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Recent Changes

2003 Oct

• Finally taking some time to update the site.
• Added some new firewall and spyware-removal utils to win32 freeware net tools page ; Added some automation utils to win32 freeware desktop tools page ; Added some strange links to humour page ;

• Added Pi Perfume page to F2 web archive

• f2.org server restored

• f2.org server crashes ; pages relocated to a temporary server

Older Changes

• Added Hieroglyphics Tutor page to F2 software archive

• Added TrayMenu page to F2 software archive

• Created an archive of defunct web pages and freeware I thought worth preserving, and newsgroup articles mentioned in this site's active web pages.

• Split up the enormous quotes page into several new sub-categories.

• Finished Virtual Square-1 Puzzle CGI
• Site currently has about 180 pages, 1500 external links

• New version of tinyclock
• Added some modular origami photos
• Got my (3rd!) Learner's Driver Licence

• Added a page for The Traumasphere

• Much time wasted writing a Walkthrough for "Exile - Escape from the Pit"
• Got married

• Excursion into graph theory: Planar Maps in 4 bits/edge
• Added an entry for Canberra
• Currently about 153 pages on the site, about 1500 external links

February 2001

• Maths - Added Knot Theory page Unknot Equivalence ; Tidied up Primitive Euler Bricks

December 2000

• Sorted out a few broken links
• Rambled a bit more in The Land of Spider Pods!

November 2000

• Typed up The Discovery of the Nullitron
• Photos from The House of Gumby

October 2000

• Fans of Weirdness rides again

September 2000

• Added some nonsense poems by Roslyn Taylor
• Moved gleanings from the Odd Spot to their own page

August 2000

• Added the compressing HTTP proxy ijb-zlib to f2.org freeware products
• Fixed most of the recently broken links

July 2000

• Text versions of pages now generated on-the-fly by a CGI script
• Assort WAP/WML links added

June 2000 (Approx 130 pages)

• Obtained the loan of a scanner - be very afraid. Beware of G.O.D.
• Created The Crypt of Eyesores

May 2000

• Very few visible changes; some HTML/navigation mods; started consolidating scattered anecdotes from New Scientist into Tidbits from New Scientist; typed up some stories by Paté Biscuit

Apr 2000

• The enormous quotes page was split up into several subsections

Mar 2000

• Fixed a lot of recently-broken links
• Added the Graveyard of Defunct Links

Feb 2000

• Finished typing up The North London Book of the Dead
• Added several more nonsense poems
• Typed up an excerpt from Frankenstein is Alive and Well and Living with Mrs Frankenstein

Jan 2000

• Fixed a lot of out-of-date links
• Updated X-windows entries in Windows/Freeware/NetTools

Nov 1999

• 1999 Nov 11
  • Added Science/Technology Links

Oct 1999 (approx 99 pages)

• 1999 Oct 4
  • Typed in the book How To Be An Alien

Sept 1999 (approx 90 pages)

• 1999 Sep 11
  • Internal link checks added to HTML-checking perl scripts
  • Automatic calculation of image sizes added to HTML-checking perl scripts
• 1999 Sep 6
  • Split the massive software links pages into around 10 sub-pages
• 1999 Sept 4
  • Site map made more compact (non-index pages clumped together after page table-of-contents)
  • Reorganised humour pages
  • LangLib => Fardel
• 1999 Sept 1
  • Automatic generation of table-of-contents from level-2 headings
  • TOC entries added to site map
  • Modification times for pages now excludes changes to auto-generated sections, white space, images

Broken links fixed

2003 Sep

• Updated changed links to sciencedaily.com on science links page
• Updated link for former Together/J product on Java programming links page
• Updated link for NTFS linux driver on Linux/Unix Links page
• Updated link for html2ps utility on Free Win32 Document Tools page
• Updated link for why-use-lynx on Free Win32 Net Tools page

2003 Aug

• Moved link for Walter Rader's Slang Dictionary on Reference page
• Removed dead link to allnetdevices.com from Web Authoring Links

2003 May

• Updated moved link for Bicycle Queensland on Marchant The Bicycle page
• Updated moved link for Opera browser on Windows Shareware page
• Updated moved link for Free Pascal Compiler on Windows Programming/Automaiton freeware page
• Found new site for searchable include on various humour pages
• Updated moved link for Sydney Uni Mathematics Seminars on Sydney page
• Changed broken link to Brewer's dictionary of Phrase and Fable on reference page
• Updated moved link for The Australian newspaper on several pages
• Created archive for defunct 'Cybernetic Augmentation for Dummies' page
• Updated moved link for Doug Philip's origami pages
• Updated moved links for CountryLink trains on Australia page
• Updated moved link for Tom Hull's origami bibliography on maths page

2003 Apr

• Updated moved link for ABC science on several pages.
• Updated moved link for NSW Learners Licence on Fred's Driving page.
• Updated moved link for SofwareDev on Java page.
• Updated moved link for Cityrail on Sydney page.
• Updated moved link for Hoyts movies on Australia page.
• Updated moved link for VcdHelp (now DvdrHelp) on Info / Reference Links page
• Updated moved link for Tom Hull's Origami Bibliography on Fred's Origami Page
• Updated moved links for Cosma Shalizi's Cthulhu Hymnal.
• Updated moved link for online Australian TV guide on Australia page.
• Updated moved link for SoftBase on Win32 Software Sites
• Updated various Windows Freeware Links after PC Magazine started charging for access to their archive

2002 Nov

• Updated moved link for 'Cybernetic Augmentation for Dummies' on humour page
• Updated moved link for softwaredev.earthweb.com (now www.developer.com) on java programming page

2002 Dec

• Updated link for "WordWeb" on Win32 Language/Learning Freeware page

2002 Sep

• Updated link for "Unix Unleashed" book on software/unix page
• Updated link for iso-639 country codes on reference page
• Updated links for HackMan & ResourceHacker on Win32 File Tools page
• Updated links for Tor Lillqvist (gimp) and Cyril Cambien (qv) on Win32 Image Tools page
• Updated links for Microsoft Installer on Win32 Net Tools page
• Updated links for Jikes, JavaWorld Tools, Jad, ProfileViewer, & "Thinking in Java" book on java programming page
• Updated links for JDrill Japanese-language software on programming page
• Updated links for Steve Kemp's software on win32 freeware programming tools page
• Added entry for StudMuffins of Science on Defunct Links page
• Updated links for 4QR diary, abseilling, Compuworld, TransInfo & SmogBusters on Brisbane page
• Updated assorted links when Perl docco on cpan.org moved around
• Updated link to Deja News article about Ivan Korec on Primitive Euler Brick page
• Updated link to Susan Stepney's page on big numbers on maths page
• Updated link to Glenda Crew's Huntsman Spider page on science links page
• Updated links to Network Solutions 'whois' service & Jukka Korpela's guide to the evils of using windows-specific characters in web pages on f2.org reference page
• Updated John Robinson's Geometric Sculpture links on maths page

2002 Aug

• Moved several defunct gay/lesbian/bi links from Australian Links page to defunct links page
• Updated ARIN-whois link on info / reference page
• Updated Vim links on programming software page
• Updated GLUT & latex2html links on science & maths software page
• Updated link on Web Authoring page
• Updated some moved links & removed defunct links on loonies page
• Removed defunct links for Electric Origami Shop & Links2Go from the origami page
• Updated link for Brisbane folk music on Fred's music page
• Updated links to Calvin & Hobbes cartoons on Fred's driving page and Marchant The Bicycle page
• Link to VirtualAvenue web host finally removed from about page around 2 years after web host changed :-)
• Link to defunct AOL Press website on about page replaced with a link to win32 net tools page
• Updated link for MySQL Windows install on win32 programming tools page
• Old freeware version of MouseImp tracked down & added to win32 desktop tools page after MouseImp web page disappeared
• Jpython superceded by Jython / netbeans web server changed / dev tools page disappeared on softwaredev on Java Programming page
• Updated link for QUT library opening hours on Brisbane page
• Updated mathform's sci.math archive move on mathematics page
• Fixed links for Sumatran Corpse Flower on science and Square Knots on unknot equivalence -- American Scientist web server name had changed.
• Replaced "ancient knitting" links on crafts page
• Added link for Sydney Reverse Garbage on Australian links page
• Java & GNU links to flaky/defunct ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au in software/unix replaced

2002 June

• Bob-the-angry-flower URL on humour change from .htm to .html
• Unicode conference URL on Internationalization Notes had moved
• Yiddish dictionary link on unsorted links had moved
• Mind Control Forum URLs on Loonies on the Web had moved
• Frog levitation URL on Fans of Weirdness page had moved
• Math Lingo URL on maths had changed suffix
• URL for paper by Kraitchik on Primitive Euler Bricks had moved
• Netscape server 'home.netscape' had moved to 'wp.netscape' in software/win32/free/net.html & software/unix/
• IPE virus checker link on software/win32/free/admin.html removed because product is no longer available
• Mandelbrot Explorer URL in software/win32/free/scimaths.html had moved
• Win95 Annoyances URL in software/win32/sites.html had moved
• Softbase URL in software/win32/sites.html needed trailing "/"
• Microsoft link on humour/programming/cryptic.html had moved

2002 May

• Link to hier04.zip hieroglyphics library (software/win32/free/lang.html) -- gave up and placed copy in f2.org download
• Black holes link (fred/enmore-move.html) moved from www.nsca to archive.ncsa
• Origami mailing list URL in fred/origami needed trailing "/"
• Dave Barry link in humour/fow/fow-20010430.html disappeared from Miami Herald site, but was fortunately reproduced by the good people at www.froggyville.com
• Link to Hell's Bibliophiles in links/books.html replaced by link to a local copy retrieved from the Google cache
• VicRail timestables URL on oz/ needed trailing "/"
• CPAN URL on Perl Programming page needed trailing "/"
• TimeTracker URL in software/unix had moved
• Expander URL in software/win32/free/file.html had moved

[Earlier link fixes not recorded]

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