15-11-08: Added two topics (prepaid taxis and trekking poles) to the travel FAQs

25-10-08: You can now download a complete PDF file (12 pages) of instructions (with pictures) for making your own money belt in the belt-up zone.

22-10-08: Launch of a new survey ("India: better then or now?") in the survey zone.

08-10-08: Updates on portable music players in the tone zone.

03-10-08: New "tag cloud" shortcuts added to the homepage and some links adjusted there.

15-07-08: Four new panoramas added to the panorama zone. You can view the panoramas in either QuickTime or Flash.

07-07-08: "Quick Poll" has been added to the site on the home, travel zone and survey zone pages. Also this news page reorganised and archived.

24-06-08: Updated information added to the online zone.

20-06-08: Travel tips are available in e-book format - Windows CHM. You can view these on your e-book reader (pocket PC, etc) or normal computer. Because of this format change, the older HTML tips have been discontinued, but PDF tips and onsite tips continue.

13-06-08: Four new e-books added in the tokezone bookshelf.

30-04-08: New security software bundle for people using Internet cafes (cybercafes) is available for download in the download zone. Using cafeKlysm will not only save you time if you need a lot of portable programs on your USB flash drive for email and instant messaging, it also has extra applications for checking out the computer you are entrusting with your passwords and online banking information. Go safe - go cafeKlysm...

9-11-07: Extra information on USB "portable" applications that help with Internet café security added to the first page of the online zone.

2-11-07: The gallery zone has adopted a new cousin - the "First Showing" Gallery. It's intended for photos which are waiting to be sorted to add to the main galleries. Also, the blog zone's new offshoot, a dynamic blog called Rice Plate Ready, is stoked up and ready for the forthcoming overwinter trip to the subcontinent.

3-10-07: Another survey, this time about travellers' relationship with the Asian, or squat, toilet. Strong feelings of hatred (or adoration) can be expressed in the survey zone.

12-09-07: Updated the travel tips and gave them a snappier (?) name: the ComPAQt FAQs now run to 44 pages in PDF, or can be viewed as html online here.

08-09-08: Switched servers again after an unsatisfactory experience with WebHostingPad. The SoftLayer datacentre in Dallas, Texas should be both faster and more reliable in serving the site's pages than what visitors saw over the past ten weeks.

08-07-08: Reorganised the navigation methods in the online zone (drop-down menu instead of links in a table). "Home computer" content moved to page two to keep the "public computer" material clearer and more compact.

01-07-08: The site is up again after being flat on its back for three days. Staggering around, wild-eyed and a little lost, but up. There was a (big) problem with my hosting provider and their first backup attempt came out strange: for a while visitors to the tokezone were treated to another site entirely. The recent backup was so old it didn't include this site at all. Well, it's the longest the site has been out in seven years...

18-05-08: Layout change in the tips zone. Information is now organised under topics, which makes the larger number of travel tips easier to work with on a single page. Coming soon - the travel tips in e-book format.

29-04-08: A little spring freshen-up for the top header in this (News) zone.

03-12-07: The site will only be active in the blogzone for the next three months. This means that - instead of straining my eyes in front of the monitor at home - I'll be out in the high lands and hilly lands of India. As well as, probably, straining my eyes in some masala-scented Internet cafe...

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01-11-08: Which computer operating systems people are using on the site:

 

Some of the plans for the site in the next six months (my "to do" list):

1. Convert the panoramas from Quick Time to Flash
2. Update the travel tips
3. Replace the HTML help file in cafeKlysm with CHM
4. More photos to be uploaded to the "First Showing" gallery
5. Reorganise the main photo galleries a little...