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Programmer/Analyst/Consultant (Retired) - Academic Computing - University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Wisconsin Area Code 414 to 920 Changes All (414) 424-nnnn at UW Oshkosh are now invalid!!

Some of my favorite Web sites: | Site Map |
| UW Oshkosh | City of Oshkosh / Concerts | Wisconsin |
| Retirement | Federal | Illinois | Lookups | Telephone |
| World Wide Web | Help Desk | Computers |
| Folk Music | Stamps | Star Trek | Fun/Strange | Adoption |
| Travel | Obsolete | Links | What's New |
(All "MAP" interactive maps of Wisconsin locations courtesy of MapQuest)

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh: - MAP | top | bottom of page |
- Home Page - Campus Map
- UW Oshkosh Faculty/Staff Home Pages - A Celebration of Scholarship
- UW Oshkosh Student Home Pages - How to obtain a Student Home Page
- Libraries and Information Technology
- WebMail - Read your UW Oshkosh E-Mail from anywhere in the world (like a graphical Telnet)
- Username / E-Mail Address Search (ph Server)
- Libraries and Learning Resources - Forrest R. Polk Library On-line Catalog
- Statement of Acceptable Use of Computing Resources
- Web Policy and Procedures - UW Oshkosh Web Editor's Corner
- E-Mail and other Virus Hoaxes
  (Good Times / Naughty Robot / PenPal Greetings / and, unfortunately, many others)
- Apply on-line to UW Oshkosh
- UW Oshkosh Alumni Office
- As of 7-01-1998, The Koehn Institute (KI) and the UW Oshkosh Business Development Center (BDC) was merged into The Center for Community Partnerships (CCP)
  The Koehn Institute (1983-1998), was named in honor of Richard W. Koehn, a respected area banking professional and special friend of UW Oshkosh.
- UW Oshkosh discography

City of Oshkosh: - Celebrities / Local Concerts / Venues | top | bottom of page |
- Oshkosh and Fox Cities: FOCOL: Fox Communities Online
  - Local Business/TV - Local Clubs and Organizations - Tourist Attractions
  - Weather: Oshkosh / Appleton / Fond du Lac / Green Bay (courtesy: The Weather Channel)
    Earth Watch: Weather On Demand North Central U.S. current Satellite photo
    National Weather Service (NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  - Local Public Libraries: Appleton / MAP - Fond du Lac / MAP - Menasha / MAP - Neenah / MAP
    - Winnefox Library System Members
      All Public Libraries in Green Lake, Marquette, Waushara, and Winnebago Counties
    - Oshkosh Public Library / MAP
      Catalog: Username = Oshkosh, Neenah, Menasha, or Berlin
      (where you want to pick up reserved materials)
      For non-local Internet readers, choose Oshkosh, which has the largest collection, or you will get many "No copies at this location. Press RETURN for copies at other locations." messages.
      Community Database: Username = Community
    (For people with an OPL library card only: About Your Account)
- Celebrities: | top | bottom of page |
  - Fredric March: Fredric March Theatre at UW Oshkosh
    Campus Tour / Communications Dept.
    Film Credits: The Internet Movie [and TV] Database - at Cardiff UK - US
  - Kim Robertson: Artist Index Page - Discography - Kim's 10-28-1995 concert in Oshkosh
    World famous Celtic Harper, and 1977 UW Oshkosh graduate
- Local Concerts / Venues: | top | bottom of page |
  - UW Oshkosh Calendars: - Department of Music - News Bureau - WebEvent
  - Oshkosh musical organization home pages
  - Green Apple Folk Music Society - Musi-Cal Folk Venue Database
    - other Wisconsin Folk Music societies
  - Fox Valley Arts Alliance
  - Musi-Cal Venue Database
    For all Wisconsin Venues, "Search field: state for WI", and press Go!
  - Dirty Linen Magazine: Wisconsin
    - All Concerts: by artist - by state/province - festivals/events by date
  - Musi-Cal (The Music Events Calendar) (Skip Montanaro)
    - Search by artist - by state/province/country - search the database
  - Wisconsin Concerts and Venues by City
    - Oshkosh - Appleton - De Pere - Fond du Lac
    - Green Bay - Menasha - Neenah - Wautoma
    - Special Musi-Cal search: all concerts within 90 miles of Oshkosh / 60 / 30 mi.
  - Other Concert and Venue Sites with Wisconsin pages

Wisconsin: | top | bottom of page |
- Wisconsin Museums
- Wisconsin Highways (Chris Bessert) ( License Plates #1 / #2 / Tribal / #4 / #5) - WI Flag
  - International Ovals black & white vehicle sticker country codes
- Wisconsin Weather - local weather (courtesy: The Weather Channel)
- WisconsinMaps - County Maps
- Forward Wisconsin Elected Officials Home Page
  - State Symbols, flag, bird, etc. 09-22-1997: links broken, cannot find new site
  - 50states.com / Wisconsin / State Song (Bob Bach)
- Wisconsin Timber Rattlers - Midwest League Ballparks in Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Web Resources
  - Wisconsin Web Site Lists: - Badger - Badgerlink [DPI] - CityLink - InfoMad - WISinfo - Yahoo
    - The List - ISP's by Area Code - 920 / 262 / 414 / 608 / 715
- Other Wisconsin Schools and Campuses:
  - Wisconsin Schools (International School Web Registry)
  - University of Wisconsin System - graphic image map / text
    - UW Madison WiscINFO
  - Wisconsin Technical College System - Individual Colleges
    - Fox Valley Technical College (Appleton)
    - Oshkosh, Neenah, etc. / MAP (Oshkosh)
    - Moraine Park Technical College / MAP (Fond du Lac)
  - Community College Web - Wisconsin Community Colleges
  - CollegeNet
  - Carroll College - Alumni Page / MAP (Waukesha)
  - College of the Menominee Nation (Keshena) - American Indian College Fund
  - Lawrence University / MAP (Appleton)
- Other Wisconsin Libraries
  - Academic Libraries in Wisconsin Web Sites
    (at public, private and technical Colleges and Universities)
  - Wisconsin Public Library Web sites (by city)
  - Friends of Wisconsin Libraries (FOWL) / Membership Application
- And on a lighter note: How to Speak 'Scansin

Retirement: | top | bottom of page |

Federal: | top | bottom of page |

Illinois: | top | bottom of page |
- City of Chicago
- Chicago Public Library
- John Crerar Library - University of Chicago
- Paul V. Galvin Library - Illinois Institute of Technology
  Home of the John Crerar Library from 1962 - 1984
- Chicago area on-line map (courtesy: InterAccess Internet Provider out of business)
  [stars on the map indicate obsolete dialup number locations]
- Highland Park, IL
  - Community Page
  - Highland Park Public Library
  - Highland Park High School (HPHS) - (class of 1959, my class) / also 1957
    Note: of Illinois, not Texas or Michigan (archive, can't find current Web site)
  - Edgewood Middle School (class of 1955)
  - West Ridge Elementary School (1947-1953) (closed 19??) The building is now called the West Ridge Center #1 / #2, the headquarters of the "Park District of Highland Park"

Lookups / Searches: | top | bottom of page |
- Perpetual Calendar (Herb Weiner)
- Acronyms at UW Oshkosh and Beyond
- Internet Anagram Server
- Computing Dictionary
- OneLook Dictionaries (over 400 different dictionaries indexed and searchable)
- dictionary.com - Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- Roget's Thesaurus Lookup Form - another Lookup site
- Copyright and Trademark Information
- Conversion sites:
  - Capacity and Volume Conversions (Sergey Gershtein)
  - Conversion Tables (weights, measures, temperature, etc.) (Peter Wallin)
  - Measurement Conversion (Darin Franklin)
  - Euro Money Conversion (effective 1-01-1999)
  - Universal Currency Converter Services
- How far is it? - Mapquest.com - Maps and More - Yahoo! Maps
- Hytelnet on the Web
- The Internet Movie [and TV] Database at Cardiff UK / USA mirror
- ZIP+4 Code Lookup Form and other lookups
- The Wall (Vietnam War Memorial)

Telephone Information: | top | bottom of page |
- Phone Books and other e-mail directory servers (other Universities and Colleges) [Internet Archive]
- Switchboard - Telephone / Address Lookup Both Businesses and People
  - AllPages Businesses only, with no maps
- list of all possible Area Codes
- Area Code Finder - in Number order / by location
- Area Code Lookup (AmeriCom)
- Telephone Prefix Location Directory
- PhoneSpell - convert letters <-> numbers
- AT&T "AnyWho" Lookups:
  - Toll-Free 1-800 Telephone Number
  - Reverse Phone Number Lookup

World Wide Web (WWW) Information: | top | bottom of page |
- What is the World Wide Web? - The World Wide Web for the Clueless
  [The original page title was "The World Wide Web for Dummies" before the lawyer$ found out about it]
- Searching: - Google | Alexa | Alta Vista | Dogpile | Galaxy | Hot Bot |
  - ALIWEB | All the Web | AOL Netfind | Ixquick | Vivisimo | Yahoo |
  | Open Directory Project | Other Search Engines |
  | Search Engine Watch "how search engines work" |
- Browsers - Netscape | Lynx | Mosaic Home Page - Mosaic for Windows |
  - Netscape Navigator: A Beginner's Guide
  A free on-line tutorial offered by University of Wisconsin-Stout
- The Compendium of HTML Elements
  Sorry, the link to the home page was deleted as it is no longer a free resource. This means that children must pay for access. This is unacceptable, and possibly illegal.
  - Attribute Pages - Server Side Includes
- TIP: Surf the Web 75 to 90 percent faster (ZDNet)
- ADV-HTML - Advanced HTML Discussion List
  - Archives / Guidelines / Advanced HTML FAQ: Revision 1.1, as of 10-31-1995
- W3C HTML Validation Service (Gerald Oskoboiny)
  Tip: install a link to "http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" if you want the current page to be validated.
- All Things Web (Terry Sullivan) some selected topics below:
- Best Viewed With Any Browser
- Composing Good HTML
- What does your HTML look like without graphics?
- How to design pages for 14 million AOL visitors
- Webmaster Reference Library
  - Subject Menu - Magazines
- Why not code for Netscape?

Help Desk Information and Software: | top | bottom of page |
- Help Desk FAQ (Philip Verghis)
- Help Desk Institute
- Help Desk Professionals Association
- HelpDesk ProLink!
- Network Associates / site map
  - SupportMagic - Sceptre support
- Humor: Poppy's Lack of Knowledge Base

Computers: | top | bottom of page |
- Help Desk Information and Software
- Accessibility:
  Do your pages deliberately discriminate against people with disabilities?
  - Web Accessibility information and links
- Health: - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Repetitive Strain Injury
  - Get Ergonomic Advice From the Pros - for Free (ZDNet AnchorDesk)
  - Avoid Back-Breaking Computing (ZDNet AnchorDesk)
- Hardware: - Apple Computer Support and Information - Apple - iMac Support
  - Compaq/DEC - IBM - Intel - Sun - Zenith
  - Compaq Products
- Software: - Claris - ClarisWorks / AppleWorks User Group - Linux
  - Eudora #1 / #2 - WebMail / alternate - Kermit
  - Lotus - Multinet - Nolo Press - Novell
  - SPSS [ acronym] - Symantec (PC Tools, Norton Desktop, etc.)
  Windows 3.1 - Microsoft Upgrades / ZDNet / Deja News (USENET) discussion
  Windows - 95/98 FAQ - 2000 FAQ (John Savill)
- Magazines: - Digital Age (was: DEC Professional) - Internet World
  - Information Week - PC World - Windows Magazine
  - WebsiteMagazine.com
- TIP: Using The Windows Resource Meter (ZDNet)
- Other: - The Year 2000 Information Center (No Frames) / (Frames)
  If you have account expirations, or other critical computer dates set in a 2-digit year format, like 12-31-99 or Julian 99365, check out this site for important information.

Folk Music: | top | bottom of page |
- http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/folkbook/folkbook.html
  FolkBook: An Online Acoustic Music Establishment
  (09-01-1994 - 03-07-1998) - replaced by "folkmusic.org"
- folkmusic.org (on-line since 8-21-1997)
- FolkLib Index: A Library of Folk Music Links (on-line since 11-25-1995)
  - Wisconsin Music Site Map
  - Folk Music Periodicals
- Green Apple Folk Music Society (Terry Dawson)
  other Wisconsin Folk Music societies
- Musi-Cal (The Music Events Calendar) (Skip Montanaro)
  - By artist - By state/province/country - Search the database
- UW-Parkside Music Archives (mirror) - entire site shut down permanently (Dave Datta)
- Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) and Television (WPT)
  - "Simply Folk" on WPR (Judy Rose)
- Home Pages list at folkmusic.org: Artists / Browse

Stamp Collecting / Philatelic Links

Star Wars: | top | bottom of page |
- Lucasfilm

Star Trek: | top | bottom of page |
- Star Trek: Insurrection - Paramount Pictures - The Film Frontier
  - Internet Movie Database / plot summary / video trailers
  (Star Trek 9) Opened 12-11-1998
- Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001): - Star Trek: Continuum - Ultimate TV List - Internet Movie Database
  [Note: the birthdays of all regular cast members are included on the Artist Birthdays/Bibliography pages.]
  - Reviews, all seasons (Julia Houston)
  - Vidiot Season #1 / #2 / #3 / #4 / #5 / #6 / #7 (2000-2001) The Final Season!
  Kate Mulgrew - Internet Movie Database (U.K.) / U.S. mirror - Lycos Celebrity Guide, Birthday ( FolkLib Index)
- Star Trek (Classic) ("The Original Series") (1966-1969): - Ultimate TV List
  William Shatner - Internet Movie Database (U.K.) / U.S. mirror - Lycos Celebrity Guide
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) - Ultimate TV List
  Patrick Stewart - Internet Movie Database (U.K.) / U.S. mirror - Lycos Celebrity Guide
- Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (1993-1999): - Vidiot - Ultimate TV List
  Avery Brooks - Internet Movie Database (U.K.) / U.S. mirror
- The Film Frontier / Memorial
- United Federation of Planets
- Star Trek Resources on the Internet (Brigitte Jellinek)
- Sci Fi Channel (cable) - Star Trek - Schedule: Eastern Time (scroll down to select another time zone)

Fun and/or Strange Sites: | top | bottom of page |
- Burma Shave Slogans of the Fifties
- The Canonical List of Touch-Tone Phone Songs
- How to Speak 'Scansin
- Perpetual Bubble Wrap
- Jokes: - Musical Instruments (Jeff Bigler) / Lawyer$ (Nolo Press)
- The Unofficial Smilie Dictionary (for E-Mail correspondence use)
  Note: Do NOT use these symbols on Web pages. Screen readers for the blind cannot interpret them correctly.
- Who says you can't smell things on your Web page?
- 2001: A LEGO Odyssey (movie short, requires Quick Time or similar video player)
Adoption Information:
- Adoption Information and Direction (of Wisconsin)
- Adoption Search and Reunion
- Adoption in Wisconsin (Department of Health and Family Services)
- Special Needs Adoption Network of Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Adoptee and Birth Family Registry
Travel | top | bottom of page |
Obsolete sites, current location unknown, anyone know where they are now?:
[Never backed up by the Internet Archive]
- http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rod/humor.html "Computer Humor"
- http://phone.itis.com/ "Selected U.S. Phone Books Online"

Known links to this page (Home Page - Link Page). Thank You.

Henry Houh's Harp Page (scroll down to "Other Harp Related Information on the Net")
Floyd Wouters - Other Links
Jared Wouters - Other Links
Please write if you know of anyone else who links to this page.

URL: http://www.folklib.net/henkle/home2.shtml
Please send additions and/or corrections to Doug Henkle: henkle@pobox.com
P.O. Box 1447, Oshkosh, WI 54903-1447

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