Kuo-Tan Li's web journal

	A terrible ice storm knocking off power everywhere last night brings me here working on my web site again. It is not that I didn't pay attention on it during the past year; This website has been continuoustly updated especially the resume and research part. I have also been thinking of changing the style and layout of it for simplicity and esay maintenance. Recently I noticed that the blog style might be a good idea. Unfortunately, our Cornell web server doesn't support custom CGI scripts. That means blog is not allowed. Bummer! Until I find another solution I will keep adding more stuff here. Some orchids I newly collected might be interesting. And here is the drawing just finished for a specific reason. Being away from my pencils for almost three years, it feels great picking them up again.
	Good NEWS! Since I have run out of my cyber space last year, I was unable to add more stuff in this web site. Last week CU People announced that 10 more megabytes will be provided to every user. Now you can find my dissertation in PDF formate. Interested? look for it in my resume. What next? How about some Riesling from the Finger Lakes? Working on wine and juice grapes is a new experience I gained last summer. I would also like to continue adding more orchid information here. And some pictures from skiing and travel. Come back soon.
	New Addition- Physiological Effect of Summer Pruning in Apple Trees. This is a slide show for a 10 minutes presentation for Great Lakes Fruit Workers Conference 2000 being held on November 28 to 30 in Ithaca, New York. Some slides may contain multiple pictures. Please be patient while downloading, and enjoy your stay. Coming soon- Ok, this time I really have no idea what is coming "soon". The slide presentation is the first update in four months. I hope the next thing being put in my web site is my dissertation. Hopefully it will be soon. Until then.
	New Addition- My orchid collection Part III. Realizing that I will have to move soon, and again later this year, I sold all the orchids I collected on June 21, 2000. It is somewhat sad to let them go. But it might be the best way to find a new home for them. Wish I could settle down somewhere soon and I am sure I will grow more orchids. And for now, they are all in my memory, and here.... Coming soon- Ruby-throated hummingbirds have come back to my feeder since early May. Soon they will fly back to Mexico. The idea to make a page in my web for the backyard animals is still in the air. And I am still stuck with my thesis. I will not be able to leave the States at the same time with my hummingbirds. However, I guess I will not see them again next year, at the same place....
	New Addition- My master research on mangos and litchi. I tried to keep these two pages simple and interesting. You can find some nice pictures of manog flowers and pollen grains. See the differeces in shape of pollen from different flower types. Also have a close look on these quaint flowers of litchi. Coming soon- Um.... I don't know what will be the next. I have scanned some pictures of the birds and animals fooling around my backyard. I also would like to build a page for my journey to show you pictures of many places I have been in Taiwan and in the United States. It might take some time to arrange them, but I am somehow short of time at this moment....
	New Addition- Orchid collection Part II. Five Paphiopedilum species and one hybrid are in the list. This charming genus grow every well in the widowsill in my place. You might have seen most of them in my sketchbook, now take a look and see what they look like in real. Coming soon- My master research on mangos and litchi. I have some pictures of these studies scanned and will build a short site for them. Also I will try to arrange the back yard animal pictures I took with a web cam or my camera. So come back again soon.

Welcome to my web site again. You might have noticed the new layout of this page. I got the idea when developing another page in this site. I tried to maintain this page in a fresh and clean style while you can still get a clear idea about what else is hiding in this site. Enjoy your stay and come back again soon.

New Addition- my sketchbook. Drawing is one of the activities I enjoy after work. These drawings were made during the past two years. Most are of the orchids I grow. A few more work will be added in after I have them scanned.

Spring is in the air, at least for this weekend. I spent some time during the past week to fix some problems in my web pages to make them look normally on Netscape Navigator. They should look more constant in most platforms and web browsers. However, there are still some functions not being supported by Navigator, such as the screen scroll on the top of this page, and the animation pictures of these triangles on the bottom.

I also built a new page for my ongoing apple research. Have a look from "Research". Earlier I promised to make it more interesting. However, I found it is rather difficult to transform such a scientific research to a fairy tale. Therefore, in this page you can only read a program proposal I wrote last year. If you were tired to read it, those pictures would give you an idea about what I am doing too. I use it as a practice for making a professional on-line publication. The layout and hperlinks will help you easily access to each section and references. After visiting my work, take a break in my orchid collection page from "After work". Another orchid is listed in it.

Until next time,

Although everywere around have been covered with lot snow by yesterday's snow storm, I felt like I was in a tropical rain forest because I have been working on a web page about my orchids! You can access it through "Resume" or from "After work". Check it out, you will fell a little bit warmer I bet! It is the most colorful and vivid page in my site so far. Let me know how you like it.

For now I do not have all the pictures of my orchids scanned and actually there are many more orchids in my place I didn't take a picture because they are still too young or have bloomed yet. So there are only 5 species or varieties in the page so far. Another 3 or 4 species will be added in soon. My plan is to have all my orchids have a place in my web site. It may also become a library for information or memos of each orchid so I won't have to look for them in the books when I need it. If any of you are interesting in orchids too and by any chance find any error message in my web site, please drop me a line.

Some people wondered what those blue little triangles in the right bottom corner of each page stand for. So I made a little trick on them. Point your mouse to one of the triangles and see what happens. I hope you will like it. This weekend I added a few more stuff here. Now you can read the summaries of my M.S research and the abstract of the oral presentation for the 1999 International Conference of the American Society for Horticultural Science. They are hidden somewhere in the resume page. Check it out!

And finally, the last main page of this site is on. Courious about what I am doing after work? Check out the After work page. It is just an introduction about some activities of mine, such as travel, drawing, orchids. Name a few. Next time when you come back again, I hope there are more to show you.

Until then,

Thank you very much for visiting my web site and signing my guest book. Your feedback is a wonderful resource for me to find out the accessibility of this web site on your platform environment. It also encourages me to improve the design and push me to update the content. I hope when you come back next time. You will always find something news in it. However, it is a time-consuming work especially for a beginner like me. So please be patient and I will do my best.

I would also like to give thanks to my dear old classmates for spicing this site up :-) . Soon I believe the guest book will be the most interesting place in this web site. So check it out! Cheers

Two more pages!

Check out my researches. It is just an overture. I made a couple of nice pictures and hope they would attract you come back again to find out more about my research work. I will try to make this page not too academic. Hence, it may take me some time to write the stories and create more pictures. I guess you would like too see the balloons and root images from my current apple research. For those who haven't ever been Taiwan, you might fancy some pictures of exotic tropical fruits I worked on before, mango, litchi, and waxapple etc.

Another web page I built the past weekend is my address. Click "Contact me" and go from there. Later I will make some linkage so you can have a on-line trip to Ithaca, Geneva, and my hometown, Hsinchuang, Taiwan.

Chinese New Year is coming this weekend. Wish you a happy holliday.

Kuo-Tan

	Thanks for your responses to my web site. It seems I have got a good start. During the past few days I built another web page in traditional Chinese. It will serve as a Chinese version home page from where you will be able to go to other pages in my web site written in traditional Chinese in the future. However, firstly my work is focusing on the English pages. Therefore, after checking it out, you will be temporarily led back here. I also built a web journal page. All the updates will be listed there so you can find out when and which part in the site had been renewed. Finally my resume is posted today. Check it out! It is still in a plain format. I will try to make some sub sites linked to it and tell you some stories. I am working on the page for my past and current research work, so come back again soon! As always Kuo-Tan
	I have not decided yet weather to combine English and Chinese web journal in one page or in two separate pages. Hence I will temporarily put them in the same page. You might see a bunch of strange symbols (believe me they are not Chinese words) if your operation system or web browser could not recognize traditional Chinese characters. Today I made another home page in traditional Chinese. There is a short introduction in it. I also made this page for page journal. Any update about my web site will be listed here to keep you being informed when you come back again.
	I attended the Dreamweaver part I workshop in New York Agricultural Experiment Station today. I feel Dreamweaver is a much easier and user-friendly HTML editor than some other tools I have been using earlier. After the workshop I learned the basic skills and quite a few tips. I also figured out some graphic making tips so I believe in the next few days I will be able to make one more page or two. Until then
	Welcome to my web site in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. This site has been hanging here for over a year without any change due to my otiosity and lack of knowledge on web page construction. It is a shame to keep the laziness when the millennium approaches. Therefore, one of my new year revolutions is to make this web site more informative and cheerful. After several attempts last night, I adopted this soft style with oceanic tone as it shows. Why? I don't really know. It might reflect the hue of the swimpools on campus where I went swimming so often lately? It may look somewhat "cold" in the snowy winter. However, it also reminds me the tick tack of melting ice, the touch of a April forest, the taste of a spring brook, the smell of the wind over the summer ocean...They are never ever too far away, as long as we keep them in our mind. Little by little, soon I will add in more information about my personal, my research work, my after work activities, my orchids and back yard birds, and more...Meanwhile, please check in now and then, and let me know how you like it. Cheers, Kuo-Tan

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