tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75601092011-12-14T18:36:28.252-08:00News updates and responses from din-timelines.comRandynoreply@blogger.comBlogger551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1147267346524012282006-05-10T06:09:00.000-07:002006-05-10T06:22:26.756-07:00

I added one more new item; Span Events located under the side menuing and ads. The Spans are ongoing events, like wars , eras, periods, etc. that may not have a specific event in a particular timeline page, but are important to what may be going on during that time. I only have a ahandfull done as it is a whole new table in the database and besides the test pages at the bottom of this post it

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1146881106132000962006-05-05T18:57:00.000-07:002006-05-06T04:43:52.946-07:00

I had been thinking about changing the inline links for a while and I finally had time to sit down and hack through a little bit of javascript to make text drop down menus of the inline links. Just clicking on the blue text will drop a menu of the related links for it. There is a noscript option too.I've placed the new style on these pages. [5000-3000] [2999-2300] [2299-1700] [1699-1400] [

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1146680984776536552006-05-03T11:29:00.000-07:002006-05-03T11:29:45.050-07:00

The 1810 to 1812 CE timelines page has been replaced by three new pages. 1810 CE World History Timeline 1811 CE World History Timeline 1812 CE World History Timeline There is some new information and some clarifications in the data.

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This is one of the many changed parts of the timelines since it inception years ago. I'm still using Wikipedia articles, but there has been problems interlinking the articles that I use with the ones at wikipedia. So this morning I worked out a system to build a better intermediate page between the local articles and the ones I do not have. It seems to be working well so far, but there are a few

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1125621940666359762005-09-01T17:41:00.000-07:002005-09-01T17:45:40.670-07:00

The people at Skaffe have set up the Hurricane Katrina Forums to help people looking for friends and family in the affected areas and to post information on helping the victims of Katrina.

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I worked through a rough edit of the 1910s. Since all the pages are interlinked I have to do swaths of them fairly quickly when I'm changing page ranges, so the information is mostly stuff that looks right on the spur of the moment and I don't feel the need to re-research. I added a stats feature to my page builder which tells me I'm posting about 25% of the raw information I have so I suspect

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1124203792874265762005-08-16T07:43:00.000-07:002005-08-16T07:50:13.483-07:00

I'm having a productive time going through the timelines with the new editor. In the last couple of days I've updated the following pages. [1919e] [1919.q1] [1919.q2] [1919.q3] [1919.q4] [Jazz Age]The following 1920s pages are expansions of one page into four quarter pages. [1920e] [1920.q1] [1920.q2] [1920.q3] [1920.q4] [1921e] I'm trying to decide whether to edit depth or breadth,

Randynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1123722339032073192005-08-10T18:05:00.000-07:002005-08-10T18:05:39.036-07:00

I finally made an update at 800 CE to 849 CE World History Timeline. This also marks My making a database editor that is a little more geared to editing the timelines. I can now edit an entire page at the same time through a nifty little php script I cobbled together.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1111934507914376712005-03-27T06:38:00.000-08:002005-03-27T06:41:47.916-08:00

Ramadan 01, 1376 AH is the same date as Apirl 01, 1957.I used http://din-timelines.com/calendar_converter.shtmlto hunt it down.After a few searches I confirmed with a person's website who was whose birthday is on 10 Ramadan 1376.>submittername: f. Elkafsi>>subject: dates of Ramadan in 1957>>message:>I would like to know to which dates of our calendar correspond>the dates of Ramadan in 1957.

Randynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1111031648919982452005-03-16T19:50:00.000-08:002005-03-16T19:54:08.920-08:00

I made some small, but important changes to the program that builds the timeline pages from the database. One is abbreviated date formatting, which lets me leave out sections of the date I'm not using, the other clears up a simple problem with newlines in the database and how they are handled. The end user will probrably not notice anything different but it should speed things up a small bit for

Randynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1110881612073339042005-03-15T02:13:00.000-08:002005-03-15T02:13:32.073-08:00

I uploaded an updated version of the 750 CE to 799 CE Timeline. It is slow going doing these pages.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1110721422130391052005-03-13T05:43:00.000-08:002005-03-13T05:43:42.130-08:00

I'm offering direct link advertising on the timeline pages. This would be benificial for history sites, travel sites (targeting the locations talked about in that page), genealogy sites (though I haven't had much luck with them), and retail / auction sites dealing with historical items and replicas. I can provide statistics on Query Strings used to get to particular pages and robots visiting,

Randynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1109618426987312632005-02-28T11:20:00.000-08:002005-02-28T11:20:26.986-08:00

I'm updating the pages I have already edited and will be fooling with the secondary support pages as soon as I can in response to google's Autolink feature on their toolbar. Here are some threads that explain the feature and the problems some webmasters have with it. Google's Statement on Toolbar Autolink Remember Smart Tags ? :: SearchGuild.com

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1109190699177246822005-02-23T12:31:00.000-08:002005-02-23T12:31:39.176-08:00

The javascript discussed here as Everything Else: Anti Google Autolink Code Released will be installed with new updates. If there are any questions what this is about visit Brad's Talmir blog, he's got plenty of links to the scoop.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1107099957259479342005-01-30T07:38:00.000-08:002005-01-30T07:45:57.260-08:00

I had a person express a little interest in editing some of the timelines. The problems are that I haven't had a chance to discuss it more thouroughly and I have such a proprietary system set up to handle the whole thing I think it would be a bit of a learning curve to get somebody started. So I'm thinking about building an online editor. What would happen is I would export from my database at

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1105280016866995572005-01-09T06:13:00.000-08:002005-01-09T06:13:36.866-08:00

I'm getting back to a slow start from the holidays. I have an updated version of 700 CE to 749 CE Timeline.

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I've gotten a few emails over the past week or so alerting me to problems with the site. I had a few about listings in Resgestae and some troubles viewing parts of the site. The listings have been edited but I'm having trouble pinpointing the cause of either incorrect URLs in the menuing or pages not showing up at all. The URLs I belive I've fixed .. but one email about a page not showing up

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1100966079222786512004-11-20T07:54:00.000-08:002004-11-20T07:54:39.223-08:00

I fially rewrote the big menu page program. It was still pointing to many outdated pages from the old templating system. Now when I split pages I can update the Big Menu easily. Big Menu

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1100954417709736202004-11-20T04:34:00.000-08:002004-11-20T04:40:17.710-08:00

subject: timeline 427 BC message: Just so you know, you have it listed in your time line that in 427BC Pisistratus died and was succeeded by sons, Hippias and Hipparchus. That was in 527BC. I\'m assuming it was just a typo but thought you should be aware of it. Thanks for the great site! k. Lomas I checked it out and indeed the date was wrong .. Pisistratus .. The new pages 549 - 500 BC and

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1100781507763417752004-11-18T04:38:00.000-08:002004-11-18T04:38:27.763-08:00

At this time only 11 are listed, but they are great reading and some have maps to help explain the tactics involved. History Forum Simaqianstudio -> Top 25 Greatest Tactical Feats

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Since my server space on timelines is limited I decided to move the news to blogspot. I've huge updates for timelines that I'm slowly getting to so I'm hoping to make as much room as possible on the server. There are many things going on behind the scenes to make this possible.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1100393392222833972004-11-13T16:49:00.000-08:002004-11-17T07:02:02.450-08:00

A nice little tidbit for you all. History Forums :: View topic - Why WWII soldier = GI

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Once before the current templating scheme I had a list of hand picked titls from amazon. These were in text graphic ads that fit the era or one of the subjects of the time they were in. I had about 40 titles ranging from one end to the other. Some were books my wife or I read. When these items appear there will be no other amazon graphic ads in the side menu area.

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Great poll and discussion History Forum Simaqianstudio -> Greatest Western Empire in history

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A few tongue and cheek answers and a few serious ones. Take a look. History Forums :: View topic - Englands proudest/greatest moment

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History Forum Simaqianstudio -> Best General Ever

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1097495005089656862004-10-11T04:43:00.000-07:002004-11-17T07:19:14.260-08:00

History Forums :: View topic - Battle of Britain Discussion of RAF strength and the importance of the BoB in WWII

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I've decided to be a little more proactive in the dynamic parts of this site, namely this news. I've installed a newsreader which I will be able to publish the feeds for the timeline blog on other parts of the site in an easy mnanner. I plan on visiting and hunting out history feeds, and forums. I hope that this will promote these forums and help the visitors here find more information. I will

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1097428600676628092004-10-10T10:16:00.000-07:002004-11-17T19:39:59.533-08:00

An interesting discussion over the sources of the King Author stories/legends/history. History Forum Simaqianstudio -> Does King Arthur really existed?

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Regestae has gotten a flood of submissions from an automatic submission service, none of the sites submitted from them match up with the topic we cover and I spent some little time deleting these 40 submission.

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I received an email that says the Trivia game we have here was miscounting correct results. I tried it a couple times and it seems to be working for me. I haven't purged the list of scores and winners for a long time. So long, in fact, that I forget exactly what I need to do to get that done. I'm hoping that will take care of the problem. It is difficult to fix things when I can't duplicate

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1093226093819053302004-08-22T18:51:00.000-07:002004-11-17T19:46:31.913-08:00

I edited and uploaded new version of 600 to 649 Timeline and 650 to 699 Timeline. I had most of it done already but had a few small corrections to make it just so.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1091981236462303682004-08-08T09:00:00.000-07:002004-11-17T19:48:38.983-08:00

I added some links to the bottom of each post to help find things related to this each aprticular post. The Idea for this was from Brad at ePublishing Blog. I'm still configuring it and playing around. There is likely to be more changes to things before I'm done.

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Did a good bit of editing the database through this section and ended up having to split the page due to the resutling size. it is now 500 to 549 and 550 to 599. Many of the edits were just dupes, some were different name styles, either just spellings or different 'common' usages. Which is something I think I will have to address soon.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1091493639555282212004-08-02T17:39:00.000-07:002004-08-02T17:40:39.556-07:00

I split this page into 499-450 BCE and 449-400 BCE due to size.

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Somewhere in the tattered code I used to rebuild the timelines database from the online pages lurked the 'Curse of Eridu' For an unkown reason the inline link key for 'eridu' would insert itself into other inline link text .. for example inline links for 'Christopher Columbus' would be title correctly, but in fact go to the information for our friendly locale Eridu. I'd seen some and corrected

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From an email I got today "just to help you out the 18th amendment unlike what alot of people think only outlawed the making selling and importing or exporting of alcoholic beverages." I went ahead and got the cyclopedia article for 18th amendment and redid the timeline pages for 1919, the year it was ratified starting with 1919 events and working through the quarters. As the message said, the

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I've been doing one or two pages starting from 1AD and working towards the present. I was finding going through the giant influx of new information for the more modern timelines tedious, I'd have to do a large block at a time to make one page look good, and I found I was slacking off and not doing it the way it should be done. So I'm doing about a page a day, editing and removing duplicate lines.

Randynoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1090869736886994752004-07-26T12:21:00.000-07:002004-07-26T12:22:16.886-07:00

I'm going to try something to reduce the amount of advertising I need to do to keep this site running in its present (growing) form. I've added a paypal donation button to the side bar here and there are some scattered throughout the timelines site. What I propose is that I will set a goal amount, which will be the average amount of revenue I get from affiliate advertising and each month as

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1090848308737989152004-07-26T06:10:00.000-07:002004-07-26T06:25:08.736-07:00

To go with the new page types I had to change the template program that finds the correct date links. I worried over it and stared at it for a while before attempting it, but it worked out really well for the quarter pages. Encouraged by this I went ahead and built 5 pages for 1948 1948 Events and up. They link into 1949 and to the existing older 1940s pages below. Now I'm behind on

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1090343910876044512004-07-20T10:11:00.000-07:002004-07-20T19:59:29.260-07:00

I'm testing something in the BCE timelines. When There is no registry directory or other links out for a given inline link term then a web search link will appear witht he link. This will make a searcch through Banner Boxes affiliate link. They are in turn owned by Rolist, who gets its backfill after paid links from inktomi. These links are presented to help you move on if there is nothing on

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1090339029760580532004-07-20T08:48:00.000-07:002004-07-20T17:46:42.686-07:00

I'm uploading the second set of finished pages, the data in them is still very raw. As I go on I'll be putting together a DB editor just for the database to make things easier. With the bulk of information now I'm dividing up pages more. Many years will be divided into quarters or even months and each year page will have a corresponding 'events' page, which will have the items that do not

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1090288298970379252004-07-19T18:45:00.000-07:002004-07-19T18:51:38.970-07:00

I'm nearing the end of processing the rough database and tweaking the template builder. I've built test version of nearly every page type I plan on using and have firm plans on doing the others. The database is much larger than anything I've dealt with before, It will be an ongoing process to edit and make other corrections. It will also be an interesting challenge to make sure everything is

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1090158208879495722004-07-18T06:24:00.000-07:002004-07-18T06:43:28.880-07:00

I've uploaded the first set of pages built using the new system. 5000 to 3000 BCE up to the 599 to 550 BCE timelines. This test run found two seperate errors, I had the parser looking for 2 inline date link styles when in fact there are 4. The other was the start date for the BCE pages were off by one (I had known of the later problem in a cursory way, but had conveniently forgotten about it.)

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1089945661964548312004-07-15T19:18:00.000-07:002004-07-15T19:41:01.963-07:00

I built a one page template, with page specific items stored in the database. This will make it much easier when editing the timeline pages. I'm going to build a few more basic templates to handle other page types, like the era indices and some of the static pages. It should be noted that while much of what presented here is automated it is not automatic. I still build the pages at home and

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1089814888816364122004-07-14T07:14:00.000-07:002004-07-14T07:21:28.816-07:00

the database is growing again. There was a side project I had worked on a little bit called Today in History. In those pages is much of the data I had lost in my XML acciedent. So I'm going through that data, removing dupes and adding it to the current database. This is not an exact science, There are small errors in places. I hope to be presenting pages with this updated dataset in the next

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1089660037157823242004-07-12T12:18:00.000-07:002004-07-12T12:20:37.156-07:00

Here is the big picture. At its inception timelines had basic html pages, each page with the items directly on it, including all the links in the text (inline links) which were hand written. Next came a perl/ssi version that lasted several months, each inline link was changed to an SSI in the shtml pages that called a little perl script and an flatfile database. This worked fine until my host

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1089659851023300652004-07-12T11:58:00.000-07:002004-07-12T12:17:31.023-07:00

After a few bugs and a little hunting around I've rebuilt the active database back to about what it was. Which puts me back to the point where I was. Write now 5000 BC to 1599 is in the new database and seems to be working fine, I've built various pages and things look good. This buts me back into the schedule where I was slowly beefing up and rewriting the old system.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1089550281284154942004-07-11T05:22:00.000-07:002004-07-11T05:55:25.810-07:00

After some testing last night and this morning I'm fairly confident that the new database is viable enough to start redoing and uploading pages, there is much information that I have double copys of mixed in various back-up and information that was lost. The BCE information has the lesser amount of redundance so that is what I'm going to try and work through today. THe vague plan is for me to go

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1089387704514930332004-07-09T08:26:00.000-07:002004-07-09T08:41:44.513-07:00

After about 8 hours of typing php (4 last night and 4 this morning) I made a parser that took the existing timeline pages and made them into a mySQL insert file so I can manually review it .. big regexp can be big problem .. Then I changed the parser that turns the timelines templates into the pages on this site to work from this new database table. As things stand now the new database, with only

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1089323241159130662004-07-08T14:36:00.000-07:002004-07-08T14:47:21.160-07:00

In the midst of the long clean-up at timelines I had a hiccup on my home machine and lost the entire database i use to build the timeline pages. I'm working out a way to rebuild from the extant finished pages even though about half of them never made it into the new database to begin with. I can automate most of the process, but there are a few things I will have to do by hand. like setting

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1089293418292118512004-07-08T06:26:00.000-07:002004-07-08T06:30:18.293-07:00

I pulled the simply awful webmaster pages from timelines, made them slightly less awful and moved them to here. The old webmaster pages have a link to the new ones, I'll change internal linking as other things are updated.

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Earlier today I re-instituted Site search through SiteLevel. I had used them before, the last time around jan 2001. But indexing with Fluid Dynamics was not getting done, I seldom had time to site through the process and I was always worried about server load and CPU cycles when I was doing it. To be fair neither of those issues were ever a problem with FD, which is a fine program, but more than

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I took out the main page that led to the forums and changed it to lead to this weblog. The forums are still up, but not readily accessable from the outside. I will more than likely just delete them at a later date.

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We will have all your test. After some debate I decided to close the timelines forums. They were not doing what I wanted them to do for a variety of reasons, mostly because I didn't have the time to devote to them. I've decided instead to switch focus over to this weblog. It will also serve as the replacement of my vaguely lamented newsletter. I will be able to handle both from this system a

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