Added the next installment of 'The Widow and the Wizard'.

Added Safe and Sound and Alchemy to the plays page.

Added the next installment of 'The Widow and the Wizard'.

Added the next installment of 'The Widow and the Wizard'.

Just realized I forgot to upload the religion/ directory with the rest of the redesign. Whoops. :)

Fleshed out the books page. Reorganized the writing pages (into new and old, rather than finished, in progress, and old) and darkened the date stamps on each. Added the blog.

Decluttered the language pages, removing all the external links. (From now on I'm only including the stuff I've actually made, with rare exceptions.) It looks a lot better now that it's cleaned up. :) Also added in the stuff I've done on Riverglen Press (the script cards and such), including Hebrew, Old English, and Old Icelandic in the lineup. And I also darkened the main text font a little bit, so that it isn't so glaring, and so that there's contrast with the headings. Updated the 404 page. Fleshed out the writing section. Still remaining on the to-do list: get the blog up and figure out what to do with the art/design section.

Finally finished this redesign and uploaded it. A lot of old pages have been removed, because they were cruft. I don't think they'll be missed.

Decided to stop neglecting this site. :) With a new makeover and a skeletal upheaval, I think Blank Slate is back in business.

Added the dashboard.

"Is it dead? It hasn't moved in a while." "No, I think it's still alive, barely." "Maybe we should wake it up." "Go ahead and try." ~hmmph~ As you may have noticed (ahem), it's been a long while since I've done much with this site. Nine months, actually. Since I don't want to get slammed with negligence charges, I've got plans to rework this site into the larger scheme of things (viz., my other websites), but I'm still not sure how it's going to fit in. Anyway, I hope I'll have time to do all that soon, but if not, it'll happen after I graduate in April.

You know, it'd be a whole lot easier if this news page were a blog. Hmm... Maybe I can get WordPress integrated in... Anyway, I'm converting all of the files to Unicode encoding (I thought they already were, but now I'm finding that most of them aren't). I'm also going to be thinking of ways to make this site better, for it has languished in the neglected dust for far too long. Oh, I've started adding images to the pages, as decorations. Some (like the book on the Language page) are lame, and I'll be replacing those soon.

Changed the layout.

Whoa, has it really been six months? Goodness. Well, I made some slight changes to the theme. Much better than before, I think. But it's still not quite where I want it -- I'll be working on it more over the next while.

Added the Favorite songs page.

Added Korean to the Moroni 10:3-5 page. Wow, I haven't really updated this site in a very long time...

Added Cakchiquel, Guarani, Kekchi, Mam, and Mayan to the Moroni 10:3-5 page. Now that school's out I can finally start working on this website in earnest again, and one of my first projects will be to go through all the language links, weeding out the dead ones and planting new ones.

Added Tongan to the Moroni 10:3-5 page.

Added the title of the Book of Mormon in Yapese and Mayan, and added the second part of the Bahasa Indonesian title. Also fixed a spelling error in the Armenian title.

Added Kuna, Romanian, and Swahili to the Moroni 10:3-5 page.

Renamed 'The Word' to Language and renamed 'The Past' to History.

Removed my SEALang and Land of Smiles blogs, since I have no time to update them separately. I haven't been doing a very good job of updating this site, but that will probably change soon. Slightly changed the banner to use the sun instead of the yellow circle.

Wow, it's been a long time since I've done anything on here. Uploaded "Will I Leave a Legacy?" to My Music.

Created two new blogs: SEALang (Southeast Asian Languages), which will become the hub for my research in Thai linguistics, and Land of Smiles, a blog about Thai culture (cooking, history, etiquette, etc.). I think I'm going blog-crazy. :)

Created a blog, Top of the Mountains.

Added a link to Steven Yates's article "The Harsh Truth About Government Schools" to the education page.

Added Ben's Bookshelves to the Books page. Also added the Cooking page. Updated the Genealogy page and revised many of the other pages.

Added the CFHG banner to the Gallery.

Put together the Restoration Testimonies website.

Created the Thai Testimonies website.

Added the Thailand Links page.

Added The Restoration, an essay on the kingdom of God in these latter days. Made some changes to the home page and to the religion page. Also added the There Is a God page.

Added Fijian, Hawaiian, Indonesian, Maori, Navajo, Samoan, and Vietnamese to the Moroni 10:3-5 page. Added the Thoughts page and moved some stuff from the About page over there.

Added the Thai Proclamation on the Family.

Updated my resume.

Added more stuff to the Thai Book of Mormon pages. Also uploaded the Thai Book of Remembrance PDF and the Thai Articles of Faith.

Added Elder to the Gallery.

Removed the Game Music and Tracker pages.

Completed the Adventures in Thailand pages (my mission journal). Added Czech, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Haitian Creole, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, and Ukrainian to the Moroni 10:3-5 page.

Added Quechua and Quiche to the Moroni 10:3-5 page. Added the Thai on Computers page. Updated my Mission Journal.

Removed the Current Projects and Site Map pages. Added Finnish, Hungarian, and Portuguese to the Moroni 10:3-5 page.

Added The Book of Mormon's Witness of Christ. Also added Keeping Up Your Thai.

Made some slight changes to the navigation links.

Added Welsh to the Moroni 10:3-5 page.

Added the Book of Mormon page.

Revised a lot of the text, fixed broken links, and added the Thailand: Land of Smiles pages.

Updated the CSS a little bit, changed the logo, and added some new artwork to The Gallery.

Changed the default font from Verdana to Trebuchet MS. I'll be working on the site more in the near future.

Added Etruscan to the language pages.

Added the Lambdin quote to the language page.

Started rewriting the site. Got rid of the Scimath page and the weblog and the site guide. Renamed some of the pages.

Updated a lot of stuff. Yes, there is a two-year gap between the last entry and this one. :)

Uploaded my farewell talk in MP3.

Removed my e-mail address and IM info from the site (since I won't be available except via snail mail until August 2004 when I get back from my mission).

Moved the mission page to its own subdirectory and added the mission journal and mission pictures pages. (They're empty right now, of course, since I haven't left yet.) Added The Fire of Curiosity to the articles page. (It's an article I wrote for the UHEA newsletter.) Added the Gutenberg Press logo to the gallery.

Put the romance page back up at the request of a friend. :) Added the Days of Rain MP3s to the music page.

Changed the copyright notice from "All rights reserved" to "You may use, modify, and distribute this however you wish." I basically want to get the point across that anyone can take my code here (or even the content if they really want) and do whatever they want with it. It's public domain. Added the etext links page. Pared down the romance and about me pages. Added the TeX and PDF versions of the Old Icelandic primer.

Added Feeding the Hand That Feeds You to the articles page. Added the Thai page.

Added the keybindings section to my Linux page. Added the Help! article.

Added PfaEdit to the cool stuff page.

Added my MSN and Yahoo IM usernames to the footer. Uploaded Unicopt 1.1. (The only difference is that the supralinear stroke now goes over the character preceding instead of hovering between both.)

Added the Unicopt page.

Added the HTML version and the "making of" section to the Old Icelandic primer page.

Added the Icelandic primer text file.

Added DjVu, Perl, PostScript, and regular expressions to the cool stuff page.

Added the An Icelandic Primer page and the The Story of Mormonism page.

Changed the style of the journal entries. Now they actually fit in with the rest of the site. :) And I changed the look of the music listings and the gallery as well (same look).

Added the Cool Stuff page.

Added Rainbow Valley, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Story Girl, and Further Chronicles of Avonlea to the Etexts page.

Added the Articles section and put Vim Bits 1 and Vim Bits 2 in it.

Added the Proofread page.

Added the The Ball and the Cross page.

Uploaded The Ball and the Cross. Added more etext links to the L.M. Montgomery page (from A Celebration of Women Writers).

Worked on Linuxtype, so there's actually useful information there now. :) Added the Current Projects page and re-ordered the links on the home page.

Added the fluxbox section to the Linux page. Also made lots of little changes throughout the site (changing the order of links, adding my mission address, etc.).

Added the Etexts page.

Updated the Wacom page for those who don't have the devices set up.

Moved the PHP links from the Programming Links page to the Web Development page, which is where they should have gone in the beginning. And I sorted the programming links so the categories are alphabetical now.

Split the journal again. I think I'll keep it in month-sized bits from now on.

Added the BYU-UUG Logo tutorial to the Tutorials page.

Updated the front page so it points to the Mission page instead of the mission section of the About page.

This almost isn't worthy of note, but I added the day of week names to the journal entries. It took a long time. :)

Moved the mission stuff to the Mission page. And added the Thailand Tips page.

Added the Proofread logo to the Gallery.

Decided I'm getting too many nasty spam messages, so I updated my address on here to be spam-free. I also put instructions at the bottom of the page, since inevitably there are people who would be puzzled by seeing such a weird e-mail address. :)

Slightly updated my resume.

Redesigned the layout. Revised the front page text. Added a screenshot to the About Blank Slate page. Added Blank Slate IV to the Gallery. Removed the BYU-UUG logos page. Added Encircled to my fiction page. Added some more to the verdict section of the VAIO page.

Split my journal up.

Added the introductory paragraph to the About page. The bulk of the updates recently have been in my journal. Before long I'll put up a page on Thai, though.

Revised the VAIO page (the verdict and the DVD section).

Added a screenshot and my fluxbox Sleek theme to the Linux page. Put my farewell info on the mission page.

Added the readings section to the web design tips page.

Added the final BYU-UUG logo and the LDSWriters.Net logo to The Gallery. Added the site guide.

Moved the entries in my weblog to my journal and started the weblog anew. (I wasn't really writing a weblog but rather a journal.) I put all the text on the journal into the fiction <div>, so now it's indented. That fixed the problem I was having with the <p> making spaces underneath. (You probably didn't notice it, so don't worry about it. :)) Added a screenshot of my desktop to the Linux page. Added Out of the Dust to the Religion page. Added the Coptonew Chart to the Coptic page. Added the journal section to the About page.

Updated the Striker screenshots page so it uses <div>'s instead of a table. It's not quite how I want it, but it will suffice for now. Added my .snd to the Linux page. Added the weather section to the About page. Moved the short shirts section on the About page into a modesty section and revised the text.

Added the mission section to the About page. Revised all my music, so the printed output isn't quite so ugly anymore. (I switched the title font from Computer Modern to Adobe Utopia.) I also put the dates in and changed the taglines to show the URL to Blank Slate. And I updated the My Music section to use <div>'s instead of a table. And I added the gzipped PostScript versions (since the PDF's look awful onscreen). Wrote a rather long entry in my blog. Added "Reflections" to the My Music section.

Recorded the sound my hard drive makes and put it on the VAIO page. Added links to the pages I refer to in here (like the VAIO page in the last sentence). But I only added them for the first occurrence (thus there's no link for the VAIO page in the previous sentence). Added some French and German pronunciation links. Added my mission picture to the About page. Added Egg and Toy Dog to the Gallery page. And I found that if I add enough text to the description of the picture before one that's in the wrong place, it moves to the right place. How interesting. It's a Mozilla 0.99 bug, of course, so it doesn't really matter, but at least it won't bother me anymore. :)

Updated my resume. Added the Linuxtype page.

Added the BMRT/Renderman section to the art software page and added a few more links in various other places on the site. Added my resume. Added lots of Chesterton e-text links.

Slightly changed the background color. It feels like this site is lying dormant, with hardly any work being done on it, but I think it'll have to stay that way till school gets out.

I haven't really done much with the site lately since I've been busy with other things (most recently, getting my wisdom teeth taken out). School will be getting busier in the next couple of weeks (finals start on the 20th) and so updates may be few and far between. We'll see.

Made a new logo to replace #9 on the BYU-UUG logo page. No, that is not an April Fool's joke. :) Added the 'Last modified' bit to the footer. Wrote in my weblog. Still slowly switching over to XHTML. Converted my fiction to the new fiction class that indents the paragraphs. Added 'The Viking' to the poetry page. Took the poetry page and made it XHTML compliant (and got rid of the two-columned table).

Added the Files section to the About Blank Slate page. Added the version 6.1 screenshot to the page as well.

It looks like the Mozilla bug is indeed a Mozilla bug. My friend Byron tried it out in Mozilla 0.9.8 and it worked fine; with the 0.9.9 that I'm running, however, it messes up. Oh well. If it's just a Mozilla bug, I can handle that, so long as my code is correct. :) I moved the bread crumb into the main content area, which should make it easier to come up with a decent color scheme. I hope. :) Okay, I've changed the color scheme again. Back to gray. For the most part, that is. Added three logos to the BYU-UUG logo page.

I'm still switching everything over to XHTML, little by little. I've changed the color scheme again. I'm still not entirely satisfied. But I have a lot of schoolwork to do, so it will have to wait. I've converted some of the logs (news, weblog, etc.) over from the table-based format to the CSS-based format. There's some kind of bug, though, since Mozilla doesn't display them quite correctly (occasionally there's a space between the date and the entry). Konqueror doesn't have a problem with it, though. Hmm. I updated the Gallery layout as well, but Mozilla still renders it with problems. And Konqueror has no problem with it. Hmm.

I've changed the color scheme slightly, so the background is now gray. It still doesn't quite work, but I don't have time to fix it at the moment. At least it's not so blue now. Update: I've made the whole color scheme gray for the time being. I'll change it later, but for now it works. I also changed the logo and found out how to put it on the left.

The site is ready enough to upload, but it still uses tables for some things. That won't affect the viewing experience, though. I've started fixing the tags so the site is XHTML compliant. I'm also redoing a lot of things in CSS that used HTML tags before (for example, instead of formatting my poetry with <br> tags, I wrote a 'poetry' class with 'pre' formatting and put each poem in that class). It makes it much easier to change the formatting at a single blow. I'm also using <em> instead of <i> and <strong> instead of <b>, in my move to separate style and content.

I'm in the process of switching the site over to CSS completely (abandoning the table-based layout). I'm also separating style from content, which means it'll be much easier to change the layout in the future. And not only that, but the site will be friendlier to viewers not on computers (e.g. on cell phones or WebTVs or Braille devices or whatever).

Added Checker IV, Checker V, Blank Slate III, Extenso, and Huh? to the Gallery. I should probably put the names in quotes, huh. :) Changed favicon.ico.

Added the Web Design Tips page. Added a favicon.ico (which I don't particularly like, but it'll suffice for now). Added a custom 404 page (for files not found).

Moved the Making of Blank Slate section from the Web Development page to the About Blank Slate page. (It fits in much better there.) Revised the USB section on the VAIO page. Added the Wacom Graphire USB page.

Changed the logo. I'm going to completely revamp the site soon, changing to a new layout (relying extensively on CSS and perhaps some XHTML/DHTML as well). I don't know how soon it will be, since finals are in a month. Revised the colors in the logs; hopefully they won't be so gray now. Added the About Blank Slate page and moved most of the home page text there. Revised the home page text. Added the The Name section to the About Blank Slate page.

Updated the VAIO page. My Wacom Graphire tablet should arrive today, and once I get it set up, I'll update the USB portion of the VAIO page. I wish I had a Firewire device so I could test the port on here. Oh well. :) Added some system files to my Linux page.

Revised some text. Alphabetized the stuff on the About page. Put dates on the My Music page and changed the sort order so the newest pieces are first. I hadn't realized it had been over a year since I last composed anything. Wow.

Added Greyscape and BYU-UUG to the Gallery.

I spent the morning making a new logo, adding the bread crumb (or whatever it's called -- the thing under the main links), revising some of the text, and cleaning up the PHP files. I really like the new look, especially the colors. And the bread crumb is very nice. I added a Blank Slate history section to the Web Development page, complete with screenshots of the four revisions the site has gone through. Added blankslate.png to the Gallery. I probably ought to start including names on the Gallery pictures... In fact, I think I'll put that in right now. Did that. Added Blank Slate II to the Gallery. Also added the BYU-UUG logo page, which'll only be up till the logos are voted on. Added Eclectic to the Gallery.

I was originally going to host blankslate.net with the same company as we were hosting BestScopes.com on, namely Eclipse Hosting. But then I realized it would be easier to just set up my own account. I did some searching for hosts and found eHostPros.com, which is a really good deal. So I signed up and hopefully will move the site over soon.

I registered blankslate.net, which will be the future home of this site. (Which means that it will be renamed from the slate to Blank Slate.) The idea is that in starting with a blank slate you're free to choose from a myriad of creative possibilities. (I'm sticking with the slate image, which ties in with writing, drawing, drafting, etc.) With a blank slate you aren't bound by old ideas which may or may not be right. I don't mean this in any kind of tradition-breaking sense (e.g. breaking free from organized religion), but rather in a strictly creative sense -- scrapping old drafts of a manuscript, erasing pencil lines on a drawing, etc. Anyway, I have to check with my web host to see if I can host a second site on their servers without having to sign up for a new account. The domain won't be up for a while, especially because I have three tests next week and 250 pages of Anna Karenina and I'm way behind. It'll be hard to concentrate since I want to transfer this over very much. :)

Revised some of the homepage text. Added the Tutorials page. Switched my preference from Konqueror to Galeon on the Linux page. Added the PLUG logo to the Gallery. Renamed the Romanticism page to Romance so it won't be so confusing (the page has nothing to do with historical Romanticism). Added some redirection files.

Changed the links at the top of each page so that they're capitalized. Added a Mutt section to the Linux page.

Added the SDL section to the Programming Links page. Added more links to the Game Music page. Added a tile-based games section to the Programming Links page.

Added the Programming section. Changed the Current Reading section over to the weblog format, like I've done with the writing log and the weblog and this news page and everything else like that.

Added the bit to the Linux page about how I got started with Linux back in the old days. Wrote in my weblog and writing log. Added the penpal blurb to the About page. Added some Perl and Python links to the Computer Links page. Added some vi/vim links and some religion links. Added the shell scripting section to the Computer Links page and some more programming links. Added the geography section to the Science/Math page.

Added the Document/Text Processing page to the Computers page. Added the SVG and Sketch sections to the Art Software page. Added lots of links. Added the PHP section to the Computer Links page.

Added the links section to the VAIO page. Added more links to the Science/Math page.

Added some links to the History page and to the Art Software page.

I normalized the heading capitalization (now the main headings are always capitalized, but the others aren't except for the first letter). Added a bit to the Biographical Information section of the About page. Moved the About the slate section links to the front page. Moved the Ben's Life section (my weblog) to a new page. I like having the link section at the bottom of the front page, since that means I can add miscellaneous stuff without having to create yet another section. Added a fair amount of links. Added the semiotics and typography and stereograms and architecture sections. Added the three freewriting sessions to the Writing page.

I realized that I had copyright statements on all the source files for Striker, so I took those off and bumped the version number up to 0.22. Also added Moonlight to the Gallery. Updated the modem part of the VAIO page.

Added the Ben's Life section to the front page. It'll be a kind of journal (which wouldn't really fit in on this page). Added Shadows of the Beyond to the Fiction page. Added an index to the About page. Added the technology section to the About page.

Split up the Music and Visual Art sections. Added the date column to the Gallery. Added some more stuff to the Linux page. Added the Favorites section to the Music page. Updated the site map (I hadn't realized I had forgotten to update it). Updated the VAIO page. Added more stuff to the Writing page. Added the Homeschool page. Wrote more than I expected to for it. :) Added the Favorite Scriptures page.

Added Mbrot to the Gallery and removed the Howler and Slate logos (which weren't very good anyway, frankly).

Added Deep Space to the Gallery. Also wrote a PHP add_pic() function to make adding art to the Gallery easier. And I decided to list the artwork newest first rather than the other way. The Striker font I'd included in 0.2 was the wrong one, so I put the right one in and changed the version to 0.21. Added the second Pixelspace screenshot to the Striker page. And added it (minus the Carto stuff) to the Gallery. I don't know why I'm doing all this today, since I have three tests next week (two on Monday and one on Tuesday) and I really ought to be studying for them...

Added the Chivalry section to my Romanticism page. Also updated the modem part of the VAIO page.

Updated Striker (added the README and the 0.2 version). Took 0.1 off since it's quite obsolete now. Also added Testgame and Pixelspace. And added the Striker Links page.

Moved the rest of the Language section into the lang/ subdirectory. (Half of the pages were in the main directory before.) Moved the Music pages into the music/ subdirectory. I also took the Gallery (my art) off the Visual Arts page and into a page of its own, and moved that into the art/ subdirectory.

Added the Game Music and Tracking pages. Added lots of links all over the place. I also made individual pages for all the Computers stuff, so the layout is nicer.

Added 'Tolstoy on Mormons' and 'A Catholic Utterance' to the Religion page.

I added the Translation and Writing Systems pages. I also split up the Other Languages page, into the Languages pages (A-E, F-J, K-O, P-T, U-Z, and Miscellaneous). And I added a whole bucketload of links to those. There are 133 languages on the site now. This is addictive. :)

I've redone the site, and not only that, but I've also switched over to CSS. That way the font won't be grotesquely large on Internet Explorer anymore. Non-CSS browsers (e.g. Netscape 4.x) should still be fine, though. I also added my .vimrc, .muttrc, and .dir_colors to the Computers page. And I added the Other Languages page.

Today I became possessed with the idea of redoing the site in PHP, and so that's what I've done. Well, almost -- I got most of it done tonight, and I'll do the rest tomorrow. PHP is very cool.

Added meta tags. Also revised some of the text in various places.

Added the HTML version of Plumley's Coptic Grammar to the Coptic page.

I realized that I meant biblio.com on the Books page, not bibliofind.com. (The latter is just a part of Amazon.)

Added the nutrition bit to the About page. Also added some more fields to the biographical information section of that page. Gosh, Christmas break is almost over. It's hard to believe that it went by so fast. But that's time for you.

Added the Britain bit to the About page. Fleshed out the Romanticism section some more. Added the Writing section. Added my thoughts on Lord of the Rings (the movie) to the Tolkien page.

Added 'Hollow Night' to the poetry section. (I actually wrote it back in March but forgot about it till now.)

Added 'The Refiner's Fire' to the poetry section.

Added the Linguistics section. I should probably be studying for finals instead of working on the site. :) Added the short shirts rant to the About section.

Added more quotes. Added some more to the My Beliefs page. Put the Revelation 12:22 thing on the LDS Q&A page.

Added Project X to the Striker page. (I'd had the zipfile on the site for the past two years, but apparently I forgot to add it to the download page. Oops. :)) Wrote the language learning material and added lots of quotes. Also put in the language links. They're still rather unsorted, though. I'll get them in respectable condition after finals are over.

Worked more on the site. It's getting there...

Revised a lot of the text and added most of the new stuff (I'm still working on it). I'm quite pleased with the results so far.

I've reorganized the site. It's not entirely finished, however, as I have to write much more text (for all the new sections, like the Inklings section and so on). I decided that lowercase headings weren't really my style, so they are all capitalized sanely now. :) (I've kept the slate in lowercase, however. Though that might change too. Probably better to stay consistent.)

School has kept me quite busy, thus no updates (till today). I slightly modified the about me section to reflect the fact that I'm now at BYU. I revised the books and languages section, removed New Moon and the yagec logo from the art section (they're not really all that good; don't worry, you won't miss them :)), and revised some other text. I added 'The Unseen' to the fiction section and 'Oceanside' to the poetry section.

I added the POV files for Checkers II and III to the art section. And I added two links to the Coptic subsection of the language section. I haven't had much time recently due to schoolwork, but hopefully I'll be able to continue adding things here.

I removed some of the Checkers series (IV through VII), since they're really not all that good, and I don't have that much space anyway. You won't miss them. :) This doesn't have anything to do with the slate, but you're probably aware of the tragedy in New York City yesterday. Everyone here is pretty shook up about it. It's quite surreal.

I added my old Striker pages to the site (under the computers section). I also revised some of the homepage text and added more entries to the thoughts section. Later on, I added the Checker series (II through VII) to the art section. And I added Coptic to the languages section.

I fixed some broken links (when I made the writing subsections, all the links to my poetry and fiction were pointing to the wrong place because they were one level deeper in the filesystem than they used to be). I also revised the text on the art section, and I rewrote most of the text for the homepage (index.html).

I split up the writing section into poetry, fiction, and thoughts subsections.

I added the Employee Central logo to the art section, and also put all of the artwork there into a table and added some commentary. Later on, I added two Blender images I made (this evening) and resized the thumbnails so they're all 75 pixels in width. And I added a column to the table listing which software I used to create each image.

I finished the Sony VAIO section. I'm not completely satisfied with it, but it'll work for now.

I tightened the kerning on the 'the slate' text in the logo.

I added the computers section and started writing a little bit of the Sony VAIO HOWTO.

I added two poems ('The Haunting Melody' and 'Mercy Is Not His') to the writing section.

Well, it's not even noon yet and I've already finished the update. I added a few poems and short stories, added three sections (languages, books, and about me), removed three sections (programming, Linux, and feedback -- the first because I'm really not into that anymore, the second because I didn't care to keep it up (I still use Linux at work and at home, though), and the third since e-mail is easier), and revised the text for the remaining sections (luckily it needed less work than I thought).

Voices began whispering in my head a few weeks ago, saying, 'Sssslate...sssslate.' Eventually I got the message and realized it had been too long since I've done anything on this site (obviously -- look at the last news entry). So I'm redesigning it now. I moved it over to a Makefile-based system, which works much better. I also redid the layout (it's totally different) and I'll be rewriting much of the text tomorrow. I'll also be adding a few new sections (languages and books, mainly).

Not much news other than that I haven't had time to make any changes recently. When I moved the site to www.bestscopes.com (a week or so ago), I did end up with quite a few broken links, however, so I fixed those today.

I added 'A Frolic Through the Garden', 'The Lost Galleon', and 'Steel Battalion' to the music page.

I decided to redo the site design. I like this one much more than the old layout.

I added two pieces of music: 'Medieval Dreams' and 'After the Dance.' The updates are still few and far between, sadly. When Christmas break arrives, I think I'm going to do some major work on this site; I'd like to add a reading list (i.e. the books I've read, am reading, and plan to read), add a language page (I'm really into Latin and Greek now), rewrite all the pages (my prose is too verbose many times), and fix the huge navigation links on the left (the 'bricks'). We'll see, though.

I added four pieces of music: 'The Magician and the King', 'First Snow', 'A Song to the Savior', and 'Jewish Dance.' Sorry the updates are so few and far between, but school's keeping me rather busy at the moment.

I added three poems: 'Childhood Flame', 'Nature's Spirit', and 'River of Dreams'.

I added 'Village of the Mannikins' to the music page.

I made a few changes, typo fixes, and such. There were a few font problems, too (they were too big under Windows), so I fixed those.

Initial rendition of the site set up. The music, writing, art, and programming sections are up. In fact, everything's up except for the feedback form. I'm not quite sure how I want that (the form) to work, which is why I'm waiting until later to do it. Other than that, though, all systems are go.

Preliminary design work, brainstorming, etc.