I dropped the stack of Christmas cards off at the post office yesterday, so it's time to post the newest version of the annual family Christmas Newsletter on the site...
The BallotBox webcam was still prompting users for a username and password and it's not supposed to do that anymore, so I re-designed the logic to FTP an image to the web site every 60 seconds, and pull that image rather than pulling directly from the webcam. The webcam page doesn't touch the webcam directly anymore! This runs every minute, 24 hours a day, seven days a week (unless we lose power at the BallotBox or something is amiss with the server's FTP reception) so if you check after dark (Eastern Time), expect to see nothing but black! If the image is out-of-date, the FTP reception is off.
23 May 2011
Added a LAND thread to the Ballot Box House History page...
Added recent travel descriptions to the RECENT TRAVEL page, and added new collections to the ScrapBook...
09 May 2010
Added the BALLOT BOX item to the horizonal menu on each page (see above)...
11 April 2010
More information added to the Ballot Box House History page, and new photo sets (recent Italy trip, a visit by German friends, snow in Maine, etc.) were added to the ScrapBook...
21 March 2010
More information about the history of the Ballot Box was added to the House History page on the Ballot Box web site...
21 February 2010
On 23 October 2009, Lynn and I closed on a vacation/retirement home in Maine! We call it the Ballot Box, and it has its own web site now...
A new quilt on Lynn's Quilt Gallery, Megan and Dan's Double Wedding Ring hanging quilt...
15 August 2009
I found this cool free visitor counter that tallies by country (registered country of the IP address of the visiting machine, I suspect) that I added to the front page at the bottom. Too bad it couldn't be retro and show visitors since the 1994 introduction of the VOGT Family TreeHouse! Alas, the tallies start when I add the counter, which was this morning...
Buddy's friend Sarah Goldsmith sketched a colored pencil drawing called The Buddy Sighting as a memorial to him, which I've scanned and added to his web pages...
18 May 2009
It's been a week since Buddy passed away, and I've added an intro page to his part of the web site and added information about his demise to his web page...
12 April 2009
After 45 days in Germany on a business trip, I updated the ScrapBook and the Recent Travel page with my adventures!
Lynn and I spent Sunday and Monday in Maine, up in Searsport, for the wedding of the youngest son of some dear friends of ours. Photos of the wedding are in the ScrapBook...
19 August 2007
I just got back from another 2+ week business trip to Germany, where I took a lot of pictures and got some more time to continue the genealogy work. I've updated the What's New in Genealogy page...
30 July 2007
I finally finished updating my genealogy database and uploaded the results to the online database. This new information reflects my discoveries from my trip to Lich, Germany (see 25 Feb 2007 entry below)
08 July 2007
We're back from a week in Pennsylvania Dutch country, in Lancaster County, PA. Vacation pictures are in the ScrapBook...
31 March 2007
I finally got the pictures from my February trip to Germany and Belgium posted to the ScrapBook...
25 February 2007
I just got back from a 2 week business trip to Germany, where I took a lot of pictures and got some time to continue the genealogy work. I've updated the VOGT Genealogy page, and the What's New in Genealogy page...
New quilts added to Lynn's quilt gallery - Lynn entered three of her quilts in a quilt show in Lexington last weekend (14 & 15 October), and photos of the three have been added to the Quilt Gallery...
29 September 2006
Lynn's famous chocolate "killer" cake has been added to the recipe page...
23 Sept 2006
Photos from our vacation to back-woods Maine on the ScrapBook page, and a few of them have been added to the Gallery page...
14 July 2006
Photos of the 2nd annual Lobster Fest are up on the ScrapBook page...
26 June 2006
Photos of the MITRE Night at LeLacheur Park in Lowell are in the ScrapBook. Twenty (well, actually 19) MITRE folks or family members went to a Lowell Spinners game on the first dry night in a l-o-n-g time!
12 April 2006
Pictures from yesterday's Red Sox Home Opener in the ScrapBook (click here for a Home Opener Panorama)
26 March 2006
New genealogy discoveries for Lynn's Scottish family tree are documented on the What's New In My Genealogy Research page (but not yet included in the on-line database).
18 March 2006
Added a Family Recipes page, and access to it on the FAMILY menu item across the top.
15 March 2006
A new photo has been added to the Gallery, on SCENES page 6, 4th photo
12 March 2006
A new quilt (the Christmas Quilt - we finally took it down from the high wall in our cathedral-ceilinged living room so I could take a decent photo of it) has been added to Lynn's Quilt Gallery
Updated the Computers page to reflect Audrey's new acquisition and my recently-built new main machine
5 March 2006
Added this Recent Site Changes page
Removed the spinning NEW image and the box announcing the new searchable database from the front page (no longer new)
Fixed a couple of broken links in the Christmas 2005 scrapbook