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This page updated 2007.07.17
Fully qualified link to this page. http://www.botecomm.com/bote
Index of sites inside.
History of updates
Bote's railfan pages — railroad hobbyist stuff
Bote's radio pages — amateur and 2-way radio stuff
Bote's road geek pages — road signs and highway stuff
Bote's eBay and Freecycle stuff — items that I am selling on eBay or just giving away in south Florida via the Freecycle system
War is hell — that's a fact!
This is the latest instance of my personal web site that has been on the Net since before Al Gore invented it. Just your basic web site. It sets no cookies, it loads no scripts, it pops up no ads, and it doesn't take as long as your coffee break to load. Enjoy!
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Stop wasting your time and computer resources with Internet Explorer. Get Firefox and enjoy browsing the Web again. [note 1]
2006.12.19 — OK, enough is enough. I decided to remove my original web site as it simply drove up the hit stats for that restaurant whose initials are W.H. and I am not getting paid to advertise their stuff. Hopefully Yuda will redesign my site so that it is aesthetically pleasing to the CSS religionists.
2006.08.08 — Miscellaneous updates have been made to the pages herein. The overall site needs overhaul. I need to go to the hardware store and a get a round tuit.
2005.05.05 — I revamped this page to make it easier for those using small devices, like the Blackberry or Treo. I am not up on Wireless Application Protocol, but if users of such devices have worthwhile suggestions, lemme have 'em at bote.prodigy@gmail.com and I will see what I can do. There is still much work to be done here, I know.
2004.09.17 — The road geek pages have been sadly neglected for quite some time, although I recently added a new link at the request of a visitor. In fact, this whole site has been sadly neglected, but despite my best efforts has garnered something of a small following. We thank you for your support.
I also added the link up there to the Firefox site so that we can move more people off that ancient, antiquated, dilapidated old MicroSoft Internet Explorer piece of crap that is responsible for so many of our collective woes on the Internet these days. Do it today, don't delay! If you don't know how to install it, get a friend who does and be happy while browsing the Web for a change. No excuses!
2004.03.20 — V8000 receiver performance testing reveals what I already suspected: this thing is hotter than a firecracker!
2004.02.11 — Added the Chesapeake Network radio page with history, description, and maps. Happy birthday Frank!
2004.02.02 — Radio pages updated: I-95 frequency guide updated, V8000 expanded and linked from index page, more of those pesky layout tables eradicated. Rail page completed: south Florida train chasing guide. Road Signs index page: removed that silly script that was claiming the page was updated at exactly the time when you loaded it into your browser; I think I can type in the time it was updated just fine. Generally cleaned up html code and employed more css where I found it necessary, but there is much more to do. It is embarassing to see the crap that I wrote not so long ago!
2004.01.01 — Happy New Year! ¡Feliz Nuevo Año! Gutes Neues Jahre! I added the beginnings of my south Florida railfan's guide, focused almost entirely on CSX since F.E.C. is covered extensively on the fecrs.com web site.
2003.06.22 - The One True Way to create web pages is to write them, then make them pretty, I discovered. I will be applying that approach to this site over time. Some people can get so carried away with stuff. Look for my CSS Parody pages coming soon!
2003.06.04 - Just when I thought I was beginning to understand this whole ball of wax called CSS, I now read the New York Public Library site guidelines for coding web pages using XHTML, the NEXT Next Greatest Thing that we can't live without. Now I can't decide whether to go bowling or commit suicide. "Standards must be great, there are so many of them!" - Dr. Mills
2003.05.26 - I'm trying out using CSS layout techniques to replace tables for my photo essay on my Tennessee Central rare trackage run (DEAD). Even if your browser doesn't support .css at all, you can still view the page; it won't look very good, but at least you can still use it. If you can see it, you'll probably think it's really cool. Change the width of your browser window to see how the thumbnails float around to allow you still to see them. This approach also results in a cleaner look overall. This design technique will encompass the rest of my sites over time. By the way, I am not a CSS evangelist trying to make coffee, cure the common cold, and do everything else using CSS, I'm just trying to apply it where it makes sense to make my life easier and my web pages prettier to look at.
2003.04.10 - The structure of this site was overhauled to provide for easier administration and navigation among the sections. The only major change was moving Bote's Roadgeek Pages down to their own subdirectory, since that was originally the only focus of this site. Now everything can be accessed from this index page. The home page links on each section refer to the home of that section, not this index.html page. Crude, but effective.
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