12/17/04:
Hi again. I've added a bunch of links to my
Links Page. There
are always more links, just like there are always more books...
And you thought there was only one Link.
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12/15/04:
Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings and all that.
I've been contemplating Anne McCaffrey's books . There's a
particularly difficult to find omnibus that I want to buy, but
I'm not having any luck stalking it. See the woefully
underdeveloped McCaffrey
page for details.
Hey, did you know my grocery store is called McCaffrey's?
What a shocking fact.
Here's a shocking fact: I've now read over 100 books this
year. That's more reading than I think I've ever done in a
year, and a significant portion of it was non-fiction. See
book log for
titles and number of pages, etc.
The non-fiction has included a number of Princeton University
Press books, the best of which, hands down, is a book called
From Hand to Mouth by Michael C. Corballis. You
should buy it, especially since it's on sale. It was very
entertaining, especially for a book with copious academic
footnotes.
Another very entertaining book with "footnotes" is The
Amulet of Samarkand and its sequel The Eye of the Golem,
by Jonathan Stroud. Good YA fantasy fiction!
I tweaked the tables on the site to try to get them to look
less hideous on a Mac, but I haven't done anything thorough to
fix the problem yet.
Check back with the movies
page, I'll probably be putting some feedback about some films
I've seen recently.
And what the heck, here's a link to the
wishlist I haven't finished ironing out yet. |
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11/15/04:
Voila the site map!
(I also changed some file locations, so if you were linking to
some particular page of mine, there is a very slight chance that
your link is now broken.) |
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11/14/04:
All the new books I ordered have come! (Now I
don't get to look forward to nifty mail anymore - sniff.)
I'm working on thing 5, a better wishlist. I think I will
re-institute the "candidate books" list for books I may possibly
be interested in. I have added a page about
me and foreign
languages. I have added a
screen shot of what
my website looks like if you are on the same OS/Browser platform
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11/6/04:
I've put some digital wedding photos online
here.
They're not labeled or arranged, or anything, though.
That's thing 1 below! Here's the beginnings of the
Emily Dickinson Page.
That's thing 2. That leaves 4 and 5.I have visited this
website from a Mac running OSX, and I know that the tables come
out badly. This is because FrontPage, which I use, has
something called border-collapse, which works with IE on
Windows, but is otherwise a nuisance. Since this problem
affects all my pages, I have to come up with some clever way of
fixing it everywhere in an automated fashion - replacing the
offending code by hand is unthinkable, what with the size my
website has grown to.
I worked a bit on the book recommendations and dungeon pages
and added a books-that-became-movies
page.
I found a picture of the American first edition of the
Talking Parcel. It's for sale on eBay, which is rare, but
I'm not buying. I just spent a large chunk of book money.
Some relatively
unexpected
money landed on me, so I have recently indulged in a
larger-than-usual set of book purchases:
From independent Amazon sellers:
- Earth from Above 365 Days
Aerial photographs! We saw an exhibit of some of them in
Lisbon.
- The Saint of Dragons
A new "used" copy for 34 cents!
From Amazon (these arrived today!):
- The Golden Compass
Hardback copy of a great book! Cover by Eric Rohmann.
- The Subtle Knife
Hardback copy of a great book! Cover by Eric Rohmann.
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in Latin
Awesome! Can't read it yet, though.
From eBay:
- Escape to Witch Mountain
I have the movie!
From
California-Princeton Fulfillment Services:
- Lost Words
Princeton University Press. On sale, and with the
employee discount, a $60 book becomes a $6 book.
- Life and Death on Mt. Everest
Princeton University Press. I've read 2 books about Mt.
Everest, and I like geology.
- The Japanese Experience
University of California Press. Sounded like interesting
history.
- Chinese
University of California Press. Description of the
Chinese written language.
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10/25/04:
I've added some scans (mostly to the
Foreign
Languages page). Congratulate me for doing item #3
below! Also, note that the total number of books covers
scanned on this website is now over 400! (Of course,
that's not all the books I own, even just in NJ.)By the way,
the Ewing Library book sale which I mentioned was pretty good
(21 books for $9.00!), and the Princeton Library book sale was
really pathetic (I left because it was too depressingly
disordered).
Also related to earlier messages, I've purchased the PUP
Frank Lloyd Wright book that's on sale, and I've read Eragon,
which I really enjoyed. |
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10/21/04:
I've made some minor improvements here and there.
I've taken away part of the menu and put it on the
About Me page, and re-arranged the
menu some. I'm seriously contemplating four things: 1)
Photos. 2) Emily Dickinson. 3) More scans. 4)
Creative Writing. 5) A Better Wishlist. Those
will be the things to look for soon. (You won't
necessarily find them soon, though.) I'm also looking into
getting a server log so I can see whether people are coming to
the site or not. I get the sense sometimes that I am
probably spending a lot of time making a product which has no
user. And I update my
Book Log (well,
the 2004 one, anyway) rather more frequently than anything else,
fyi. Any guesses as to what the total will be this year?
No? Me neither. |
Soon?
1) Photos.
2) Emily Dickinson.
3) More scans.
4) Creative Writing.
5) A Better Wishlist. |
10/03/04:
Yes! I'm back to being the
#1 Google hit for Ruth Chew! Recently when I checked,
my old site was the top hit - but my old site had finally been
deleted. My new site hadn't climbed to the top yet.
I was afraid it wouldn't, for some reason.I've updated a
number of things on the site today: mostly the
About Me page - well, pages, since
now there's more than one - and the
Links page.
Book Shopping also improved. |
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10/01/04:
Okay, nobody needs to donate me a hard drive. I
bought a 120 GB hard drive on sale, and it is up and running!
Yea!I'm looking forward to a couple of book sales soon: one
at the
Ewing Public Library and one at the
Princeton Public Library the weekend of Oct 16th.
I've updated my Book
Recommendations page: now it has been chartified, starred,
and illustrated. |
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09/18/04:
Whew, I'm back! Much has happened, just not on the site!
Soon, but not yet, you will be able to access:
- News about my wedding! Including photos!
- News about the honeymoon in Portugal!
Including photos!
- The rather dull story of how my computer and I both got
sick after I got back from Portugal. Anyone wanna donate
me a decent-sized hard drive?
These are the books I bought abroad. Since you were of
course so curious on that score.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in
Portuguese
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Spanish
- The Revenge of the Baby-Sat (Calvin and Hobbes) in
Portuguese
- The Little Prince in Portuguese
I have also upgraded my Ruth
Chew page. |
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08/31/04:
I converted my book categories files to match my other spiffy
new shtml files. |
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08/29/04:
I added many more movies coming to theatres to my
movies page. |
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08/28/04:
I added movies coming to theatres to my
movies page.
I helped my brother set up a blog. Go post on
Charlie's blog. |
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08/27/04:
I bought books today! I ordered Wheelock's Latin (6th
Edition) at 30% off and Eats, Shoots & Leaves at 40%
off from Amazon. Then I made my second-ever visit to
Chestnut Tree [remaindered and overstock] Books in the Princeton
Shopping Center and bought Eragon for 50% off. I'm
walking on sunshine, Baby. |
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08/26/04:
I untangled the new and old files that got scrambled yesterday.
I now have a new site (this one) and an old site (here).
Not to be confused with the nearly identical
frozen old site. |
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08/25/04:
I learned that Princeton University Press is having a sale.
Oooo, sale prices minus employee discount! Frank Lloyd
Wright, here I come!
I made a mess when I changed my file structure, and attempted to
make my new site co-exist with my old site. |
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08/24/04:
I converted many files to the spiffy white paper background
template with automatic menu and footer. I decided to
remove photo-album pages until I get my photos re-scanned at a
decent resolution. My photo album will be really
spectacular... someday. Also, I improved the leaf drawing. |
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08/22/04:
While attempting to chartify my wishlist on a new-style
shtml wishlist page, I located
cover versions of L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time books, as well as
covers for Freaky Friday. My favorite Freaky
Friday cover is conveniently displayed at right. Click
it for a bigger image. I created skeletal author pages for
both authors.
See L'Engle covers.
See Freaky Friday covers. |
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08/21/04:
I added the leaf drawing and worked on including the menu file
and the footer file seamlessly. Harder than I was
expecting, because nested tables can be confusing. The
goal of eliminating frames is worthy, however, and obstacles
shall be overcome. |
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08/17/04:
The University of Chicago has terminated my account.
I can no longer log in to the server to update my files.
However, they have left my
old
website intact for some unknown reason. I am glad,
because that website points here, so anyone with bookmarks has
some time of unknown duration to adjust to the new location.
If you want to read the Old
Intro Page, feel free. |
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08/9/04:
I decided not to have a fancy automatic blog. I
will use this funky low-tech table instead. However,
Google's
Blogger is pretty nifty. I recommend it. If I
weren't so stubborn about being in absolute control of the code
for my entire website, and about the inherent ugliness of the
word "blog", I would use it myself. |
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| It doesn't get any older than
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| This is not all the stuff I've
archived.
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