Site Updates
October 16, 2004, 2:47 AM – Okay, I need some feedback from the crowd on this design. Before you contact me, please be reminded that this is a test page, and that some features were left off or are incomplete. Still, this should give you the gist of it. Let me know what you think...
October 13, 2004, 10:48 PM – Massive update to the already-large Washington DC Metro (WMATA) section on The Schumin Web Transit Center. Out of 84 station pages, 62 of them were updated. Contact me for a detailed list.
October 6, 2004, 11:15 PM – The Schumin Web Community is now out of maintenance mode, and is open once again for your discussions.
October 3, 2004, 11:20 PM – Reduced the number of Journal entries that display on the main page of Life and Times from twenty to fifteen. This change is to help speed up load times on that page, since I tend to get a little long-winded, and like to put pictures in there when appropriate.
October 2, 2004, 1:27 AM – Fixed a glitch with the Transit Center database that knocked out the photos for the Rhode Island Avenue and Archives-Navy Memorial pages. The photos on these pages now display correctly once again.
October 2, 2004, 1:27 AM – Placed a warning regarding playing the fire alarm sound clips at the bottom of the Fire Alarm Collection main page.
September 29, 2004, 7:26 PM – New splash page image for October. I've been caught shopping!
September 16, 2004, 11:18 PM – New Life and Times photo set, entitled Remodeling at Home, about the new deck, and the new flooring at the house.
September 16, 2004, 9:54 AM – Went through and proofread the whole Journal Archives, and corrected for typographical errors and such. No content changes were made.
September 15, 2004, 6:17 AM – The name for this Web site's holding company is now "Schumin Web Design". It is no longer "Almond Street Image Service". Page footers will be changing to reflect this over the next several days.
September 11, 2004, 8:51 AM – Added new section to Transit Center Web site about bus service in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.
September 7, 2004, 2:57 AM – Added some provisions in the Transit Center site for expansion. New menu items include future sections for Charlottesville and Hampton Roads bus transit, and three new Washington DC area bus services: Fairfax Connector, OmniRide, and Ride-On.
September 6, 2004, 10:00 PM – Added seven new photo sets to Photography: Evening on Afton Mountain, Atlantic Sunrise, Downtowns Revisited, Lights in the Foggy Night, Mill Mountain Park Revisited, Pandamania DC, and An Evening in the Park.
September 5, 2004, 3:05 AM – Minor description correction in Historic Downtown Charlottesville photo set.
September 2, 2004, 10:19 AM – Updated the splash page with a new picture for September. This one is similar to the "Shrek" picture from August, in that this one is me at age 7 at the Casino in Asbury Park, with a file photo of modern me in the corner.
August 30, 2004, 2:33 AM – Fiddled with Major Areas a little to remove some outdated information. Also changed the designation of the original-style Breda cars in The Schumin Web Transit Center to Classic Breda Cars.
August 19, 2004, 6:27 PM – Removed "wish list" paragraph from the Fire Alarm Collection main page. I finally now have a Simplex 4040!
August 12, 2004, 10:45 PM – I am now back from the beach, and so I am once again accessible from all my usual communication methods. Details on my vacation coming soon in the journal.
August 10, 2004, 9:06 PM – I will be in Virginia Beach on vacation August 11-12. If you wish to contact me during that time, I will only be available over AOL Instant Messenger on Schumin Wireless.
August 8, 2004, 11:27 PM – In the Online Store through August 16, use the coupon code BACK2SCHL to receive $3.00 off of orders of $30 or more.
August 7, 2004, 2:57 AM – Opened a new section on The Schumin Web Transit Center about Charlottesville, Virginia bus services. This covers CTS and JAUNT services. UTS service coming soon.
July 31, 2004, 10:47 AM – Replaced the splash page image with a "Shrek" themed one. In case you're wondering, a coworker commented once that I look like Shrek, if you take off the horns and add the glasses. So we made it literal with this Shrek doll, with it wearing my glasses...
July 17, 2004, 1:06 AM – Archives updates! We now have a page in the Quote Archives for the third quarter 2003, and also pages in the Journal Archives for May, June, July, and August (we're planning ahead). This will bring a number of journal entries and quotes back into the sunlight that have either been moved off the main page, or rolled off the journal's 20-most-recent cutoff.
July 16, 2004, 9:38 PM – Changed The Schumin Web Community around a little bit. The Almond Street section has been removed entirely, as Almond Street no longer exists online. Also changed the College Life board to sit in both "The Schumin Web" and "Subsidiary Sites of The Schumin Web". Same board, both areas. This will last until the College Life subsidiary site opens and College Life on The Schumin Web closes.
July 12, 2004, 4:29 PM – Removed "Powered by Almond Street Image Service" banners from Photography section.
July 12, 2004, 4:09 AM – My Almond Street stock photography Web site has been closed, due to lack of activity. The almondstreet.com domain now points at The Schumin Web.
July 10, 2004, 10:41 PM – Updated Afton Mountain photo set with an update about the year that the Skyline Parkway Motel opened. Also included an update at the end of Part 2 about the July 2004 fire at the motel, which destroyed the Skyline Parkway Motel's main building.
July 7, 2004, 3:30 AM – Online Store is once again functioning correctly, and there are six new product types now in the store: Organic Cotton T-Shirts, Value T-Shirts, Ringer T-Shirts, Women's Tank Tops, Men's Sleeveless T-Shirts, and Athletic Jerseys.
July 6, 2004, 10:18 AM – The Online Store is just a little bit out of whack as I rearrange a few things. As soon as I get the Schumin Web end of the store synched up with the CafePress end of the store again, we'll be up and running. In the meantime, though, go to CafePress's version of my store.
July 2, 2004, 10:00 PM – Added Memories to College Life section under "Super Senior Year". This photo set is a retrospective of my entire time at JMU.
June 20, 2004, 2:47 AM – Major updates to The Schumin Web Transit Center! The following DC Metro pages are new: Van Dorn Street, College Park-U of MD, Columbia Heights, Georgia Avenue-Petworth, Prince George's Plaza, Shaw-Howard University, West Hyattsville, Court House, Brookland-CUA, New York Avenue, Takoma. The following DC Metro pages have updates: Braddock Road, Crystal City, King Street, McPherson Square, National Airport, Pentagon City, Rosslyn, Smithsonian, Fort Totten, Greenbelt, L'Enfant Plaza, Mt. Vernon Square, Ballston-MU, Clarendon, Vienna/Fairfax-GMU, Farragut North, Gallery Place-Chinatown, Metro Center, Union Station, Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan, Eisenhower Avenue, Huntington, Potomac River Bridge, Rehabilitated Breda cars, CAF cars, Rohr cars, Alexandria Yard, and Brentwood Yard. Also changed out some of the pictures in the DC Metro main page and the site's main page.
May 20, 2004, 4:44 PM – Through June 1, use coupon code DADNGRAD in the Online Store to save $4 on orders over $40.
May 19, 2004, 10:10 PM – If anyone tried to Email me in the last day or so, please re-send it. I foolishly disabled my own Email, which knocked out my Email address during that time. It's now all re-enabled, but any Email sent to me during the off-time was lost.
May 10, 2004, 10:58 PM – The section of my Transit Center site about the Washington DC Metro has gotten a bit of a facelift. Now, the menus on the various lines look more like strip maps, which help provide that WMATA look, plus also help with readability a bit.
May 2, 2004, 10:03 PM – Reset the Online Store for the spring and summer seasons. Also added new pink, green, and yellow T-shirts.
April 30, 2004, 2:24 AM – Added Wal-Mart with Becky and Rebecca to the Life and Times section.
April 29, 2004, 9:53 AM – A plethora of new photos and movies have been added to The Schumin Web Transit Center under Washington DC Rail. Also, there are now pages for Archives-Navy Memorial on the Green and Yellow Lines, and for Anacostia on the Green Line.
April 22, 2004, 9:59 PM – Beating WMATA's Silver Line to Dulles and New York's Second Avenue Subway to completion, The Schumin Web Transit Center is now complete, and open for visitors. Check it out!
April 18, 2004, 12:19 AM – Retired The Eighth Grade Online Yearbook per its original creator's request. May the site rest in peace.
April 17, 2004, 9:53 AM – The Schumin Web Community, our in-house discussion forum, has moved! The new address is http://community.schuminweb.com/. Redirects have been set up to get people to the new URL.
April 13, 2004, 2:33 PM – The Schumin Web is now functioning correctly again.
April 13, 2004, 11:55 AM – I reopened The Schumin Web Community for right now, but it will soon be moving to its own subdomain. When this happens, the forums will temporarily close again so that I can move messages to the new location. It will be the same forum program (YaBB), just at an easier address. Oh, and as a side note, the oft-maligned logo bug has finally been fully retired, having now been removed from all subsidiary sites.
April 11, 2004, 11:04 PM – Upon further analysis of the mess, what I'm going to do is simply rip out the Web site as it stands on the server and upload a new copy of it from the master that I have on my computer. That should fix things, and get things working when they should. I probably won't do that until Tuesday, though, so hold on. You can still shop in the Online Store using CafePress's interface until I get the regular site working again.
April 11, 2004, 10:45 PM – If you are reading this message, then you are looking at the NEW version of the site. The site has not been hacked or otherwise altered by intruders, but rather we are in the process of completing a server move, and I'm still getting settled in. Until we get everything put back where it needs to be, The Schumin Web Community will be temporarily offline, and some images and features may not work. Use the Alternate Navigation page to navigate the site until I get the regular menus working. Please stay tuned to the site updates for further updates as I get settled back in.
April 8, 2004, 2:58 AM – My provider will be moving The Schumin Web to a new machine in the next couple of days. I apologize in advance if this causes any site outages. I will let you know when the move is completed.
April 7, 2004, 1:38 AM – Through April 19, use the coupon code GOSPRING in the Online Store to save $2.00 on all hats.
April 3, 2004, 12:59 AM – Updated Contact Information for Schumin Wireless, as well as did a couple of other minor updates. Also rolled the Archives once again. For April, that means I opened up the 2004 quote archives, with a page for both first and second quarter. I also added the April 2004 journal archives.
April 1, 2004, 12:45 AM – My cell phone now has Instant Messenger on it! You can now reach me on the go via AOL Instant Messenger by sending messages to the screen name Schumin Wireless.
March 29, 2004, 10:36 AM – I believe that my Email is now operating correctly again. But if you are at all doubtful, IM me anyway.
March 29, 2004, 5:33 AM – My host is doing some server changes right now, and so my Email is temporarily a little screwy. If you need to contact me, please IM me.