Change History

The following summarizes the changes I've made to the content of this web site (ignoring layout changes and general housekeeping).

Updated my resume, providing details about my previous job.
Revised Derby Resources.
Revised this site's colophon after upgrading my development environment to Mac OS X (from Cygwin running on Microsoft Windows).

Dropped membership in (and links to) the Pinewood Derby Racing Web Ring after the new ring admin failed to maintain quality.

Added Pinewood Derby Physics to Derby Resources.
Revised and expanded Derby Rules.
Added a couple third-party photos to Photos of Unusual Derby Cars (with permission).
Added my current job to my resume.

Added Derby Magic, Quality Tracks, and Royal Racers/Make Tracks to my Derby Resources.
Made minor revisions to my resume.

Updated my About This Site section (including the colophon) to reflect the many changes that accompanied the first update to the site in more than six years. In the process of redesigning the site layout, I updated almost every document, although most changes were just minor copy editing.
Redesigned the gallery of Photos of Unusual Derby Cars and added photos from our 2007 Shape N Race Derby.
Updated my About the Author section, including my resume.
Updated my Derby Resources and Recommended Web Sites.

Updated my Photos of Unusual Derby Cars with new cars from our 2000 Shape N Race Derby, plus a few cars from other derbies.
Added a section for PBC's Our King's Court madrigals ensemble, including a photo album and a list of our repertoire.
Added the Pack 146 Pinewood Derby page, JP's Victory Race page, Dizmore.com, Precision Weighing Balances, Maximum Velocity, and Pinewood Pro to my derby resources page. I also updated some stale contact information.
Updated my About the Author section, and added my current job with Hewlett–Packard to my resume.
Minor updates and clarifications to my derby track plans, including merging them back into a single document.
Converted my GIF images to PNG.
Updated my custom DTD to use HTML 4.01 Strict as a starting point.

Updated my Photos of Unusual Derby Cars with new cars from our 1999 Shape N Race Derby.
Updated my About the Author section, moving my professional background into a separate resume.
Divided my derby track plans into manageable sections, and incorporated additional reader feedback.
Created a site map listing all the documents available at this site.
Added information about this site's background and about my web-design philosophy to About This Site.
Created Descriptions of Icons
Revised this site's colophon to clarify the process I use and to reflect my switch to Opera.
Updated my custom DTD to prohibit certain risky and deprecated elements.

Created my Advent page, describing a celebration of Christ's birth during the four weeks prior to Christmas.
Added a few new derby speed tips, and revised, clarified, or expanded several existing tips.
Added some new comments about derby rules.
Added a few minor updates to my derby track plans, correcting typos, clarifying vague instructions, incorporating reader feedback, and mentioning two additional optional enhancements.
Added descriptions of several new camporal events, and added several new variations of existing events.
Added links to Stockade 6468's Shape N Race Page (a new photo page), to Smooth Sailing (a new derby-software vendor), to Indy Products (a new derby-supplies vendor), and to Hobby Shack (a new hobby-supplies vendor) on my derby resources page. I also updated some stale data.
Put the 42nd Brighton (Saltdean) Scout Group's knot page back on my recommended web sites. I also added a couple more examples of web-browsing diversity, and added links to several basic online resources.