Smallish update with 5 new photos of the Gorn in Landers, CA visiting the Integratron. It was a cool experience to watch the Perseid Meteor Shower. Next year, hopefully the moon conditions will be better and we will try again.
Travel is way down this year, but hopefully will get out of town this fall to take new photos and write some new trip diaries.
Added 42 photos from my recent trip to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia to the site. Also updated the Gorn Index, History, North America Photos pages to support the links to the new Gallery.
Maybe not massive in the number of Gorn photos added, but it is the first structure change since v 18.1 in March 2001! Since I needed to find a location for the South America photos, I split Asia and Oceania so that now there are 6 photo galleries on the Gorn page instead of 4.
The sections are now: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Celebrity. I guess when I make it to Africa, things will get a bit creative. This was an easy fix, so maybe when I go on Safari, I will just go to smaller thumbnails, or god forbid, a redesign of the Gorn pages!
Updates include the addition of nav links to the new pages at the top of each page, the movement of Asia and Oceania to each own pages, 34 new photos of Argentina in the South America section, the change of the Gorn Page 2009 to Gorn Page 2010, and finally an update of the places the Gorn has been. Long ago, I started a Google Map for the Gorn, but got bogged down. Originally, I was going to link to a photo in each pin location, but I think for the sake of sanity, I will just add the pins.
I also discovered that I used a random copyright file for the Gorn pages which is why some of the pages had 2008 copyrights instead of 2009. They have been updated to 2010 in advance of the sitewide change next week.
Added a photo of Huell Howser to the Gorn page! Pretty exciting that I got a photo of him with the Gorn. Also cleaned up the URL link on the Gorn index page to the Celebrity page.
Added 63 new Gorn photos of the Southeast USA from my recent trip. Updated North America page as well as the index page to reflect the addition.
On the Trip Diaries page, I updated my state count list as well as my forthcoming trip list. Sure need to finish that redesign so all the Diaries on the mobile site can be converted to web sites!! I also added links to the full Flickr gallery for my trip.
I was perusing some old photos and discovered that I needed to update some of the text on the links page, actual links on the links page, as well as modify the intro text on the main Gorn index page. Here is the old text to live on in perpetuity:
No one is quite sure how the legend of the Gorn was born. I think it was one day a few years ago, my friends wanted me
to go on a camping trip with them to Death Valley and Zion National
Park. Unfortunately I was unable to go. I said to my friends, "Why
don't you just take something of mine and take a picture of it in front
of some signs or whatever so I am there in spirit." My friends Joe,
Susie, Wendy and Steven picked the Gorn and a legend was born. All these years later, we have a whole photo album of the Gorn travels, and T-Shirts to commemorate the "Merciful and Quick Gorn World Tour". There are many photos of the Gorn, and we have chosen a select few to display here. Enjoy!
As you can tell, it has been way more than "a few years ago" since we are over 15 years from the first Gorn Adventure in Death Valley and although I still have that first Gorn photo album, the majority of the photos are now of the digital variety! I also fixed a typo from the beginning - its Stephen not Steven! You can read the revised text on the main index page.
I tried to avoid v24 and save it for a new home page redesign, but there were some Gorn photos to publish first, so oh well. I added 11 photos of the Gorn in Mammoth. I am still doing some tweaks here and there to a new home page (you can test if you add index2.html to the home page url). It will feature a live status update feed from twitter that also feeds Facebook. I think the only thing holding it back is some minor graphic work on the header as well as the eternal desire that the Club House and Trip Diaries home pages would reflect the new 1024 width and design elements. The current plan is to finish those two pages before the anniversary date in June!
Finally added the Gorn at Kennedy Space Center photos from November. The rest of the photos will follow on Flickr shortly...
Finally added 27 photos of the Gorn in Alberta. It's always slow going doing it the old fashioned way vs. the slick Flickr uploader I use for my travel photos. The good thing, there is always a few Gorn photos in my travel photos so you can get those pretty quick. However, there are always Gorn photos on the Gorn site that are not in the travel photos.
Changed out
two year old photo of me in Australia with photo of me sitting on the
shores of Loch Ness. Added new calendar to Cafe Press store. Added 57
new Gorn photos from Europe.
