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12/08/2011 - Jeez, time flies when your raising kids.  Realized it has been a long tme since we published pictures so here are two years worth!
05/06/2007 - Finally time to update this again.  I moved the website back inhouse and have removed the webcam completely from the site, because I could never get the dang thing to work right.  Anyway, enjoy the new pictures.
11/12/2004 - Long time since I updated this.   I resolved the issues with streaming media not working.  Also have started evaluating alternative webcam solutions.  I have found a new webcam software package that really kicks butt, and have rewritten the webcam pages to use the new application, now I just need to find the actual webcam camera iteself.  Hopefully the webcam will be back online for real this time (grin).
02/13/2004 - Update the site with new contact info since we've moved.  Took the webcam offline again.  It has really been offline for quite some time.  I expect to have it back up within the next few weeks.  Also, all site are now hosted with an enterprise hosting provider.  This should substantially improve the performance of the sites as well as guarantee 99.999% uptime of all content.
06/03/2003 - Updated the site with new pictures.  Still working on getting to the video.  I have also added some new functionality that will point out which picture set and been recently published.
01/06/2003 - Updated the site with new pictures.  Look for a lot a new video in the coming months.
10/09/2002 - Quite a few new additions and updates throughout the site.  Added a Help page and also separated the About This Site page from the site.  The swaffordfamily site will now run completely separate from the swafnet site.  I am also working adding a search function to the site.  Added non-streaming video link on the Family Videos page.
10/04/2002 - Upgraded WebServer processors to Dual 1000Mhz Processors.  Also replaced drive subsystem with (6) 9GB Ultra2 SCSI SCA drives in a Hot Swap chassis, increasing internal storage capacity to 45GB with an excellent storage upgrade path. WebCam changed to Off-Line status again :(
06/14/2002 - Removed 40GB RAID1 Storage array.  Replaced with 240GB External Storage array for additional processing power.
11/24/2001 - Upgraded server to Dual Pentium III 800 Processors.
10/04/2001 - Alright.  The entire site has been changed.  The SwafNet Technologies Site has been completely separated from the Swafford Family Site.  This was long overdue change. 
10/03/2001 - Server upgraded to 1GB of Registered ECC SDRAM --- WOOOOHOOOO!!!.
09/28/2001 - The Upgrade to Windows 2000 / IIS5 / Active Directory has been completed.
07/03/2001 - Alright, I have been able to test the Videos and all appears to be working properly.  The video even works over slow Dial-Up links so that project is now complete.  I will continue to work on getting a better quality video on-line for "High-Speed" users.  I think the QuickTime video is going to go away due to it's bandwidth requirements and problems with the QuickTime Streaming Server.
06/30/2001 - The wedding video is turning out to be much more difficult than expected.  I am now running a Windows Media Streaming server to host Windows Media Files.  QuickTime has a Streaming server as well but I have discovered that its administration features suck and it frequently crashes.  I am still evaluating both formats.  Please let me know if you have problems.
06/26/2001 - Completed the conversion of the Wedding pictures to the new format.  All the pictures are now converted.  Updated My Resume again.
06/25/2001 - Major improvements to the Photos Portion of the site.  I have finally found an easy method for creating a web based photo album.  Most of the pictures have been converted to this already (Thanks to Scott for the help).  The Wedding Pictures are all that is left but they are in a different format so it'll come a little later.  Combined the Family pictures 'What's New' section with this one.  Combined the Family Pictures and Wedding Pictures Pages.  Just a bit of info for those interested....I have gone from 8 pages to well over 450 pages hosted on this site.
06/05/2001 - Begin Beta Testing of WebCam Page.  The WebCam will only be online during certain test periods so it may will not be up when you try to access it.  The biggest problem is that it eats my bandwidth so it may not stay for long.
05/15/2001 - Upgrade Server to Dual Pentium III 600 Processors!!!
04/01/2001 - Upgrade Server from 384MB to 512MB of ECC SDRAM
02/10/2001 - Replaced LinkSys Firewall with new CheckPoint Firewall.
11/02/2000 - There has been an extremely high demand for me to get the Wedding Photos online quickly so here you go :)  The Wedding video should be posted soon so come back again to check it out.
09/06/2000 - Ok.  I've redesigned the entire photos page, added the latest pictures and changed the format to make it match the rest of the site.  Currently I'm working on a way to dynamically update this page with new directories but I have no idea where to begin.  So for now I'll just have to manually update it :)
07/17/2000 - I'm doing my best to get all the pictures on-line in a better format, but for now at least they are all here.  Some of these have not been named but you'll get to see all of them.  Just click a link on the Family Pictures page to get to the section you want to view, then click a file to view the image.  I wasn't happy with the second design idea either (it sucked), but it had to do for a little while.
06/25/2000 - Initial release.  The original page was ugly as hell so it got redesigned pretty quick.

Planned Future Site Improvements

None at this time.

About this site

Site has been designed entirely by Thomas Swafford in FrontPage 2000/2002.

All Picture Editing and Video Editing were done with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier.

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