About Gilbert's Web Pages
Information about the history and the use of
Gilbert's web pages
1. Disclaimer
All information on Gilbert's Home tree is either intended for the
personal use of Gilbert Healton or presented for use "as is".
As these are my personal web pages on my own personal account any
opinions herein are my own. Life is learning and I may retract, modify,
and even attack, my previous ideas at any time without notice.
- Provided "As Is", without warranty of any type.
- Use at your own risk.
- Not liable for direct or indirect damages or minds broken by
anyone using the contents of this web page tree.
- Subject to change without notice.
- Contents arbitrary, and reflect the whim, caprice,
even misunderstandings and mistakes,
of the moment by their author.
- The author reserves the right to change, reverse, and even attack,
the ideas and contents of any of these pages without notice to anyone.
- Do now believe the contents herein reflect the views of any
employer or customer of mine,
past, present, or future, direct or indirect, in any way,
unless you pull that information off their official web sites.
- Contents of web pages linked to in this web tree that are
outside of my control are not my responsibility.
The sins therein belong to the owners.
- Anything not already disclaimed must be considered disclaimed
If you can not accept the above disclaimers and limitations,
or they are not legal in your area,
then do not use these web pages.
2. Copyright
Gilbert Healton claims copyright to all original material in these web pages.
The years of most material is 1995 through 2007,
though earlier works may also be present.
3. Webmaster Notes
If you have links on your pages to my pages,
and want to be made aware of any changes I make to my pages,
please let me know and I'll put you on "my E-mail list".
4. Graphic Buttons and Images
Many of the buttons pointing at other sites go to different parts of that site,
depending on what part of the button you "push".
The left side of such buttons always goes to the site's main home page.
The remaining sections of the button drill down to other places I find useful.
Most browsers will change
something on the screen as the cursor moves over the hot spots for these buttons.
Exactly what changes, and how, depends on your browser.
Sometimes leaving the pointer idle over a hot spot
results in a "fly out" message popping up.
The destination URL may also change over the hot spots to show where the
spot will go.
This author created most of these buttons using assorted software packages.
All self-made images should only use 16-color pallets to keep image sizes
down. No animations were used for the same reason.
Buttons to outside locations use images captured, and often reduced,
directly from the site they point to.
Lots of pixel editing has been done to clean them up and
reduce their sizes by making it easier for the image compression routines
to find compressible bit strings.
5. Bookmark Pages
5.1 History of Gilbert's Bookmarks
While Gilbert has been using the Internet in various ways since the late 1980s,
serious work on web pages started in 1994.
By 1995 Gilbert had large bookmark files scattered across many different types
of browsers at different locations and operating systems.
His own computer had no less than five different
types of browsers on it during those times.
Desperate to consolidate his bookmark files Gilbert created his first version
of web pages that were 100% manually created using the vi editor.
About 1996 these started to fall into disrepair due to the difficulty in
manually watching for web pages that vanished, moved, etc.
In year 2000 Gilbert started design of a program that would
not only automatically watch for vanishing web pages,
but automatically build, and rebuild web pages, from a simple database,
and delete web pages for entries that have gone off line for a period of
time.
While this program is one of those programs that is never finished,
but is expected to keep evolving,
it is finished well enough to build the bookmark pages
you see before you at this time.
5.2 Using Bookmark Pages
The bookmark pages can be accessed from the navigation area on the left
side of my home page http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/.
While anyone is free to use these bookmark pages,
readers are reminded these pages have
primarily been created to meet the personal and
professional interests of Gilbert, his family,
and perhaps a few selected friends.
Some pages have been placed here because the author found them useful.
Other pages are listed because Gilbert stumbled across them
during his web travels,
found they looked interesting,
and were saved here so they could be found again,
if he ever gets around to it.
Given the length of time Gilbert has been on the web,
some really old junk can be found here.
Gilbert does not have any policy to let other people submit pages to him
for listing nor ways to drop worthless links that remain active.
5.3 Gray Links
Links in gray were not responding when they were last checked.
If they remain unresponsive long enough they will automatically be deleted
from these web pages.
See the bottom right of the very end of each page to find the last time
it was formatted, which usually matches the time the link was tested.
It's in small type, so you may need to squint to see it.
5.4 Bookmark Entry Format and Ratings
The first line is the basic description of the bookmark.
It is also hyperlinked to take readers to the page in question.
For all but the oldest of bookmark entries, this is followed by a
date in [square brackets], in gray text.
This should be the date the entry was first entered into the bookmark system.
Sometimes it reflects a later date if the original site moved to another
address, was lost for awhile before being found again,
or had other problems.
These dates typically show just the year and month, omitting the day and
follow
ISO-8601
date format conventions.
marks pages Gilbert finds particularly useful.
The more on a listing, the better Gilbert thinks it is.
This rating is entirely subjective to Gilbert's personal needs and judgment.
They may not even be consistent.
marks pages Gilbert has personally authored and do
not reflect a rating.
6. Other Pages
Other information that Gilbert has written, organized,
or otherwise compiled is also kept on this web page tree.
The top-level index to this information is found on Gilbert's
home page.
It is hoped that many of these pages may actually be interesting
or useful to general or special readers.
If any turn out to be awful, or have serioius problems, let Gilbert know
about why the site is bad.
7. Technical Notes
Rather than using traditional HTML publication programs that tend to
produce ugly, non-portable, web pagesx
most of the web pages herein are generated by Gilbert's hmac.pl
program.
The hmac.pl pages should be very clean,
download quickly,
and be eminently portable across all popular browsers, and then some.
Historically earlier DTD's, and popular conventions for HTML,
have been used in these pages to work with older browsers.
However as of Year 2000 the use of such browsers has really gone down
in the world.
Newer DTDs are slowely being phased in on this site.
A retrofit would be even nicer.
Time?
What's free time?
All these web pages should be in good enough HTML to comply with the
requirements of Net Mechanic at http://www.netmechanic.com/
to allow the Net Mechanic compliance logo to be used
(see bottom of pages).
Gilbert has no relationship with Net Mechanic,
except as a long-term user of this HTML validation service.
Some pages may have needed a custom dictionary to pass, but pass they have.
Once newer DTD's are implemented stricter validation services will be used.
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