- Family Tree updates: I just posted a number of updates to the family tree PDFs in Kaiser Family Tree and Grieve Family Tree. I also have posted the 2007 Kaiser Reunion group photos to this Kaiser Reunion Photo Gallery. Enjoy!
- I added a few new scans of family info to those pages as well.
- Kaiser Reunion News: The reunion won't be held at the Mont Alto state park pavilion this year. (2007) It will be at the New Franklin Ruritan Club, 2500 New Franklin Road, Chambersburg, PA 17201. Hope to see you there.
- Kinda neat... I found some of my istockphoto photos in use a few places, including a children's book. Here's a gallery where I'll put any details of in-uses's that I find. cool beans!
- Kinda neat... when I ran the reports for Aunt Sue's Head Huggers site I found she hit 8,470 page hits per DAY on the peak weeks in December last year (2006). The average across all of 2006 was 4,570 pages/day. Very impressive, especially considering that it's not a huge site, with only about 80 different pages, 61 of which are patterns.
- We now have a new photo gallery and photo share space at
Wilk4.smugmug.com.
It's just started now, but I'll be adding more soon, and continually. If you are family, ask and I can give you access to protected areas or even some upload space.
- Unfortunately we didn't make the reunion this year after all, but I did get some photos taken by others who did. If you are family and would like to see them or share some of your own, let me know.
- Sad news: My great-uncle Owen Henry died this past weekend. He was one of my favorite uncles and the last of that generation of the Kaiser side of my family. Even at 96 this year, he was in great shape and looked about 70. It seemed like he'd go on forever. Ironically his daughter Bertie died just 2 months before him. (obituary copy, photo)
- Posted Kaiser Family History Photos - Mary Boggs' Bible
- For any who are interested, I just implemented a whole new design on the
BroccoSprouts website.
The new visual design was created by Visionmark, but I developed and implemented it. - Finding some interesting stuff in genealogy tracing of the Ness branch of our family. I'll be posting some of it here as I go along. (Rev. Dr. John Herbert Ness was my step-grandfather)
- Sad news: My cousin Bertie died this past week. (obituary copy)
- Kinda cool... a short submission of mine is include in this
A List Apart Reader's Reply article.
Valentine's Day Massacre: "From buzzword-happy marketers to snobby standards gurus, from AJAX to Zope, ALA's gentle readers tell us what they bloody well hate about the web."
(as usual in alphabetically-sorted life, being a Wilkinson puts me almost last ;-) - From last month: I completed a modest redesign on Hortico's website, including the addition of their whole line of perennials.
- I've been working a bit to see if I could trace our Kaiser genealogy back further than my GG-grandfather. I haven't managed to find his parents' names yet, but I have found some interesting stuff on Henry F. Kaiser and his family.
- Welcome to the world Lydia Schroder!
SuperLinks 1.0 Released
Kindler Chase of ncubed has just released an excellent tool for websites with ASP and links lists. It makes editing, categorizing and maintaining lists of links on a website quick and easy. Link data is stored in an XML database file and maintained via a powerful, yet easy-to-use admin interface. Simple to customize to the look of your own site. Let your customers edit their own links instead of calling you.
I really can't recommend it strongly enough. Try it. You'll see.
I've been using it here on my site for months now.
(This is something I helped beta-test that I think is probably of interest to many of the ASP coders and webmasters who visit my site.)
- A family friend and true WWII hero, Dr. Hiltgunt Margret Zassenhaus
has passed away. She led an amazing and inspiring life, and in person was
very kind, caring and humble.
- Baltimore Sun Obituary (11/21/2004) (google cache)
- Her book: "Walls: Resisting the Third Reich--One Woman's Story"
- Blog of Death Obituary
- Zion Church of Baltimore: Memorial Service (has a photo)
- Google obit search (since this may be covered many places)
Dr. T. Edgie Russell Jr, my stepfather, died this week (8/10).
He was just a few weeks shy of his 87th birthday. He died peacefully with
one of his children and one of his grandchildren at his side. Prayers for
our family always appreciated.
(obituary copy,
larger photo)
If you knew Pop and would like to leave a note for his family and friends, please leave it in our guestbook. The newspaper's obit guestbook has closed now, but here is what others said there. Thanks.
Here are a few life-facts that were sent in for the obituary, though the Sunpaper may not print the longer obit.- Dr. Thomas Edgie Russell Jr. MD
- Born August 27, 1917 in Baltimore, Md
- Died August 10, 2004 at the Bonnie Blink Nursing Home, Hunt Valley, Md
- Moved To Frederick, Md, as an infant
- Attended University Of Maryland at age 16, graduated medical school there in 1940
- Did internships and residency at City Hospitals, Bon Secour, and Hospital For Women Of Maryland
- Private OB-GYN practice for 51 years
- By actual count, delivered more Than 14,000 babies, including many second and third generations
- Was first OB-GYN to have an office in Carroll County
- Practiced in Essex and Pikesville, with main office at 2901 North Charles Street
- Founding fellow of The Douglas OB-GYN Society
- Founding fellow of The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG)
- Member Of Med Chi Faculty Of Md
- Baltimore City And Baltimore County Medical Societies
- Southern OB-GYN Society
- Rotary Club
- Married Dorothy Irene Baier in 1940
- Married Donna Wilkinson in 1976
- Avid golfer; won several tournaments at Baltimore Country Club, including on father-son
- Avid University Of MD Sports fan and Colts fan
Beyond the dry facts, Pop was a great father/stepfather and a doctor well-loved by his patients and well-respected by his medical peers. He would do a lot for them (and for friends and family). It used to be that whenever we'd go out anywhere with him, we'd meet at least one of his patients who would be very glad to see him. He believed strongly that many patient visits could be resolved better by taking the time to really listen to people than by rushing to prescribe something. That extra time and attention meant a lot to all those on the receiving end, patients, family, friends or colleagues.
My sister and I came into his life when he was a bit older and probably thought he was past raising kids, but he certainly gave us all the love, care, guidance and parenting as if he'd always been our father. (We've been very lucky in life, to have two loving fathers.) Thank you Pop. We love you and we'll miss you.
- My brother-in-law Mike Schroder's work baby just launched yesterday. Check out NASA's Aura satellite for earth observations. Congrats Mike!
Anyone want to buy a nice cabin?Our family is selling ours... very sadly.
(some photos) It's a beautiful stone cabin built by our family, on the top of a mountain in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, surrounded by forest, few people around, 1/2 mile from a PA Fish and Game lake. Very peaceful. We've had a lot of great times there hiking, fishing, boating, hunting, exploring the woods and just relaxing (enjoying the view on the back deck or inside by the huge stone fireplace). Even our honeymoon was there... Uh, never mind - it's sold now... darn- More bad family news: Ray Schroder, my sister's father-in-law, and a really great guy, was killed in a terrible traffic accident. Prayers for his close family always appreciated.
- Unfortunately my Great-Uncle Wallace Kaiser just died, at age 92. He was the last of that generation of my family. A copy of his obituary is under the Kaiser Family Tree.
- The same week, my step-brother's wife, Laurie Smullin Russell's long battle with ALS ended. She was a model of how to accept such a disease while at the same time fighting it with all your resources. She was really blessed by the friends who supported her through the past few years. ( article )
- Kinda cool... my humor section got a mention here in IFC (Internet for Christians), at their website and weekly email digest which they say "reaches about 100,000 email and online readers."
- May 2004: Those of you in Marie Green's area of central Virginia may have seen from your newspapers that another rider, Trish Ralls, was badly injured in a trail-riding accident on 4/21/04. My cousin Chrisy is talking with them to see how the community can help out. We're posting some info at www.wilk4.com/trish/ as it becomes available. (removed 4/2005)
- My cousin Jack Kelso died last month. For family who didn't get to see them, I have copies of the obits under the Kaiser Family Tree.
- New Site! Just completed the first public cut of a new client site,
LarryJonesIllustration.Com.
Since (as you probably guessed from the name) he's an illustrator, I finally got to do a site with nice, professional artwork. Fun stuff!
- Just heard that we're going to have a Langford-Wilkinson family reunion this July. If you're one of my relatives from that side of the family and haven't heard details yet, email me or Sue Thompson.
- FWIW, I've been working on compiling family tree info on the recent/current generations of the Langford-Wilkinson side of the family. If you'd like to contribute info or to see what I have so far, let me know. Once it's more complete I'll post what I can on the website.
- Sadly, in January, my Great-Aunt Cecelia Langford died. Though she lived in an institution much of her life, she was a good person who certainly lived a long life. (she was 96, and interestingly, had perfect hearing and had never needed glasses!) One nice thing coming out of this time was that we've reconnected with much of the Langford side of our family, related through my paternal grandmother and her siblings.
- Added some info about using Visio for Family Trees.
- Got a nice new HP scanjet 5530 scanner with an automated photo feeder for Christmas! Hopefully my new toy will help me get some more recent photos online soon.
- Man, this must be a boring year... can't think of anything else to add ;-(
- We did have one small, furry addition to our family this November... a wonderful kitten named Gracie...
- Very Cool News: My little sister has added to our family. Welcome to the world Caleb!
- Added some Bookmarklets for searching AddALL (for books).
- Just got a whole packet of Grieve family tree info from Annajean! Not in my files yet except for a new photo of my great-great grandparents (Mary McIntyre Grieve and George Grieve).
- New Site! Just completed the first public cut of a new client site, BrassicaTea.Com.
- Very Cool News: My little sister seems to have won a serious award at work (NASA, HST program). I don't have all details yet, but I think it's the Space Flight Awareness Honoree Award. Yeah sis!!!
- Kinda cool redux... my Breaking the Sound Barrier page was mentioned again on TechTV on 9/6?/02 (or 9/7?). I don't have details or a link yet, but a friend said they showed my photo from the site, making him say "I know that guy" ;-) Might have been a re-run of the April show.
- Macromedia posted new bio pages for all the members of their Team Macromedia, a set of volunteers. Check out mine if you're really bored. ;-)
- New Site! I just posted the first public version of a new client site at CassandraBailey.com.
- Kinda cool... my Breaking the Sound Barrier page was mentioned on TechTV: The ScreenSavers: Site of the Nite recently... yep, traffic is definitely spiking on that page.
- This page was also mentioned on a Hubble space telescope site. My sister's work and mine collide ;-)
- New Site! a brand new site for Aunt Sue's Head Huggers project...
- For any who are interested, I just implemented a whole new design on the BroccoSprouts website.
- I started adding some Kaiser Family Tree info to let our family access some of the tree drawings I've been compiling the past few years. This includes posting some Kaiser Family History Photos and Grieve Family History Photos. I've been bitten by the genealogy bug... if I only had time to submit... Enjoy.
- Added Support Donations. Don't feel obligated, but anything dropped in the virtual tip jar is appreciated. I do put a lot of time into the various parts of this site, probably more than I can spare sometimes...
- New Site! Just finished the first cut on a website here for a friend of my cousin Chrisy... Friends of Marie and Ralph Green. Marie was in a terrible accident recently and the site should help friends and family keep up with her progress and show support and encouragement. Please stop in... (7/01)
- The incredibly useful word 'doh' popularized by Homer Simpson is now officially in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)! Yes, really.
- Allaire just published an article I wrote for them... see Writing or Converting Help Sets for HomeSite Use, "One of the more useful features of the HomeSite editor is that it has a system for built-in help and documentation that is easy to customize and extend. Here are some suggestions for how to write help doc sets or convert existing ones for best use under HomeSite." Posted in the HomeSite Developers Center. I'm officially a paid, published author now. Woohoo! ;-) (5/01)
- Doh! The video from the Breaking the Sound Barrier page was downloaded 60,716 times in march, for a transfer total of 25GB! That's way beyond my 5GB webhosting account transfer limit so, unfortunately, I have to remove the video file. Popularity is nice when you can afford it... Sorry. ~jeff (4/01)
- Another page I posted just casually to share with friends and family is getting attention and traffic. Breaking the Sound Barrier is getting me 2-4 emails a day and lots of hits. It has been mentioned in Net Surfer's Digest, on Florida's WDBO 580 AM radio station 3/31/01, and on many other websites and forums. Cool beans! (4/01)
- Jeffrey Zeldman liked a note I'd emailed him in response to one of his articles enough that he posted it on his site... (1/01)
- Finally finished my Masters in Computer Science! Woohoo! Graduation ceremony in May.
- Added a SideBar Menu Tutorial and two javascript examples, JavaScript Switchable Table Transpose View and a Multiple Table Version.
- Added a neat poem that's going around by email, Asking God.
- Posted the photo and Mpeg video of an Breaking the Sound Barrier. (3/00)
- I just heard... The Daily Mirror (a british newspaper) just printed another humor bit from my site in Carol Vorderman's Favourite Internet Column: www.Our.Favourite. (over the next few months she posted a number of bits from my site. Cool!)
- We've moved the website to www.wilk4.com. Please update any bookmarks or links you may have to use the new address.
- Added a page with a few photos of my own roses.
- Added a section called Asp4Hs of ASP development extensions and resources for use with the Homesite HTML editor.
- Added a section of resources for web developers. These are test pages I've made for myself that may be useful to others.
- I don't generally like to clutter up my websites with buttons or banners for the latest causes, but I have added a button link to the Web Standards Project (WSP). This new organization seeks to hold browser makers accountable to the W3C standards. This could really help reduce the huge hassles that web developers have with cross-browser incompatibilities. Please join and support this effort.
- Hortico's site and my development work on it is being featured as a Site Spotlight by Allaire, maker of the Homesite HTML Editor. See it at their Homesite Developer Center.
- Added a neat poem When I say "I am a Christian".
This poem is a better summary of what a christian's attitude is (or should be) than how many people perceive us these days.
- Give me a break, will ya ? I just started putting this up ;-)