Author Archives: A. D. "Dean" Peterson
New Version Coming Soon
I am completely stoked about the new version of The Althing that will debut soon. I finally got rolling using HTML-Kit and CSS, thanks in large part to “CSS: The Missing Manual” by David Sawyer McFarland. Very excellent book I … Continue reading
Still Sorting Things Out
I continue to develop a plan of action on how to build The Althing. Using FrontPage 2003 seems so arcahic, although I can make it do pretty much what I want to do using tables. I downloaded Kompozer and looked … Continue reading
A Little Excitement
Bonnie and Grant went down to Cocoa Beach last week to visit with her sister and her family. They really wanted me to come down for the weekend. I was thinking they had to check out on Saturday, and the … Continue reading
Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
In my day job, I am a librarian for the Florida Department of Corrections. Now I’m in a regional position as a professional resource for 23 libraries in 15 institutions. Before that, I spent 9 years as librarian at Union … Continue reading
Speeding
I love to speed. I speed even when I’m not in any particular hurry. I don’t speed any less now at age 50 than I did at age 16. Don’t get me wrong, I take a more tactical approach these … Continue reading
Memorial Day 2011
In my hometown of St. Augustine, Florida, there is a VFW post named for Sgt. Bryan Tutten. Here is what their site says: “Sgt. Bryan Joseph Tutten, 33, of St. Augustine, died Christmas Day 2007 in Tikrit, Iraq, after … Continue reading
Hovering on the Precipice
As you may have guessed even by now, based upon my previous postings, I am not given to spur of the moment decisions (most of the time). I am like a dog that circles a few times before settling down. … Continue reading
To Cascade, or Not To Cascade – Hamlet Redux
Apparently I am not only erring by using Frontpage 2003, but my coding (such as it is) is woefully crappy due to my reliance on tables at the expense of cascading style sheets. I have reviewed many sites extolling the virtues … Continue reading
Vacation 1966 – Wisconsin
Back in 2007, I started a Wikispaces page called “Collective Memory” in hopes that family would take advantage of it to create a sort of family memoir. It didn’t really work out very well, as most of the family were … Continue reading
Hammering Out the Bugs – Domain Changes
This has been a learning experience. My site is hosted by 1and1. When I determined to start a blog, I initially just chose my althing domain, in the mistaken belief that the blog would be added. Instead, it overwrote my … Continue reading