The photos were taken with a Toshiba PDR-M2. Many thanks to Steve's digicams' review of this (and other) cameras. (dcresource.com was also very informative.) I often wish this camera had a bit longer lens, though on occasion (like the photos taken inside the car, under the dash, or under the hood) I've been very glad it wasn't longer. Anyone considering a digital camera should evaluate an optical zoom. Otherwise, I'm quite pleased with this camera, and am very grateful for its rechargeable battery, fast boot/cycle times, and small size. Looks like Steve et al. were on the mark on all counts.
There are some pictures I've got on traditional film that might enhance these pages with their presence. I've considered hooking up my old flatbed scanner, but I think I'd be happier borrowing Marshall's slide scanner. Look for pictures of the Saabs once this is worked out.
The colors for the left-side runners were developed by tweaking the RGB values in the page source. I've always found the RGB model pretty intuitive, so any unpleasant colors are a function of your monitor or my taste.
Version 0.1 was produced with nothing but VIM and the photo editing software that came with the camera. In spite of--or perhaps in an attempt to redeem-- a terrible early experience with vi at the 1991 ACM programming contest finals, I am a great fan of vi. VIM brings this marvel to Windows in a much better way than I attempted to muster during a week in Florida with a Windows laptop, elvis sources, a Microsoft compiler, the Cygnus cygwin libraries, and some GNU curses source for Unix. Thanks.
For version 0.2 I really could not deal without my Unix commands. For a year now I've survived on the PC with just VIM and Perl, but now that I'm doing something interesting, I feel I don't have the time for emulating sed and grep in perl, and my batch command substitutes for ls aren't doing it. So thanks to AltaVista and K. M. Syring's compilation of Unix utilities for Win32 (UnxUtils.html), I'm a much happier person.
In December, 2003, after two weeks spent using OS X, I returned to using Linux on my machine. (The last time I used primarily Linux on my home machine was waiting for Microsoft to release a 32-bit OS, which they did with Windows 95.) It is a delight.
CVS.
I'm using a few shell scripts to keep my links straight. I can't believe with all the power available in the STL that I still look to the Bourne Shell!
In case the Insight stuff didn't clue you in, I appear to be an "early adopter." This defect is reflected in my use of the first edition of O'Reilly's HTML The Definitive Guide. I'd forgotten until I checked this link that colophons are yet another reason I think O'Reilly books once were the paragon of technical publishing.
Though the style hopefully comes across as "informal," the reality is that I really don't have a clue what I'm doing, and I guess I should fill in the bubble that says "no style." My hope is to make these pages both personal and somewhat interesting to a wide range of people; I'm afraid there are few good examples to draw from. We'll see what happens!
v.2's experiment with frames was the first feature to require a bit of discipline. A different policy--but discipline nonetheless--is required for the tables interface introduced in v.3. [Jeff and Yianna were right in being against tables from the beginning; it wasn't 'til I played with them that I remembered how awful they really are. Belated thanks.]
Colors are another area that should be covered by the style guide. Background colors should not provide camouflage for links, much less for regular text.
Some of these guidelines could be validated using some kind of DTD. Hopefully we'll see something like that soon.