Date	Changes
4/1/08	It appears last year's softball season disrupted the push-out of the previous update. So where is Clan Seger going this year on the feis circuit? A disturbing look at the dark side of Irish Dance research and development
6/18/07	Finished up the last of the 2006 feis reviews (Peter Smith and Southern Tier) Posted the first of our 2007 feis reviews (Music City, Staten Island, Queen City, and Louisville)
4/1/07	Forgot to push the 7/31/06 update out. Our 2007 Feis Schedule, for those who still wonder. My family was not going to allow this particular tradition to slide this year no matter what happened.
7/31/06	The Shoes section of REEL HELP had quite escaped my attention when converting the site away from frames. That's fixed. Final update to this year's feis schedule now that we've opted to remove Irish Dancing as a vacation activity in September and Rebekah's been instructed to compete at a local feis in October
6/20/06	Feis reviews for Little Rock, Queen City, and Detroit I've also posted the reason I don't review the Indianapolis Feis anymore, plus some kudos and advice for the Louisville Feis. I'm caught up until Saturday! Another update to the 2006 Feis schedule now that we've decided Rebekah needs one of her Oireachtas-qualifying contingency feisanna Remaining CSS oddities from converting the Irish Dance Photo Gallery and Strange Code sections away from frames should now be fixed. Broke the US 35 Greene County Project page into a subsection of tabbed documents, like I've done with most of my other Road Geek pages
05/29/06	FINALLY finished the 2005 feis reviews with the inaugural Kansas City Feis Still more updates to the 2006 Feis schedule now that we have an idea of where the yearly vacation is going this year Reviews for the Houston New Year's and Crescent City feisanna are finally up. Those of you waiting on Little Rock and Queen City reviews need to send more emails telling Devonna to get off her butt and edit my rough drafts. Yes, this year's Queen City Feis was the inspiration for this REEL HELP article Conversion of the Irish Dance Photo Gallery and Strange Code sections away from frames. They're going to look a little strange while I debug the last oddities from the conversion. These should be the last ones.
04/01/06	Added a random quote generator to the Irish Dance home page title specific to Irish Dancing. I'm especially proud of the comparison to Dressage... Updates to 2006 Feis schedule You know what this date means...
03/04/06	I finally had some time to get the comments section to work. Lots of updates to the Road Trip Database Even more updates to this year's Feis schedule Conversion of the Virtual Rocket Scientist and Rachel's Fleadh Adventure away from frames
01/02/06	After reviewing the access logs, I realized that Google has the older HTML versions of my feis reviews cached and not the newer XML versions. It makes more sense to keep the reviews as HTML (with an able assist from my templating engine). It quite slipped my mind during the previous update, but we've got some photos up from the 2003 dance season.
12/23/05	It's been a long time coming, but the website is now running on a new server! (Hat tip: Derwood from naebunny.net) The problems with the XML engine that made the site unusable for most of the year were a combination of malformed XSLT stylesheets and a pathological interaction with server threading. Both have now been fixed. I hope. New features to my HTML templating engine allow me to do away with frames site-wide. The Dancing Diatribe and Dancing on the Edge are the first section so converted. Feis reviews are posted for all of 2005 except for Kansas City. Our tentative feis schedule for 2006 is now posted as well. Updates to the Staidreamh Project covering the 2005 Midwest Oireachtas.
04/01/05	Devonna finally got me to add some entries to the Motivational section of her page on Irish Dance Videos Ever wondered why some Irish Dancers seemed so robotic? We don't anymore.
03/02/05	I've got most of the Diatribes back online, including the one I was intending to post on Monday about Midwest Oireachtas eligibility. The only Diatribes that are still broken are the 2003 and 2004 April Fools Diatribes, both of which require Javascript. My best guess is that the XSLT transform I'm performing on the server is somehow rendering them non-parseable on browsers.
02/28/05	FINALLY finished out the last of the 2004 Feis reviews, with a mini-review of Columbus and full reviews of Great Lakes and Longs Peak Started the 2005 feis season with reviews of the Houston New Year's and Music City feisanna. At least I'll be up to date until Saturday... If you haven't noticed by now, I'm starting a gradual makeover of the entire site to something more XML-based. The Feis reviews have been converted and seem to be running OK; the next sections due for conversion are the Dancing Diatribe and my Road Geekery section. Due to a combination of the last item and the fact I still don't quite have the hang of using Subversion for revision control, the Dancing Diatribe is seriously broken. And just as I was about to post a new one, too...
12/24/04	Reviews for the Cincinnati and Nation's Capital Feisanna. Finally. 2004 Midwest Oireachtas data added over at The Staidreamh Project. New front page for the site. Like it?
09/28/04	Reviews for the Queen City and Georgia State Feisanna. Any bets on when I'll finish this season? A new guide to Irish Dance Grade Exams over on REEL HELP An update to the long-range plans on upgrading US 35 in Beavercreek, and it's still an update behind ODOT's latest information!
05/30/04	Feis Reviews for Nashville and Louisville. I'm getting caught up, I swear! Devonna has some more Irish Dance CD reviews over on REEL HELP Devonna's also written a Beginner's Guide to Irish Dance Shoes, complete with pop quiz. Lots of local construction updates and long-range transportation planning over in the Road Geek section A detailed look at options for converting the remainder of US 35 in Greene County into an interstate
04/01/04	Feis Reviews for Charlotte and Feis Louisiane An update to the Staidreamh Project reflecting 2003 Midwest Oireachtas data Two years ago, I had no idea I was EXPECTED to write a Dancing Diatribe on this specific date...
10/09/03	Feis Reviews for Longs Peak and Feile Minnesota I revisit my first STRANGE CODE episode ever
08/19/03	Changes to the US 35, I-675, I-70, and I-75 pages to add projects which might happen someday. Another entry to the North Fairfield Road project page Some commentary on things observed at last month's Indianapolis Feis The reviews of the Columbus Feis (Adult and Everyone Else) The review of the inaugaral Great Lakes Feis
07/04/03	Yet another update on the US 35/North Fairfield Road project in Beavercreek Reviews for both the Louisville and Cincinnati feisanna
06/11/03	An update on the US 35/North Fairfield Road project in Beavercreek Some critical changes to the US 35 page as a result of the updates linked above. The kids have some updates to their books and links pages. The review of this year's Detroit Feis Looks like Ges read something in an Irish Dance message board that made him snap.
06/01/03	The review of this year's Peach State Feis. Sorry for the immense delay, but shopping for a new Feismobile and curing a head cold from Hell sort of took priority... Devonna's got some additions to her Irish Dance Shoe pages
05/07/03	The review of the Lone Star Feis A diatribe on feis registrations I revisit state toggling in HTML forms
04/21/03	The final stylesheet bugfix to the site navbars. I know, I said that the other two times, too... A major change in downtown Beavercreek that doesn't involve Xenia-bound tornadoes. No site covering DHTML would be complete without its own version of a menu bar widget now, would it?
04/01/03	Some modifications to my tree code so it uses a more sane font on IE5/Mac A bugfix on the site stylesheet affecting some of my navigation bars I think you all know what a diatribe on this specific date means...
03/16/03	Ges debuts a new section devoted to, of all things, Rocket Science. A new story in Dancing on the Edge. A new entry on the US 35/North Fairfield Road Commentary page Finally got the rest of the 2002 Irish Dancing Season uploaded to the Photo Gallery Some typo and bug cleanups over in the Irish Dance Shoe pages.
02/18/03	After too much neglect, a new Dancing On The Edge story Something for the dance family's computer geek to do over on Reel Help Some major fixes to the Irish Dancing Photo Gallery Rewrote the tree API to (again) support IE5.0/Win following a bug catch from a reader Implemented a platform-conditional stylesheet to get all my navigation bars and panes to display correctly
02/09/03	The review of this year's Music City Feis Devonna has new content devoted to the bodhran and dance shoes Not to be outdone by their parents, the Clan Seger children have built their own section of the website I revisit the Tabbed Window Interface episode of STRANGE CODE And if you haven't noticed already, we've finished a complete site makeover
01/07/03	Deletion of Sponsoring School info for the 2000 and 2001 Louisville Feisanna. This clears up a mistake on my part and brings those reviews into line with my current review policy. Devonna's updated her Hammer Dulcimer music and tunes page Another Strange Code twofer (here and here)! The Orange Barrels went up on my Road Geek section over the holidays, with a new page on local and regional projects and a complete revamping of the Road Trip section
12/24/02	I've been way overdue with an update on the US 35/North Fairfield Road project. The horrible consequences of having too much free time, a computer, and three years' worth of Midwest Oireactas programs in hand. Notice anything different about this page?
11/17/02	The end of the World Tour with days 12 and 13 Two, two, two Strange Codes in one! Devonna has updates to the Irish Dance Video and her Things That Make You Go Hmmm... pages over in Reel Help Not to be outdone, she also has started a CD page over in Reel Help
10/29/02	The review (FINALLY!) of this year's Charlotte Rince na h'Eireann Feis Minor housekeeping on the Who Is Ges? page because a site I linked to is no longer accessible The World Tour starts winding down with days 9, 10, and 11
10/12/02	What we did on days 6, 7, and 8 of the World Tour
09/30/02	Day 4 and day 5 of our World Tour logs are online I also thought an explanation of how we ended up staying in an Irish farmhouse for that leg of the World Tour would be helpful Work threw me another curve ball that resulted in a Strange Code article
09/18/02	A review for this year's Feile Minnesota. Sorry it's late, but... ...This Day of the World Tour took forever to write and I wanted both to go out at the same time. Oh, and it's been awhile since I updated progress on the US 35/North Fairfield Road project
09/07/02	Broke the Update Log up by year. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but it finally passed threshold of annoyance this time. The first two days of the World Tour are online (here and here), complete with pictures
09/04/02	A minor update or two to the Field Guide to Music Competitions What it took to send Clan Seger to Ireland on the World Tour Some small itinerary updates to the World Tour Updated the US 35 page for the newly-completed section to I-71
09/02/02	We're back from the World Tour, but did you honestly think I was going to post our travel log before the feis review?
08/18/02	A field guide to feis music competitions Devonna thinks I need therapy after writing this Reviews of this year's Columbus Feis (here and here)
08/04/02	An explanation and tentative itinerary for our World Tour The review of the inaugaral Badger State Feis Devonna asks some questions that perhaps were never meant to be asked.
07/21/02	Added a road trip page on our expedition to Atlanta back in May An update on the US 35/North Fairfield Road project While on the above subject, had to update my US 35 interchanges page because of activities related to the North Fairfield Road project Added a link to a Geek Code translation site on my Who Am I page A very special announcement of an upcoming event Oh, yeah, there's sort of a review for the Indianapolis Feis, too...
07/14/02	Reviews for this year's Dayton and Cincinnati Feisanna are finally up. I know it's late, but I'm still tired from the weekend... A diatribe with a different take on the phenomenon of Stage Rage
06/25/02	The review of this year's Louisville Feis
06/09/02	Hell Month grinds on in the Midwest Region with the review of the Detroit Feis A new feature in the Roadgeek section devoted to our family road trips
06/02/02	The Akron Feis review is online Added a question to the Irish Dance FAQ page Added a brief description page for Ges
05/26/02	Fixed some broken links on the Feis Survival Kit page Updated the Reel Help Videos page
05/22/02	Added a Frequently Asked Questions page to the Irish Dance Section Posted a review of the Peach State Feis Schedule changes for Clan Seger's 2002 Competition Schedule A Dancing Diatribe on the Five-Year Rule
05/19/02	A reorganization of the Dancing Diatribe so it wouldn't be such a problem to update. Changes to the dancing photo gallery to accomodate both a polite and a rude request.
04/01/02	Ges takes back control of the Dancing Diatribe A new Strange Code article on how to load content in a window without requesting it from the server -- sort of. A list of things you really don't want to hear at a feis A reorganization of the Irish Dance photo galleries now that we've added new galleries for this year Another reorganization of content, this time with my running commentary on the US 35/North Fairfield Road interchange project in Beavercreek Linked the Roads page to a detailed Dayton Daily News feature on the I-70/I-75 interchange reconstruction in Vandalia that they published last month
03/08/02	Our review of the Texas State Championship and Feis Added a link on my Roads page to a genuine piece of Americana which I found before our recent road trip to Dallas A correction to last year's review of the London Feis that is of some significance to the people who pointed it out
03/01/02	Devonna is my guest ranter on the Dancing Diatribe tonight! Modifications to my US 35 page thanks to some recent research I did on the history of Steve Whalen Boulevard Fixed an accumulated backlog of small updates concerning the US 35/North Fairfield Road interchange project Devonna has added some more Hammer Dulcimer books and capsule musician summaries to her pages Added an inspirational stories section to our Irish Dancing pages Expanded our feis survival kit page into an entire subsection devoted to helping out Irish Dancers
02/10/02	We're certifiably insane. We've started our feis season already Five new galleries in our online Dancing Photo Album More photos in our 2001 Miscalleneous Gallery
12/01/01	Devonna's got more content! A new Strange Code Episode on the Drag & Drop interface A reader fix to the bugfeature in Strange Code Episode 1 A new diatribe on something I saw at the Mid-America Oireachtas
10/29/01	The review of the Rince Na h'Eireann Charlotte Feis A new Strange Code episode explaining how I do my exit list pages A minor change to my US 35 page now that I know the extent of construction in Fayette County Consolidation of site-wide style sheets
10/15/01	Totally revamped site layout Posted review of the Pittsburgh Feis Complete redesign of the Road Geekery section
09/25/01	The review of the Inaugaral Feile Minnesota Two new dance picture galleries on an Irish Dance Exposition and the Columbus Feis Additions to the 2001 Miscalleneous dance picture gallery
08/27/01	A review of the St. Louis Gateway Feis Added a page for the US 68 freeway in the Springfield area
08/05/01	The reviews (here and here) of the Columbus Feis
07/27/01	The review of the Nation's Capital Feis Corrections to the I-70 and SR 4 pages
07/15/01	A review of the Indianapolis Feis My take on a recent controversy in Irish Dancing A new page to the Dancing Photo Gallery Additions to the Feis Survival Kit Expansions to the I-70, I-75, and SR 4 pages to cover more interchanges in the Miami Valley area
06/25/01	Reviews of the Dayton and Cincinnati Feisanna
06/17/01	Our review of the Louisville Feis A change to our Organization grade for the Detroit Feis Formatting changes to this year's feis review page reflecting possible impacts due to gas prices and my leave balance
06/03/01	Our review of the Detroit Feis Added photo gallery pages for St. Patrick's Day shows and a benefit concert Rebekah danced at in May
05/21/01	A new Strange Code article on Frames Changes to the 2000 Feis Review section based on Strange Code #4
05/06/01	A review of the London Feis More questions on Devonna's Hammer Dulcimer FAQ page More books on Devonna's Hammer Dulcimer Books page Devonna even added a page of Hammer Dulcimer music
04/20/01	Devonna's got content! Included links to two major highway projects in the Dayton Area in the Road Geekery section Wrote a commentary page on current plans for the US 35/North Fairfield Road interchange project Fixed a broken link to an external freeway interchange guide (thanks, Kevin...) Updated the list of feisanna we will be at in 2001
04/07/01	A new Dancing Diatribe on feis competition scheduling The beginning of our 2001 Feis Review section, including Clan Seger's preliminary competition schedule A whole new section on Web Tips and Tricks Reorganized the Obligatory List of Links so that we're ready for Devonna to start providing content
01/17/01	The site goes online