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Robert R. Fenichel |
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Credits and Tools This site is hosted by Hostway. Hostway is adequate for support of a site as simple as this one, but its POP server service is unreliable, with frequent unannounced outages. Recommendations for a better hosting service are welcome. Most of the pages of the site were created using Microsoft FrontPage 2000. The pages of receptor-binding data are generated by a program that I wrote in Delphi 5, now upgraded to Delphi 6. The program is also used to edit the underlying database. Some of the documents were initially created using Microsoft Word 2000, and most of the images were manipulated using Adobe PhotoShop. The panorama of Dhaulagiri Base Camp was constructed using Canon's PhotoStitch utility. The cryptic HTML behind the mailto hyperlinks is used (better late than never) to reduce the harvesting of email addresses by spammers. The technique was described in Brian Livingston's "Protect your e-mail address" (PC Magazine 23(11), 78 (22 June 2004)), and it makes use of an encoding engine that used to be found at http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoderform, but that page seems — as of June 2008 — to have ceased to exist. To maintain the integrity of the overt hyperlinks, I use Tilman Hausherr's XenuLinkSleuth. Almost all of the older images come from 35mm slides (mainly Fujichrome). Some of the early ones were digitized through the Kodak PhotoCD process, but most of them were home-digitized via a Polaroid SprintScan 4000 or a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000ED. Images created since July of 2002 have been digital at birth. Most of the images have been watermarked using the Digimarc engine; Digimarc and the Digimarc logo are registered trademarks of Digimarc Corporation. The "Digimarc Digital Watermarking" Web Button is a trademark of Digimarc Corporation, used with permission. My general Internet access is obtained via a cable provided by StarPower. To generate a record of how reliable their service is, I use a program of my own, and total monthly downtime in mid-2003 varied from 37 minutes to 2 hours 28 minutes. In mid-2004, StarPower's performance seemed to include fewer mini-outages, but about the same number of big ones. Starting toward the end of 2004 and continuing into 2005, StarPower has gone for weeks at a time with 100% uptime, but then (usually on a weekend, probably reflecting some sort of hardware or software maintenance that they do then) they'll have a day of intermittent service, with downtime periods of 1-5 minutes adding up to 10-13% of the day. I don't know whether this service quality is good or bad, since evidence-based ISP ratings seem to be unavailable. The waypoints in Nepal were recorded with a Garmin 12CX GPS receiver. The Frequently-Asked Questions pages have profited from the comments of Jeremy Ruskin & Jacques Weissenburger, but the remaining errors are all mine. The picture of me on the home page was taken by Adam Marcus. Pictures on the outdoor pages were taken by me, except as otherwise credited. The genealogical database is maintained by The Master Genealogist. The charts used on the Web site were created from the database using TMG Utility and Second Site. In the genealogical charts, the thumbnail images of Tedda Fenichel and Adam Marcus were taken from a photo by Bill O'Brien. The thumbnail of Rhoda Bernard comes from a photo by David Schrag. Those of Robert Davidson, Margie Golub, Steve Killian, Vicki Killian, Steve Marcus, and Margaret Sharfstein were taken from photos by Bob Messing. The thumbnail of Mark Tushnet was taken from a photo by Zachary M. Schrag. Some of the other thumbnails come from photos by me, but most of them were extracted from the work of scattered unidentified commercial photographers. Page revised: 06/13/2008 11:30 |