jalarie: What's Gnu Here?

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Nothing Gnu. Same ol', same ol'. Just lion around.

Actually, there's plenty new here. Each day I learn something new and try to use it to improve my web site in one way or another, and add to it whatever I've learned. Please, check back from time to time, and feel free to offer any suggestions you might have to make this site better. You may leave a message in my e-mail / guestbook, or send me a message by choosing the "E-mail / Guestbook" item from the menu, or by selecting my name at the bottom of any page. Thank you.

Here are a few of the more significant recent changes:

April 12, 2008: The Fraction Arithmetic section of my Number Base page now accepts leading integers, and I've added a new page for you to practice Adding Fractions.
March 28, 2008: You may make up your own story at my Mad Lib page.
March 18, 2008: Do your Basic Math Practice, figure out about Mixed Nuts, learn of Shared Work, or see that Age is Relative on the pages which I added today.
February 23, 2008: I've added Relative Humidity to the Wind Chill / Heat Index page and Number Words to the Account Number Verify page.
October 26, 2007: I have reorganized some parts of my site and renamed some of the pages to fit this new organization. If you have trouble with a saved link, please go back through my main menu to find the moved page or check the Changed Names page.
September 25, 2007: Do you like to play games? Try your luck at Bingo just for fun.
September 18, 2007: My Computer Storage page now allows you you compute petabytes and exabytes.
September 15, 2007: Please help me finish my FUNetic Alphabet page.
September 11, 2007: If you have scripting enabled, you may now use access keys to move around my web site, and my search page now offers a link to Wictionary.
September 4, 2007: I redid my menus and a few other pages to use CSS for indenting instead of embeded spaces.
July 30, 2007: I've added a Sudoku page to help you solve the puzzles.
March 13, 2007: My Ratings Exceptions page now has Validome and my Circle page now has hyperbolic functions.
March 7, 2007: Thanks to David Pleacher and his Math Problem of the Month, I added "rhombus" and "kite" to my Perimeter, Area, and Volume page.
February 15, 2007: I added "stone" and "slug" to the Weight page.
February 2, 2007: The Fujita scale has been updated to the Enhanced Fujita scale, and I've added that information to my Wind Speed page.
January 11, 2007: I've added a Language Codes page for your convenience.
October 31, 2006: Switch reverse-telephone lookup on my Search page from InfoSpace to AnyWho for better service.
October 3, 2006: My Perimeter, Area, and Volume page can now work with ellipsoids.
September 14, 2006: Long tables can keep the header locked in place if you follow the instructions on my Scrolling Tables page.
August 8, 2006: You can include a printable version within the same web page.
August 8, 2006: Zebra Tables have rows which are alternately colored to make them easier for your eyes to follow.
August 2, 2006: Most of my table properties are now controlled through CSS and some are even zebra-coded.
July 10, 2006: Do you remember geometry class? The equations and help with the computations are available on my Perimeter, Area, and Volume page.
June 28, 2006: My Delta/Wye Resistors and Capacitors page can now do the computations for capacitors as well as resistors.
June 27, 2006: I pulled the Country Codes information into a separate page to speed up loading of the U.S.A. State Codes page.
April 24, 2006: Song lyrics and code samples are now shown in drop-shadow boxes and pictures within shadow-box frames.
April 13, 2006: The change in computing Daylight Savings Time beginning next year is now properly handled by my calendar display page.
March 23, 2006: My Ratings Exceptions page now has a WAVE checking link.
March 22, 2006: I can solve fifth-power equations for you on my linear equations page.
February 21, 2006: What would that decimal value look like as a fraction? Find out at the Decimal to Fraction section of my Number Base page.
February 14, 2006: The new "Align" button on my BookMarklet Editor page will align text based on whatever character you wish, to the column of your choice, using your favorite pad character.
January 5, 2006: If your home is in Mexico, you'll be happy to see Mexican State codes available on my Sample Order Form page.
December 2, 2005: My Number Base page can now add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions.
November 15, 2005: Your checkbook bank routing number can now be verified on my Account Number Verify page.
October 25, 2005: I converted the entire site from "charset=ISO-8859-1" to "utf-8" format. If you find any problems, please contact me
October 19, 2005: Find the straight-line and arc distances between any two points of a sphere at the Rectangular/Polar Coordinates section of my Circle page.
October 5, 2005: The U.S.A. State Codes page now has the 2-character, 3-character, 3-digit, and 4-digit codes for countries of the world.
September 14, 2005: If your browser supports the needed CSS, you can now set foreground color on my Browser Colors page.
September 13, 2005: I saw someone else's "round" corners that were actually triangles and added choices to my Round Corners Generator page to do that with or without points inward or outward, rounded-inward corners, ogee in both directions, triple arcs, and steps, too.
August 8, 2005: A new version of the telephone number formatting JavaScript subroutine gives me a 25% shorter file and the ability to recognize Centrex numbers on my Sample Order Form page.
July 28, 2005: The "Suffix" and "Duplicate" buttons on my BookMarklet Editor page can now optionally position the appended information in a neat column.
June 13, 2005: Boxes with rounded corners seem to be the rage, so I've created a Round Corners Generator wizard page to help you do it without using colored images.
May 2, 2005: Revalidating a subset of my pages on the Ratings Exceptions page is much easier now because the "Limit recheck to" box can have a comma-separated list.
April 28, 2005: I've seen quite a few posts about "rounded corners" lately, so I decided to try it with my Periodic Table of the Elements page.
March 23, 2005: There is now a dual-dropdown list on my Sample Order Form page for a simulated contest.
February 17, 2005: I've added the "onfocus" event in addition to the "onmouseover" event to the items on my Browser Colors and Periodic Table of the Elements pages to make them easier to use by people without mice.
December 22, 2004: Three-dimintional polar coordinates can now be computed in the Rectangular/Polar Coordinates section of my Circle page.
December 16, 2004: Adding a prefix or suffix has been an option for quite some time; now you can chop off characters on my BookMarklet Editor page under the "trim" function.
September 23, 2004: You may learn a few tricks at the Lessons from the Hurricane page.
August 27, 2004: Check out the list of over 70 U.S.A. State Codes recognized by our postal service.
August 24, 2004: Switch reverse-telephone lookup on my Search page from AT&T to InfoSpace for better service.
May 13, 2004: Google can now be "googled" from my Search page.
April 23, 2004: My Search page can now find Yahoo Instant-Message Profiles.
March 2, 2004: I've added character conversions on my Number Base page.
February 16, 2004: If your computer clock is properly set, you can use my Time page to convert between local time and UTC / GMT.
February 11, 2004: Fibonacci numbers are now available on my BookMarklets page.
February 5, 2004: My Delta/Wye Resistors page will help you convert resistor circuit layouts.
December 12, 2003: What cities are within a particular ZIP code? Find out on my Search page.
December 4, 2003: Converting between rectangular and polar coordinates is now a breeze on my Circle page.
September 26, 2003: This site is now converted to XHTML 1.0, verified at W3C for XHTML and CSS, and checked by Bobby and Cynthia. Only a few pages did not pass all checks.
July 18, 2003 Small right-arrow graphics have been added to my Graphics Files page.
July 7, 2003 Mortgage maximum, interest rate, and term can now be found from links on my Mortgage Calculator page.
June 19, 2003 You may be able to track down missing pages using the "WayBack" button on my Search page or from the "WayBack Machine" link on my 404 page.
May 29, 2003 Validate your HTML and CSS by using the buttons on my Search page.
May 2, 2003: A ROT13 secret decoder ring is now available on my BookMarklet Editor page.
April 18, 2003: The Sample Order Form now displays the total cost in words so that you may write a check more easily.
March 14, 2003: Convert decimal degrees to and from degrees, minutes, and seconds on my Circle page.
March 7, 2003: Are you ready for the Easy Test?
February 27, 2003: Display a loading bar with this JavaScript code.
February 17, 2003: I've now added <acronym> tags throughout my site to help non-geeks understand me. <grin>
January 31, 2003: Version 200301 of my htmlmap program is now available.
January 6, 2003: Show some interest in the Stock Market by checking items in your portfolio on my Search page.
December 20, 2002: Now you can convert your name to yet another number using the form on my Soundex page.
December 13, 2002: File extensions are no longer a mystery because they can be located using my Search page.
November 22, 2002: You can now find factorials, combinations, and permutations using choices on my Bookmarklets page.
October 29, 2002: My calendar display page now tells the U.S.A. Daylight Savings Time beginning and ending dates when you display an entire year.
October 25, 2002: Look up properties of your favorite element on my Periodic Table of the Elements page.
July 10, 2002: Find out who owns that telephone number with a reverse lookup.
May 3, 2002: We can now exchange links using the form on my Favorite Links page, and you can use the "Print Frame" link at the bottom of each page to print the contents of an individual frame.
April 23, 2002: There is now a "Rate this page" link at the bottom of each page to allow you to express your ideas about it, along with a "Return to frames" link to get back into frames if you've left them.
March 21, 2002: I've added ISO-8601 week number to my Calendar page, the Number Base page can now convert to or from user-defined bases, and Elijah now knows the time to the nearest millisecond.
February 7, 2002: The BookMarklet Editor page can now convert text to all upper-case, lower-case, or to mixed-case.
January 14, 2002: My BookMarklets page can now display the local time and GMT, my Order Form page allows popup display of the year, and popup selection for a single day in a month or checkbox selection of multiple days, and all other pages requiring date entry allow selection from a popup.
November 14, 2001: I wrote a popup calendar to pick dates for my Order Form page.
October 12, 2001: I've added the Favorite Quotes section.
September 26, 2001: The Days Between Dates page can now jump by a number of days or by an amount of time.
August 30, 2001: Change "Last Updated" code to also work for WebTV.
August 27, 2001: Thanks to my son, my Wind Speed page now includes the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
July 31, 2001: Hurricane, tornado, or just a light breeze? Check the Beaufort and Fujita Scales to know for sure.
July 24, 2001: Check out the Wind Chill and Temperature Humidity Index charts to see how cold or hot you'll actually feel.
July 19, 2001: Convert alphabetic telephone numbers to the corresponding number keys.
July 13, 2001: How can you be sure that your pages are not pulled from cache?
July 10, 2001: My full-screen menu page now offers three different floating menus.
June 27, 2001: All elements and attributes are now in lower-case to make the site load more quickly, and all tags are properly closed in preparation for moving to XHTML.
May 10, 2001: Now you can talk to Elijah the prophet.
May 8, 2001: Solve your linear equations easily.
May 3, 2001: See a graph of my visitor counts by month.
March 20, 2001: What will be your Wife's name?
February 28, 2001: What's better than nice juicy Rumors?
February 15, 2001: You may use my Search page to find information on other search engines.
February 6, 2001: My BookMarklet Editor page can now sort your data, delete duplicate lines, and do Base-64 encoding and decoding.
November 7, 2000: Birthstones for each month and special-interest notes for the dates are available after you pick a date on my Calendar page.
October 25, 2000: Your favorite links can now appear on my Cookies page for you to use from there.
October 17, 2000: The Conversions > Distance page now includes frequency (Hz) in free space and a metric/S.A.E. interleave table.
September 20, 2000: I added a "web bug" scanner to the BookMarklets page.
July 13, 2000: My Days Between Dates page can now calculate time spans, too.
June 29, 2000: Can you make change for a dollar?
June 27, 2000: How quickly can you solve the 16 Puzzle?
May 11, 2000: The BookMarklet Editor page can help you create JavaScript snippets.
May 2, 2000: Count days between dates including all days, work days only, or just the Sabbaths.
April 20, 2000: You may use my Mortgage Calculator to figure any "interest on unpaid balance" type of loan.
April 7, 2000: Random "specials" read from an external file now appear on my Sample Order Form page.
March 21, 2000: Check the calendar for any month in 1583 through 3999.
February 10, 2000: A JavaScript cookie now allows me to welcome you back to my site and I tell you how to delete them.
February 8, 2000: I added Verbal Descriptions of Images to each of the pictures to better serve those people with browsers that do not display graphics.
February 2, 2000: My Credits page can now scroll just like in the movies if you have JavaScript.
January 12, 2000: You may share some of my BookMarklets if you wish, or check the maps to local schools on my Universities of Michigan page.
January 5, 2000: I now have an example of how to E-Mail the Source code of a page.
November 19, 1999: You can now display User Information and easily view the source code for each page.
November 1, 1999: A floating menu is now available from my full-screen menu page.
October 19, 1999: Have some fun at my Puzzles page.
October 18, 1999: Remove "onResize" because Netscape 4.05 does not like it.
October 1, 1999: Autowrap all form comment areas.
September 20, 1999: Use my Search page to find what you need.
August 25, 1999: Add "onResize" to all <body> tags.
June 25, 1999: Preload images for faster display.
June 3, 1999: Perl.
May 27, 1999: Links to creations that I've done for others.
May 24, 1999: Please sign my Guestbook.
May 17, 1999: addition of Conversions pages.