index page.

  • (2/20/2000) Modified the Visited Nations & States page a bit.

  • (2/2/2000) 1- Added a few things to my Learn About Anneke listing. 2- Fixed Jordan Heller's web page link.

  • (1/3/2000) 1- Added 3 pictures under the People I Know section.

  • Changes prior to January 1, 2000 are archived by year.