The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman

How to Build a Web Site

For your church's website, you would probably first want to buy a domain name (like saintpauls.org, unfortunately this one is taken). There are plenty of sites where you can register one for a year for as low as $3.99 or cheaper. Then, you'll need someone to host your site. For a small site, like mine, I use a virtual host, which means that I don't have a computer server all to myself, I share it with other domains. Again, there are lots of places that will do this, with a website and email, for as low as $3.95/month. It doesn't have to be the same place, but they usually package them so that you get a free domain if you host your site with them for a year, or something like that.

Then you have to put the site together. I've been using Microsoft Word, which is what I'm most familiar with, but you should use something like FrontPage. Having a graphical interface, instead of trying to write the HTML code, is much easier.

The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

More Band Names

The band has been really coming together. We've been playing every Sunday at a bible class at Second Baptist called the Next Thirty Years, and we're still trying to think of a name for the band. Here are the latest ideas:

- Def Leper

- The Seven Deadly Sins

- The Hard, the Fast, the Beautiful, and the Gifted

- Ezekiel's Wheel

We think we're going to have a contest to name the band.

Late.

I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe

I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe

Tour 2005

I've been doing almost nothing but watch the Tour de France every evening. There are three hours of coverage on OLN every day, and five hours on some of the longer stages, so I've been picking up something for dinner and watching until I can't keep my eyes open any longer. I'm still two days behind because of my trip to Houma this week.

I've been a Tour fan for a lot longer than Lance Armstrong has been around, I first saw the tour in 1969 when we moved to Belgium. It was the Tour de France debut of Eddy Merckx, when he won the yellow jersey, the green jersey and the polka-dot jersey all in the same year, at age 24 (he would have won the white as well, but it didn't exist until 1999). Eddy Merckx was god in Belgium the years we lived there, and still is to this day. I still believe that he was a more dominant cyclist than Armstrong because he rode more than just the tour. Eddy Merckx won over 525 races in his cycling career out of 1500 races, he's one of only three riders to ever ride all five classic races in his career, and his 34 Tour de France stage victories dwarfs Armstrong's 16 (and counting), even though it looks like Lance will win seven compared to Eddy's five Tours.

My TiVo is great for this kind of thing, especially since I installed the additional hard drive space. My affection for the Tour de France reminds me of when I was in college in 1987 and I would set my VCR (Sony Super-Beta HiFi) to record the America's Cup in Freemantle. The race was fantastic, Dennis Conner came back against huge odds to beat the New Zealanders with their winged keel, but more than the race, the scenery was so grand, so sweeping, so epic, that it was as much a part of the experience as the sporting event. Rick and Claire later lived in Perth, which is very near Freemantle, and when I went to visit I remembered that beautiful mottled blue-green water and white beaches. The Tour completely circumnavigates France, and there are some amazing sights.

Lance is pretty much going to win for sure, which is great. I'm not sure I trust him to retire after this one, he would be the first ever to go out on a win. It's been an exciting one so far, and there are some real stars in the making if he does retire.

Late.

Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith

Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith

Quiz of the Day - Independence Day

Independence Day quiz

Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan

Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan

Minor tweaks

I had to change the email address at the bottom of every page because I've been getting too much spam. The old address (drew@hevle.com) has been out on the web for about two and a half years now, and somehow the Chinese spammers decided I want to buy whatever they're selling, and I've received about 5,500 emails in Chinese since I started this site. The problem is that email harvesting robots go to every site and look for anything that looks like an email address. I changed the link after about a year to drew AT hevle DOT com, and you would have to edit it to make it work, but it was too late. I had to burn that address, which is a shame, because that email address is one of the main reasons I bought the domain. You should use the new email address, web AT hevle DOT com (and make the appropriate changes).

Oh, I added some new content as well. I created a page for the Diary of a TiVo Hack because the TiVo Community forum no longer had the post available. I created a Site Index page. I marked myself on the 1981 Klein High School Senior Class picture. I scribbled some more stuff on most of the pages, and cleaned up some redundant stuff. And I finally updated the Work pages to the new format.

site history

Changed the email address at the bottom of every page, created a Diary of a TiVo Hack page, Site Index page, I marked myself on the 1981 Klein High School Senior Class picture, I scribbled some more stuff on most of the pages, and cleaned up some redundant stuff. I updated the Work pages to the new format.