The Leaning Tower of Damocles

Finally, some more work done…

Well, this took longer to get around to than I thought it was going to. It seems site updates are going to go in bursts, but they will continue to go forward (at least as long as I do).

The major things that will be noticeable are:

the Miscellaneous Links section is as up-to-date as it can be (from experience, I’d say that’ll last about two months…);

the Chronology has some further additions and is also now pretty much up-to-date — I’ll need to check a few things for consistency; I also thought I’d add the original publication dates for all the Crusher Joe novels (since I’d located that info), just to put things in further context (this is still hardly everything Takachiho published…);

the Novels section has now been split into two pages, like all the other DP version core essays — there is simply too much now to load everything onto one (and I should have done this at least a couple years ago);

and I’ve added the text and pictures for a presentation I’d put together for an event, back at the AnimeCentral 2004 convention, to mark the DP 25th Anniversary; I couldn’t go myself (partly because I’d just been in Chicago a couple weeks earlier), so Matthew Wade was kind enough to be my proxy and show this thing; I thought it might be of interest to put it on the site.

There are a couple of technical difficulties I have to deal with in the stuff I just posted, but otherwise I’ll be moving on to other things. I have work planned next on the Fanart section and the “Daughters of DP” essay; there are also many items I need to add in the Curiosities and Figures sections. I hope it will be much less than a month before some of that happens…

Site Updates

The most noticeable work I’ve finished is that I finally got the Chronology up-to-date. There are some details that need to be fixed or added, but at least I’ve finally gotten to the end of 2006.

There are also some additions in the Novels and Miscellaneous Links pages. I have a little bit of revision I want to make yet to the essay on the Novels page. Also, the whole thing is now so long that I’ve decided to break it into two pages, like the other core essays on the other versions. Those pages are going to get some going-over as well.

The rest of what I’ve done is on less visited pages, but the project of rescanning all the crummy images from the early years has begun.

Little updates

I am working my way through checking, correcting, and occasionally adding links in the Miscellaneous Links page. I’m pretty much finished with that at the Novels, Classic, Comics, Flash, and Seiyuu sections. I’ve almost finished updating the Novels page content; I have an addition or two to make to the essay and I need to add the new cover for the reprinting of Daifukkatsu. (Then I’ll need to add or amend the pages for the individual novels.)

There is new information on the release of the English translation, Great Adventure, by Dark Horse. The publication date has been moved up to 13 June; I’ll also update the blog entry here to reflect this.

OK, back to work…

Now we’re moving…

I’ve updated the Novels section to include the seventh DP novel and the upcoming English translation of the first story (or stories?) from Dark Horse. The links in all the “core” sections for Novels, Classic, Comix and Flash have been updated; a few old sites have perished, but a couple new ones have started up (or I just now found them…). The Seiyuu page now includes an entry for the fifth version of DP, which is the currently running radio series; I am preparing pages for Horie-san and Minagawa-san.

I also got some pix to appear that were coming up empty for a while now. Because of the peculiar way I have to go about uploading files to the site, it seems, in mailing attachments to myself, that one of the systems changes hyphens in filenames to underscores. Since the HTML code for the webpage is looking for the file with a hyphen in its name… Just one more thrilling, annoying detail to keep in mind.

I also see that, in addition to assembling material, putting pages together, doing translations, and making some artwork, I have a fair amount of rescanning of pix ahead of me. I’ve learned a lot about how to get things to look decent (albeit rather slowly) on the screen, so quite a bit of what I did during 1999-2002 will need improvement. (I also made many images the way I did because a much larger fraction of my visitors were using 56K modems than is the case any longer.)

I have some more updates I plan to put up tomorrow, so the Index page will reflect these recent additions at that time. It feels good to be able to work on “Tea Time” again!

Site updates to resume?

I don’t want to jinx this, but it looks like I’ll be able to get back to working on “Tea Time” again now. The changes will be incidental for a while, as there are some structural matters I’ve wanted to attend to, since some of the subdirectories have evolved into genuine monstrosities. (Who knew there was so much DP-related stationery?)

I just changed the link on the main page, so that anyone looking for update information gets taken to this blog now. (So this will probably be the first time most visitors will have even seen the thing…) I also fixed up an image that’s been bothering me for years: the one on the “home.html” page; I hope it looks a bit more esthetic now…

This will be the place to look from now on to find out what I’ve added, changed or fixed.