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• 09.06.97 Ducksnorts born, as part of Geoff Young's Scoresheet Baseball Pages, with article on Hideki Irabu. Originally hosted on AOL.
• 12.05.98 First major redesign implemented. New color scheme, navigation structure, and mailing list introduced.
• 01.01.00 Site moved to Geocities. Second major redesign implemented. If you must see what it looks like, it's still there (and still ugly as sin) at geocities.com/gyoung858
• 06.12.01 Site moved to geoffreynyoung.com. Third major redesign implemented; Geoff's Baseball Weblog introduced.
• 06.22.01 Mailing list moved from ListBot to Yahoo!Groups.
• 11.01.01 Fourth major redesign implemented.
• 03.20.02 Ducksnorts.com launched.
• 10.19.02 Ducksnorts.com moved to new host, Myacen.

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Born in Boston in 1969, Geoff was raised in Los Angeles and has lived in San Diego since 1987. He graduated from the University of San Diego with an oh-so-useful B.A. degree in English. Geoff began following baseball seriously during the late-1970s, listening to Tommy Lasorda's Dodgers on KABC radio most every night. He stuck with the Dodgers till the early-90s, when he switched allegiances to the Padres, of which he has been a fan since.

When not watching games or poring over box scores, Geoff works as a Web Editor for SAIC; plays guitar and sings with San Diego based classic rock cover band Chin Waggers; and hangs out at home with his wife, Sandra, and two dogs, Toby and Smitty.

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Ducksnorts is best viewed using Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer 5+ at 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 resolutions. At one point, Ducksnorts also worked on versions of IE 4 and Netscape 4+, for both Windows and Mac machines, as well as on Konqueror 3.0.0 for SuSE 8.0, but I haven't used any of those in some time so I can no longer vouch for them. If you encounter problems with Ducksnorts, please let me know what browser and operating system you're using and I'll be happy to investigate.

Pages are created in Crimson Editor; occasionally Microsoft Office is used--particularly Excel in the creation of complex tables. Graphics are created and/or edited in Paint Shop Pro 8. Photographs are taken using an Olympus D-510 Zoom digital camera with USB support. SmartFTP is used to upload the pages to the server, which is maintained by Myacen.

The primary machines used by the author are a Micron Millenia Pentium III 866 with 576 MB RAM and a 19-inch Micron monitor, and a late model Hewlett-Packard notebook with obscene amounts of RAM and storage space (too lazy to look up the exact specs, but it's fast and powerful).