Web-site founded Summer 1996.
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But computer code here is presented for execution by others, without formality.
Before citing any of these pages either in public print-on-paper or in Internet mass-media, please contact me to discuss bandwidth issues. Other linking is welcome without formality.
Much of this Web site was written for those who are already active or knowledgeable in the relevant field. I would be pleased to be E-mailed about any specific points of difficulty for other visitors.
Pages should be generally satisfactory at 640×480 pixels or better, medium font, though at least some of the tables will need scrolling at that resolution. Users of WebTV should upgrade to a proper computer.
This text is at the default size set by your browser; if it is not conveniently-sized, adjust your browser.
I'm not a skilful typist; so, if something doesn't make sense, consider replacing letters by ones nearby on a UK keyboard.
Please do not fetch this page, or any other pages or files of mine, by automated subscription; it wastes my limited resources.
Links
Some links in this site point to elsewhere in the same page or to another page within this site; other links point to sites elsewhere. The presence of a link to a different site should be taken as a suggestion, rather than as an endorsement; sites can change their nature.
On this page, links within the page are italic, and links outside my site are bold; links to other pages on ny site are un-decorated.
As others have linked to my pages, an AltaVista or Google citation search will lead to many more-or-less related pages, of differing natures and qualities.
One probably cannot bookmark a framed page; No-Frame it first.
My Name
In order to reduce mistaken hits by simple-minded searchers (there is a person of my name from UT who seems to have been talented at the public competitive insertion of spherical objects into nominally wicker receptacles), I have largely removed my first name from these pages; it is a common anagram of "hJno".
2004-04-18 ff. | New Zeller material; family links | |
2004-04-28 | Page js-logic.htm, uses of operators | |
2004-05-06 | Page daycount.htm split from dayscale.htm | |
2004-08-01 | In js-date?.htm, 3 2 1 renumbered 2 1 0 | |
2004-08-01 | Page js-date4.htm split into js-date3.htm & js-date4.htm | |
2004-12-03 | Page astro3.htm split from astro.htm | |
2005-01-11 | Page datecalc.htm split from datelinx.htm | |
2005-02-23 | Pages astro.htm astro2.htm & astro3.htm renamed to astron-1.htm astron-2.htm & astron-3.htm |
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Continual | Minor Changes |
Merlyn is my current Internet machine. It is now usually a PII/300 PC with Windows 98, MSIE 4, Turnpike 4, etc., etc. I also run what remains of old Merlyn, a Tandon PacII 486/33 PC with MSDOS 6.20, BP7, etc.
Merlyn connects to the Internet via Demon two or three times a day, usually, for E-mail and News; but rarely in BT prime time.
Please note that BT charges for connection time; so do not mail me
large, useless, unexpected items. Do not Mail duplicates of News articles. Do
not send duplicate E-mails; physics.org is a permanent
redirecting address. True Net Abusers
may get reported.
This Web site is hosted at Demon Internet Limited; thus access, unlike update, does not depend on my personal systems.
Pages may be cached, either at Demon or by your browser; reload as appropriate.
At present, except possibly by way of these links (which you are not invited to select), there are relatively few graphics and no sounds here; and frames are optional.
An external CSS file is used for pages with a coloured body background such as this one has. Otherwise, your defaults are assumed compatible with black-on-white.
The main font face and size that you see are the defaults set in your browser. I use MSIE 4, with default fonts Medium size, Times New Roman and Lucida Sans Typewriter.
The date at the top of each page should be the UK civil date of the last non-trivial change.
In pages with javascript, common functions are often hosted in include files; see js-nclds.htm.
Those who cannot read English may be helped by the
Babel Fish
translator.
My HTML pages, redirectors apart, should all have "Merlyn Home Page"
near the top and "Surrey" near the bottom. Therefore, asking a search
engine for pages containing both of those, plus topic-selecting words,
should find any relevant Web pages of mine, without finding partial
quotes. It may be necessary to repeat the search with omitted results
included.
Anyone, acting corporately or privately, who finds information on
this Web site useful enough to deserve recompense is invited to
contribute support to the work of my Godson, his sisters, and his mother
(see at Just Giving)
for the Third World, directly or through local organisations.
These Web pages were originally developed largely with the HTML
editor DiDa v1.72; nowadays I more
often use the general editor PFE,
and other tools such as MiniTrue. I
have sometimes used HTML-Kit, a
free HTML editing/viewing system, with integrated Tidy.
The HTML is regularly tested with Tidy (downloaded; from W3 or SourceForge); and local links and anchors are tested with cheklinx.
The pages are intermittently checked with Web
validators
such as those at w3.org,
UK W3 HTML
Validator, WebLint
UK
or WebLint org,
and as far as I can are made to pass; and possibly with
Bobby /
Bobby,
Cynthia
and NetMechanic,
and the worst faults removed; and maybe with
WDG
HTML Validator -
Validate
Me. Only validator sites compatible with MSIE 4 are used.
It has been suggested that some parts of this Web site may be useful. In the event of the unexpected demise of myself, my PC, my connection, or my ISP, these pages will either vanish or cease to change; I grant permission for the users of each set of these pages then to select one of their number to acquire, maintain, and update the set, provided that the head and foot of each page is suitably altered.
E-Mail must have a suitable Subject line in plain ISO-7
characters,
and must be clearly disinguishable from spam.
E-Mail should be sent, in plain text, to either one, but not to both, of
The first is preferred.
The address with only my initials before the @ sign no longer works.
The address spam@... currently works, but may not be preserved.
** ** ** ALSO SEE ABOVE ** ** **
My normal address does not accept E-Mail from spam-dominated addresses or regions. Individuals mailing from spamming ISPs should change ISP; those in spamming areas such as 0086, 00886 and parts of 001 should use the first address below, but with the left part changed to that of the second address.
My normal address does not accept E-Mail using Big5 or GB2312.
Any E-Mail so marked is liable not to be read.
E-Mail and News from me is Dated when it is queued for output; my clock is not likely to be much in error. It is not uploaded until I connect to the Net; my ISP then adds its own time-stamps.