Site news: October 1997

Note: These "site news" historical posts come from the original data sources in the proto-blog that debuted on the Q2 website in May 1997.

Friday 3 October 1997

Experimental pages debut (15:50 EDT)

We've added a few experimental pages to the site. Let us know if you find them interesting, useful, or otherwise.

• City summaries containing demographic information and useful web links
• Weather extremes for the 75 tracked cities
• Dynamically generated category headings on the photographs page. (Also, we've more than doubled the number of photos on the site.)

Saturday 4 October 1997

Braverman Leaves "Zipcode" (15:00 EDT)

Citing "creative differences" with Beverly Hills 90210 Executive Producer Aaron Spelling, Michael Braverman announced yesterday his departure from the show, effective immediately.

Thursday 9 October 1997

Bio page maximizes self-indulgence (14:40 EDT)

As a side-effect from developing prototype pages for the Q2 II, Inc. web page, this site's author has added a bio page that contains facts about him you probably already know.

There are other facts, of course, but this site is rated G.

Tuesday 21 October 1997

Chicago trip planned (13:00 EDT)

Your web author has finalized plans to visit Chicago from Thursday 13 November 1997 through Sunday 16 November.

Thursday 23 October 1997

Chicago trip planned (15:00 EDT)

Your web author has finalized plans to visit Chicago from Tuesday 23 December 1997 through Friday 26 December. Immediately following, he will go from there to Los Angeles until Tuesday 30 December 1997.

Tuesday 28 October 1997

New Quotes appear (16:00 EST)

The author has finally added some new Quotes of the Indeterminate Time Period, after a three-week slowdown.

Friday 31 October 1997

Subtle improvements enhance weather info (15:20 EST)

Your web designer has made two small, but cool, improvements to the site:

• The international city list now displays each city's sunrise and sunset times.
• In the aforementioned city list, and on the main page, when a city is dark, so is the weather icon.