Welcome to Glenn's World
Links Database
We all have a lot of URLs that we like to visit. Trouble is, if you just bookmark them on your browser then you don't have them available when you're seated at other computers. That's why I made this little MySQL and PHP based searchable database.
Comments?
I studied a little PHP and did a little hacking of some free scripts I downloaded. The result is that I've been able to go interactive - I've got a CGI script that allows you to give me your comments on my feedback page and it emails them to be. Give it a try.
Other language?

International guy that I am, I put a link on here so that you could suffer through a machine translation if you prefered, but it looks as though Babelfish no longer exists, so neither does this functionality.
How's this site doing?
If that's a little less than a burning issue for you, you're forgiven. I don't exactly lie awake at night worrying about it, either. Since this site is PHP-based, it is possible to log all the hits to a database, and that's what I've done. The database can be viewed by clicking here.
Something weird
This page logs the URL of the page viewed before this one. It can be interesting to see.
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This top page was last modified on Wednesday December 31, 1969


Hi, I'm Glenn. Thanks for visiting my web site. I now live in Atlanta, but I moved to Seoul in 1986, Osaka in 1988, and Tokyo in 1991, so I spent years in Asia. I'm interested in travel, motorcycles, foreign languages, music, you know, the usual stuff. This page started off, as I suspect many of them did back in 1997, as a learning experience with HTML and some brain-racking for content. Since I had a lot of travel pictures, I used them and it became "Glenn's World," basically a travel site. Then, I went through several years in which I was more interested in computers than anything else, and there is still a lot of computer-related content here. However, I've moved on from computers since I moved back to the US, and I spend a lot of time traveling and riding motorcycles, sometimes traveling by motorcycle. Most recently, I took a 15-day tour around India and then another 7-day tour around Nepal. I made a slideshow of pictures and video from India and a slideshow of pictures and video from Nepal.

I used to do my travel stuff with Photoshop and Dreamweaver, but now I put slide shows on YouTube. The commentary is missing, but I can show a lot more pictures now that we've thrown our film cameras away for good. Enjoy the pictures.

Family Album - I used to have a "Family Album" section of pictures and information about my family here, but in today's world I've pulled it so as not to give a source of information to those who think identity theft is way better than honest work as a way to make a living.

Kidpics- People visit this page for different reasons. Family and friends just want to see how the kids are doing, since we can't all get back home so often. Here's a little collage of pictures that Gihong made, but it's pretty dated by now. Gihong is also a geekette, and for a while she was doing her own vacation spreads of pictures that she's taken on our family vacations.

Travelpics - I've been taking travel pictures since the 70's, and now I've got twenty-two 500-page photo albums, shoe boxes of slides, drawers full of VHS cassettes, digital video, DVDs, jpegs on CD-ROM, you name it. Some of them even come out OK. See for yourself. Where would you like to visit? (creation or update dates follow)

 

John Kennedy Lives Again - The International Education Center has the honor of providing English training to the nine branches of Japanese Customs. In May, 2006, I was asked to help judge the final round of their nationwide speech contest at the Customs Training Institute in Kashiwa, a short train ride from Tokyo. After the recitation contest, the judges were also asked to do a recitation. I chose to do a 500-word extract of JFK's inaugural address because I thought it would be fun to say "Ask not..." in front of a hall of people. I was lucky because the entire address is available for download in mp3 format on the Internet, so I was able to listen to the original before doing my version. Although I screwed up parts of it, most people said they enjoyed it. Since the contest was videotaped, I was able to rip me delivering JFK's inaugural address to a WMV file that's just under 5 megabytes in size. It will look a little less jagged if you scale it down a bit.

YouTube, anyone? - My daughter Kelly made a music video for a high school class that you may enjoy. I do. Also, I've been a fan of the Cleveland area band 15 60 75 (the Numbers Band) for years, and I've video recorded them twice now. A while back, I (under an assumed name) took the time to send some clips of their songs up to YouTube. I've also uploaded some stuff by one of my heroes, Todd Rundgren. You can see and hear these videos by clicking here.

Computers - As you've figured out by now, I'm a serious compu-holic. I spend way too much time studying and experimenting with computers (translation: sitting here on my butt). When I finally get something to work, I don't want to just forget how to do something - I write it down. To try to find it again, I've been working on alphabetized guide of often-used information for years now. This stuff is written just for myself, but you might find something useful, too.