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Here is an overview of how this site (www.avenarius.sk) has been developing from its beginnings until the present state. The most recent changes are stated at the top of the page; the beginnings of the site are described at the bottom.
Read the Coming Up section on the What’s New? webpage to learn what additions can be expected on the site in near future. To learn about the off-line history of Avenarius’ Book of Quotations (founded in December 1992 as a manuscript) prior to its transfer onto the Internet (in July 2000), read the Introduction page.
This page (and website) was last updated on: 20 May 2006
If this date is later than the first date in the list of specifically described changes (below), this means that the last update featured minor maintenance improvements of the site that do not deserve specific mention in the overview on this page.
22 March 2006
 Karl May & Rex Stout profile pages revised
17 March 2006
 Trent’s Last Case (1911) by E. C. Bentley – fulltext
29 August 2005
legacy encodings iso-8859-1, iso-8859-2, and koi8-r are abandoned in favour of the UTF-8 Unicode standard encoding. UTF-8 is now uniformly used on all webpages on this site.
1 August 2005
switch to Slovakia’s best provider of site visitors statistics, naj.sk, both for the main and the personal section of the site. Old statistics (March 2003 – July 2005) are still available (main / personal); these original counters today only count hits on the quotations homepage and the personal homepage.
4 June 2005
stylistic facelift of entire site: where serif font is specified (especially on webpages with quotations, literary excerpts), the site will now nearly always display the Georgia font (if available on visitor’s computer). Georgia is more legible and suitable for reading texts on the computer screen than the Times New Roman font to which most browsers would have otherwise defaulted. It is also highly recommended for readers of these webpages to turn on ClearType (if available on their operating system).
24 August 2004
 Девочка, с которой ничего не случится (1965) by Kir Bulychov: file revised & completely Russified
2 May 2004
Rex Stout profile page: ›Looking for Wolfe‹ section updated
10 April 2004
[Posledné interview] (Jozef Dado Nagy, Národná obroda) (2002) by Július Satinský – fulltext
5 January 2004
There is a gap of over 3 years (36 months and 16 days) between this and the previous official update of the site (20 December 2000). In the meantime, however, silent work in the background of the site was continuing, so that the result in January 2004 is a major overhaul of the entire site’s design and operation. The HTML code on all currently existing 187 webpages (their list is in the Site Map) has been re-written. All webpages have been and continue to be regularly checked for syntactical correctness and simplicity of the underlying code; the code of many webpages (especially alphabetical index pages and pages with the “bubble design” such as the one you’re currently viewing) has been streamlined and re-written nearly from scratch, resulting in a faster loading time. The web site now performs equally in all three major browsers (Opera, Mozilla, and Explorer).
To observe the nature of changes and the degree of expansion of this site compared to December 2000, you may download a zip file (138 KB) containing old versions of 5 webpages in their archived status as of December 2000, and then compare the archived files with the present outlook of those same 5 webpages: Introduction, Site Map, Mottoes, Complete List of Quoted Works, and Rex Stout (1886–1975). To perform the comparison, unpack all the files and folders from the zip file into any directory of your choice, then open the "old_avenarius_sk" folder and simply double-click the following five files: intro.htm, map.htm, mottoes.htm, works.htm, and (in the "stout" folder) index.htm. Perhaps the most conspicuous change beside the expanded content is the increased and systematic usage of cascading style sheets throughout the site today.
The earlier site address www.avenarius.net and the initial ad-sponsored Tripod location (USA), http://aavenarius.tripod.com, were discontinued in late 2001. A consistent cross-referencing system has been implemented; read more about it on the Introduction page. In March 2003, Site Visitors Statistics (new / old provider) was set up for both the main (new / old provider) and the personal (new / old provider) section of the site; there is also a live access-log.
Following is a list of files that, as of today (5 January 2004), become official additions to the site – although many of them were unofficially and silently added to the site at an earlier point of time during the 36-months hiatus:
Im Lande des Mahdi II (1892/3) by Karl May
Rex Stout profile page: major overhaul and expansion of the webpage’s content by about 400%
Introduction to Avenarius’ Book of Quotations: major overhaul and expansion of the webpage
Mottoes for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations: greatly expanded content, and merger with a former webpage, ›Mottoes (in Russian)‹
Karl May profile page: expanded and updated content
Vorrede zur ersten Auflage von Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1818) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Vorrede zur zweiten Auflage von Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1844) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Vorrede zur dritten Auflage von Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1859) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Selbstdenken (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Ueber die Weiber (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Ueber Lerm und Geräusch (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Ueber Lesen und Bücher (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Ueber Schriftstellerei und Stil (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Zur Physiognomik (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer – fulltext
Education (1864) by Ralph Waldo Emerson – fulltext
Najkrajšia rozprávka na svete (1974) by Ľubomír Feldek – fulltext
Stratená princezná (1974) by Ľubomír Feldek – fulltext
Úvodná rozprávka o tom, prečo sa táto kniha volá Modrá kniha rozprávok (1974) by Ľubomír Feldek – fulltext
Dvadsiaty piaty list Slovákom, v ktorom je reč o tom, či čítame (1991) by Július Satinský – fulltext
Conversations with God, Volume III – chapter 6 (1998) by Neale Donald Walsch – fulltext
Neale Donald Walsch on Larry King Live (2000): Avenarius’s transcript of a CNN interview – fulltext
Seizing Your Moment of Grace (2000) by Neale Donald Walsch – full text of the final chapter in Communion with God
The New Revelations: Talking Points (2002) by Neale Donald Walsch – fulltext
What Is Humility? (2002) by Neale Donald Walsch – fulltext
Fear: The Great Attractor (2002) by Neale Donald Walsch – fulltext
Is There Negativity in Wanting? (2002) by Neale Donald Walsch – fulltext
Beingness to Doingness (2002) by Neale Donald Walsch – fulltext
 various quotations from the Bible
various quotations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 Verzeichnis von eingescannten Sascha-Schneider-Bildern
quotations by various authors: letter F
quotations by various authors: letter H
quotations by various authors: letter J
quotations by various authors: letter K
quotations by various authors: letter P
quotations by various authors: letter V
 Rex Stout on the Information, Please radio quiz show (29 August 1939) – full-length audio recording
Rex Stout on Sherlock Holmes stories (1939) – audio
Rex Stout on beards and moustaches (1939) – audio
Fer-de-Lance (1934) by Rex Stout – file deleted, later reset and restored in truncated form (read why)
Too Many Cooks (1938) by Rex Stout – file deleted, later reset and restored in truncated form (read why)
The Black Mountain (1954) by Rex Stout – file deleted, later reset and restored in truncated form (read why)
Reading Nero Wolfe Stories On the Internet?
What Is a Plog? [non-JavaScript version]
Disclaimer – External Links [non-JavaScript version]
Plus, Avenarius’s personal section of the site has been expanded to include:
Avenarius’ Home Page – a major revision from September 2001, introducing texts on Bratislava, Slovakia, and Avenarius’s personal background, beside over a dozen photographs and maps of Europe and Slovakia
Home Pages Site Map created
Karl May, der unverstandene Triviale (Nepochopená prostomyseľnosť Karla Maya / Karl May’s Misunderstood Simple Mind) – download page for Avenarius’s diploma thesis. The thesis is available in zipped format (MS Word for Windows documents); a browsable, revised HTML version is planned for the future.
Slovak & Czech Alphabets (Slovenská a česká abeceda)
Russian Alphabet (Ruská abeceda)
Multi-Lingual Curly Quote Marks and Related Signs in HTML (Zaoblené úvodzovky a pod. v HTML)
The Bat! macros, related to GMT time conversion
Slovak TB! macros (Slovenské makrá pre The Bat!)
Czech TB! macros (České makra pro The Bat!)
Russian TB! macros
Januk Aggarwal’s macros forwarded to TBUDL
Vkladacie šablony (Quick Templates) používané pre funkčnosť odpovedacej šablony Avenariusa (Quick Templates Used in Avenarius’s TB! Slovak Reply Templates)
Quick Templates by Alexander V. Kiselev
Nemecké gramatické tabuľky / Deutsche Grammatik-Tabellen [German Grammar Tables]: collection of links to additional pages, stored externally
ZŠ sv. Vincenta de Paul, Bratislava – Štvrťročné testy z nemčiny / Deutsch-Tests [St. Vincent de Paul High and Primary School, Bratislava / Slovakia – German Quarterly Tests]: collection of links to additional pages, stored externally
Gymnázium a ZŠ sv. Vincenta de Paul, Bratislava – Výsledky testov a diktátov (školský rok 2003/04) [St. Vincent de Paul High and Primary School, Bratislava / Slovakia – Test Results (school year 2003/04)]: collection of links to additional pages
6 April 2001
domain name www.avenarius.sk acquired. Avenarius’ Book of Quotations is, for the first time, hosted on a paid server that loads webpages fast and advertisement-free (www.webpriestor.sk). The earlier ad-supported addresses (www.avenarius.net and http://aavenarius.tripod.com) continue functioning as well. The Tripod site from now on serves as a mirror site (back-up) of the main server; the contents on both sites are kept identical.
20 December 2000
Devochka, s kotoroy nichego ne sluchitsya (1965) by Kir Bulychov: code revised & streamlined
19 December 2000
Too Many Cooks (1938) by Rex Stout
Site Map streamlined & re-formatted
Introduction page updated
background colours for 52 index webpages refreshed & modified; links to all the 52 indexes may be found on the Start Page
13 December 2000
Google’s super-fast search engine integrated into Avenarius’ Book of Quotations: readers may now choose to browse this Book of Quotations exclusively for any author, book title, or word occurring on any page on the site.
Im Lande des Mahdi I (1891/2) by Karl May
Karl May’s profile page thoroughly revised, but still left incomplete
Rex Stout’s profile page updated
Start Page revamped; size reduced resulting in faster loading time
12 November 2000
The Ivory Grin (1952) by Ross Macdonald
5 November 2000
the Introduction page thoroughly overhauled
Fer-de-Lance (1934) by Rex Stout: capitalization of nouns removed from the previous experimental web version; the text of excerpts now exactly mirrors the original version as published by Rex Stout; footnotes have been revised and expanded
The Black Mountain (1954) by Rex Stout revised; capitalization of nouns removed from the previous experimental web version; the text of excerpts now exactly mirrors the original version as published by Rex Stout
4 November 2000
Fer-de-Lance (1934) by Rex Stout: all 115 quotations now uploaded; the first large quotations file to appear on this site
1 November 2000
readers of Avenarius’ Book of Quotations may now subscribe, by posting a blank email to the address subscribe@avenarius.net, to receive an email notification whenever something new is added to the site
22 October 2000
first instalment of Rex Stout’s Fer-de-Lance (1934)
Site Map thoroughly reorganized
the Site History and What's New? pages thoroughly refurbished
2 October 2000
domain name www.avenarius.net obtained. Avenarius’ Book of Quotations is now available at two www addresses: www.avenarius.net and http://aavenarius.tripod.com (the site where files are actually stored).
early September 2000
Site Map created
mid-August 2000
Mottoes (in Russian) for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations page created
11 August 2000
Devochka, s kotoroy nichego ne sluchitsya (1965) by Kir Bulychov
Site History page created
What's New? page created
Mottoes for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations page created
all links in the headings of all pages (except personal site pages) made functional
Introduction page revamped
6 August 2000
complete lists of quoted authors and quoted works thoroughly revised & expanded
late July 2000
25 webpages created, one for each letter of the alphabet, each listing authors of quotations
25 additional webpages created, one for each letter of the alphabet, each listing works quoted in Avenarius’ Book of Quotations, organized by the quotations’ authors’ last names.
Complete List of Authors of Quotations and Complete List of Quoted Works created
Links to the 52 new index pages appear on the Start Page.
mid-July 2000
The index page – called Start Page – for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations created
A webpage with an Introduction to Avenarius’ Book of Quotations created
Avenarius’ Home Page created
Profile pages for authors Rex Stout and Karl May created
July 2000
Avenarius’ Book of Quotations founded on the world-wide-web, at the initial address http://aavenarius.tripod.com
The webpage that happened to get uploaded first was Rex Stout’s The Black Mountain (1954)
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