This one does what I need it to though, and is easy to navigate and to maintain.  It doesn't need Flash this and Java that...all that does is waste bandwidth.  Given that the site's running on my own server now, that is actually something I at least need to think about.

Newest stuff's at the top, oldest at the bottom.

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29th April 2023: An invisible update again I'm afraid.  The switch over to HTTPS it turned out broke my visitor tracker...Fixing this was simple enough, just needed to update the embedded Statcounter code...on every...single...page!  There are 183 of them in case you wondered.  Turns out there were actually a dozen or so pages where it had never been added when I originally wrote them.  Oops.

24th April 2023: Another update you're unlikely to really notice.  The site is now being served over HTTPS.  This is a change I was somewhat reticent to make as I know some people (including myself!) use this website as one that you can point ancient browsers at and still have the page render correctly.  However I'm sick of the Google Search Console complaining at me, and have been made aware that this actually does result in the search results being depreciated albeit I believe only on mobile devices - though given that about 95% of my traffic these days comes from mobile devices that's not ideal!

21st April 2023: Nothing you're likely to see - but a few dead links mostly on older pages have been pruned, primarily to get the Sitemap generator to quit whining at me every time I ran an update request.

18th April 2023: Added a page for my Toshiba T1200 Laptop Computer to the Vintage Technology Section.

4th April 2023: Uploaded the completely re-written page for the Toshiba T5200/200 portable computer.  Kind of embarrassed it's taken me this long given that the original version was thrown together in about half an hour back in 2009 or earlier and was a mess.  All new text, photography and actually accurate system specs now all present.  Given that this was one of the busiest pages on the website in terms of search engine traffic it really needed a bit more than a fresh coat of paint.

15th March 2023: Added the Toshiba T1950CT laptop computer to the Vintage Technology Section.  I've implemented some changes to how images are handled with this page - so they should now dynamically scale according to the viewport size as reported by your browser.  This should make things far more pleasant if you're viewing the site on a modern high resolution display (no more postage stamp sized in line pictures), and should also play more nicely with mobile devices - most notably in that it should for the first time ever make the site actually readable in portrait mode.  If you run into any issues let me know.  On the same note I have fixed the images on the page of the Prinztronic Mini 7 Calculator - it used to require continual scrolling back and forth to view on some mobile devices.  I know there are a few pages affected by this, I'll try to get them fixed shortly.  It's not a difficult job, just a bit tedious.

9th March 2023: Tidied up the links page a little (sorted everything in each section alphabetically rather than just what order they were added in) and added a new links to Caps Wiki.

21st December 2022: Added some actual body text to the page for the Peugeot 306 Sedan...which has just consisted of a single photograph since...uuuh...about mid 2015 I think.

19th December 2022: Added a page for my newly (and unexpectedly) acquired Renault 25 Monaco to the automotive section.

15th December 2022: After a long, somewhat torturous development process which resulted in me re-writing the thing from scratch at least five times, the main page for my 1973 AC Model 70 is finally live in the automotive section.  I'm pretty sure this is probably the longest page anywhere on this website by a couple of orders of magnitude - it's definitely the one which has required the most brain power and lost me the most hair to write!

25th November 2022: Added a section on my links page for photography services reflecting the two suppliers I use regularly these days.

24th November 2022: Added the page for the 1978 Vauxhall Cavalier to the automotive section.  This will be updated in due course as the restoration of the vehicle progresses.

1st November 2022: Following feedback from some users stating that they found the white on black text hard to read I have changed the background from a deep black to a more unobtrusive pattern in a dark grey colour.  Hopefully folks will find this helps.

I have (finally) nearly finished putting together the page for the Invacar - this has taken forever as it's by far the longest and most involved one I have ever put together for the Automotive section.

In addition to the main page for the Invacar I have also put together a shorter FAQ page to address some of the questions, misunderstandings and dodgy facts that are in common circulation about these cars.  That FAQ is now live.  A placeholder has also appeared for the recently bought 1978 Vauxhall Cavalier.

18th March 2021: Updated the page for the 1983 Citroen BX 14RE.  Also made a couple of changes to the wording on the landing page and have updated the Favicon to something less cryptic - the old one was meant to be a stylised representation of a compact fluorescent lamp - though there's only so much you can do with a 16 pixel square!.

13th March 2021: New page added for the 1983 Citroen BX 14RE which has been added to the automotive fleet.  I've also rearranged the table on the cars page so they are listed chronologically by date of manufacture.  They were just listed by the order I'd written the page before and it was getting messy.  Similarly I'll be going through the lighting pages and rearranging things alphabetically where relevant...No idea why I didn't do that originally.

10th February 2021: New page added for the Prinztronic Mini 7 Calculator to the Vintage Technology Page.  For all it's a relatively inexpensive one from its period, has to be one of the nicest looking designs I've got in here I think.

25th January 2021: Added the page for the Generic Transparent Solar Powered Credit-Card Style Calculator.  Felt it was worth having an example of the end of the calculator market where they've become so cheap as to be give-away items in addition to some of the high quality instruments from the heyday of the technology in the collection and on this page.

Note that I have also started to remove any links to loz.zelandeth.org.  The LOZ prefix on the address is a holdover from when I had several websites hosted on this server and is no longer needed.  Bookmarks can now be updated to just http://zelandeth.org - though the original address will still resolve correctly so it's not essential.

17th January 2021: Added the Casio PF-3000 Calculator and Data Bank to the Vintage Technology Page.  I've also rearranged the tables on that page so items are arranged in alphabetical order to make them easier to read.  I'll be doing the same elsewhere on the site in the near future.  The "as added" order made sense when there were only a handful of entries, but it's just a mess these days in most cases.

11th January 2021: Not entirely unexpectedly, within about 30 minutes of putting the main update live yesterday evening I had compiled a list of snagging work I needed to do which was *just about* successfully crammed onto two sides of A4 paper.  I think everything on that list has now been resolved.  The majority of the changes were simply (aside from fixing things that were broken!) things like ensuring the typeface and size is consistent throughout the site, ensuring that all pages have a consistently located home/back button, that every page has the StatCounter code correctly embedded in it, and ensuring that the viewport size was properly declared in the page code (to hopefully stop the Google Search console from nagging me about it!). 

As a regular reader one of the things you're most likely to notice is that the appearance of the tables on a number of the pages has changed.  After a bit of experimentation I came to the conclusion that doing away with the red table borders actually vastly reduced the visual clutter on a lot of the pages, also allowing me to space content out a little better without making things look horribly awkward.

In terms of actual site layout changes there are a couple, one of my aims going forward is to keep each of the main areas of the site more clearly separated from each other so it's easier to navigate.  The Specta, Colour Rendering Index Test and Streetlighting pages have been moved to be subsections of the Lighting Technology Section.  This just makes more sense to my mind and helps reduce clutter in the navigation frame.  They're still exactly the same pages, just the route taken to get to them is changed slightly.

The links page has also been given a going-through so everything in there should now be live again (I think the dead-link ratio on the old page was about 80%).

I'll be continuing the bug-fixing and such over the next few days as I'm sure I'll find more things I've missed.  If you spot anything glaringly obvious and/or broken please let me know!

10th January 2021: While it shouldn't be too obvious outwardly, over the last couple of days I have done a LOT of tidying up behind the scenes.  I had no idea there were so many pages opening in the wrong frames, circular links, orphaned pages I'd never linked into, pages which didn't have link buttons back to the rest of the site from etc...It basically took me a full day to sort the mess out!  I also discovered that a LOT of my pages were missing the Statcounter code....which may explain why my recorded visitor numbers have plummeted quite so much in recent years.  Yeah...having lost the cost from my template won't have helped!

8th January 2021: Fixed a factual error on the page for the Kovac K-80D regarding the device weight.  Also fixed an issue with one of the tables on the Vintage Technology page being scaled to a set pixel width rather than scaling to the window width...Goodness knows how many years that's been like that...

5th January 2021: I've moved the Flashlight Reviews section to a new Archival section.  I *MAY* revive and rewrite some of these reviews, but it's simply not something that I really have time to invest resources into these days.  Nothing has been deleted, the pages are all there - you just need to click through a couple of pages to get to them now.  I have no intention of outright deleting anything, I've seen far too many websites I used to enjoy browsing just disappear overnight that I've made it a rule that I'll never do that.

4th January 2021: Added a new page in the Vintage Technology section for the Kovac K-80D calculator.  A nice little portable desktop unit from 1973 which is built like a tank.  Have also made a change to the introduction text on the website landing page advising of the upcoming Spring Clean and archiving of some of the older pages I wrote in my early to mid teens which make me cringe to read now.

30th December 2020: I appear to have fallen headlong back into the hobby of collecting vintage calculators again after not touching the hobby in over 15 years.  Added a new page in the vintage technology section for the recently acquired Sharp EL-808 calculator - only the second commercially available model to use an LCD - albeit a DSM display which bears virtually no resemblance to an LCD as you'd recognise it today.

31st December 2017: So in a vain attempt to make it so that I can say I've updated the website this year...Here's an update on the Xantia's page to reflect that she's now been sold on to a friend.  Likewise have updated the Skoda's page to reflect it also having moved on to pastures new.  There are two more vehicles which will be making an appearance here soon too...

13th November 2016:  In response to E-mails from a couple of regular readers, I can confirm that I am in fact not dead.  Nor have I been abducted by aliens.  Life has just been really busy recently and unfortunately the website has been pushed to the back burner a bit.

A new addition will shortly be appearing on the automotive page with my recently bought Lada Riva 1.5E Estate - Yes, I have finally managed to find one - it's only taken me thirteen years of searching!  Watch this space, and a page should be appearing for that soon.  Hoping to include a bit of a buyer's guide for the Riva as well.  To make way for that, my Citroen had to be sold on, but she has moved on to a long-standing enthusiast and looks to have a long, pampered life ahead of her yet.

3rd February 2016: Sorry for the sporadic dropouts over the last couple of weeks.  Our internet connection has been randomly dropping recently, and it's not entirely clear whether it is our ISP having issues or if our router is on its last legs. 

Also have made a small update to the webpage for the Peugeot 107.

4th July 2015: Happy 4th of July to all my American Readers (and those from elsewhere who celebrate it!).  Added a page for my most recent automotive acquisition, a 1998 Citroen Xantia 1.9TD Sensation, allowing me to finally fulfill my long standing wish to own a proper green-blooded Citroen.

24th June 2015: Added the page for my Peugeot 306 Sedan which is currently looking for a new home.  Have also been doing some background work adding alt text/titles to images throughout the site.  This is mainly to improve search performance etc.

12th June 2015: Updated my 1989 Saab 900i's webpage with a bit more text and a shedload more photos.  Some more to follow over the weekend too with a bit of luck.

10th June 2015: Holy updates Batman!  Um...Yes, I am actually still alive and rumours of my abduction are greatly exaggerated. 

What actually happened over the last year and a bit has been quite involved, but the main points involved...getting booted out of our rented house when the landlord decided to sell it, buying a house, moving into it, my mother passing away very suddenly from cancer, and the addition of a highly hyperactive puppy into our family.  Suffice to say, the poor old website has had to take a bit of a back seat with all this going on.  It's astonishing to be honest that my Frankenserver has stayed online despite my having barely touched it since the last update.

This update sees the addition of a page for my 1987 Skoda 120LX.  ...Which was bought back in September 2013...and I've only just had time to sit down and scribble a page for.  I have a few more pages half written to add at some point in the future, but knowing my own history I'm not going to make promises on dates!

15th December 2013: So we're back up and running, after only 30 odd hours of downtime which was better than I had expected.  You may notice that the site is performing in a slightly better now as well given that the connection I am now running from has somewhere in the region of 8 times the upstream bandwidth available than my old one.  Biggest bottleneck now is probably the server itself, which isn't likely to change any time soon given that it does what it has to.  Given that I *should* have a bit more free time now (well, once the rubble from the move settles anyway) to update this place - you might actually see some new uploads soon!  I do actually mean that this time...

22nd October 2012: Added a new lamp (Philips Tornado ESaver CDL 865 20W) to the Spectra page.  Sorry for the lack of updates lately folks.  Work's been leaving me pretty wiped out lately with little brain power to spare in the evenings.  Have a lot of things lined up to get written, just struggling to find the time and willpower to get to it!

12th July 2012: Added the page for the Philips SL*9 Prismatic to the Compact Fluorescent page.  Not entirely happy with the text at this stage, so there may be some edits over the next few days.

6th July 2012: Added the page for the Jacksta 40W Induction Lamp which I picked up recently out of pure curiosity.  This meant that I also had to write a proper intro page for the Induction Lighting section too as it previously just linked straight into the only item in that category, the Philips QL 85.

4th June 2012: We're back!  Sorry about the downtime over the last couple of weeks folks.  The server ran out of disc space about two months ago, which was on my "need to fix that" list for a while - but it kept running even with no space.  Until the power went out briefly and forced a restart, at which point I couldn't log back in.  Oh dear.

So I rummaged around until I tracked down a more sensibly sized harddrive, an external harddrive caddy, the necessary cables then got things up and running again.  It's a bit of a mess, but I'll do something later to sort the cables out.  Hope that there will be a couple of updates to follow in the next couple of weeks.  This has been an on-and-off issue for the last year or so, but the drive that's gone in should have plenty of space for a while.

29th March 2012: Added the page for my recently (and unexpectedly) acquired 1989 Saab 900i to the Automotive page.

12th March 2012: Added the Calex Rusiek 40W to the Incandescent Lighting page.  Also updated and closed off the Suzuki Cappuccino's page.

18th November 2011: Updated the 1980 Volkswagen T25 Camper Van's page to more accurately reflect its current status.  Apologies for the lack of updates recently folks, work and life in general have been very busy of late, leaving me with little time (or energy!) for anything else, so I've not been getting updates through as fast as I'd like.  I do have a few things pretty much ready to upload though, so hopefully should have some new stuff up soon.

10th May 2011: Updated the Suzuki Cappuccino's page, detailing what's happened since last April, and the bad news regarding its current condition.  Hopefully not terminal, but at the very least it'll be off the road for quite some time.

6th May 2011: Uploaded the page for my new automotive project, my 1980 Volkswagen T25 Camper van.  Expect to see updates to this page as the project progresses.

4th May 2011: Good news everyone!  I have finally got my lazy tail in order and set up a virtual machine which gives me access to my old web editing software.  I've tried to persevere with alternatives, however I have failed to find alternatives which do the job as well as Microsoft FrontPage (as bundled in this case with Office XP) did in terms of being a simple, WYSIWYG editor which can handle tables properly.  Yes, it's a cop out, yes there are probably better programs out there - but this works for me, and does what I want it to!  Especially when you disable half the extensions it tries to make use of which break page formatting in some browsers.

Bottom line is that this will mean that updates will be considerably less hassle for me now, so should hopefully appear a bit more frequently.  They should also look somewhat better as the spell checker in this thing works properly!

14th April 2011: Sorry about the downtime for the last couple of weeks folks.  Some file corruption had occurred on the server which was preventing it from booting - unfortunately as it's set up as a headless machine this meant that I couldn't get into it to diagnose the problem until I had time to physically drag it through here to a monitor!  I've actually moved the website over onto a new machine (though the original server is now back in a working state again as a backup) partly to address some performance concerns, and partly in recognition that the previous one - which was built out of scrap parts about four years ago has been running 24/7 since then, with only a failed network card in terms of attention since then!  The new machine also uses about 1/3 as much power, and is silent...so those are also bonuses.  Afraid I don't have any update to go up tonight - but I do hope to have something up sometime shortly...not going to quote times, as I never seem to meet my targets!  I am still alive though!

PS: If the site seems to be appearing and disappearing even more than usual lately - it's likely due to DNS issues.  My router appears to be getting progressively more flakey lately, and when it crashes, resets or reconnects itself, as I haven't got a static IP address, it takes a while for the changes to filter through once I've updated the redirection.  Once it either annoys me enough or dies completely I'll replace the router...but not yet.

3rd August 2009: Finally got around to fixing all the broken bits of page on the Flashlight Reviews Page...only taken me eight months!  Still, it's done now!