Change log :: What's new here? (archived entries, Aug03

		Change Log: What's new here? (archived entries, Aug 03 - Dec 04)
			"Nothing lasts forever in this world where one season changes into another." (Genji -- Murasaki Shikibu)

Items with yellow background indicate added or changed content. Items with orange background tend to be more "technical", improving the structure of the site, but not necessarily significantly affecting end-user content. Grayed out items are defunct. I started this log on 7 July 1997; prior changes are not included. (This web site was established ca. 01 Dec 1996.)

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What was done (We learn by doing....)

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05Dec04

Added page of pictures of statues of hated leaders being toppled: Lenin, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, George W Bush.

04Dec04

Sippy cups are from hell.

02Dec04

Added example of 2004 Miami modern domestic architecture (with chandelier!).

30Nov04

Added new song(s) to collection of apocryphal popular songs.

28Nov04

Added picture of Mimi with her constant companion: "Ginger cat".

27Nov04

This day (27Nov04) I started a blog at Blogger.com: Emanations from a Blog.

26Nov04

Added new episode to the story of: Spec House.

Also: Added contrasting picture of a different, better house recently built on spec in Chappaqua.

25Nov04

The ultimate Jewish/Islamic surname.

24Nov04

Is Hello Kitty a philosopher?

23Nov04

Added to website Guestbook: list of some especially interesting entries (most guestbook entries are "just" greetings -- although I appreciate each person who makes the effort!).

21Nov04

More web-history documentation: Four of my early digital photographs from January 1997 are on: photos.html.

04Nov04

George W Bush wins reelection as U.S. President: Four more years.

04Nov04

Added new item to Computer aphorisms and memories (item #12).

15Oct04

~~05:30~~ 04:30AM.

06Sep04

Hurricane Frances launches church steeple to crash like a V-2 into its church's roof.

22Aug04

Added title= parameters to some text links, to give them popup text when mouse is hovered over the link text (e.g., the word THINK in the header of this page, or, on the table contents page, "Je me souviens").

06Aug04

And this is not an M.C. Escher print.

31Jul04

Good example of: not seeing the obvious.

25Jul04

Added description of self-defeating way of facing problems, which I frequently do: I catastrophize.

09Jul04

Added story about my recent endeavor to get back into exercising after not exercising for over 5 years: "And we're climbing a stairmaster to Heaven...."

15May04

Not a Magritte painting.

03May04

Story about a British and a German soldier in WWII, combining absurdity (Catch-22) and decency (The Grand Illusion).

02May04

Added material to: More about me (Item #2).

02May04

Penn State Univ literature professor proposes way to rank relative merit of all forms of human knowledge and all learners.

01May04

U.S. military recalls Saddam era Iraqi general to quell Falluja rebellion: "Bush cites 'good progress' in Iraq".

28Apr04

Cartoon character I thought of ca. 1980: the Alligeditor: "likes books!"

24Apr04

Added picture: Flora margarine tubs with Princess Diana logo (after Diana's death in car crash not wearing seat belt, her name approved on margarine tubs, but not Royal Automobile Club public service ads urging persons to buckle up).

24Apr04

Sometimes I find one person, in the movies or in reality, looks like another person: Who's who?

22Apr04

Automobile that looks like Japanese animation character: Totoro.

21Apr04

Added to clock Java Applet on "What time does your computer think it is?" page: Day/night indicator.

18Apr04

New picture: Abiko Maine coon cat looking out screen door (she is not allowed to go out)..

17Apr04

Added page of reflections triggered by cover picture of Harvest Books edition of Sophocles' Oedipus plays which I read in high school and college (a-mentia of Western civilization).

06Apr04

Effects of "the Internet" on our experience of time (aka our life time) -- living in "Internet time".

03Apr04

Abraham and Isaac, 2004.

30Mar04

Ersatz advertisement: Tiffany wheels?

26Mar04

You read it here first (18 May 2003): President George W Bush hunts for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

24Mar04

New "faces in the forest" (marmosets).

23Mar04

Organizing what we need/want to remember so we find it even if we forget it: "Ariadnes's thread".

14Mar04

"Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?" --Joseph R. McCarthy.

12Mar04

Added more information about threat posed by Monsanto's policies about its genetically engineered crops. Includes admonitory story of Monsanto's legal persecution of Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser.

12Mar04

IHS + 1 = ??? (adding a scalar to a vector by adding the scalar to each scalar component of the vector).

08Mar04

Yet another misadventure trying to park my car.

06Mar04

Web history: Added new info about Keio Univ. Mt. Fuji webcam + "Light on the Net" web art project.

04Mar04

Faces in the forest.... [marmosets, tamarins -- and also the Great Forest Spirit from Princess Mononoke]

04Mar04

New picture: Misu in yet another basket....

28Feb04

Fellini's Serutanicon (a collaboration with Lawrence Welk).

25Feb04

Horology: Idea for a watch sub-dial that shows Day/Night and current moonphase.

22Feb04

Added Introductory (Segue...) page to: War Seen from the Grassroot Perspective (by Hermann Friedrich Honold, ex-combattant).

18Feb04

Learn more about marketing science and consumer preference (The Annals of Depth Psychology).

14Feb04

Americans' passion for home ownership is dysfunctional national economic policy.

Some things to think about before embarking on your Royal Cruise vacation.

04Feb04

Third thoughts on top of my "second thoughts" about my horological [mis]adventures since December 1999 ("Y2k").

04Feb04

Added new material about some aspects of contemporary Japanese culture (2003): Boxmen, dolls, desire for soothing, not competition....

31Jan04

Added page about: unsold spec house I pass each day on my way to and from work ("House of the Day", 31Jan04).

29Jan04

Added story: How one U.S. Immigration inspector helped prevent 911 terrorists from entering the U.S.

26Jan04

Added more gibberish to page about: Gibberish emails I have received.

24Jan04

The engineer's creed.

18Jan04

Added example how: Frustration makes waste.

18Jan04

New picture of peaceful cat: Abiko resting.

15Jan04

Somewhere, under the rainbow, "cool" new techno gadgets are adding new frustrations to our lives.

14Jan04

"Star Child" foetus at end of Stanley Kubrick's film 2001 possibly identified.

13Jan04

"cause célèbre" typo (NYT on the Web).

12Jan04

Slab 2004 (not exactly what Stanley Kubrick had in mind in 2001).

11Jan04

New picture of Misu Maine Coon cat, looking a bit like "Kilroy was here": Misu resting atop upended sofa.

07Jan04

SARS in 2004: Mass slaughter of civet "cats" in Guangdong China.

31Dec03

We need: compassionate computing (Footnote #82).

27Dec03

Added another reminiscence from Harvard Career Discovery Program (1981) to page about student apartment design project I did there: "I like white walls, don't you?"

26Dec03

IBM breaks the innovation barrier! and says "On Demand" business is not rude.

25Dec03

Added picture of Rolex Date model watch I wore for ca. 30 years (1970-2000).

24Dec03

Added new, better picture of Kakumi Seiho sake cup (Upper left corner of page).

24Dec03

Added portrait of Mimi at age 2 years 8 months.

24Dec03

Added picture of: Malcolm Wright stoneware bowl with bird design (ca. 1972).

21Dec03

Added page about metaphor for our life: "Shipwreck with Spectator" (Life as a journey...).

16Dec03

Added to examples of dumb things I've done: Example of my poor self-esteem.

14Dec03

U.S. forces capture Saddam Hussein. (But, as of : Where is Osama bin Laden?)

13Dec03

[ 'Steel blue and light....' (Hermann Broch, _The Daeth of Virgil_) ]

When, in 1984, I saw pre-1500 national treasure swords in the Tokyo National Museum, I was reminded of the opening paragraph of Hermann Broch's novel: The Death of Virgil.

Added page about envelope design I made for Broch's son on this theme: The waves in the steel.

12Dec03

More stuff added to page of "stuff": "spray on hosiery" (it comes in a can...).

08Dec03

Learn about marble run game: CUBORO.

06Dec03

Does Volkswagen's new "Transparent Factory" indicate progress beyond postmodern architecture's "decorated sheds", toward restructuring ordinary persons' daily life to be more transparent, more meaningful?

05Dec03

Another example added to: "The Internet: A warning".

05Dec03

Corrected What is SGML? page to be valid HTML 4.0 Transitional.

01Dec03

Added to page telling of some of my experiences growing older (aging): Self-portrait.

28Nov03

Fraidy-cat U.S. President (George W Bush) makes stealthy Thanksgiving visit to troops he sent to fight in Iraq.

26Nov03

Computer Power and Human Reason: From calculation to judgment.

22Nov03

Added info about U.S. Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense: Iraqi terrorists' rocket launching platform.

19Nov03

Added new thoughts about what I deeply believe, to page summarizing my beliefs: "The Net".

05Nov03

Lovely Sylvia Plath cat metaphor (middle-right on page).

01Nov03

Moving on?

18Oct03

[fn.88

]Added another dumb thing I did to: Dumb thing I did (bottom of page).

Note: Whenever there is a long span of time for which there are few or no entries in this log because I have changed little or nothing on this website, it most likely means I have felt threatened concerning the satisfaction of my needs at the lowest levels of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs (See also Edmund Husserl quote on this subject)..

13Sep03

Read some thoughts about reading.

13Sep03

Added more fun to: Play with signifiers....

12Sep03

What does it mean when my desk is a mess?

06Sep03

Pizza delivery man forced by unknown persons to become unwilling suicide bomber.

03Sep03

Added to the ca. 200 "Quotes I like" I've collected here during the past 6 years: Index to collected quotes, to help user find items of interest.

01Sep03

Can America become happy again by: singing in the rain?

28Aug03

Let's make computers and computer programmers more useful.

24Aug03

Do you know the story of Maurice Ravel's opera "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges"? (Click links at end of prima facie unrelated text!; or: Click here/here.)

23Aug03

My proposed Patek Philippe advertisement.

23Aug03

Computers seem to be making our life ever more "interesting." (G-d help us!)

16Aug03

The proper activity of a human person....

15Aug03

"And nobody does it better...." (Carly Simon, for George W Bush)

13Aug03

Sadly started changing color names to Hexadecimal RGB equivalents all thru this website because some old browsers do not recognize the symbolic names but only the RGB values (e.g., replace: "navajowhite" by: "#FFDEAD") -- sadly, because the hex values are not humanly meaningful, whereas the symbolic names are.

11Aug03

America's 19th century Imperialism: a root cause of "Pearl Harbor".

10Aug03

Applying Microsoft's "critical updates" to my computer, this day, destroyed the computer's ability to connect to the Internet, and I can't figure out how to undo the damage, so the computer is now useless, because I trusted Microsoft.

05Aug03

Added new material from Japanese sources, how the U.S. dropping the atomic bombs helped end World War II.

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