Change Log

Beginning 4/1/2006

APRIL----

Added 3 music sets, Katie Melua, Enya and Il Divo
Added the Tree House (still unlinked to the Map)
Added Reflectance of terrestrial Surface Materials to the "Light" folder
Added a Wood Selector to the Woodshop in the Workshops folder
Added High Fire Glaze Recipes and Studio Scenes to the Ceramics Studio
Added HTML Tidbits page to Web Graphics
Made the "World Map" a UseMap so one can click on the place names for a link
Added UseMap in the Library for linking to the book reviews
Added a few views of the Ceramics Studio
Other minor changes and upgrades

MAY------

Made a new and improved rendering of the Castle on the Castle Plans page
Added a brief history of astronomy
Added the Sitting Room and installed a Chat capability there
Added the Solarium, With an original graphic
Began populating the Optics and Laser References page
Added two new Sci Fi series to the Library; The DragonLance Saga and The Saga of Recluce
Fixed the Herbal Index in the Kitchen and added a bit more info
Added a link on the Home page to "Renaissance Man"; famous people of the Renaissance
Aded a few more views of the Tree House
Other minor changes and upgrades

JUNE------

Made major upgrades to the Religion and Philosophy page

JULY/AUGUST------

Added the Dungeon (Very happy with the "New Dungeon" where I broke out of the theme and did some nice stuff with the graphics and scripting.
Added "Periodicals" to the Library
Added an Orbital Dynamics tutorial under "Satellites"
Added a Site Map which shows the paths and connections among the pages
Improved the Wine Cellar
Added an image of the DaVinci's World moon that changes phases along with our Earthly moon (it's cool!)
Added Carrie Underwood's Album "Some Hearts" (less two of the songs I didn't like)
Won the Bronze Dragon Award!
Added the Stained Glass Workshop
Added a tutorial on field dressing and butchering deer in the Kitchen
Added venison recipes in the Kitchen

SEPT ------

Added the Attic
Added Stained Glass Tutorial
Added "How to Butcher Deer" in the Kitchen

OCT ------

Modified the Attic

NOV -----

Added the Vault
Modified the Entry Flash file

DEC/JAN 2007 ------

Added the Infirmary
Extensive additions to Graphics and Web Sets

APR 2007 ------

Added a star chart of the Northern Hemisphere in the Astronomy section
Added the Bell Tower, Tram to the Mines
Added Steam Room and Sauna to the Solarium
Added Textures and Backgrounds to the Web Graphics pages (more to come!)
Began introducing autism info to the Infirmary
Added new eramics to the DaVincis Ceramics area
Added two new original poems to the Poetry page (Personal Area)

JUNE 2007 ------

Added Autism to the Infirmary
Added How To Do a Hawaiian Imu (Pit BBQ) to the Kitchen
Added Bernini to Fine Art
Added a sketch named "Undefeated" to my sketch porfolio in the Inner Sanctum
Added an Optical Positioning Tutorial in the Light section
Added a Reflection and Refraction tutorial in the Light section
Added Bonnie Raitt "Road Tested" to the Music Page

DECEMBER 2007 ------

Added DaVincis mechanical inventions in the "DaVinci" section
Put some special Christmas things in the Crate up in the Attic
Added a few new Fine Art Links to the Fine Art page

JANUARY 2008 ------

Added some YouTube clips to the Astronomy section
Added the "Fantastic Music Machine" to the Music pages
Added Josh Groban's album "Awake" to the Music pages.
Added RIVEN Game Tips and Walkthrough to the Game Room

FEBRUARY 2008 --------------

Began a Chess Tutorial and Info page in the Game Room
Added reviews and info on "The Riftwar Saga", and other books by Raymond Feist, in the Science Fiction Fantasy Library
Began building the "Private Quarters" (not ready for access yet.)

March 2008 ----------

Ice and Snow added to the Textures file in Web Graphics.
Added a tutorial showing the Script that makes text scroll across the tray at the bottom of the page.
Added several navigation links to go back and forth between DaVinci's work and general topics.
Added a Thin Lens Formula Tutorial in the Basic Optics Tutorials under "Light".
Added links to Camera and Detector manufacturers in the Optics Links.
Added Jack's Peak to DaVincisWorld.
Updated the Site Map.
Began creating the Private Quarters.
Added a display of astronomical instruments in the Observatory.
Added the section on Classic Literature in the Library.
Added a more complete Anatomical Reference to the Anatomy folder.