- December 15, 2002
- Added pdfs of the complete manual for Winter Camp XXVI and just the new pages in the palnning section.
- December 8, 2002
- Added the information for the College of Winter Camping (mostly the Associate's Degree program) to the WCU pages.
- December 1, 2002
- Added the first shot at a tentative roster and cabin assignment.
- November 30, 2002
- Began the process of creating a better store on the Winter Camp site. Added a few products to the store(s).
- November 28, 2002
- Just in time for Christmas there are about 30 new products in the store including Rand Institute of Leadership, Ask Dr. Beast, Universal Measurement System, and One Part Words merchandise. As always, other products are available on request. If you're thinking about ordering in time for Christmas, please consider ordering now - we're about 5 items short of the bonus for our store.
- November 24, 2002
- You can now see the alleged description of each activity for Winter Camp XXVI on the Schedule. You can also make comments/suggestions or volunteer to handle an activity.
- November 18, 2002
- You can now pay for camp via PayPal or get camp and a t-shirt for a dollar off using the Cafepress store. All the links are on the Winter Camp XXVI Planning page.
- November 17, 2002
- The Registration Form for Winter Camp XXVI is now available.
- November 3, 2002
- Added a bunch of new products to the Winter Camp Store just in time for Christmas. (Actually, there are a number of Christmas products in there too)
- October 28, 2002
- Added meeting notes and current schedule to the XXVI pages.
- October 6, 2002
- Thanks to my new scanner and a looong visit from Mark-->, Doug and Alan, we have new pictures for Winter Camps III, IV, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX and XX. More to come for later camps.
- October 6, 2002
- Added a new Thanksgiving card.
- September 10, 2002
- Added a section for debating the merits of a "Winter Camp University" education and training program at www.wintercamp.com/wcu/
Comments are more than welcome.
- July 13, 2002
- Updated volumes g, k, p, w, x, and y of the Encyclopedia.
- June 22, 2002
- Made a number of changes in the project pages.
- June 20, 2002
- To the delight of a handful, the indifference of many and the utter chagrin of a few, Gump Logo items are now available in the Winter Camp Store. Our thanks to Ryan Brake for designing the logo and stealing his brother's email long enough to send it.
- June 11, 2002
- Changed the navigation in the Encyclopedia WinterCampica, corrected some minor formatting issues in some volumes, put Volume U with the U's instead of the Z's. Added date to the Encyclopedia changes. Made a change that impacts only me.
- June 10, 2002
- Updated the Encyclopedia WinterCampica. I must be getting better at this stuff - this used to take days, now it takes hours and (I think) it's better than it's ever been. Comments, suggestions, and whatnot all gleefully accepted.
- June 6, 2002
- Added the 87th item to the Winter Camp store. You can now get 5 different clocks, 6 different frisbees and 6 different license plate frames. As always let me know if there's anything special you'd like.
- June 5, 2002
- More items for the store including license plate frames and frisbees. Clocks are rumored to be later today and there's free shipping on orders over $50 until June 9.
- April 18, 2002
- Even more items in the store. I'm probably going to have to organize it better soon, but there are now frosted mugs, travel mugs, visors, polos, aprons and more in the store. Let me know if there's anything else we should add.
- April 10, 2002
- Added the much hoped for Youth Yodel
- March 23, 2002
- Woohoo! The Winter Camp Store has (at last) been updated with a ton of new products just in time for your favorite Easter Basket (heck, you could even use the totebag as your favorite Easter Basket). At any rate, click on the Winter Camp Store, right on the front page to see what's there. Coming soon are golf shirts.
- March 6, 2002
- Added the Goon Gazette and the Post-Camp News for Winter Camp XXV. The Youth Yodel is coming soon. (Note: They're in Adobe Acrobat, the first time that's been done for something other than a form).
- February 3, 2002
- Several new Bios posted, still room for more. To see them all, go to the Whos Who and do a search on "details" (leave out the quotes). Also added a graphic display to projects and separated the list into current and complete projects.
- February 2, 2002
- Posted everything except the newsletters section for Winter Camp XXV, so it's more or less "closed".
- January 30, 2002
- Added the horrifying "your project for Winter Camp x should be at least y% complete" to the news. Added pictures to some of the bios (more later). Noticed that a disturbing number of campers had never gone to http://wintercamp.com/rfrnc/whoswho/updbio.shtml and resolved to someday punish them for their crime. If you haven't, it would be cool if you did the bio thing. I even promise to publish it within a week of your posting, probably with your picture...
- January 16, 2002
- You can test the new Universal Cookie at www.wintercamp.com/test_frame.html
In addition to being useful across multiple machines, it also offers a shortcuts menu and the chance to pick up to three of your own Winter Camp favorite pages (maybe more later).
Suggestions are welcome, as is testing. I know the reload link once you register is broken; a fix is forthcoming.
- January 13, 2002
- Some general cleaning and bug-fixing, the survey now shows in order by most recently answered, the category quizzes don't ask for your name (since they didn't use it). Release the Postmark Project, which you can reach from Just for Fun on the main menu or by going to www.wintercamp.com/projects/postmark/
- January 12, 2002
- Changed the Self-Scoring trivia page so you can see high scores without taking a quiz and so there are fewer links on the page.
- January 11, 2002
- Added about 350 trivia questions to the list on the front page. On the one hand, you should get fewer doubles, on the other hand, it makes the survey less likely to come up.
- January 10, 2002
- Corrected the revisions problem, removed the old surveys in favor of new ones (you can still get the old answers), added/updated WCFS pages including Future Olympics XXV results, updated event list.
- January 9, 2002
- Completed work on the news system and converted all the complex buttons to simple links. You can now bookmark the news (www.wintercamp.com/news.shtml) and it will be current when you hit it.
- January 8, 2002
- In honor of Ethan's birthday, I changed the news to read from a data file (same as the wall) instead of including text files from me. Next up? You can add your own events, probably later this week.
- January 3, 2002
- Completed the captions. Updated the whos who for XXV. Rob Hartwig is now the top youth and in the top 20 (albeit 20th) on the revised version of the pecking order.
- January 2, 2002
- Added the evaluation form (linked off the main page), day five pictures, some other rediscovered pictures, and a tool that captions all the pictures and makes it possible to just click through them in date order. (Technically, only about half the pictures are captioned so far, the rest are coming soon!)
- January 1, 2002
- Added more info to the Winter Camp XXVI planning pages, corrected news so it would show the correct Winter Camp (at least until 40) in the countdown, changed the list to the actual list at yahoogroups (also on the news), and changed the revisions so they can be updated and sent to subscribers to wcu@yahoogroups.com
- December 31, 2001
- Added planning pages for Winter Camp XXVI
- December 30, 2001
- Updated with pictures of day four.
- December 29, 2001
- Updated with pictures of day three.
- December 28, 2001
- Updated with pictures of day two.
- December 28, 2001
- Updated with pictures of day two.
- December 27, 2001
- Updated with pictures of day one.
- November 29, 2001
- Added the ability to suggest Squaw Point signs.
- November 16, 2001
- You can now suggest foods for the 162 dish banquet
- November 3, 2001
- Who's Who can now show you pecking list order.
- September 11, 2001
- Added random and category quizes to self-score, fixed another project bug.
- September 4, 2001
- Fixed a minor bug in the Who's Who, Modified the survey and results to collect and show the date last voted on.
- August 6, 2001
- Fixed a minor bug in the project pages
- July 20, 2001
- Added Survey Says which shows all quizzes and results.
- May 16, 2001
- Completed the survey section as part of pop quizzes.
- May 14, 2001
- Completed the project pages. Added the popquiz section.
- May 8, 2001
- Final (for now) WCFS content - more suggestions welcome, projects page now allows add, list projects, and view details. Updating projects, adding comments, and logging progress are coming soon.
- May 7, 2001
- New Survey, revised WCFS content, change to cookie on The Wall and SpeedFrame.
- May 6, 2001
- Sample projects page
- May 4, 2001
- Completed Encyclopedia WinterCampica updates, including some revisions to the revisions <g>
- April 29, 2001
- Updated volumes A - R of the Encyclopedia WinterCampica
- April 27, 2001
- May have fixed SpeedFrame.
- April 25, 2001
- Numerous updates to the WCFS Section.
- April 9, 2001
- Updated the Trivia pages to reflect that the year is 2001.
- April 2, 2001
- Luckily, Kristie is barred from pointing out that I've ignored this site for two months (well okay, haven't done anything new on this site that I got around to mentioning until now)
Corrected some parallelograms
Corrected some issues with WC XX News.
- During March, I killed some parallelograms.
Corrected some Roster problems
Added some greeting cards.
- I couldn't even guess what I might have done during February.
- January 10, 2001
- New counter for the front page keeps track of daily and weekly visitors. (Yes, I wrote it in perl).
- January 6, 2001
- Update the Who's Who. Look for a script-based search of this data sometime this week - likely inclusions include ability to search by first & last camp and pecking order.
- January 3, 2001
- Added pictures for Day Five, a few more for Day Three and lots of movies!.
- January 2, 2001
- Added balance sheet, history and evaluations for Winter Camp XXIV.
Added planning page for Winter Camp XXV.
Modified pages where needed to look at Winter Camp XXV, rather than XXIV.
- December 17, 2000
- Added the schedules for all the days I have a schedule for.
- November 13, 2000
- Added Winter Camping hints, Chapter 7, and the form for this year's camp.
- November 3, 2000
- Added ideas and meals for each of the themes; added Mars Attacks, which had been inadvertently left off earlier.
- October 23, 2000
- Added a new mailbag item, updated the index.
- October 16, 2000
- Numerous changes to The Wall.
- September 9, 2000
- Added new serial: Another Ten Seconds by Jeff Rand
Numerous changes in support of ATS.
- August 20, 2000
- Added new fiction: The Omega Project by Jeff Rand.
- July 14, 2000
- Added E-greetings, Updated Mailbag, added mailbag and greetings to speedframe.
- June 20, 2000
- Moved the new slower loading copy of the Scouting Webring to the Rings and Ribbons Page.
- June 9, 2000
- Revised the sitemap
Added new idea pages
Added date to new idea submissions
Created '99 archive
Changed main page (slightly).
- June 7, 2000
- Added the more or less complete sitemap.
- May 29, 2000
- Added a new mailbag item
Added the Perpetual Calendar
Removed a few parallelograms that still lived
New Ask Dr. Beast Button.
- May 26, 2000
- Added a new list (provided by Jeff Rand) to the Book of Lists.
- May 9, 2000
- Updated several Encyclopedia entries; removed the style sheet from the wall to make it accessible to the technology-challenged.
- April 23, 2000
- Changed the main page to a JavaScript instead of a CGI.
- March 21, 2000
- Added the gallery of photos for Winter Camp XXIII, no explanations, just pictures
Added Correspondence section.
- March 9, 2000
- Fixed the Wall Archives
Corrected an error on The Wall that sometimes destroyed cookies
Added the Newsletters section (actually done a while ago).
- February 25, 2000
- Changed some references from XXIII to XXIV.
A little clean-up of some misplaced ovals and trapezoids.
Received the Critical Depth Award.
- February 22, 2000
- More ovals, some buttons, and a fix to the speed frame link for activities.
- February 20, 2000
- Lots o' changes as the ovals begin to replace the parallelograms.
- February 6, 2000
- Updated my Wish List
Started creating a bolder, more graphic look for the site in both Framed and Unframed versions
Added the Help Page.
- Received the Artis Info Site Award.
- February 5, 2000
- Added Winter Camping section
Added First Person to SpeedFrame
Changed the ATA date on the Sitemap.
- February 2, 2000
- Added 2 chapters of ATA
Added ATA to SpeedFrame.
- January 18, 2000
- Added Hobby info for Winter Camp XXIII, updated results for XXII.
- January 17, 2000
- Created the '99 year for the trivia and high scores
Corrected a problem with links on the autograph page and in the formatting of some links.
- January 16, 2000
- Fixed many (someday, every) broken links on the webpage.
There are now 647 pages on the site, not including the Wall Archives, which would add more than 100 additional pages
Fixed the formatting for new autographs.
- January 15, 2000
- Removed the irony
Changed my wishlist.
- January 14, 2000
- Catch up posting: Added two more personal hobby pages and three more links (yep, one's broken).
Updated some copyright statements - one day I'll get them all
Corrected a broken link on the history page.
- January 6, 2000
- Updated the financial results for Winter Camp XXIII.
- January 6, 2000
- Added the Winter Camp Manual and appropriate links.
- Corrected more broken hobby links (I moved some stuff around earlier).
- Corrected a broken link on the hobby draw page.
- Corrected the countdown clock, which didn't work for Netscape users - the score is now tied for weird handling of getYear. Explorer returned 99 for 1999 and 2000 for 2000. Netscape (at least the version most people seem to be using), returned 99 for 99 and 100 for 2000.
- January 3, 2000
- Update the Who's Who for Winter Camp XXIII, added Winter Camp XXIV to the list of pages to be hit from the main page.
- January 2, 2000
- Started the pages for Winter Camp XXIV.
- Modified the Speed Frames to automatically make you interested in any new pages added to the list.
- Modified the Hobby Headquarters pages to show the personal sections and the date the last time the log was modified (if one exists).
- January 1, 2000
- Updated the WC XXII Roster, added Roster, Meals, History, Hobby, Hobby Log and Planning pages for Winter Camp XXIII.
- December 31, 1999
- Corrected a Javascript Y2K error in the News (not mine - the year function returned 2000 where before it had returned 99
- December 28, 1999
- Added pictures for days one and two.
- December 26, 1999
- Added pictures of day zero.
- December 25, 1999
- Updated the Schedule, Meals, and Index for Winter Camp XXIII
- December 22, 1999
- Fixed the hobby log, which had been broken since at least September - luckily, it's not exactly a high traffic page
- December 18, 1999
- I've been less than faithful with these updates, since the last one:
Changed the wall formatting, created an adults only game, corrected a Y2K bug in the cookies, added the balancesheet for Winter Camp XXIII, added several biographies, changed the format of whoswho to allow searching and make the pages smaller
- November 28, 1999
- Added the minutes, equipment list, schedules, activities, meals and sign up forms for Winter Camp XXIII
- November 1, 1999
- SpeedFrame 2.10 allows you to set defaulting your name into forms as a default behavior.
- October 31, 1999
- Suggestions are welcome, but SpeedFrametmis now available, complete with configuration info.
- October 27, 1999
- Okay, so it took a while, but Speed Frame is more or less functional. The configure option is still missing, but will let you turn off pages if you want. If you refuse the cookie, you'll basically be looking at 1 - 7 day's worth of stuff (Maybe that'll be a trivia question - what date is used as the default if you don't accept cookies?).
- October 21, 1999
- Made registration form available.
Changed main page links for Lodge
- October 18, 1999
- Added drop-down to individual theme days
- October 17, 1999
- Minutes for the meeting of 10/16 posted and discussion areas created
- Added the theme days to the site map
- October 14, 1999
- Made 1998 suggestions for themes, meals and activities available (something I'd planned to do in oh, January of 1999)
- October 12, 1999
- Now that 1999 is nearly over, I've created a separate page for the 1998 Trivia and its results
- October 10, 1999
- Newsletters for XVIII and XIX; only 3 years to go, then schedules and meals!
- Split the archive for The Wall (the list of available archives was becoming larger than some of the weekly postings) and create The Stacks, which lets you look up older wall postings).
- Corrected a bug which had broken the archives about a week ago (and not even OV noticed! <grin>)
- October 10, 1999
- Newsletters for XV, XVI and XVII
- Received the Nu Horizons Personal Site Award
- Shortened this list
- Indexed site, including history, the wall, and ancient folders.
- October 9, 1999
- Newsletters for XIV, some formatting on earlier newsletters
- October 8, 1999
- Added the original WCFS site, as launched on AOL.
- Resotred the confessional to the site map, library and fun pages.
- October 6, 1999
- Added more sites to the list of Scouting sites that offer awards
- October 5, 1999
- Changed colors back
- October 4, 1999
- Changed colors in main section
- October 3, 1999
- Changed some underlying technology so the wall can now be searched
Added the newsletters for Winter Camp XIII
Added new winners to the Scout IT Award
- September 29, 1999
- Corrected an error on the links page.
- Lots of formatting and some actual work on the History pages
- September 24, 1999
- Really updated the index to show that several chapters of ATA had been added on September 9
- September 21, 1999
- Added the text of some of the newsletters for Winter Camp XI
- Updated the index to show that several chapters of ATA had been added on September 9
- September 20, 1999
- Added the text of the newsletters for Winter Camp X
- September 15, 1999
- Added the Why I'm Big Bro page.
- September 14, 1999
- Added the text of the newsletters for Winter Camp IX
- September 10, 1999
- Until this moment, I had no idea I'd been neglecting this page so badly.
- Updated the various histories (technically, I've started updating them; they aren't all done yet).
- July 12, 1999
- Received Michele's Award of Excellence
- Received Angel's Award of Excellence
- Decided that deleting references to the award index would be easier than making one
- Reformatted the list of our awards very slightly.
- Jul 10, 1999
- Removed the Traditionally Unconventional Award (pending a non-sucky graphic); changed the Scout IT and TWL awards slightly; changed the main menu and re-ordered some stuff on the web rings page
- July 7, 1999
- Fixed broken links on the sitemap
- Found the correct copy of the Winter Camp XXIII planning notes
- Made some changes to the formatting of some of the Encyclopedia Wintercampica pages
- Updated the Other section in the library
- Modified the personality test page
- Reviewed the Poetry pages, made some changes, added Mark Bollman-->'s entry for XXII to the cycle
- Updated the movie pages
- July 6, 1999
- Fixed the links for pictures in the XXI and XXII histories.
- Changed the links in the expanded menu so they'd work right
- Moved Paradox Metaphor to its own directory and changed links to match
- Corrected an error on the library index to make it work better
- Fixed up some errors on Ron's hobby page
- Reformatted the anwer pages for Ask Dr. Beast
- Wished I had a faster internet connection
- Added a personality test thing I got in the mail and converted to JavaScript
- Uploaded most of the Library in corrected formats (names centered, single blockquote, table of contents, etc).
- July 5, 1999
- Fixed some non-standard graphics and linking in the Meals section
- Corrected nearly every page in the XXII section
- Fixed some non-standard graphics and linking in the Activities section
- Corrected some bad links in the XXIII section
- Fixed some non-standard graphics and linking in the Individual Hobby Log
- Updated most of the autograph pages to make them look better; now need to update the content of those same pages
- Fixed some non-standard graphics, formatting, and linking in the Hall of Fame
- Updated all the survey pages to the current format
- Fixed some non-standard graphics, formatting, and linking in the XXII Evaluation
- Corrected some non-standard formatting in the add new meals, add new themes and add new activities sections
- Added the new limerick for XXII to the Cycle
- Changed the format of Ask Dr. Beast answers (wanna see the changes? Ask some questions!)
- Corrected some non-standard formatting in the Links section
- Corrected some non-standard formatting in the Encyclopedia Wintercampica
- Corrected some non-standard formatting in Origins
- July 4, 1999
- Added a link for Ron's hobby page to the hobby log; corrected a broken link on that page
- June 30, 1999
- Changed the Scout IT! graphic to look a little more polished (in my opinion)
- Realized just how badly I'd been neglecting this page
- Uploaded a whole ton of files - Everything in References, The Library, all the Histories and all the rosters. Chances are, there are a few things wrong.
- Created and loaded new buttons
- June 29, 1999
- Uploaded new graphics and criteria for the Scout IT! Award
- Put the link to the WCFS back on the pages links (thanks to OV for spotting the orphaned pages)
- Added After the Apocalypse to the main page shortcuts
- June 28, 1999
- Added the El Mediodia banner to the main page
- June 16, 1999
- Corrected a heinous spelling error on the main page
- June 15, 1999
- Updated the search index
- Modified the Adults Only Wall
- May 30, 1999
- Received the Mystic Fawn's Cool Site Award
- May 28, 1999
- Received the WS Member Nomination Award
- Corrected a heinous spelling error on the main page
- May 27, 1999
- Added 4 chapters of After the Apocalypse
- May 26, 1999
- Received the Cheezy Grin award
- May 25, 1999
- Changed the way the no frames option worked
- Fixed a problem with using the page link to go to the sitemap
- May 24, 1999
- Received the Hawk Award
- Received the Bronze Award
- Added a no frames option to the navigation menus
- Changed the background graphic on the navigation menus
- Added five new chapters of After the Apocalypse
- May 21, 1999
- Fixed missing links in the Adults Only section
- Added some new Adults Only content
- Switched to a new Buffy banner
- Put the site map back on the "pages" list
- May 20, 1999
- Posted Laurel's Cool Site Award
- Shortened the Site Map
- Changed the main index from serious/not serious to categories and pages
- May 19, 1999
- Changed the way the "Awards" are presented and organized.
- May 18, 1999
- Made the intro pages look the way I always thought they'd look.
Added more graphics in a few places
Reworked some of the menu items.
Added the Index to the Encyclopedia
Fixed a bug in the frames version when trying to load The Wall
- May 15, 1999
- Added the images from the Promo Movie
- May 10, 1999
- Reeling from an assault on my manhood, I added the Fizzball pages even though it made me very late for work.
Fixed the hobby links.
- May 9, 1999
- Added a new poem
Made the Hobby Center available in the framed version.
Added an introduction to the Hobby Center
Reorganized Hobby Center as part of ongoing history project.
Added Chapters 1-10 of After the Apocalypse
- May 3, 1999
- Split the autographs into 7 sections; now I can add almost a dozen new ones I've been holding out on
Fixed the bugs in the add autograph thing, cleaned up a few things, reworked the dates for autograph updates
- May 2, 1999
- Killed the bug that was impacting Netscape users
Changed the colors in the main logo
Added the new history pages; schedules and whatnot coming soon; foreward is by Mark Bollman-->
- April 29, 1999
- Added Volume W.
Corrected several formatting errors
Corrected some errors in the contents menu for frames
Added links for the Complete Roster
- April 29, 1999
- Updated volumes H-Z, except W of the Encyclopedia
- April 28, 1999
- Updated volumes D-G of the Encyclopedia
- April 27, 1999
- Updated volumes A-C of the Encyclopedia
- April 21, 1999
- Completed the new colors on everything except the histories.
Corrected some errors on the WCFS pages
Added a new feature to The Wall Archive
Improved the reports for weekly scores in the trivia
- April 17, 1999
- Began changing the navigation and colors and what not. This will take a while, so be patient!
- March 29, 1999
- Updated the Book of Lists
- March 12, 1999
- Added the discussion page for Winter Camp XXIII and modified the sitemap to reference it
- March 4, 1999
- Updated the history and roster for Winter Camp XXII.
Updated the Who's Who list
Added the last of the lengthy bios I'd received; more would be welcome!
- March 3, 1999
- Finally got the new quiz to work.
- March 1, 1999
- Added the (weak) pages for Winter Camp XXII for Wednesday and Thursday.
Changed the main page to make it more clear where Winter Camp XXII was (you could only get to it by scrolling up on the list, not something most people think of)
- February 28, 1999
- I've done a bunch of stuff lately but haven't bothered to put it up.
Added some JavaScript to the main page to try and capture every 5000th visitor with a "Hey you're a 5000, please tell me who you are" form.
Added the sponsors page
- February 16, 1999
- Updated and fixed a handful (about 20) broken links and images. Probably more of the same tomorrow.
- February 15, 1999
- Changed the fonts on the sidebar in the framed version. You might have to hit reload/refresh to see it and you might not see it anyhow if you don't have Arial as a font
- February 14, 1999
- Changed the structure of the main and index page to get a better hit count and unite the two pages
- February 9, 1999
- Added a new survey
Changed the formating on new Ask Dr. Beast answers.
- February 8, 1999
- Expanded news again (thanks Doc!)
- January 25, 1999
- Added the ability to expand or collapse the whole tree on the frames. Once expanded, all the possible choices are shown. To collapse it, you have to hit collapse tree. (From a survey suggestion by Jeff Rand)
- January 23, 1999
- Adjusted the frame menus. Rewrote most of the intro segments (still not happy with most of them). Replaced some appearances of the old buttons with the new ones (guestbook, activity & meal suggestions)
- January 22, 1999
- New menus (in frames), New navigation lay out. Fixed missing link in the autograph page.
- January 20, 1999
- Put the autograph logging back on, but you need a password
Changed the site map around to eliminate a few things
- January 10, 1999
- Posted the first cut at the History for Winter Camp XXII.
Removed all the old suggestions to clear the deck for new ones.
- January 7, 1999
- Removed the Linkexchange stuff from all pages. We had 17 clickthroughs on our banner on roughly 10,000 displays; not exactly stellar performance
- January 5, 1999
- Corrected known issues in rosters and histories
Added the Awards Offered page for review
Fixed a small break on the autograph page
- January 4, 1999
- Added the much promised Roster page for Winter Camp XXII
Added roster pages for all Winter Camps in the History section (click on the roster button in the history for that camp)
Finally exterminated the days to camp bug (I hope)
- January 3, 1999
- Reworked the main page a little at OV's suggestion.
Moved the webring (which does work) to the Netlife page
Shortened this list considerably
- January 2, 1999
- Anyone can now add to the quote listings.
News now has a form, not that I've received a lot anyhow.
Fixed the error (I hope) in calculating the time 'til the next Winter Camp
- January 1, 1999
- Modified the available words for the hobby log; added a new fill-in word and the availablity of a blank in the choose section
Modified the Hall of Fame entries to look more like the rest of the similar entries, with a blank line separating entries.
- December 29, 1998
- Added the new hobby log, created the old one
- December 29, 1998
- Added the updates for Tuesday's activities
- December 28, 1998
- Updated Hobby Draw XXI
Added Hobby Draw XXII
Added update for Monday
- December 27, 1998
- Heavily modified the planning sections
Posted the first update for this year
Added the Winter Camp XXIII section
- December 26, 1998
- Added the Fun & Games section to the frames version.
Revealed the Winter Campopoly Section.
Removed the interactive function and revealed the Autograph section
- December 25, 1998
- Fixed the bug in the Detroit Area Council webring. Look for much more action there soon.
- December 6, 1998
- Fixed a bug that plagued Netscape (and some IE) users (I think)
- Received Iceprincess' Cool Site Award
- Received the "So Cool It's Hot" award
- December 4, 1998
- Added way more news to the news feature
- December 2, 1998
- Added most of the info about Winter Camp XXII
- November 28, 1998
- Received the Good People's Choice Award
- Received Terras Golden Award
- Received the Pretty Good Page Award
- Received Sid's Best of the Web Award
- November 28, 1998
- Received the Cyber Scans Award of Excellence
- Received the Silver Award from Juno Enterprises
- Received the All Star Award
- Received Dystini's Excellence Award
- Received the Everything Award
- Received The Exminster Dot Co Cool Site Award
- November 27, 1998
- Began adding the bgproperties=fixed tag to make the snowflakes stay still (at least in MSIE)
- Added a tag to the frame index to force it to load as the top page
- Received the Icy Cool Award
- November 26, 1998
- Modified the Search and Search Results pages after Lou told me they did work.
- November 23, 1998
- Corrected one image on the Awards page that never loaded
Modified the Links page so if you actually pick a link, it doesn't load up in our frame.
Modified the main page to work the same way.
- November 19, 1998
- Received the Kaptivations Excellent Personal Web Page Award
- November 17, 1998
- Received the StarSaber Award
- November 16, 1998
- Added the search function based on a new service provided by Concentric; later discovered it was slightly non-functional. On the other hand at 2:54am, their response time is awesome (it's also awesome at 2:54pm, if you happen to be in the market for an ISP). Search should be back in a day or two.
- Revised the awards page to make it faster (I hope).
- November 15, 1998
- Added three new awards that we had received in the last week or so
- Moved all the award images to try and reduce clutter in the images directory
- Corrected some errors in the Winter Camp XXII planning section
- Reworked the frames version to make it look better - let me know what you think
- November 11, 1998
- Added the Maintenance section to the menus for the web
You're not cleared for that
Corrected some color issues for users who did not support frames
- November 9, 1998
- Corrected the Origins document to show that Rip Van Winkle Council is in New York, not New Jersey
- November 8, 1998
- Made minor changes to frame wiDTh
- Rolled out some bio updates and added the "details" button where appropriate
- Changed the update biography form to make creating new ones a little easier.
- Made the update biography form match the Who's Who list
- Updated the list of quotes with some new items from Occasional Visitor and Lou Pezet (actually there were some doubles).
- November 7, 1998
- Changed the main page and completed most of the work on the Frames version; rolled both out
- November 6, 1998
- Added Steve Clark as youth for Canada Day
Corrected John Howey's e-mail on the Star Wars page
- November 1, 1998
- Corrected the link for the Order of the Arrow on the main page
- October 25, 1998
- Received the ScoutNet UK Recommended Web Site award
- Recieved Adele's Groovy Home Page award
- Corrected an error on the Trivia page
- October 20, 1998
- I think all the new graphics are in place; if I missed some, let me know
- Origins is now on-line.
- The History page has a new, longer introduction written by Mark Bollman-->
- October 19, 1998
- Updating titles and bottom of page navigation all over the place
- Reformatted the Awards Page
- Fixed up other wierd errors as I encountered them
- October 18, 1998
- Taking the plunge by adding new style buttons
- October 16, 1998
- Added drop downs to the individual days
- October 15, 1998
- Received the Golden Trash Can Award
- Received the Cool Site Award
- October 14, 1998
- Corrected some errors on the main page.
Added the individual theme days to the site map
- October 12, 1998
- Received the Scouting Web Award for Excellence. Maybe we're an acquired taste...
- Received the Web Wizard. Maybe we're not so bad after all...
- October 11, 1998
- Added pages for Winter Camp XXII
- October 10, 1998
- Decided I liked the new buttons better and started replacing them in things that used them. If you find anything I missed, let me know. So far I've changed them in
History
Paradox Metaphor
Encyclopedia WinterCampica
- October 9, 1998
- Updated the Overview and History pages
- October 5, 1998
- Added a page to view themes and to suggest them.
- October 3, 1998
- Received the Golden Eagle Award for excellence in Scouting webpages (our first unsolicited award, as far as I know)
- October 2, 1998
- Fixed a JavaScript problem on the main page that affected retrieving the news
- September 29, 1998
- Fixed the Dragon Weyr image
Signed up for some ribbon campaigns on the Net Life page
Added more info on past Hobby Draws than you probably knew we had
- September 28, 1998
- Received the Dragon Weyr Award
- September 17, 1998
- Changed the format of the news to include both smart and dumb quotes. Suggestions are welcome.
- September 11, 1998
- Corrected a broken link deep in the WC XXI pages
Updated my Wishlist
- September 6, 1998
- Corrected the Universal Measurement System entry in the Encyclopedia WinterCampica
- August 15, 1998
- Changed the main page
- Added the Net Life page to show web rings and mailing list
- August 3, 1998
- New and improved version of the biography. Look for bigger changes later as I begin to master Perl
- July 27, 1998
- Snowflakes everywhere, visited links now magenta, unvisited yellow, background navy
- Added the tote board to the daily news
- Corrected a few entry errors here and there. Doctor Beast, Hobby Demo, Firsts, etc..
- Removed the Banner survey
- July 23, 1998
- Changed the way we show banners (should get more displays now anyhow; added <Meta> tags to all the main pages.
- July 11, 1998
- Changed the format of the hobby page and reworked existing entries.
- July 8, 1998
- Added the first draft of the Hobby Page; more details as I develop them
- July 7, 1998
- Revised the WC: The Movie pages based on some feedback
- Made the movie accessible under the main menu
- Removed the extra Adults Only page link on the main menu
- July 6, 1998
- Added the first cut at WC: The Movie
- July 5, 1998
- You're not cleared for that either.
- July 4, 1998
- You're not cleared for that
- Added the </marquee> tag to the wall
- June 29, 1998
- Added survey 5, Biographies
- Recieved Ravi's Elite Site Award
- June 21, 1998
- Added the flakes to lots more pages
- Added a copyright notice to most pages
- June 20, 1998
- The snowflakes have returned.
- June 19, 1998
- Added Survey 4, Pardon Our Dust?
- June 15, 1998
- Signed up for "Scouting Spider" webring
- Received the "What The?" Award for Poetry
- June 13, 1998
- Added the only book written at Winter Camp to the Library
- Added a new survey and reworked the old ones slightly
- Posted results from our second survey
- June 12, 1998
- Modified the countdown to show days, hours and minutes as well as jiffys 'til Winter Camp (Jiffys suggested by John Howey)
- June 11, 1998
- Added the days 'til Winter Camp countdown to the news (suggested by Mark Bollman-->)
- June 7, 1998
- Received the Zilliare and Insomniac Shack Awards
- June 3, 1998
- You're probably not cleared for that.
- Added new poetry to the Library
- June 2, 1998
- Added the form to give me the news. Check it out!
- June 1, 1998
- Received the Saturn Award for Creativity
- May 31, 1998
- Corrected a nagging bug in the News of the Day (Thanks John!)
- Received the Mildly Interesting Site of the Day Award
- Updated our link to show the new Mi-Gi-Si O-Paw-Gan Lodge Web Page
- May 30, 1998
- Received the Waterfalls Award
- May 28, 1998
- Fixed the Scouts on the Net Webring entry
- Added to and corrected Who is Big Bro?
- May 27, 1998
- Added three animated banners to the Banner Contest
- Posted my Wish List
- Added Paradox Metaphor Chapter 6, fixed the table of contents
- Joined two web rings, looking for more
- May 26, 1998
- Added more of Paradox Metaphor and made some changes to what was already there (not the words, the HTML behind them)
- Changed the look of this page to look more like similar pages
- Received Wynterfyre's Award of Excellence
May 25, 1998- Changed the Archive function to include the GO! function
- Added the "Who is Big Bro?" dossier
- Added the Winter Camp Book of Hobbies
- Received the Bad Bob Award
- Rewrote the Overview Section
- Revised the sitemap to be more descriptive (and perhaps more friendly to outsiders)
- Fixed one of the banners that was mispelled
- Added the top ten meal themes from the Winter Camp Almanac to the Winter Camp Book of Lists
- Received the Nibby Award
- Wondered if I should listen to Big Bro.
May 24, 1998- Added the Mopsicle and Mr. Mom Awards
- Added the Banner Survey
May 23, 1998- Corrected an error in the Winter Camp Symphony entry in the encyclopedia.
May 22, 1998- Added the first three chapters of Paradox Metaphor.
- Added some text to the various fiction and poetry pages.
- Added a half dozen Haiku and the haiku page
May 20, 1998- Corrected the Cover of Night Excerpt (wow, someone was actually reading the stuff!)
May 19, 1998- Fixed the DHQX graphics
- Added Channel 120 Excerpts to the Library, updated the limerick cycle
May 18, 1998- Corrected the error still in the trivia maintenance and changed quiz 8 to comply
- Added Training Camp to the Library
May 17, 1998- Removed one of the stories from the Library (Think of it as trivia in the making)
- Decided I could do this real fast
- added the Revision list to the Site Map; this should make it easy to tell if I've been monkeying with things
- Added the original Book of Lists to the Library. Should be adding ability to suggest changes and make new lists sometime tomorrow (I'm tired, sue me).
May 16, 1998- Steve Harig (LSH) becomes caller 5000!
- Built the Library
May 15, 1998- Site Map is now accessible from anywhere (just about).
- Lots o' stuff. Changed the main page, Standardized the button bar, changed the site map, and just generally changed a ton of things
May 4, 1998- Indulged Mark's vanity
- Fixed up the quiz a little (look at Quiz 6 to see what I did.
- Trimmed this file
- Combined the peoples choice and the fixed links into one page
- Changed the main page, just because I can (and because lots of folks said it looked wierd on their screens
- resolution is a tricky thing.
- Began a general neatening, tidying, and straightening project
- Fixed a broken link on, curiously enough, the links page
- Got lazy again. Several wall archives, changes to some Adults Only stuff, added DHQX wall for LSH
April 15, 1998- Corrected a minor issue in the Encyclopedia
April 15, 1998- Moved the Idea Zone to the "Serious Stuff" Side, where I had meant it to be in the first place.
April 15, 1998- Added the subpages of the Idea Zone to the sitemap
April 15, 1998- Corrected the missing tags in Who's Who
April 14, 1998- Hey, I'm up way too late now. Changed the Who's Who to show 1997 data. Wished 1058 guys weren't so long winded. Rewrote the program that generates the list so I can do it more often now.
April 14, 1998- Made the new meal & new activity forms point to the contest page
April 14, 1998- Let's just see if we can cash that idea a day dividend. The pages are up for activities, meals, and the generic schedule. Check them out under Idea Zone for more details
April 12, 1998- Changed the site map to show the last time a change was suggested
April 12, 1998- Its even bigger (I lost count) and it's much nicer
- it's the latest version of the Encyclopedia, now including all the letters and some of the changes! Also resolves nearly all known issues.
April 5, 1998- Its big, 366 entries big, and it's the new, revised and expanded Encyclopedia WinterCampica. Take a look, cuz I'm sure to have some wierd tags and formatting in there somewhere.
April 4, 1998- I'm sorry, you're not cleared for that.
April 4, 1998- Changed the way the archive is viewed and added a ton more archives into the mix (you can now see every word Big Bro ever wrote)
April 2, 1998- Added the new trivia contest, including a bunch of maintenance pages that you'll never see (all my hard worked unnoticed again). sniff, whine
March 27, 1998- Added the WC Trivia page which becomes the first page ever contributed in HTML. It also qualifies Tom for a fairly exclusive club, basically consisting of me, him, and Mark as those who have created things for the web page.
March 27, 1998- Longest gap with no real change in history of the page (at least since it got put on Concentric). Actually, since Feb 14 I've trimmed the archives several times, but that's been about it. Chalk it up to bad attitude.
February 14, 1998- Mr. Romance adds the site map and modifies the Hall of Fame slightly Look for more updates soon (unless, of course, I get a life in the next two or three hours somehow).
February 10, 1998- Had visitor 2500, it was Dr. Beast. A while back, Jeff Rand was 2000 and Steve Harig, youth leader for Winter Camp XXII was number 1977.
February 10, 1998- got off my butt and added about 25 new files, including 5 new pages and a bunch of junk to support them. Check out the Winter Camp Hall of Fame
February 9, 1998- Added the new survey and results from the old one.
February 6, 1998- trimmed the graffiti, added the graffiti archive page, added height tags to lots of images to improve load speed. Wished I knew who Big Bro was. Changed the "lame" link on the Adults Only page.
February ?, 1998- changed the Ask Dr. Beast sample, added categories and a maintenance page and hilarity ensued
January 29, 1998- slow week. Added the new improved Ask Dr. Beast. Originally failed due to a programming error by our ISP, Concentric (now I don't feel like a moron).
January 24, 1998- Fixed the button on the almanac, monkeyed with graphics, fixed the front page, truncated the graffiti, and wished I knew who Big Bro really was.
January 23, 1998- You knew it had to be the Guest Book.
January 23, 1998- Changed the main page again (I was bored).
January 23, 1998- (a rare day off yesterday). Won the "Fly with Eagles Award"
January 21, 1998- Changed the main page to show both styles of navigation (table & go to)
January 21, 1998- Received the "Worth a Peek Award"
January 18, 1998- trimmed the revision list to show only January (yeah, yeah, there were a lot of revisions earlier this month that didn't show up; so sue me
January 18, 1998- received the "Critical Mass Award"
January 18, 1998- received the "Full of Hot Air Award"
January 17, 1998- added a links page, corrected some typos on the header.
January 17, 1998- changed the look of the main page (hopefully for the better)
January 17, 1998- corrected the link to graffiti from the main page; added a few things to the survey
January 16, 1998- three minutes later, removed the <pre> thing as it caused serious problems.
January 16, 1998- Added the survey, added a <pre> and </pre> to the wall, changed from <I> to <EM> which might make things better for Eric & other Mac users (let me know!). Fixed the wall. Please don't use HTML tags and leave them open.
January 15, 1998- trimmed off the wall archive
January 15, 1998- Less than faithful; in the last two weeks, we've had a major re-org of the page, added pages for the 31st, colorized the History and Encyclopedia pages, and generally spruced and fixed things up.
December 30, 1997- Added page for the 30th.
December 29, 1997- Added pages for 28 & 29, added back buttons.
December 28, 1997 (wcst)- Added the new hobby draw page, daily pages for December 26 & 27, and the hobby results for Winter Camp XX.
December 24, 1997- received the "Silver My Page Sucks Award"
December 24, 1997- made some link changes to fix broken links here and there.
December 24, 1997- removed the Area 51 link, added the awards link.
Decenber 23, 1997- Added the roster on the Winter Camp XXI page, archived the wall.
December 16, 1997- Archived the wall
December 13, 1997- Had our 500th hit.
December 13, 1997- Added Area 51
December 9, 1997- Maps for Glenwood and Bollman's. Minor changes to Activity Guide and Schedule. Links for maps on WCXXI and Schedule respectively
December 9, 1997- Added the Activity Guide (first draft). Added links to the menus and activity guide to the schedule. Added leadership section to WC XXI section
December 8, 1997- Revised Encyclopedia to multi-volume with table of contents.
December 7, 1997- 500th user
December 7, 1997- fixed the last revision, fixed links in history, wcfs, added trial whos who links to Hobby Draw, fixed TOP button in activities and meals, archived the wall, rearranged front page, removed round up, updated planning meeting for '98 data, fixed the index button, formatted history 9 & 10, fixed? the dig slides, archived revisions
December 4, 1997- Added the Encyclopedia Wintercampica (it's a draft kids, don't freak out
- the real HTML version will come later, when I have more time)
November 29, 1997- Added the Who's Who page and form.
November 28, 1997- Added the theme, schedule and meals for this year
T-11 hours to the planning meeting- check out the new graffiti page and tell me that Winter Camp doesn't rule...
T-13 hours to the planning meeting- just checking is all
November 27, 1997- Added forms to the pages for Ask Doctor Beast, Meals, and Activities.
November 27, 1997- Lots of stuff - new beast quote, better activity & meal listing, graphical logo link!
November 25, 1997- fixed the sound on the Adults Only warning page
November 24, 1997- added the sound to the Adults Only warning page
November 22, 1997- reached our first 100 users!
November 22, 1997- Added WCXXI & planning pages, corrected some e-mail addresses, Changed the index
November 19, 1997- Added the histories for WC XIX & XX (thanks Mark), corrected some errors here & there. Added a "Last Updated" to the index page, modified the Adults Only background pending the installation of security on the page.
November 15, 1997- Added some server includes, corrected links to accomodate them, more E-mail
November 14, 1997- corrected more link problems, added some mail information
November 12, 1997- Added, the dig; corrected some link problems
November 10, 1997- Changed colors <again!>, fixed some broken/badly pointed links
November 9, 1997- The beginning of the new era
October 8, 1997- Bunch of changes made; new site launched as WWW.WINTERCAMP.COM
May 7, 1997- even more repairs and some new links added here and there
May 6, 1997- miscellaneous errors corrected, history put on-line, hobbies in WC home page
April 13, 1997- Home Page Launched
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