Below is historical data on The Chipster Zone: 01/01/97 Approximate date site went on-line 12/21/97 Added picture by Mike Wetzel of Nathaniel and Sally; added "Of lollipops and candyland" to poems; added link to The Poetry Poll (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8321/poetrypollresults.htm); added poetry and prose to "What's Here" off main page. 12/23/97 Hit count: 375 12/23/97 Added Migraine page 12/31/97 Added 1997 Christmas note (as html) 01/02/98 Added poems "Vastness" and "Here is little Effie's head" 10/14/98 Added photos, poems over the last year, most recently "A Poem of Titles" and "The Gathering" 01/02/99 Added 2 Halloween photos of the kids and 2 of Nathaniel's stories: The Dragon Part One and The Hatchet Lady 01/27/99 Added picture of Nathaniel with Magic Johnson ...Missed some in here. 06/09/1999 Added David Rawson's best music of 1998 (Prose page) 06/28/1999 Added Commencement scan for CCS 1980; changed KDF link to WRAX; Added photo from Miss Ala '98 to TT page 06/30/1999 Added BounceB.gif (White ball and paddle animation) to tt page. 07/05/1999 Added link to www.highschoolalumni.com and fixed link to John Murphy's page. Added my first QTVR of our backyard! Plus a couple other photos. 07/24/1999 Added a couple photos of the kids and cousins on vacation. 08/17/1999 Added a write-up of another lion dream, calling it "Ligers and Latches and Hair -- Oh My". Check the prose page. 10/21/1999 Changed "Current Thought" 11/17/1999 Added photos to Pattons page: Beach, Epcot, NatSoccer99, WillowWeepy 12/10/1999 Teased the 1999 XMas Note on Pattons page, added MS Windows Media Player download link to the Migraine page in an effort to get free stuff from MicroSoft; also added reference to Imitrex from the Migraine page; updated the Quote of the Day. 01/03/2000 Added XMas 1999 note. 01/10/2000 Updated rating info and big wins on TT page. 01/15/2000 Updated Current Thought 02/15/2000 Added Valentine's poem to Madelyn to Poetry page. 03/08/2000 Added poems from 1978: "And then there were two...", "On the Necessity of Revitalization" and "From the South". (Silica and Connie requested access to "And then there were two...") 06/08/2000 Posted David's music lists for 1999. 10/16/2000 Fixed link to S.R. Bissette's Tyrant. Recently updated ratings on my TT page. 10/17/2000 Added link to TT photos of me on About.com ! 12/27/2000 Added Christmas note for 2000. 02/21/2001 Added a Reviews page beside the Prose and Poetry pages. 02/21/2001 Moved David Rawson's music lists to Reviews page. 02/27/2001 Added Pittsburgh Business Times write up on me to "Me" section of Pattons page; Added Weepy's room and painting to "Our Home" section. 02/27/2001 Updated TT Places I've Played some, still needs plenty of work. 02/27/2001 Updated TT Page with rating, photos of old TT Set and John Oros photos of me from 2000 Decatur Open. 05/19/2001 Removed NATTC logo and link from front page. Added the first 2 audio books to the reviews page, Foudini and Naked 05/22/2001 Replaced the Metacrawler link with Google and ixquick links (ixquick replacement of Metacrawler suggested by Jessica Stephan [jessica@ixquick.com]) 05/24/2001 Added "I Had a Hammer" to Reviews. Also for Dune the book. 06/14/2001 Added "One Better" to Reviews. 09/22/2001 Added Statue and Trade Center photo to home page. Added "Crossing the Chasm" review. Added HaT as "helping out". 09/24/2001 Added a CCS 10th reunion page, mostly photos. 10/01/2001 Added a CCS 20th reunion page, mostly photos. 12/12/2001 Added XP Explained review. 12/24/2001 Removed or updated some links on the misc/links page. 01/13/2002 Posted the 2001 Christmas note. 02/27/2002 Added photos of Uncle Sherman's TT set. 03/06/2002 Added reviews of Dennis Miller audiobooks and Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days. 03/07/2002 Added review Effective C++ 06/12/2002 Added Whence Came Caralyn poem. 06/17/2002 Added a review of Jim Saltsider's band "Bloody Ebson" and my light verse for Mark's 40th. 07/08/2002 Added a review of Audio Book "The Aardvark is Ready for War" 07/25/2002 Added a David's 2001 music lists to Reviews 08/27/2002 Added links to ACLU and Runner's High 11/11/2002 Added teaser from Clone Dance with Uncle Clint to Poetry 11/20/2002 Added Kramer's Clone Dance to Poetry; Added audio book reviews of Vanna Speaks and Angela's Ashes. 11/25/2002 Added review of The Rant Zone and a "*" rating system to reviews. 12/11/2002 Updated 10KM autograph comments. 12/12/2002 Fixed a couple typos/links in old Xmax notes. Added review of The Ice Opinion. 01/06/2003 Added review of The Spoken Word Bible. 01/20/2003 Added Caralyn's first two poems. 02/08/2003 Added a link to Tolerance.org. 04/24/2003 Added Charlie Lehman's "Humpty Dumpty Together Again" 05/05/2003 Added Holes and High Fidelity reviews 05/06/2003 Added The Majors review 08/27/2003 Added Boeing and Symbol 09/12/2003 Added Regis Philbin: I'm Only One Man! review 09/17/2003 Added Lock, Stock and Barrel Days (aka "Dianes") 09/17/2003 Added Gonzo Marketing review. 10/30/2003 Added Myst and Through the Looking Glass reviews. 11/04/2003 Added Eclipse in Action review. 11/10/2003 Added Chuck E photo of Caralyn. 12/05/2003 Added eLeadership and Joined at the Heart reviews. 12/15/2003 Added JRR Tolkien to Poetry Masters. 12/15/2003 Posted 2002 Christmas note (only 11 months late) 02/02/2004 Added UML Distilled review 02/24/2004 Posted 2003 Christmas note 04/04/2004 Posted Caralyn's Spelling Contractions 04/04/2004 Updated IPS logo 05/13/2004 Added reviews of MySQL book, 1 Min. Mgr book and Return to Mars audio tape. 05/26/2004 Added reviews of Kareem's tape and a C#/.Net MCAD book. 06/03/2004 I've been posting some photos of houses under consideration for purchase in Madison, AL. Settled on buying the 167 Merganser Blvd. one. Most of the photos are with Caralyn's cheap but effective digital camera. 07/19/2004 Added David Rawson's 2003 Music Lists. 07/28/2004 Jumping on Blogging bandwagon -- too cool not to try it out. 08/09/2004 Added "Well Done" review. 08/26/2004 Added "Catcher in the Rye" and "BalderDash (TV)" reviews. 09/01/2004 Corrected "endocarp" to "exocarp" in Sleepy Fireworks and added a couple reference links for "drupe" and fruit layers. 09/01/2004 Added review of "Joel on Software's" first book. 09/14/2004 Added review of "Gravity" audio book by Tess Gerritsen. 11/03/2004 Added new Chuck E. Cheese pictures of the kids. 12/08/2004 Added review of Refactoring. 12/09/2004 Added review of Comments on "The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing" 12/10/2004 Added Dave Rawson's Top 200 Albums of the 1990's 12/13/2004 Added review of "The Voyage of the Narwhal" 01/10/2005 Added Xmas 2004 photos. 01/28/2005 Bought "www.chipsterzone.com" from Yahoo! for 5 years, it forwards to here. 02/03/2005 Rearranged the home page to move "What's Here" up and added "Professional" to it; which points to my Professional book reviews for now. Fixed the visitor counter. 02/04/2005 Review of my new Griffin PowerPod universal auto charger. 02/23/2005 Review of my American Gods. 02/24/2005 Exposed the professional page. 03/07/2005 Added review of "Dinner with Persephone" 03/09/2005 Added review of "Developer Testing" 03/22/2005 Added review of "Report from Engine Co. 82" 04/11/2005 Added Link to Island Girl blog 04/17/2005 Added Landscaping 2005 page 06/08/2005 Added Ascii art spider from 1994 on Prose page. 08/01/2005 Added David's 2004 Music lists. 09/12/2005 Added Interior spruce up page. 11/14/2005 Added review of "The Greatest Course that Never Was" 11/20/2005 Added Nathaniels short Prattling essay. 12/13/2005 Added Dad's NYFOA AFC Chairman's letter to Prose page. 12/19/2005 Posted 2004 Christmas note (over a year since writing it). 12/30/2005 Posted 2005 Christmas note picture. 02/06/2006 Added Free Agent Nation Review. 06/19/2007 Posted David's Best Music of 2006. 10/30/2007 Posted Granddad Patton's The Little Wanderer to prose page. 11/20/2007 Posted November Tree free verse and photo page; posted review of "Illusions"