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June, 2001

Added to The Battle of the Band-organs - "Estudiantina" by Emil Waldteufel

May, 2001

Tried a new logo on the Home (index) page. Took out the dead ring links and moved a few things around.

Installed new Guestbook page. Updated the guestbook links on all the other pages. Old guestbooks are accessible from the new page.

November, 2000

I decided to install my Resume. I'll consider any HTML Writer or Electronic Technician position in the Cincinnati area.

Added to Bach Page - "Sheep May Safely Graze"

October, 2000

Replaced old Geocities counters with new Yahoo!/Geocities counters on all pages. (An all-day job!)

May, 2000

Added to Link Page - Ohio Scanning
Added to Bach Page - Capriccio "The Journey" (6 movements)

March, 2000

Added Visible Vienna Page - Show your pride in Geocities Vienna.

February, 2000

Added to Home Page - Great Site in Vienna Strasse Award, Visiting Vienna Award
Added to Friends Page - LilDawgster, Charleen

November, 1999

Added to Christmas Favorites Page - Four new band-organ tunes

August, 1999

Added to Composer Gallery Page - "The Adoration of the Earth" by Igor Stravinsky

March, 1999

Fractal Art Page - Some of my excursions into the world of Fractals

February, 1999

More pictures added to Time Out Page
This page - a way of letting old friends find new additions, and also a way of keeping track of what's here, a sort of reverse history. Dates of additions before February, 1999 have been recovered from file data and other records and are approximate.
January, 1999

Added to Band-organ Page - Babyface - Hungarian Rhapsody - National Emblem - Over the Waves - The Thunderer
Added to Link Page - Anny de Leeuw's Site (ABK)
Added to Friends Page - Jackie's site (Web Head)
December, 1998

Christmas Favorites - My Christmas Page -The PinWiz in a Santa suit - Favorite Christmas Music
November, 1998

PinWiz Bio Page - Meet the PinWiz - Everything you wanted to know about The PinWiz
Time Out Page - Where The PinWiz works - a Fun Place
September, 1998
Web Design Page - Links to good sites for page, site, and web design and general interest - My personal start page.
Navigation Panel - Added to most pages - I got tired of always having to go through "Home" to get to another page.
August, 1998

Added to Friends Page - Indian's Home Page
Added to Link Page - The Laugh-In
July, 1998

Added to Friends Page - Robin Cantor's Home Site
Added to Link Page - Enchante` (MIDI Carousel) - Jasmine's Carousel - City of Loveland - Mechanical Music Digest
Added to Composer Gallery Page - Janacek - Sullivan - Bartok - Sousa
Added to Band-organ Page - Light Cavalry Overture - A Dream of Springtime
Added to Bach Page - Musette - Prelude and Fugue in E Minor - Prelude and Fugue in F Major - Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor - Polacca - Brandenburg 1 Trio 2 - Brandenburg 2 Movt. 2 - Brandenburg 3 Movt. 1
June, 1998

Added to Band-organ Page - Emperor Waltz - Die Fledermaus - Entry of the Gladiators - Hello My Baby - La Donna e Mobile - La Spagnola - The Artist's Life - Looneytoons - Maple Leaf Rag - Missouri Waltz - Old Paint - The Ragtime Dance - The Good old Days - Redwing - Skaters Waltz - St. Louis Rag - Ragtime Two-step
Added to Link Page - Robin Cantor (Computer Help)
May, 1998

Added to Band-organ Page - Bill Bailey - Mice on Parade - Vienna Life - Wishing Star - Zip a Dee Do Dah - The Blue Danube
Added to Friends Page - Hulk's Home Site
April, 1998

Organ Builder Page - Simulating Pipe Organs with MIDI
Added to Link Page - Claude Ferguson (Spoon Player) - Kasaci's Site (Istanbul)
Added to Composer Gallery Page - Charles Ives
Added to Bill's Soup Kitchen - French Onion Soup
Band-organ Page - Age of Gold Polka
Friends Page - Banners from friends' sites, many of which I made
March, 1998

Added to Bach Page - Jig Fugue - Organ Trio Sonata No. 3
February, 1998

Bill's Soup Kitchen - Chicken Soup
Composer Gallery Page - Beethoven - Gounod - Handel - Massenet - Mozart - Rachmaninoff - Riegger
Pinball Gallery Page - Air Aces - Darts - Fireball - High Diver - Jigsaw - Soccer - Stampede - Travel Time
Link Page - Chuang Keng Wei - You Make a Difference
Added to Bach Page - In Tears of Grief - Jesus Joy of Man's Desiring - Jesu, Meine Freude - Air for the G String - Prelude and Fugue in G Major - Tocatta and Fugue in F Major - Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor
January, 1998

Home Page - Started my First Website
Bach Page - Music by the Master


Whew! You got all the way down here. Let me tell you, there's a lot of work involved in building a website. Especially a personal site like this, that can be expected to evolve over time.

Initially, I used the page assemblers available at Geocities, but I also followed the source code too. I didn't like the way some page assemblers added unneeded code into the page and so I decided to follow the advice of the NotePad people and learn to write HTML in the raw.

I usually build at least the working framework of a page using NotePad to write the code and InternetExplorer4 to display the page. (Save, refresh, save, refresh.) And I usually have Paint (.bmp) and PhotoEnhancer (.jpg, .tif, .bmp) going too.

Then I upload the page to Geocities, along with all the MIDI, images, and other files, that have been assembled to that point. From there I use the Geocities Advanced Editor, which is very similar to NotePad.

I find it takes a month or two for the page to settle down, designwise, and it may get just an occasional update from there on.

When I started this site I didn't have a plan, I just thought it would be a cool thing to do. I had been playing with MIDI for several years and had quite a few classical files completed. It seemd a natural source of content, something I could use to build an interesting page quickly.

I began to see early on that some things worked for me, and some didn't. Oh sure, I tried this and that, animated gifs, embedded MIDI, some JAVA effects, but I didn't like the hassle of waiting for that stuff to load.

I began to organize my files, and in the back of my mind there began to grow a plan, a progression from page designer to site designer to web designer.

Of course I was totally unprepared for the reality of the web. I exchanged emails, I got on ICQ. My interests and directions changed with every impact: new friends, new ideas, cool sites. Teddybears, butterflies, flowers, hugs, flames, sharing joys and sorrows with friends the world over.

So this site is the result, a balance of The Plan (order) and The Web (chaos). I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.


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