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Since October 1996, and even before that, Richasi's Domain has enjoyed an
interesting and rich history. From growing out of a small, remote Bulletin
Board System (BBS) in an equally small city to a massive vessel dedicated to
my every whim, Richasi's Domain has always been my leanto. It's not much... it
never has been... but it's been quietly growing, changing, and rebranding itself
through these many years. Here you'll find the major update notes from the latest
iteration of Richasi's Domain (Version 3.0) as begun in 2004.
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2004
06/29/04: The New Richasi's Domain goes online. Gone are the "portals" as they
were once known and the "world" image map that has been dominant
for the past two to three years. Today is a much simpler design
with five selections -- Grand Chapiteau, Snapshots, Chronicles,
SpaceLink and Ancillaries. For now, Grand Chapiteau (my Cirque
du Soleil site) and SpaceLink (pages dedicated to SpaceCamp) are
fully online. Snapshots is currently being uploaded and may be
in a state of disarray for the next couple of days. Chronicles,
which will take the place of "Richasi's Storyboard" will follow
shortly.
06/30/04: I added the old "Pics of Me" page from the "G Spot" back to Richasi's
Domain. It's easy to find... just click me! ;) ALSO, Snapshots was
briefly updated. The Adult Space Academy, Part 1 set of pictures
still had photo info stats on it, so I removed them.
07/04/04: Snapshots: I uploaded four new directories -- 09.01.01 (WDW
Contemporary), 03.08.02 (WDW AK Lodge), 12.19.02 (WDW Riverside),
and 04.10.04 (Las Vegas 2004).
07/05/04: Snapshots: Uploaded yet another set of photos, this time
it's the 10.30.02 (Tennessee / Smokies) set. Enjoy!
07/29/04: Snapshots: Uploaded new set of photos from my recent
trip to Tennessee -- 07.21.04 (Tennessee / Smokies) set.
Domain: Uploaded two new (older) pictures of me from my trip
to Europe in 2003. Click on me to see 'em!
10/03/04: Snapshots: Uploaded all Japanese trip photos!
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2005
09/01/05: Sorry for the lack of updates lately. Completed upgrade of site to
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
11/06/05: Snapshots: New Album added (2005) and uploaded three new
directories -- 04.23.05 (CirqueCon 2005: Montreal), 06.13.05
(Disney & Nicole), and 07.09.05 (Huntsville/USSRC).
Chronicles: New Section Online. Chronicles takes the place of
the old "Richasi's Storyboard" site that once existed. For now
only two titles are available: "The Pride" and "Passages: Images
of the Pridelands"; both are Lion King related fan fiction.
Documents are in Adobe PDF format only, and are compatible with
Acrobat v5.0 and higher.
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2006
01/03/06: Removed "SpaceLink" and added "Fascination!" to the main page.
03/31/06: Snapshots: "Walt Disney World" album place links added.
Reworked the 03.08.22 (Seattle) Trip pictures: removed 37 pix,
retooled the rest [77-pix to 47-pix]. Reworked the 03.11.08 (La
Nouba Q&A) pictures: removed 18 pix, retooled the rest
[41-pix to 21-pix].
04/01/06: Snapshots: Reworked the 04.05.22 (CirqueCon 2004: Vancouver)
pictures: removed 31 pix, retooled the rest [75-pix to 44-pix].
07/10/06: Just a small update -- I added a favicon to Richasi's Domain of
Leopard Spots. :)
07/29/06: Snapshots: Added four new selections, they are as follows:
12.03.05, AK Day / EPCOT Nights - 51 pix
01.17.06, An EPCOT Afternoon - 33 pix
03.05.06, SeaWorld / WDW / Nicole - 76 pix
05.19.06, Seattle (Varekai) - 33 pix
09/01/06: Snapshots: Added one new selection:
08.19.06, Chicago (Corteo) - 60 pix
10/03/06: Snapshots: Added new Album and three new selections:
Album: Western USA 2006
09.17 -- LA / Hollywood - 72pix
09.18 -- Disneyland / DCA - 59pix
09.20 -- San Francisco - 54pix
10/05/06: Snapshots: Added one new selection:
09.20.06 -- CirqueCon 2006: Las Vegas - 116pix
(added to Western USA 2006 Album)
11/02/06: Pics of Me: Added 8 new and old pictures of myself.
OLD:
- May.17.1997: Wearing the Simba Hat
- Nov.01.1997: At Magic Kingdom
- Nov.07.1997: At Gator Growl
- Apr.05.1998: Pillow Fight!
NEW:
- May.06.2006: Nicole and I at My Graduation
- Aug.19.2006: A Reflection of Myself
- Sep.19.2006: Me with the "R" at DCA
- Sep.22.2006: Nicole and I at CdS: LOVE
11/16/06: Pics of Me: Added 4 new pictures of Nicole and I.
- Sep.21.2006: Nicole and I with Comet from "O"
- Sep.21.2006: Me with Donkey Boy and Le Transvesti
from "O"
- Sep.22.2006: Nicole and I at Mystère.
- Sep.23.2006: Nicole and I with the Zumans.
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2007
01/07/07: Snapshots: Added 1 new selection:
12.07.06 -- New York City - 167pix
05/24/07: Snapshots: Added 1 new selection:
04.21.07 -- Montréal / Koozå - 81pix
06/21/07: Snapshots: I revamped the design of the page (from black to
white background) and added 1 new selection:
06.16.07 -- Alumni Space Camp - 144pix
06/24/07: Snapshots
- Continued Revamp. Changed Design from 6/21/07.
- Removed 5 selections:
10/08/01 -- Tennessee/Smokies
11/24/02 -- Le Grand Tour: St. Petersburg
03/21/03 -- Universal Studios
11/09/03 -- La Nouba Q&A
05/13/04 -- Hurricane Charley
- More design changes on the way and possibly more picture
removals.
Richasi's Domain
- Changed Star Background
06/30/07: Snapshots: Removed 4 Selections:
09/01/01 -- WDW: Contemporary
03/08/02 -- WDW: AK Lodge
12/19/02 -- WDW: Riverside
10/18/03 -- WDW: Doug & Cindy.
07/08/07: Continued re-vamp of "Snapshots" by adding second menu bar and fine-
tuned the CSS.
07/09/07: A new version of "SpaceLink" went online this evening, that features
the same navigation and design as the new "Snapshots" that went
online on 6/21/07. As of this date, PDF versions of USSRC Musuem
Guides (1988, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997 and 2004), Space Camp News
Issues (all 10 I have) and the 1988 Application Book went up. More
to follow.
07/11/07: SpaceLink: While I did get the 1989 and 1991 Camp application
guides together, I haven't had the time to PDF them, but they will
be up shortly. In the meantime, enjoy new "seeable" thumbs for the
Camp Newsletters and some other minute visual changes.
07/13/07: SpaceLink: I added the PDF documents for the 1989 and 1991
Application guides, as well as, 10 patch scans from the old site.
07/29/07: SpaceLink: I added the PDF documents for the 2004, 2005 Youth
& Group, 2006 and 2007 Application books, as well as, the image
for the 1992 application book.
10/22/07: Snapshots: I re-arranged the Featured Destinations part of the
page to remove the Space Academy 2003 section (I removed 150pix,
re-tooled the rest to help save space. 150pix remain) and moved it
to the Amazing Journeys area. I placed the headers in for the
Japan 2007 trip, which will come along soon. I also collapsed the
two pages into one of the Gatlingburg, TN 2004 trip.
10/23/07: Snapshots: The ASA2003 removal saved approximately 35.6MB of
disk space, so I re-did the Las Vegas 2004 set, removing 53pix
leaving 134 freeing up approximately 16.0MB of disk space.
Why am I removing pictures? First there's a lot of redundancy in
some of the pictures out there. For example, there's 10 pictures
of the same thing. 10 isn't needed when only 2 will do. So I
remove those 8 and free up space for future albums. And as I
re-visit places, such as Las Vegas, New York City, etc., I tend
to take the same pictures again (or similar); therefore, to keep
a healthy variety I review and pull ones I don't need to showcase
anymore!
12/04/07: Snapshots: Added two new albums:
07.11.11 -- New York City - 95pix / 35.7MB
07.12.01 -- San Francisco - 60pix / 26.4MB
12/05/07: Snapshots: Added one new album:
07.10.07 -- Washington DC - 294pix / 120.0MB
12/06/07: Snapshots: Added some Japan 2007 pictures. Due to the fact
these pictures are numerous in quanity, I have reduced their
file size to get them all on. Instead of 1416x1064, I have
downsized them to 708x532. The following albums are now
available:
-- Tokyo Environs - 70pix / 9.46MB
-- Kamakura - 125pix / 18.6MB
-- Nikko - 125pix / 19.6MB
-- Miyajima & Hirojima - 136pix / 18.1MB
12/08/07: Snapshots: Added two more Japan 2007 albums:
-- Tokyo DisneySea - 109pix / 15.4MB
-- Himeji & Osaka - 75pix / 9.56MB
12/09/07: Snapshots: Uploaded 3 of the last Japan 2007 albums:
-- Kyoto, Day 1 - 75pix / 16.0MB
-- Kyoto, Day 2 - 121pix / 18.9MB
-- Kyoto, Day 3 - 108pix / 16.5MB
12/10/07: Chronicles: I revamped the design of the page (from black to
white background) to match the others ("Snapshots" and
"SpaceLink"). More to come in 2008 as I prep the texts for
their online return.
Fascination!: Updated Wordpress from v1.3 to v2.6.
Main Page: Changed the color of the menu bar text from
Silver to Gold, and updated the navigation display slightly.
12/13/07: Snapshots:: Downsized three albums to help conserve
space. By reducing the picture size on just these three
albums alone I have saved 95.85MB of server space that can
and will be used for future albums. The three I reduced are:
-- 07.10.07 -- Washington DC - 294pix / 60.2.0MB
-- 07.11.11 -- New York City - 95pix / 18.0MB
-- 07.12.01 -- San Francisco - 60pix / 8.05MB
2008
02/13/08: Snapshots: Uploaded a new Album
- 08.02.09 -- Monterrey, MX - 109pix / 20.0MB
04/16/08: Chronicles: Uploaded new titles!
- Reflections of Life: "Le Grand Tour"
{This is part of the non-fiction "Reflections of Life"
series, which is generally a collection of journal entries
or articles based on my personal adventures. This particular
one chronicles my "grand tour" of Cirque shows that took
place in 2002}
- The Lion King (re-releases):
- "Life's Little Circles"
- "Ithabise: It is Time"
- "Sacred Homage"
{These are "single" releases of pre-established TLK-based
short stories. In fact, these three titles can already be
found in the collection "Passages-Images of the Pridelands",
which has been available on the Chronicles page.}
- Star Trek: "Another Piece of the Action" (NEW!)
{This one should be self explanatory}
06/02/08: Snapshots: Uploaded a new album:
-- Shuttle Launch 2008 - 40pix / 11.9MB
06/19/08: Chronices: Uploaded new titles!
- Reflectsions of Life: "Live to Cirque" (Articles)
"Live to Cirque" is part of the non-fiction "Reflections of
Life" series, which is generally a collection of journal
entries or articles based on my personal adventures. This
one continues the Cirque Theme from "Le Grand Tour" and
chronices some other adventures had on behest of Cirque
du Soleil shows. At this time there are five articles, as
follows:
* "Scream. Run. Invent." - Alegria at Beau Rivage
* "Cirque at the Masters" - A La Nouba Q&A
* "We're Off and Running" - Inagural CirqueCon
* "faire la nouba" - La Nouba 5th Anniversary
* "Bienvenidos a Mèxico" - Quidam in Monterrey
06/21/08: Snapshots: Uploaded 2 new albums:
-- Seattle, WA 2008 - 64pix / 23.6MB
-- AirZoo 2008 - 39pix / 11.6MB
Also, created a new "Good Times" section to basically
house the pictures with Nicole and I in them, or taken
with the two of us together. Created the icons to go
with them.
07/24/08: Chronices: Uploaded new title!
- Reflections of Life: "In the Land of the Rising Sun"
"In the Land of the Rising Sun" is part of the non-
fiction "Reflections of Life" series, which is
generally a location of journal entries or articles
based on my personal adventures. In this case
chronicling my first trip to Japan in 2004!
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2009
01/14/09: Domain Update
-- Changed Menubar to remove SpaceLink and add new selections: ASSIST
and PROFILE. SpaceLink will eventually be found again under the
ANCILLARIES section, with perhaps a couple of the old Star Trek
Promenade pages (like the Mego Page and Classic Cards Page).
-- New Page: PROFILE. This takes the place of the old G-Spot page
from years ago, cleaning things up and presenting it in a
LiveJournal/MySpace/Facebook profile kind of way. More to be added
in the future!
-- Some other behind-the-scenes HTML/CSS changes and directs. More
updates coming! (The Update/History page, the one you're reading
now, will eventually become ASSIST in the future!)
07/28/09: Just a little note to say I updated the PROFILE section today with
a little page called "Where I've Been", which shows, via colored maps,
where I've been in the World, USA, Europe and Japan.
08/01/09: More updates to PROFILE today, with some visual changes throughout.
Also, added little pages on Pocky, Pocari Sweat, Kodo, Favorite
Movies and Anime Series watched on the INTERESTS page.
08/03/09: Updates to PROFILE continue with page-links to movies list, cirque
show list and a few tweaks here and there.
08/04/09: Even more updates to PROFILE today, with little pages on Brother
Bear, Lilo & Stitch, and The Lion King on Broadway. Added web links
to some other interests.
08/05/09: Snapshots: Added two new albums:
08.07.04 -- Chicago, IL - 75pix / 26.2MB
09.01.17 -- Atlanta, GA - 84pix / 28.6MB
09/18/09: Chronicles: Uploaded new title!
- Reflections of Life: "Live to Cirque: « l'Aventure de Cirque
du Soleil »"
"Live to Cirque" is part of the non-fiction "Reflections of Life"
series, which is generally a collection of journal entires or
articles based on my personal adventures. In this case select
articles chronicling my experiences with following Cirque du
Soleil around the world from 1999 through 2009.
11/01/09: Snapshots: Beginning Refresh/Redux Project. Snapshots will
be re-vitalized in three phases. Phase 1: Remove extra images,
index files and re-size all pictures - same look and feel all
around. Phase 2: Add new albums for 2009 + Japan 2008. Phase 3:
Add new WALT DISNEY WORLD picture section.
12/20/09: Snapshots: Redux, Phase 1 complete and most of Phase 2.
All that is left is to add Japan 2008 pix and start Phase 3.
Some stats:
Started With...
144 Index Pages | 4906 Fotos | 1563.3 MB of Space Taken
Removed...
49 Index Pages | 852 Fotos | 915.7 MB of Space Saved
Current...
95 Index Pages | 4054 Fotos | 647.6 MB of Space Taken
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2010
01/25/10: Snapshots: Redux, Phase 2 complete. Added Japan 2008 album:
08.11.05 -- Japan 2008 - 629pix / 105.3MB
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