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Ollie's Home Page

Check Out My Blog

I tried the new version of WordPress a week or so ago. It is quite impressive, so I set it up on my web server. You can look at it at http://home.acheson.org/blog.

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Wiki Test

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Recent Activity

2/23/08 Some videos:

1/17/08 Here is the draft pf the Hamonusa website.

1/15/08 Go here for the US Places to Visit with Kids list.

1/12/08 Finally got my act together on Geo-Tagging images. See New Workflow.

7/7/07 Got my new DeLorme PN-20 with Topo 6. Here are the initial impressions.

6/10/07 Added Alaska pictures from recent cruise to Ollie's Photos.

4/16/07 Gillian's Dinosaur Website

4/6/07 Looking to add video to Friends website.

2/13/07 My current addiction is SecondLife.

12/26/06

See InstallEtch for notes on installing debian etch dual boot on IBM Thinkpad T42.

11/14/06

See Upgrade Sarge to Etch.
See InstallUbintu for stuff about installing Ubuntu as dual boot on IBM Thinkpad T42.

9/4/06 Labor Day! Links:

4/30/06 Go here for information about creating podcasts. Also, check out this article about subversion.

4/11/06 Upgrading mysql from debian stable's 4.1 version to a downloaded binary 5.0 version turned to be more involved than I expected. Here are notes of how I did it.

3/19/06 I added more pictures to the Master bedroom project page. See the text here and all the pictures here.

I also added pictures from our stay at the Fairville Inn in the Brandywine Valley. We stayed there for a somewhat abbreviated trip to Winterthur and Longwood.

Finally, I uploaded pictures from our visit to Philadelphia's Flower Show.

3/12/06 python stuff. plant sale plone.

12/7/05 Here's Speakeasy's dsl speed test.

12/3/05 Aargh! Verizon was in last Thursday to move some wires and disconnected the dsl. Took till today (Saturday) to reconnect.

11/25/05 This website was offline for several days. Web access was via the old version of my home page. With luck I will keep it up and running better in the future.

[dynamic horizontal menu example] and [dynamic vertical tree menu example]

9/25/05 Upgraded the photo gallery software to Gallery 2.0. Went quite smoothly. Click here to go to the new gallery (or use the link in the left bar).

9/16/05 I rebuilt my website to use mediawiki, the software behind Wikipedia. I did this primarily because I am intrigued by the concept of wikis, websites that any user can modify. This became an exercise in seeing how easily I could generate a complete website within the framework provided by the mediawiki package.

Hunter in closeup.

So far I find it pretty complete, though having spent time in Dreamweaver, I do see a number of restrictions. With Dreamweaver, of course, you can use an extremely powerful WYSIWYG editor or a nicely prompted HTML editor. Mediawiki is certainly capable, but nowhere near to Dreamweaver in tuning a page to exactly the layout you want. On the other hand, mediawiki is a wiki, meaning anyone can add or modify anything on the site. This is powerful stuff for any group wanting to work together on a site. It has tables, images (this is my dog Hunter in extreme closeup -- you can see he has plenty of nose for getting into things), alignment and lots of other markup capability.

I will add my thoughts as I work longer with mediawiki.

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Category Listing

Click here for a navigable category listing.

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About Me

I am a businessman by day (involved with an environmental equipment company) and am also deeply involved with photography (digital, of course) and computers. These interests are reflected in the material on this site.

I also will add interesting material on my family and pets.

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About the Site

As I mentioned above, you can edit this website. It's a wiki! Editing help may be found at the MediaWiki site or just dive right in and click on the "edit" tab at the top.

Also, look at the navigation bar on the left. That's where you can cruise around the permanent structure of this site.

Finally, here are some important other links, mostly from the earlier website:

web stuff
- old home page.
- home.acheson.org/twiki/bin/view/Reflib/WebHome Ollie's tWiki (Reflib).
- FOFA Gallery.

activities
- Here's a fun topic: Taxonomy, the classification of living organisms.

Some other cms or wiki tests
- home.acheson.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome Ollie's tWiki
- drupal
- home.acheson.org/mambo Mambo
- home.acheson.org/tiki tikiwiki
- home.acheson.org/xaraya xaraya
- home.acheson.org/PostNuke PostNuke

--Ollie 16:37, 6 Dec 2004 (EST)

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