What's New

Moved to Austin. Yeah! I love this place.

Moved TomPio to new hoster. On April 27 I took down TomPio.com at Olm.net and brought it up on Godaddy.com. I should make some comments later about pluses and minuses of the move. Godaddy is cheaper.
I want to redo the photos area and the overall layout of this site. It's looking very dated.

Graduation photos Commencement | Party | Austin Sights. Also photos from April trip to Austin.

Hawthorn Hotel Layout  Added & Deleted.

Graduation Guestbook   Congratulate Karen by signing the graduation guest book.

Wachowski Family 1999 Reunion photos added.
Began UT Graduation photo collection.

KAP Graduation Planning Added information about Karen's graduation activities.

LP Texas convention Added few photos of Edmund Contoski and myself.

Lone Star Park Added few photos from Lone Star Park horse races.

Mothra Added photo of one very large moth-like insect harassing nectar-laden flowers.

Home Page Redid page layout with new jpg. I used the "SunBurst" Illumination Effect of Paint Shop Pro v7.

Favorite ... Added link to a good chile pepper web site. Also discovered that the mystery pepper from last year's garden was Tabasco. Sci-Tech -- added topic about 3-body problems.

Photos Added Early Years photos; augmented MSU.

XML Added a new section on XML to show one approach to using XML with email. Also made cosmetic changes -- '42' changed to 'imho' and some topics moved around or rewritten. Unresponsive Plano Mayors Office See the imho page.

The Next 1,000 Years Brief comment about CACM article added to Sci-Tech.

Dallas Blooms Photos Shots from the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society gardens.

Stonehenge of Plano Inserted a shot of our very own Stonehenge.

Heard Sanctuary Photos Inserted images from some shoots at the Heard Natural Science and Wildlife Sanctuary. The images serve as a starting point for technique development for me.

Site Management I changed all the off-site links so that that clicking such links will open a new window (win2) or reuse it if it is already open.

Photography Added a photography page to keep track of interesting items about my photography hobby.

Edison I finally finished reading Edison: A Life of Invention so I updated Edison on the Favorite ... page.

Burma Shave I added some foolishness to the 42 page and made a few other cosmetic changes.

Holiday Pictures Butterfly House pictures and St. Louis visit pictures.

Ice Storm We are experiencing an rain/freezing rain which has coated the trees with ice. Some of the branches broke early this morning, and our power was up and down about six times between 3AM and 6AM. More nastiness on the way later today. I took some shots of our ice storm damage.

Christmas Merry Christmas everyone. Here are a few shots of Karen unwrapping her digital camera.

Nanotechnology For the last several months I have been studying nanotechnology. I'll be adding pertinent material to an entire new section on nanotech.

The Election The never-ending election is ended. Yea! I hope Bush pays attention to national defense, especially ballistic missile defense, terrorist threats and cyber-warfare.

Gallery I added a group of pages for Nancy's art & craft gallery. Believe it or not but I took over 250MB of digital pictures of Nancy's work with my Nikon CoolPix 990 experimenting with different shooting techniques. The problem is that I don't have any professional lighting equipment. Wolf Camera sells a StarLite Kit for $279 + tax and that is a bit much to pay for my infrequent needs.

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