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Site Changes, 2004

January

• 2004-01-12 - Started a new book list
• 2004-01-15 - Extracted the latest CSS hack from tech Short Notes to its own page.
• 2004-01-15 - Added a question about XML syntax to the tech Short Notes.
• 2004-01-24 - Added a CSS Rule of Thumb to the tech Short Notes.
• 2004-01-25 - Rewrote portions of the floated sidebar hack.
• 2004-01-26 - Added a variant of the floated sidebar hack: the margin note example.
• 2004-01-31 - Added a page of leocarpus fragilis photos.
• 2004-01-31 - Added a page of nidula niveotomentosa photos.

February

• 2004-02-04 - Added an update to the they're-now-known-as-CSS signatures page.
• 2004-02-16 - Started this year's notebook with an entry about linguistic nonsense.
• 2004-02-28 - Added a note about racism to the notebook.

March

• 2004-03-08 - Added a F.A.Q. about blogs.
• 2004-03-14 - Added a text size guideline to the tech Short Notes.
• 2004-03-20 - Added a notebook entry on anti-same-sex-marriage arguments.
• 2004-03-25 - Added a tech note on creating a backup strategy.

April

• 2004-04-21 - Added a lightweight Perl CGI RSS aggregator.
• 2004-04-21 - Added a notebook entry on a rare feeling.
• 2004-04-23 - Added an RSS lament to the tech Short Notes.

May

• 2004-05-05 - Added a postscript to the CD Rot page.
• 2004-05-09 - Added an exploration of geodesics on a cone.
• 2004-05-10 - Added DIY models to geodesics on a cone.
• 2004-05-13 - Added a few more illustrations to the geodesics on a cone page.
• 2004-05-13 - Added the Copyright as Government Service section to the copyright rant.
• 2004-05-16 - Added a rantlet about offsite links.

June

• 2004-06-30 - Added a discussion of the pole and barn paradox.

July

• 2004-07-02 - Extracted and expanded the pole and barn paradox's discussion of color to its own page. (Note: with this page, I began using PNGs regularly.)
• 2004-07-29 - Rewrote part of the Visualizing 4D page and improved some illustrations.
• 2004-07-30 - Put most of this site under a Creative Commons license.

August

• 2004-08-03 - Added an issue of From Oregon.
• 2004-08-05 - Improved some illustrations on the geodesics on a cone page.
• 2004-08-05 - Added a neologism to the notebook.
• 2004-08-05 - Reformatted most of the issues of From Oregon with proper HTML header elements.
• 2004-08-13 - Added two illustrations to the geodesics on a cone page.
• 2004-08-13 - Resolved a minor mystery about a knife.
• 2004-08-16 - Added a t-shirt.
• 2004-08-30 - Added a section for mathematics, and moved some existing pages into it.
• 2004-08-30 - Added pages on the torus's curvature and geodesics. (Note: first use of MathML.)
• 2004-08-30 - Declared this site's emancipation from obsolete Web browsers (e.g, those which can't handle PNG alpha transparency, generated content, and MathML). I will provide backward compatibility if possible.

September

• 2004-09-03 - Added a derivation of the torus's shape operator.
• 2004-09-05 - Created a new version of the cone surface area derivation page, and updated links to the obsolete old version.
• 2004-09-12 - Added the playlist of my ideal jukebox.

October

• 2004-10-04 - Added Irons' First Law of Examples to the notebook.
• 2004-10-12 - Added a bit of Web site hindsight to the tech Short Notes.
• 2004-10-15 - Added a recipe for high-calorie pudding to the Health section.
• 2004-10-30 - Added a question about handling data errors to the tech Short Notes.

November

• 2004-11-03 - Added a page on illustrating torus geodesics.

December

• 2004-12-12 - Tweaked the Illustrator artwork page's recycle symbol to smooth the arrows' creases.
• 2004-12-19 - Added new photos to the leocarpus fragilis page.

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