The Site Lives!
Visitors to our web site over the past several years have noticed that not much has changed. The picture on the main page still showed us from August, 2001, the photo album has pictures (relatively poorly organized) through August, 2001, and Josh’s “favorite books page” implies that his favorite author is Sandra Boynton rather than J.K. Rowling. The family tree, which did get updated occasionally, was taken down due to objections about personal information being made freely available.
All that is changing. The first change is that there is a new family treesection up. (See this post for details.) This new site requires users to register for accounts, and so should keep personal information from just being “out there”.
The second change is that I’ve installed blogging software to make it more straightforward to add news updates like this. No, I don’t think that this is going to become a daily blog (but you never know)—too much of my time is already taken up by the alt.usage.english newsgroup—but it will make it easier to keep people apprised of actual family news and web site news.
I’ve also substituted a more recent picture on the main page and brought the links up to date.
The next change (hopefully) will be that our photo album will be brought up to date. I’ve got new software for that, and we’re in the process of organizing things. Finally, I’ll be bringing our personal pages up to date.
Stay tuned.