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October 2000
Hectic times at work prevented me from
working on the actual site in the period August-October. Behind the screens
though, work continued. I am working on a complete overhaul of my site. It
will probably also appear under another name in the future (with its own
domain): The Pern Museum & Archives (The Pern Museum for short). Work on
the encyclopedia was also continued but nothing of the new data has been
added yet. On top of that Alec Johnson, son of the Dragonlady herself,
opened a fantastic new website with a bulletin board and... a Live Chat (the
Kitchen Table and the Kitchen Table Live) and they are very
addictive, slurping up much of my free time :)
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May 2000
OK, long time, no s... serious work on
the website; well not that you have been able to see! But I kept busy,
honest! And to prove that concept versions of almost all the Bloodlines are
up!!
Yes, check out the Bitra, Boll, Crom, Fort, High Reaches, Igen, Ista,
Keroon, Lemos, Nabol, Nerat, Southern, Telgar and Tillek Bloodlines! I still
have to do a lot of work on most of them but you may expect some reasonably
accurate genealogies. And, of course, I didn't put them up for nothing; I'd
appreciate any comments, corrections and or suggestions for additions you
are able to make - very much in fact.
I'm still working on my notes on Dragonflight in the meantime and
those will be incorporated in the PE when they (and I) are ready.
Just one other addition there is, but it is a major one: an index to Todd
McCaffrey's Dragonholder. There are in fact three of them on the same
page, one on names of persons (real and fictional), one on geographical
names and one that deals with various thing. Check
it out.
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October 1999
There are a few things I'll have to explain
because everybody who visits my site must have visited, or rather: must also be a regular
visitor, of Sariel's Guide to Pern.
In secret I have been planning to promote Sariel (aka Cheryl in real life) to Master
Archivist when her site would be one Turn old. I could have just mailed her to say that
she merits that particular title on the basis of her work but I had already done that long
ago and I thought I had to do something that would make Sariel appreciate bestowing the
title on her even more that, at the same time, would help her accept the fact of her
promotion (basically she's a modest person). So I wrote to a number of our peers that I
have met, mainly through Alt.Fan.Pern, setting the rule that I needed a majority to make
Sariel Master Archivist, otherwise the whole secret scheme would be off. To make a long
story short: the majority of the peers were in favor of my proposal and within a week I
had the needed majority. I had also written to Anne McCaffrey herself (yes, I am
audacious, but only on behalf of somebody else). I didn't receive an answer however. I
also wrote to Todd McCaffrey (who naturally - and wisely - referred the question to his
sister Gigi. So I called in the help of Coelura, who is known be in contact with the
Dragonlady herself and asked her if she could aid the good cause. She consented and wrote
to Anne, who answered that, if Sariel's site was as good as Becky (and I) had told, she
should be known as Master Archivist and that no copyright infringements would hinder such
a promotion (I had been afraid of something like that being the reason for not receiving a
response). So on October 12 we sent Sariel the "surprise package" concerning her
promotion to Master Archivist. A well deserved promotion! That's the story in a nutshell,
which I wanted to tell because Sariel's site news and page about her mastery, makes me look a
very sneaky guy :) (which I am but I won't have to admit to that publicly without giving
you the reason why I was sneaky in this case). Oh, shards. Now I have to go and change all
the references to Journeywoman Sariel on my own site! (But I'll do it gladly).
Concerning my own site: I have been rather
busy the last few months with other business than the Pernese. I did manage to put up the
first page of the Maledicta, oaths, sayings and proverbs etc.
section and (because I felt guilty about not putting more data into the encyclopedia - I
did take notes but those are not ready yet to put in) I put in what I call my
"cold" notes on the first five chapters of Dolphins of Pern. These mainly
concern names of persons and places and their locations.
There is news on the Bloodline section too. I managed to put up the first draft of the
Benden family-Fort Lord Holder Bloodline or genealogy. Check it
out and let me know what you think.
I also wanted to thank all of you who took the effort to send me additional data, things I
overlooked, corrections, remarks and generally a lot of compliments (thank you!). For
information received I especially want to thank: Elysia Dial, Jen Reinhardt, Hartley
Patterson (who took up the Dragon Demographics gauntlet in his usual professional way and
came up with a marvelous new page on this topic: go see!) and
Jamae/Dragoncharmed. I also want to thank Del Rey publishers for putting the link to my
site on theirs in such a prominent place (thanks Peggy).
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