<page>
  <title>News</title>
  <summary>What's been happening lately with Crystal Obelisk?</summary>

  <news date="Tuesday, October 1st, 2002...8:26pm">
    <title>More additions</title>

    <p>I added a bunch of content to <link
    page="Biomes/TropicalForest"/>.  I've discovered the joys of
    public domain US Military survival handbooks.  Expect more
    soon.</p>
  </news>

  <news date="Saturday, August 10th, 2002...9:17pm">
    <title>More additions</title>

    <p>More stuff being added from my roleplaying computer directory.
    <link page="People/GloinAxebreaker/index"/> is my current PC I'm
    running, <link page="People/JareOverhill/index"/> is an another
    older character, and I added a list of archetypes I had kicking
    around to <link page="Misc/index"/>.  <link page="Magic/Anaams"/>
    is an alternative magic system I once created.  Maybe some other
    stuff I'm forgetting.  Wander through the site.  It's expanded
    quite a bit these days...</p>
  </news>

  <news date="Wednesday, August 7th, 2002...9:36pm">
    <title>Donald McFloren added</title>

    <p>I've added the character sheet of <link
    page="People/DonaldMcFloren/index"/>, one of my favorite PCs.
    This is the first of putting online all the electronic roleplaying
    stuff I've got on my computer but not published.  Watch this
    space.</p>
  </news>

  <news date="Tuesday, August 6th, 2002...9:47pm">
    <title>More content exposed, some random fixups</title>

    <p>I'm cleaning stuff up, fixing up some markup</p>

    <p>Also, I've added a few new sections of website.  In particular,
    <link page="Misc/index"/> has been ported over from Magic Jar, and
    <link page="About"/>, <link page="Motivation"/>, and <link
    page="Plans"/> are also new.</p>

    <p>Soon all the Magic Jar stuff will be here.  One of my next big
    projects (don't hold your breath) is to enter in d20-statted
    versions of my Big Stack of roleplaying notes that I've been
    keeping around for years.  It'd be fun, but also a huge amount of
    work.  While we're still working on our new house, I can't even
    consider that.</p>
  </news>

  <news date="Wednesday, August 3rd, 2002...7:48pm">
    <title>More content exposed</title>

    <p>A bunch of content from Magic Jar has been ported over.  In
    particular, the <link page="Worlds/index"/> page is new, as is the
    <link page="Magic/index"/> page.</p>
  </news>

  <news date="Wednesday, July 24th, 2002...8:00pm">
    <title>Various updates</title>

    <p><link page="DontEatThem/HorseStats"/> is a new section on game
    mechanics stuff related to horses.  <link
    page="Economics/GenericCurrency"/> has been updated, mostly just
    touched up a bit.</p>

  </news>


  <news date="Monday, June 17th, 2002...9:02pm">
    <title>Finished the Horse History</title>

    <p><link page="DontEatThem/HorseHistoryEurope"/> has been fleshed
    out, finally, and is no longer in point form.  Makes me happy --
    I've been working on that (inactively) for some time.  My next web
    project is to complete <link page="DontEatThem/HorseBreeds"/>.</p>

  </news>


  <news date="Wednesday, April 10th, 2002...1:13pm">
    <title>Added some pictures</title>

    <p><link page="Biomes/index"/> has had a few flavor images added,
    thanks to <link href="http://www.gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/">the
    GIMP community-indexed photo archive</link>, a suite of
    public-domain images, indexed by the Internet community.  A cool
    thing, truthfully.  In addition, I've added the <link
    page="ImageCatalog/index"/> to the site, to manage and keep track of
    the images on the site.  Not done yet, but getting there.</p>

  </news>

  <news date="Sunday, September 2nd, 2001...8:24am">
    <title>Updated Horse History Outline</title>

    <p><link page="DontEatThem/HorseHistoryEurope"/> has been fleshed
    out further with data from another source.  A couple more sources, a
    slight reorganization and refactoring, and we'll be ready to
    prose-ize it.  Tally ho!</p>

  </news>

  <news date="August 28th, 2001...10:35pm">
    <title>Added Horse History Outline</title>

    <p>Added a sketchy outline of a European Horse History section at
    <link page="DontEatThem/HorseHistoryEurope"/>.  The outline will be
    expanded substantially before being fleshed out.</p>

  </news>

  <news date="August 21st, 2001...7:51am">
    <title>More Horse Magic Updates</title>

    <p>I added a bunch of new magic items and effects to the <link
    page="DontEatThem/HorseMagic"/>.  Also wrote some intro text.</p>
  </news>

  <news date="August 18th, 2001...8:38am">
    <title>A bunch of updates</title>

    <p><link page="DontEatThem/index">Don't Eat Them</link> has the
    beginnings of a new chapter: Horses and Magic</p>

    <p>I added a <link page="Sites/index">links page</link> to the site,
    and collected together the links from various websites I have onto
    it.</p>
  </news>

  <news date="August 18th, 2001...9:01pm">
    <title>A bunch of updates</title>

    <p>I imported a bunch of content from Magic Jar: the <link
    page="Economics/index">economics</link> section is entirely new.</p>

    <p>Also, I wrote some introductory material for <link
    page="DontEatThem/index">Don't Eat Them</link>.  Some basic
    structure is sketched out.</p>

  </news>

  <news date="August 16th, 2001">
    <title>Technology update</title>

    <p>
      I updated the technology the page is using slightly.  Building the
      site is faster, and a few tweaks to styles have been put in.
    </p>

    <p>
      Work is progressing on Don't Eat Them.  No published changes,
      however.
    </p>

    <p>
      I added a new page about d20ML, a proposed new markup language for
      the site.  Comments are solicited.
    </p>

    <p>
      Finally, I tweaked the styles.  If you're running the latest IE,
      the CSS specification of font-family: fantasy will display for
      you!
    </p>

  </news>

  <news date="July 1st, 2001">
    <title>First Web Publish</title>

    <p>
      The stylesheets are in place, the content is starting to come
      together, and I'm doing an initial publish onto the web.  Let's
      see it go!
    </p>

  </news>


  <news date="June 17th, 2001">
    <title>Origin</title>

    <p>
      Crystal Obelisk is up and running.  I'm copying content over from
      the older Magic Jar site, built a logo, and am getting things up
      and running just as quick as I can.
    </p>

    <p>
      My first original content for Crystal Obelisk will be <em>Don't
      Eat Them: A guidebook to work and companion animals</em>.
      Hopefully it won't take too long to create an initial version of
      this work.  Keep an eye on this News for more information.
    </p>

  </news>

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