Recent Updates to SierraFoot

12/10/2007

Rebuilding the entire web site on a new host. Most is present, parts remain to be reconstructed or replaced. My experience is that web hosting provider StartLogic has experienced very significant changes for the worse. Startlogic had provided high quality reliable service in the past, but does so no longer. Problems include loss of email service, loss of admin control of the web site, and flagrantly excessive wait time for customer service calls. This may correlate with StartLogic's move from Santa Monica to Phoenix, probably with near-total turnover of its staff. SierraFoot and the other web site that I maintain, www.edhca.org, are now hosted by Bluehost.  So far Bluehost's service has been good.

9/9/2007

Added Campaign funding for 2008 elections. This reports FPPC campaign disclosures for 2008 races of local interest in El Dorado Hills. Curren contents are early, most campaign funding occurs closer to the date of an election. The initial version of this section includes only the first year's disclosures filed by Helen Baumann, candidate for State Assembly District 10 and currently County Supervisor for District 2.

3/25/2007

Added index to X-15 Flight Manual, split into separate sections with none larger than 14 megabytes. This should improve ability to download the manual for those who experience problems with the full 60-megabyte file. Coming next: David Price has created exquisitely detailed and accurate 3D models of X-15-1 and X-15A-2 in Google SketchUp. With his kind permission these 3D models will be added for convenient public access in the next update to SierraFoot. The small image to the right is an example rendered with this model, but in truth only a full screen rendition can adequately show the quality of this 3D model.

Minor revisions occur more frequently without being noted here.
In some cases larger sections spend substantial time in preparation
before being released on the web.