TVV Web Pages Change Log
Changes (except minor typo/formatting/hyperlink fixes) to my web pages in 2007
- 06-06
- Art Gallery: changed the display to use Ajax.
- 03-15
- Java pages: I had changed the deprecated APPLET tags to OBJECT tags. Never occurred to me that Internet Explorer would not support this standard. Changed them back.
- 01-08
- Links: added Aeropress.
- 01-04
- Movies: added The Station Agent.
Changes in 2006
- 12-04
- Résumé: Added some bibliography items.
- 07-18
- Pie Chart: minor improvement.
- 04-10
- Tools: Version 23 of webtrax.
- 04-02
- The IBM 7094 and CTSS: added link to the second edition manual.
- 01-08
- Tools: Minor fix to gpw.C.
Changes in 2005
- 12-30
- The IBM 360/67 and CP/CMS: corrections from Dave Tuttle.
- 11-19
- Links: Added a link to Bob Blakley's blog.
- 07-28
- How I Filter Spam: updated processing.
- 05-31
- Restaurants: Rosa's is gone, and Magazine. Added a few.
- 04-09
- Résumé: NAI Labs sold to SPARTA.
- 04-09
- Tools: Version 22 of webtrax.
- 02-19
- Added a Software Engineering Story about Darwin.
- 02-04
- Software Engineering Proverbs: added a proverb.
- 01-19
- Links: Added Deathwish Piano Movers.
- 01-01
- How I Filter Spam: updated.
Changes in 2004
- 10-10
- Security Advice: updated.
- 11-01
- How I Filter Spam: updated.
- 10-01
- How I Filter Spam: updated.
- 10-01
- Security Advice: added a section on Wireless.
- 09-10
- The History of Electronic Mail: added link to the source.
- 09-10
- The IBM 7094 and CTSS: added link to the source.
- 09-08
- Diskpie: Useful tool to see where your disk goes.
- 09-01
- Pie Chart: pointer to ploticus.
- 09-01
- How I Filter Spam: updated.
- 08-26
- Updated Index Gallery.
- 08-12
- Tools: Version 21 of webtrax.
- 07-08
- Software Engineering Reading List: added Claude Fenner's site
- 07-01
- Beer: 20 Tank closed, added 21st Amendment.
- 07-01
- How I Filter Spam: updated.
- 05-12
- How I Filter Spam: updated.
- 05-12
- Security Advice: updated.
- 04-05
- Interviewing and Hiring: new Sofware Engineering Story.
- 03-25
- Changed many files over to table-free design, using a neat trick from bluerobot.com.
- 02-17
- Security Advice: updated.
- 02-09
- Beer: added Ommegang's Hennepin.
- 01-19
- Links: Mac OS X.
- 01-16
- Letter from Cousin Stanley: updated with info about the Stanley L. Van Vleck Memorial Highway.
Changes in 2003
- 11-14
- Security Advice: new.
- 10-29
- The History of Electronic Mail: added a paragraph on continuum.
- 10-28
- How I Filter Spam: new.
- 09-27
- Software Engineering Proverbs: added a proverb.
- 09-14
- Serious link gardening. Minor format updates.
- 08-22
- Added four pictures to art gallery.
- 04-30
- The History of Electronic Mail: minor clarifications.
- 04-10
- Books: added a new one.
- 04-08
- Java: Improved Pie chart.
- 03-31
- CTSS Creators and Users: added a list of people involved with CTSS.
- 03-30
- The IBM 7094 and CTSS: added info on RUNOFF thanks to Jerry Saltzer.
- 03-13
- Music: added a new disc.
- 02-18
- Software Engineering Proverbs: added a proverb.
- 01-04
- Restaurants: Added some in Philadelphia.
Changes in 2002
- 11-22
- Software Engineering Proverbs: added a proverb.
- 10-12
- Added a Software Engineering Story about Van Vleck's Comb.
- 09-17
- Tools: Version 20 of webtrax.
- 08-09
- Java: Improved Pie chart.
- 07-16
- Tools, Links: Pointer to John Callender's book.
- 05-29
- Tools: minor update to gpw.Makefile for Linux
- 05-25
- The Funnies: updated, added Lynda Barry.
- 05-25
- Photoshop: updated.
- 05-01
- Résumé: PI on SPMA.
- 04-03
- Books: added a new one.
- 04-01
- Software Engineering Proverbs: added a proverb.
- 02-26
- Tools: Version 19 of webtrax.
- 01-22
- Links: added a paragraph about Linux.
Changes in 2001
- 11-19
- Bookstores: updated, added Marv Schaefer's bookstore.
- 11-01
- Résumé: Started at NAI Labs.
- 10-21
- Restaurants: Updated the Jersey Shore section.
- 10-01
- Résumé: Encirq laid everybody off.
- 09-13
- Added nine pictures to art gallery.
- 07-19
- Résumé: added a publication.
- 06-28
- Restaurants: added Flower Market Cafe, removed some that vanished.
- 04-05
- Tools: Version 18 of webtrax.
- 03-16
- Links: Added a link to Peter Neumann's page.
- 02-14
- Updated the letter from Stanley VV.
- 02-04
- Added The Bulgarian Lesson.
- 02-01
- Added The History of Electronic Mail.
- 01-21
- Added a note on how I use Photoshop.
- 01-14
- Added a software engineering story about Management Tactics.
- 01-06
- Tools: added a feature to headpage.cgi.
Changes in 2000
- 11-23
- Software Engineering Proverbs: pointer to a good one by Meilir Page-Jones.
- 11-10
- The IBM 360/67 and CP/CMS: new info on current state of VM.
- 10-10
- Links: Added a link to Bob Bemer's page.
- 09-20
- Added a picture to art gallery.
- 09-17
- Ran out of disk space and had to remove the Emeryville pictures. I will put one a day into the behind-tvv picture.
Added some pictures of Ocean City NJ.
- 08-22
- Updated Memory Box with more info and a better picture.
Beer: removed Dock Street, added Hop Devil.
- 07-18
- Beer: added Dock Street.
- 07-18
- Restaurants: added Jersey Shore.
- 05-30
- Updated the page on Venice.
- 05-23
- Changed the behind-tvv picture. Moved previous one to art gallery.
- 05-03
- Links: Updated a few links, added one.
- 03-25
- Résumé: Transilluminant now known as Encirq.
- 02-12
- Famous Van Vlecks: discovered some unrelated Norwegian Van Vlecks.
- 01-23
- Restaurants: added a few.
- 01-05
- Movies: added Being John Malkovich.
Changes in 1999
- 12-08
- New page with 30 Pictures of Emeryville
- 09-18
- One new Art Gallery picture. Redid some more old ones.
- 09-13
- Music: added a new disc.
- 09-11
- New Art Gallery pictures. Redid some old ones.
- 07-12
- New restaurants.
- 06-12
- Updated Gauss's Algorithm.
- 05-08
- New picture of me, thanks to Dan Bricklin.
Changes in 1998
- 12-20
- Résumé: Joined Transilluminant.
- 12-14
- Added a software engineering story about Gauss's Algorithm.
- 12-02
- Links: Added a link to KPIG.
- 12-01
- Restructured, removed Personal page, which largely duplicated other pages.
- 11-20
- Art Gallery: added a picture.
- 10-02
- Added Art Gallery with some pictures from the Index Gallery and some new ones.
- 09-09
- Tools: version 17 of webtrax.pl.
- 08-28
- Résumé: Joined Sun.
- 07-29
- Restaurants: some favorites are gone.
- 07-28
- Résumé: Left CyberCash. Added PDF version.
- 06-22
- Tools: version 16 of webtrax.pl.
- 06-18
- Added a page on The Funnies.
- 06-17
- Added a Memory Box.
- 06-15
- Changed the behind-tvv picture.
Added a story about the 1989 earthquake.
Added a Software Engineering Story about Hellandizing.
- 05-27
- Added a Reference section with info on syllogisms and animals.
- 03-29
- Changed the behind-tvv picture.
Index Gallery: added four pictures.
- 03-07
- Books: added a new one.
- 02-17
- Tools: new version of webtrax.pl.
- 01-17
- Tools: added cal.cgi, displays calendars.
- 01-12
- Software Engineering Reading List: updated.
- 01-11
- Borges and I: Added a note from Andrew Young.
- 01-10
- Tools: Fixed a minor webtrax bug in text mode.
- 01-03
- Tools: Added headpage.cgi, a tool for generating HTML from a template file.
Changes in 1997
- 12-29
- Favorite Places on the Web: Added a new section with links to tools.
- 12-08
- Added Index Gallery.
Added a page on Mushroom Hunting.
Added a page on Venice.
Added a page on a Wall Poem in Cambridge.
- 12-02
- Changed the behind-tvv picture.
- 11-16
- Added an entry tunnel, showing a random picture.
- 10-30
- Restaurants: added two new discoveries.
- 10-29
- Tools: enhanced webtrax installation.
- 10-20
- Bookstores: updated.
- 10-08
- Tools: enhanced webtrax.
- 10-05
- Famous Van Vlecks: Info on Van Vleck Crater.
- 08-06
- Software Engineering Proverbs: added one by Andrew Siwko.
- 07-31
- Java programs: fixed 1.1 bugs with Netscape 4.0.
Tools: added a tool to map Eudora bookmarks to Netscape address book..
- 07-01
- Tools: enhanced webtrax HTML mode.
- 06-24
- Added a new Java Pie Chart applet.
- 05-24
- Software Engineering Reading List: new.
- 05-12
- Software Engineering Proverbs: added one by Ted Nelson.
Books: minor update.
- 05-10
- Changed the behind-tvv picture.
Borges and I: new story.
- 05-01
- Added a new Java program: say.
- 02-17
- Home Terminals: new story.
- 01-24
- Famous Van Vlecks: added a letter from Stanley O. VV.
Fixed some AWT bugs in the Java Programs.
Updated résumé
Reformatted many pages to look better on wide monitors.
- 01-14
- The IBM 360/67 and CP/CMS: new info on current state of VM.
Updated 1401 HELLO WORLD program.
Changes in 1996
- 12-15
- Proverbs: added one by Dave Clark.
- 10-01
- Tools: enhanced webtrax.
- 09-30
- Restaurants: added a new one.
- 08-30
- Proverbs: added a new one.
- 08-27
- Favorite Places on the Web: new.
- 08-20
- Risks of Electronic Communication: expanded a little.
- 07-16
- Tools: enhanced webtrax.
- 07-08
- Changed the behind-tvv picture.
- 07-04
- Added a list of various lower files to the main page.
- 06-18
- Bookstores: new.
- 06-03
- Java Programs: new.
- 05-28
- Mail from Victor Olchanski: an update to the Russian visit.
- 05-03
- Famous Van Vlecks: added a picture of John H.
- 04-26
- Risks of Electronic Communication: added a link.
- 04-25
- Tools: enhanced webtrax.
- 03-30
- Tools: fixed a bug in webtrax.
- 03-24
- Added 1401 reference card.
Added IBM 7070.
- 03-03
- Added webtrax to the tools page.
- 03-02
- New book by my sister Mary.
- 02-29
- New employer, CyberCash.
- 02-17
- New favorite movie.
- 02-11
- Twelve more pages added to Mulvaney, completing the scanning of the booklet. Typed in the cover letter.
- 02-10
- Added feijoada recipe.
- 01-29
- Added a clipping from 1959 about Boyd's basement, with 2 pictures.
- 01-28
- Added the story of the time the Russians visited Boyd's basement, with 6 pictures.
- 01-26
- Eight more pages added to Mulvaney.
- 01-08
- Eight more pages added to Mulvaney.
- 01-04
- Two more pages added to Mulvaney.
Changes in 1995
- 12-31
- Tools: improved several tools.
- 12-17
- Tools: added url_mods tool.
- 12-14
- Removed mention of
Taligent.
Moved Software Engineering to its own page.
Added a tools page.
- 09-05
- Updated the beer page.
- 09-01
- Corrections to the 7094 story from Walter Nissen.
Corrections to my code in Structure Marking, thanks to Terje Mathisen.
Clarifications to The Risks of Electronic Communication.
- 07-24
- New stories about the 7094 and the 360/67.
- 07-15
- Added two more SWE proverbs; added to Famous Van Vlecks.
- 07-13
- Changed the behind-tvv picture.
- 06-05
- Two more pages added to Mulvaney.
- 05-24
- Added links to two John Cage sites.
- 05-24
- Added Mulvaney on Bomb Disposal, first 3 pages.
- 05-22
- Got an account at best.com and set up the site.
- 04-17
- Created this log. Added Famous Van Vlecks.
Changes in 1994
- .....
- Created first version of these pages on a Mac.