History
How these pages have evolved
February 2001
Friday 2 February 2001
Launch!
These pages comprise a completely new Web site. You can find out more about the history and design of these pages here.
Saturday 10 February 2001
- ISO/IEC 2382-8:1998 Information technology – Vocabulary – Part 8: Security (Second Edition) [ Glossaries [ Security Matters ] ] — Added.
- Overview of information security in general [ Security Matters ] — Updated.
- A few textual, grammatical, spelling, … corrections throughout.
March 2001
Tuesday 20 March 2001
The White Prince Goes Forth [ Scribblings [ About Ant ] ] / (1993) – Short fiction – “a very neat parody” — Added.
The first page of a new “Scribblings” topic.
The old “What’s new?” has been consigned to a separate page…
Sunday 25 March 2001
Heart of Fire [ Scribblings [ About Ant ] ] / (1994) – Short fiction á la J. R. R. Tolkien — Added.
Another page of the “Scribblings” topic.
April 2001
No changes.
May 2001
Monday 14 May 2001
Computers [ Gear [ Ant’s Geek Stuff ] ] – Such stuff as dreams are made on — Updated.
June 2001
Tuesday 12 June 2001
RFC 2828 [ Glossaries [ Ant’s Security Matters ] ] – Internet Security Glossary — New.
RFC 2828, Section 3 [ Glossaries [ Ant’s Security Matters ] ] – Internet Security Glossary: Definitions — New.
ISO/IEC 2382-8:1998 [ Glossaries [ Ant’s Security Matters ] ] – Information technology – Vocabulary – Part 8: Security (Second Edition) — Updated.
July, August, and September 2001
No changes.
October 2001
Thursday 18 October 2001
Well, it’s been a lean four months filled with the banal (summer holidays) and the tragically bizarre (WTC)… These are the first changes to this site since Tuesday 12 June 2001:
- Security Matters – Updated.
- Overview [ Security Matters ] – Updated.
- Information Security Management [ Security Matters ] – Added.
- NIST Special Publication 500-169 – Executive Guide to the Protection of Information Resources [ ISM [ Security Matters ] ] – Added.
- NIST Special Publication 500-170 – Management Guide to the Protection of Information Resources [ ISM [ Security Matters ] ] – Added.
- NIST Special Publication 500-171 – Computer User’s Guide to the Protection of Information Resources [ ISM [ Security Matters ] ] – Added.
- Search the Web added to “Welcome!” page (in place of “External links”).
November and December 2001, and January 2002
No changes.
February 2002
Monday 11 February 2002
Site moved from uk.geocities.com/picocosm/ to homepage.mac.com/antallan/. (How could I refuse Apple Computer’s offer of a free mac.com homepage – and email address – now that I’ve updgraded to Mac OS X?!)
Layout of all pages changed. Minor textual amendments throughout.
Pages added:
- A photo of Ant [ About Ant ] – just what it says
- Ant’s GIST [ Glossaries [ Security Matters ] ] – Ant's Glossary of Information Security Terms (gist), version 0.1 (ISO/IEC 2382-8:1998 and RFC 2828 consolidated and annotated) – work in progress!
- Security Solutions for OS/390 and Open Systems Environments [ Security Matters ] Software Europe’s old product pages… c. August 2000
Pages substantially updated:
- Apple Macintosh [ Gear [ Ant’s Geek Stuff ] ] – replaces Computers (and Gear [ Ant’s Geek Stuff ] will in future lead into various computer-related topics)
- Overview [ Security Matters ]
- Information Security Management [ Security Matters ]
March 2002
No changes.
April 2002
Monday 29 April 2002
Minor textual and formatting errors corrected throughout.
Pages added:
- Elric of Melniboné [ Geek stuff [ Lore ] ] – …and other avatars of Moorcock’s Eternal Champion
- An Elric gallery [ Elric of Melniboné [ Geek stuff [ Lore ] ] ] – Images of the White Wolf
- Tales of the Eternal Champion [ Elric of Melniboné [ Geek stuff [ Lore ] ] ] – A bibliography of the Multiverse
May 2002
Monday 20 May 2002
Added Elements [ Lore [ Ant’s Geek Stuff ] ] – Of what is the world made?.
Added Nihon-Tō [ Lore [ Ant’s Geek Stuff ] ] – Swords of the samurai.
Missing links and images restored to the Elric of Melniboné pages.
Links to larger images added to An Elric gallery.
June 2002
No changes.
July 2002
Tuesday 9 July 2002
Elric of Melniboné pages revised and moved to Favourite Things within About Ant.
Minor textual revisions and corrections, formatting changes, etc. throughout.
Top-of-page “traffic-light” buttons added throughout. (Images based on “Dent” Mac OS X icons designed by Tim Blumer at Xicons.com.)
August to December 2002, and January & February 2003
No changes. (No… I wasn’t taking six months off dead for tax reasons!)
March 2003
Sunday 16 March 2003
After too long a haitus as I developed a new layout for these pages based on tables… and then decided that I ought to be using cascading style sheets so I had to do it all over again…
- New layout (a-ha!), including clearer navigation “header”. Many pages split with deeper nesting – i.e., there are now more, shorter pages.
- Wherefore is Fantasy? added to Scribblings.
- Gear and the pages therein (all computer stuff) temporarily removed for refurbishment! (Or should I say, for an upgrade?)
- Other small changes to several pages.
April to August 2003
No changes.
September 2003
Sunday 21 September 2003
After another long haitus…
- My Glossary of Information Security Technology tidied up and split over multiple pages.
- A few pages migrated from HTML to XHTML.
More in preparation… no, really! But don’t hold your breath.
Monday 22 September 2003
- A couple of minor updates to Glossaries.
Tuesday 23 September 2003
- Sword & Sorcery “exposed” as a page in its own right.
Wednesday 24 September 2003
- Cryptogaphy added to Security Matters.
Thursday 25 September 2003
- 42 added to Geek Stuff.
Friday 26 September 2003
October 2003
Sunday 5 October 2003
- The “Swords” Series updated.
Monday 13 October 2003
- Viriconium and M. John Harrison added to Favourite Things.
Friday 24 October 2003
- Viriconium updated.
I was flying back from Zürich this week, and left my copies of A Storm of Wings and the Unwin Viriconium on the plane at Heathrow. So I detoured to Waterstone’s at Piccadilly Circus to buy a copy of the Millennium Viriconium… £7.99 for the book, plus an extra £1.60 tube journey: £9.59 for a momentary lapse of attention! (Maybe it was my subconcious at work: I’d been struggling to justify that purchase since the omnibus was published.) Well, I hope whoever discovered the books on the plane found them a good home…
November 2003
Wednesday 12 November 2003
- Understanding Bryan Appleyard added to Scribblings.
December 2003
Wednesday 24 December 2003
Favicon –, based on Apple’s Safari “Bug” button image – added to all pages.
Thursday 25 December 2003
Just after midnight… Merry Christmas!
- Algol added to Cosmos.
Tuesday 30 December 2003
- New layout for Ant’s HomePage, with direct links to topics within each “pod” – and less waffle!
- Colophon and CSS style-sheet updated.
January 2004
Sunday 4 January 2004
- Elements updated.
Saturday 3 January 2004
- Refined new layout for Ant’s HomePage.
February 2004
Saturday 21 February 2004
March 2004
Sunday 7 March 2004
- Tengwar Ogham added to Ogham.
- Other Ogham pages updated.
Monday 8 March 2004
- Origins and Uses (Ogham) and Cryptography updated.
Sunday 14 March 2004
- Miniature Figures (FRPGs) updated.
Tuesday 16 March 2004
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Minor updates (fixing broken links & formatting, small textual changes, etc.) to:
– Résumé
– Sword & Sorcery
– Elric’s Saga
– Elric RPGs
– The Multiverse …
– Fafhrd … Gray Mouser RPGs - CSS style-sheet updated.
Wednesday 17 March 2004
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More minor updates:
– Ars Magica
– Bushido (new links!)
– Dungeons & Dragons
Thursday 18 March 2004
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Still more minor updates:
– Resources (ISM)
Friday 19 March 2004
- Miniature Figures (FRPGs) updated with some sad news about i-Kore
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Yet more minor updates:
– Security Solutions …
– ACF2 Administration
– RACF Administration
– OS/390 Auditing …
– How Much is Your …
– Open Systems Event …
– Electronic Forensics
– Other OS/390 Security …
Monday 22 March 2004
- Ogham Trees substantially updated
- Minor updates to all the other Ogham pages
Monday 29 March 2004
- Miniature Figures (FRPGs) substantially updated
- Security Matters pages reorganised; Information Security Technologies (stub) added
- New layout for Ant’s HomePage tweaked (Feedback and Colophon icons based on Mac OS X desktop icons by Mikkel Madsen, MM Icon Design)
April & May 2004
No changes.
June 2004
Wednesday 30 June 2004
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July 2004
Thursday 22 July 2004
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August 2004 to June 2005
No changes.
July 2005
Friday 15 July 2005
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It’s been nearly a year since these pages were last updated. Sorry! I’ve been changing so many things – and introducing a new format for all pages – no one thing’s been ready to upload. So, here you are: a whole swath of changes! |
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Thursday 28 July 2005
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August 2005
Monday 1 August 2005
Thursday 11 August 2005
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Wednesday 31 August 2005
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September 2005
Monday 5 & Thursday 22 September 2005
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Tuesday 27 September 2005
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October 2005
Tuesday 25 October 2005
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November 2005
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December 2005
Friday 9 December 2005
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Saturday 31 December 2005
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! |
January 2006
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February 2006
Tuesday 28 February 2006
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March to September 2006
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October 2006
Wednesday 18 October 2006
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November & December 2006
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January 2007
Thusday 4 January 2007
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Monday 15 January 2007
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February 2007
Sunday 4 February 2007
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Tuesday 27 February 2007
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Wednesday 28 February 2007
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March 2007
Sunday 4 March 2007
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April 2007
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May 2007
Saturday 5 May 2007
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Monday 14 May 2007
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Sunday 27 May 2007
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Tuesday 29 May 2007
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June 2007
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July 2007
Saturday 7 July 2007 (7-7-7!)
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Tuesday 17 July 2007
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August to December 2007
No changes.
July 2007
Wednesday 9 January 2008
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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February to July 2007
No changes.
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