Happy New Year - 2011!

When it's the New Year in your timezone, thanks to a bit of new code I wrote, ASDHollywood.com and Dalinka.com will automatically display the site's new 2011 Logo. All four digits of the year are taken from ASD's photographs at Walt Disney World -- the 2 is the most obscure from a resort, the 0 (heavily Photoshopped) is from a ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios, and the 11 is from a building at Epcot's World Showcase.



Happy New Year!

(Even this post has been scheduled in advance to post automatically on New Year's Eve!)

New photos of Washington, D.C. October 2010

October 23 to 27, 2010.  Includes lots of outdoor photos plus exhibits in the Air & Space Museum, American History Museum and the National Gallery of Art.

Now see Magic Kingdom area by air on the TravelBlog

Never saw this from an airplane before.  Go check it out....

New photos of Walt Disney World on the TravelBlog

From September 2010

Subtle changes underway

Notice some new things in the welcome at the top and the menu bar on the left?

In modern browsers, the time in the welcome updates and the menu on the left displays dates in a digital graphical font.

More Photos Added to Dalinka.com

The slideshow on the first page of Dalinka.com now presents 50 randomly selected travel photos by Alan S. Dalinka.  The improved slideshow engine now selects from 150+ photos from around the world, and this selection tool may be expanded to include even more of ASD's photos!

St. Louis Photos from 2004 page added

Photos of the St. Louis Gateway Arch, from the Arch, the Mississippi Riverfront and of the Cubs vs. Cardinals game at old Busch Stadium from July 11, 2004 have been added to their own page.

Disneyland Pages Redesign & Update in Progress

So far, 2007, 2008 & 2009 Disneyland visit pages and the related part of ASD's portal page for Disneyland have been redesigned to have the same look and feel as the Walt Disney World pages.  A few new photos have been added along the way to make the pages more complete and each of the pages also takes advantage of the new additional side-bar code written for the Walt Disney World pages update last month.

More updates soon.

********Update at 5:12 p.m. 7/5/2010********

Now 2004 and 2005 are updated too.

********Update at 9:22 p.m. 7/5/2010********

2002 is updated.

********Update 7/6/2010********

2001 is updated.

Site Updates Blog has been redesigned

Following the format changes on the Travel PhotoBlog, the Site Update Blog has been updated to have the same look and feel.

Lots of New Las Vegas Photos & Video

Having returned from a trip from June 28 to July 2, 2010, there are lots of new Las Vegas photos and some videos to see -- there are some especially good arial photos on the flight out of town, including Lake Mead & Hoover Dam.

I took this opportunity to also revise all of the Las Vegas pages on the site and add more photos and video throughout.

Go directly to the Las Vegas page or take a look through the Travel PhotoBlog which now has the ability to display all labeled posts relating to "Las Vegas" and other subjects.

Visited the Pawn Stars' shop on June 30, 2010

Got a picture of The Old Man and a few pictures of the shop. Big Hoss and ChumLee were in the store too, but in the "no photos" area. Photos on ASD's Travel PhotoBlog.

Walt Disney World Pages Redesigned & Updated

All of the Walt Disney World pages on the site have been redesigned and updated with a more uniform look and operation. A few additional new photos have been sprinkled throughout those pages as well. Most importantly, some new code I've written allows for more choices on the sidebar menu depending on which trip collection is being viewed.

More Destinations, More Photos & More Video

The menu bar for all of ASDHollywood and Dalinka.com has been slightly redesigned and more destinations have been added.

Photos of Springfield, IL have been added to the site.

More video has been added to ASD's YouTube Channel, including The Main Street Electrical Parade at Walt Disney World in 2000, Disney's Electrical Parade at Disney's California Adventure in 2001, Fantillusion at Disneyland Paris (with each video also embedded at the appropriate place at the site.

And the June 2010 closure of ESPN Zone Chicago has been noted -- as Disney announced the closing of the chain (except for Anaheim, a franchisee in LA and ESPN Club at Disney's BoardWalk at Walt Disney World which was never part of the chain).

Facebook Videos Added

I decided to upload an entire (14 minute) ride aboard Disneyland's Subs (with Nemo), but since YouTube only allows 10 minutes of video and Facebook allows 20 minutes, I uploaded it to Facebook. It's now embedded with other Disneyland Videos on this new page along with the video player of all of my YouTube postings of Disneyland.

Once I started looking around my Facebook account, I noticed a stray Walt Disney World video I had embedded - it's on the 2008 page.

If you haven't visited the site for awhile, I suggest a visit to my YouTube Channel to see some uploads from my video archive and, having visited Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and Walt Disney World in the past six months, there are new slideshows from each resort. There are also new slideshows from Israel, England, Czech Republic, Italy and France from the Fall -- just select the links on the Menu Bar on the left.

The Update Blog has migrated

This blog is now actually hosted at http://asdhollywood.blogspot.com.

All old links should still work.

Site updates in progress

As a result of some changes at Blogger.com, some changes are being made throughout the site. If something's not working correctly, please let me know at admin@asdhollywood.com. Thanks.

-- Posted from my iPhone.

Travel Blog Has Migrated

Because blogger.com is no longer supporting FTP for blogs (which is the publishing method ASD used), the Blog has been migrated to http://travel.asdhollywood.com.

For feed subscribers, you will need to update your feed reader to: http://travel.asdhollywood.com/feeds/posts/default.

If you simply visit from time to time, you should end up in the right place with old bookmarks and links, but if you can update these bookmarks and links you should.

Because of the migration, links to some images and pages may be broken.

I'm working on fixing them now.

Walt Disney World 2010

Another New Year's visit is on the Travel PhotoBlog and by the morning, a HD video of the countdown to midnight will be on ASD's YouTube channel.