Robert Carden's Page of Links


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This page contains links to web sites and pages having to do with me. The information is divided into the following categories:


Guide to this Web site

Robert and Waiman Carden's Home Page -- This is being hosted by COX@HOME Click here to go to a Web page which I am developing for the UCI Band... Click here to go to a Web page with nothing but links...

UCI Band and Basketball

UCI Band Information - UCI Pep Band information (by Robert Carden), updated schedules, UCI basketball team information, and links to related pages about UCI Band history. Also, links to other UCI Band web pages.

UCI Band History - History of the UCI Pep Band (by Robert Carden), numerous pictures, 17 years (1982-current) of a year by year history, including some recollections about the UCI basketball team as relating to the Band, and links to related pages about the UCI Band.

UCI Basketball: Analysis and Commentary - UCI Basketball analysis and commentary (by Robert Carden), a unique perspective from a UCI Band member, Big West team ranking digest, and links to related pages about the UCI Band.

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Family Related Sites

The following sites have stuff relating to me, my family, and my relatives.

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Carden Family Sites

Mary Carden's Home Page - She's just learning how to do web pages and most of it are various versions of Leslie Murray's resume.  In the future she might include more of her poetry and other ramblings.

Robert and Waiman Carden's Personal Home Page - To get beyond the welcoming page, you will need to know the name of our street where we live.  This keeps my wife happy and allows me to make all those pictures available to friends and family.  This site is being hosted by my personal computer so if (and when) I turn it off (which is rare these days), the site and all of its pictures will be unavailable.  This connectivity is brought to you by Cox @Home cable modem service with which I have a continuous 24-hour/day TCP/IP connection.


Home Pages of Relatives

Thorne Anderson - He teaches photojournalism at the American University in Bulgaria.  Included are lots of his photos.

Second Presbyterian Church, Roanoke, VA - Home page of George Anderson's church.


UCI Band

The following sites have information related to the UCI Band.

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UCI Band Members' Web pages (some of them for the Band)

Eric Sanchez

Eric Sanchez:

UCI Band Schedule and Announcements - UCI Band Schedule & Information.  The UCI Band.  News and Announcements.  Syllabus for Fall Quarter.  Band Schedule.  Band Roster.  Set List.  Pictures (coming soon).  Links...

Personal home page on tripod - Welcome to Eric's personal space on the Web!!!!!!! A very cool Anteater with a bunch of neato places for you to visit!!!!! Hey Everyone! Welcome to a revamped (and much needed) webpage...

Eric's space on the Web - Welcome to my lil space on the web! Hi everyone! Welcome to my new webpage!  I've made it so it is a lot easier to navigate around! Please follow one of the links...

Jun Tokeshi

Jun Tokeshi:

UCI Pep Band Page - This is the logo for the UCI Pep Band.  This is one group I'm involved with here at UCI. I play the tuba for the band, and the only one that shows up regularly. The Band is a collection of individuals who plays at all UCI home basketball...

Robert C. Carden IV

Robert Carden:

Robert and Waiman Carden's Home Page - This is being hosted by COX@HOME Click here to go to a Web page which I am developing for the UCI Band... Click here to go to a Web page with nothing but links...

Robert Carden's Page of Links - Table of Contents. This page contains links to web sites and pages having to do with me. The information is divided into the following categories: Guide to this Web site UCI Band College Basketball (particularly UCI)...

UCI Band and Basketball

Official UCI Band Page - Brand new (October, 1999) official page, administered by member Matt Karaffa.

UCI Anteater Band - Provided by Network54, an interactive forum for discussing UCI Band related topics.  I am the administrator of this board.

UCI Band History - History of the UCI Pep Band (by Robert Carden), numerous pictures, 17 years (1982-current) of a year by year history, including some recollections about the UCI basketball team as relating to the Band, and links to related pages about the UCI Band.

UCI Basketball: Analysis and Commentary - UCI Basketball analysis and commentary (by Robert Carden), a unique perspective from a UCI Band member, Big West team ranking digest, and links to related pages about the UCI Band.

1997/1998 season - 1997/1998 chapter of the history of the UCI Pep Band (by Robert Carden), numerous pictures, and some recollections about the UCI basketball team as relating to the Band.

1998/1999 season - 1998/1999 chapter of the history of the UCI Pep Band (by Robert Carden), numerous pictures, and some recollections about the UCI basketball team as relating to the Band.

College Basketball links (particularly UCI)

UCI Band Commentaries

December 31, 2000 - Road Trip.  December 17, 2000 - Los Angeles.  For the first time in over a decade, the UCI Band got on a bus and went on a road trip during the regular basketball season.  In fact, the last time I can recall us going on such a trip was back when the Big West allowed bands and cheerleaders to visit the other schools, and the last such year was around 1988. 

November 25, 2000 - A Third Golden Age.  After our first exhibition game against the University of South Dakota which UCI lost, by the way, we went to Pizza Hut in Newport Beach and communed with one another.  Food was being provided...

October 30, 1999 - Reflections.  It's been a month now since the quarter started and we now have a sense of what this year is going to be like. So far so good...things are going better than I expected. Usually, the band's fortunes follow the basketball team's fortunes with a one year delay.

November 22, 1998
- Trouble is Brewing.  It's almost Thanksgiving and about this time, we have a good idea on how the band is going to be for the rest of this season.  For some mysterious reason, our numbers have dwindled (like they always do), and this year, we seem to have taken most of the hit in the trumpet section.  I knew it was too good to be true.  I guess having 17...

October 16, 1998 - UCI Marching Band?  On Tuesday, October 13, the UCI Band performed on KUCI for an on the air "pep rally."   As it turned out, we started the broadcast with the Fight Song, then in the middle played a round of "Go Big Blue" (Fresno Lick for you old timers), and ended the broadcast with the Fight Song.  The KUCI announcers introduced us...

September 4, 1998 - Another year has passed and a new one is upon us.   Last year, despite our rather small core nucleus of about 15 members, the UCI band made strong showings wherever it performed.  Many people were amazed at how much noise such a small group could make.  Even more amazing...

UCI Music Department Web Pages

Performing Opportunities at UCI

UCI Clubs, Activities, and Involvement Performing Opportunities •Band •UCI Jazz Ensemble •UCI Wind Ensemble •Choruses •Madrigal Dinner •Cheerleaders/Songleaders/Peter the Anteater Mascot •Talent Registry •College Bowl ...

Music Department blurb on the various bands at UCI

UCI has three bands: Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band and UCI Band ("Pep" Band.) All bands are open to students, faculty, staff, and community members. Each band rehearses about 3 hours per week and two units of graded credit are available. One may also enroll for a pass/no-pass grade...

Other Bands

UCSD Pep Band

New modern, front-page looking site.  The old one has been inactive for over a year (as for November, 1999).  It took me this long to find the new one.  UCSD is about our size, maybe bigger, maybe smaller.  They seem to be more social, but not as active on the athletic front.  Give them our schedule and we'll see how they do...

UCSD Pep Band (old site)  

Who we are: As you can see, we're not a marching band. We're not a scatter band. We can't even ambulate on our own. We're just a sit-down, make noise, and yell at the other team kind of band.

UC Davis site containing links to other college pep bands

Links to Marching Bands.  College Bands. Alabama A & M University Marching Band. University of Alabama Million Dollar Band.  University of Alabama at Birmingham Marching Blazers...

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College Basketball (particularly UCI)

The table of contents below has bookmarks to the major sections.  Hyperlinks to outside sites are set up to launch new copies of your browser.  Thus, this links page will remain while you hop to other pages.  Personally, this is what I prefer in a links page so I don't have to always "right mouse click|open in new window".

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Real Time NCAA Basketball Scores

USA Today - today's late breaking (real-time) sports scores - Each day this page contains a list of games to be played.  Each game is a hyperlink to information pertaining to that game.  It will ultimately contain a box score for that game.  The box score usually appears within an hour after the game concludes and remains on the site indefinitely (good for hyperlinking).

USA Today - UCI Schedule and Results - This page contains UCI's schedule and each schedule item is either a hyperlink to another team's schedule (for those games which have not yet been played), or a hyperlink to the box score.  Each division I university has its own page associated with it with these features.

Nando - today's NCAA scores (updated automatically every 3 minutes) - This page contains a table of all of the NCAA basketball games being played and their scores.  However, that's all it contains; for a box score, use the USA Today site.

UCI Basketball

Blue Ribbon 1999-2000 UCI Season Preview   
CBS.SportsLine.com UCI Season Preview   

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Citadel Message Board for UCI - UCI's most active message board.

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Citadel Big West Board - Place to discuss Big West sports.

LA Times - Orange County Sports - There is no Orange County edition.  However, search for UC Irvine Basketball and you will find articles related to UCI in one of their local editions.

Orange County Register Sports
- The Orange County Register changed their website in early 2001 (thank you) and dumped the nice handy section that contained articles relating to UCI and replaced it with a single page with all of their daily sports articles.

UCI New University - Home page for the New University.  Click on the SPORTS button for coverage of this week's sports.  Click on the ARCHIVE to see previous issues and follow the links to the appropriate sports pages.

KUCI 88.9 FM - Home page of KUCI 88.9 radio
KUCI 88.9 FM Live Broadcast Feed - Live streaming audio feed for all KUCI programming.  Try listening to this when the games are on (both men's and women's).  Seems better and more reliable than the Real Audio broadcast feed that is provided for the games.

UCI Men's Basketball Home Page  

UCI Women's Basketball Home Page  

UCI Athletic Department  

Real Audio broadcasts up men's and women's basketball games - Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  When it works, you can receive the KUCI broadcast over the Internet.   Ideal for those outside the KUCI broadcast area, which is considerable given that KUCI is a 5 watt radio station.  Better yet, with a more reliable feed, is the live broadcast feed that KUCI 88.9 FM provides for all of its programming.

Jeff Sagarin's and Other Basketball Polls

Jeff Sagarin's rankings by conference - (USA Today site)  The reference standard of all polls.   Lists all division I teams in increasing order.  Updated daily.  Rankings based on a proprietary computer model.

Rating's Percentage Index (RPI) used by NCAA - Okay, this is not a Sagarin poll, but it is almost as good.  This page is kept up to date and rates all division I teams.  This is what the NCAA uses to select teams from the tournament.

College Hoops Insider - This is the home of one of the mid-major polls.  It also features a periodic column written by Pat Douglass.

Mike Greenfield's (TeamRankings.com) Power Rankings - Another set of rankings for all division I teams.  Contains a page for each division I team, e.g. UC Irvine.  The team page shows the schedule and during the season the probability of who will win.

EPicks.com Rankings - Still another set of rankings for all division I teams.

Big West Basketball Message Boards

Below is a list of message boards.  The first column (where there are multiple boards) is the primary message board for that particular school.

University

Primary Board

Second Board

Third Board

Fourth Board

Big West

Citadel   

ESPN Network    

Big West Beat  

           

UC Irvine
Cal State Fullerton
Long Beach State
Cal Poly
University of the Pacific
UC Santa Barbara
Idaho
Utah State
UC Riverside
Cal State Northridge

Citadel    
Titan Central  
BoardHost  
VoyForums  
Citadel   
Gaucho Locos  
Citadel  
Citadel  
Citadel    
Citadel   

ESPN Network
Network54   
Citadel    
SportsOnly      
The Tiger's Den  
Gaucho Locos (Old)  
ESPN Network  
TrueAggies2    
ESPN Network    
ESPN Network

Anteater Forum    

FansOnly
  
SportsOnly

FansOnly
  

ESPN Network
   
VoyForums  
SportsOnly  

SportsOnly






UStateAgs.com
SportsOnly   
EzBoard 

Big West Top Picks - Lots of Big West links.  Hosted by Arizona Sports Exchange (www.arizonasportsexchange.com).

DesertNiner's Page of Links - A reasonably comprehensive page of Big West links.  Updated frequently.  It also includes some LBSU news as it is an unofficial Long Beach State fan page.

Unofficial Big West Basketball Team Sites

UCI Fan Page - First appeared on Geocities in January, 2002.  It's nice to see someone new take the initiative.

GauchoLocos - Website of a spirit group at UCSB.  Includes a message board.  Link to the left skips their snazzy introduction page (which includes various animations).  Click here to visit their intro page.

Gaucho Bill - An unofficial UCSB basketball site.  "As an alumni of UCSB and an official Gauchoholic, I felt there should be at least one page dedicated to the Gaucho men's and women's basketball teams."

The Unofficial Home of Cal Poly Men's Basketball - See RivalNet site for Cal Poly.  Oops, never mind.

Long beach State Hoops - The unofficial Long Beach State web site.  Site still exists but the author has moved his site to rivals.com.  Now that Rivals is dead, maybe this site will be resurrected.  See DesertNiner's link above.

Big West Basketball

Mining Company's Big West Conference Net Links - Fairly complete listing of Big West and individual school sites.  Includes the official sites as well as a list of all the fan sites (including mine) and a list of the message boards.  Nicely organized.

SoCal Hoops - Huge web site containing lots of information about Southern California high school and college basketball teams.  It is worth checking their daily news section on a regular basis to see what is happening.  They also have a message board.  Uses frames.

More UCI related pages

ESPN SportsZone coverage of UCI (and the Big West)

CNN/SI - List of links to pages on all men's basketball teams
CNN/SI - UC Irvine WOMEN's team page

CNN/SI - UC Irvine MEN's team page
CNN/SI - UC Irvine (men) team log (shows results and upcoming games)
CNN/SI - UC Irvine (men) recruiting

Other Big West Basketball Sites

The USA Today highlights page presents late breaking Big West news. The schedule and results page shows the schedule of each Big West team and has links to game results (and stats). The Nando pages are probably the most up to date of the bunch. However, their schedule page does not include any of the in season tournaments so bear that in mind. I have also included links to each of the Big West's CNN/SI team pages.

USA Today - Big West highlights - This page contains up to date highlights and links to individual team pages.

Nando - Big West Standings and scores (very much up to date)
Nando - Big West game scores (most recent first) with links to summaries and stats
Nando - Big West in season tournament schedules
Nando - Big West team schedules (not including in season tournaments)

Other Polls and Miscellaneous Sites

A site dedicated to men's college basketball polls
ESPN men's college basketball poll

Other USA Today Sites

College basketball front page
Big West news
College basketball game scores

Nando's sports pages

Big West news features
College basketball headlines page (late breaking news)
Big West Conference standings
Big West game scores

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Babylon 5

The following are Babylon 5 related sites.

NOTICE: all Babylon5 pictures available at this site are Copyright PTEN and/or Warner Brothers and/or TNT.

Epsisode list on the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 Web Site...

The Lurker's Guide is the ultimate, reference standard for all Babylon 5 web pages.  In fact, it is one of the best organized web sites I have ever seen.   The episode list page is where I go to read analysis and summaries of Babylon 5. Also, their modifications page is good for showing the most recent changed pages.

TNT's official Babylon 5 Web Site...

TNT, the network which picked up Babylon 5 for its fifth season, has an official web site for Babylon 5.  The SciFi network now hosts the official website.

Coaxial News at Ain't It Cool News...

The Coaxial section of Ain't It Cool News has numerous articles relating to Babylon 5 and its sequel Crusade.  Use their quick search and key in B5.

Click here to go to a Web site which focuses on these two main characters...

John and Delenn's web page has good analysis of two of the main characters of the show.  It also has lots of other information, sounds, and videos relating to the show.

Go to Voltayre's ENCYCLOPEDIA XENOBILOGICA

The Voltayre's ENCYCLOPEDIA XENOBILOGICA is a good reference for information about the various races on Babylon5.

Click here to see Tate and Rage's Babylon 5 episode commentaries...

This page contains links to Tate and Rage's rather interesting commentaries on Babylon-5 episoses.   Unfortunately, they stopped writing commentaries at the end of the fourth season but what they've got is still interesting to read.

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Church Related Links

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Nearby Presbyterian and Other Churches

Aliso Creek Presbyterian Church [Mission Viejo] - Aliso Creek Presbyterian Church on the web.  [ed. Presbyterian Church of America]

Canaan Presbyterian Church - Pastor: Rev. Sang Eui Kim 940 W. Wilshire Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92707...

First Prebyterian Church, Santa Ana - The official First Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana (California) web page, background information, schedule of upcoming events.

Geneva Presbyterian Church [Laguna Hills] - Geneva Presbyterian Church is a fellowship of people who are committed to God by...

Irvine Presbyterian Church - [ed. newer site] Pardon our mess while we construct our WEB site...
Irvine Presbyterian Church - [ed. older site] Welcome to Irvine Presbyterian Church. We are glad you are here. If you are looking for a church home, we invite you to seriously consider IPC. Our congregation is a fellowship where you will find...

Saddleback Community Church [Lake Forest] - Every church is driven by something. Tradition, finances, programs, personalities, events, seekers, and even buildings can each be the controlling force in a church. But for a church to be healthy it must...

St. Mark Presbyterian Church - 2100 Mar Vista Drive, Newport Beach, California 92660-4598...

Valley Presbyterian Church - This is Mark and Cheryll Goodman-Morris church up in Portola Valley, CA


Presbyterian Church Resources

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) - Churchwide home page for the largest Presbyterian denomination in the U.S.A.

Presbyterian Church in America - Official Page - Presbyterian Church In America


Other Church Related Resources

@LA Religion Listings - Parent site @LA contains LA-wide listings.  The link on the left contains listings of lots of churchs in the local area.  Search and enjoy.

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ECE department related stuff

Here are some links to find classes in the schedule, as well as various related ECE and Engineering department sites.

UCI Registrar Resources

The UCI Registrar page (check out those enrollments)
Directory of scheduled classes, past and present
On-line searching for classes in the schedule

EEE (Electronic Educational Environment)

EEE Home Page
E4E Activation Web Page
EEE Resources for ECE 11

UCI School of Engineering

The School of Engineering home page
The ECE Department home page
Info for creating home pages on the Engineering Department servers

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UCI Course Web Pages

ECE 11 - Ten Week Summer Session, 1999

Computational Methods in Engineering I (C Programming).  Will follow same format as Summer, 1998 and Winter, 1999.

ICS 54 - Summer Session I, 1999

Programming for Multitasking Operating Systems.  The Winter, 1999 course went well but I intend to improve it.  We are still using the Unix for the Impatient text for the user topics, but will use a new textbook, Linux Application Development, for the programming topics.

ECE 40 - Summer Session II, 1999

Systems Programming II (C++ Programming).  This will be an intensive introduction to the C++ programming language and object oriented programming.  Like Dr. Bough, we will use the Visual C++ programming environment.


Coming soon...

ECE 11 - Winter, 2000

Computational Methods in Engineering I (C Programming).  Unless I am hit by a truck, I will most likely be teaching this class again.

ECE ??? - Spring, 2000

Java Programming with Internet Applications.  I have been charged with spec'ing out a brand new course involving Java Programming.  It will be an upper division course with ECE 40 or ICS 23 as a prerequisite.  That is, we assume that you know C++ and will teach it accordingly.


Previously...

ICS 54 - Winter, 1999

Programming for Multitasking Operating Systems.  Here, also, is a link to Dr. Klefstad's ICS 54 page.   Final enrollment was 15 students.

ECE 11 - Winter, 1999

Computational Methods in Engineering I (C Programming).  Final class enrollment was approximately 196.  Course followed same format as Summer, 1998.

ECE 11 - Ten Week Summer Session, 1998

Computational Methods in Engineering I (C Programming).  Enrollment was approximately 40 students.  Course restructured to spend 8 weeks on topics through functions, and only two weeks on arrays and pointers.

ECE 11 - Winter, 1998

Computational Methods in Engineering I (C Programming).  Final class enrollment was approximately 158.  Course spent 5 weeks on topics through functions, and fives weeks on arrays and pointers.


Commercial Links

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Real Estate Links

Countrywide Loan Rates - Get today's home mortgage rates.  Gives either purchase or refinance for all sorts of different programs.  Service provided by Countrywide.

Southern California Multiple Listing Service - Click on "Search for Properties" and you will get a form to search for properties in Southern California.  While it is probably not the complete listing, it is a great way to feel out the market.


High Tech Stuff

Unisys Corporation - Home page of my company.  Enough said.

University of California, Irvine - Home page for my other "company", school, and otherwise cool place.

University of California, San Diego - Home page for the university where I spent 11 long years of my life.  (1978-1981, 1983-1991)

Space Instruments - Home page of Dean Aalami's company, a small service oriented company specializing in custom electrical engineering design work.

Dave's Insanity Sauce Gourmet - Techy types like their food spicy.  Go to the silicon valley and you will eat Szechuan food one day, Indian food the next, and then Japanese sushi with wanabe the third.  Dave's Insanity Sauce is awesome stuff but don't put to much of it in your chili.  Our local microbrewery, Steelhead Brewery, will give it to you on request.   Just ask for Dave's sauce.

Interland Web Hosting - Prices and service look good.


Computers and Accessories

Gateway Computer Company - A mail order computer company.  Has forms which you can fill out to specify a computer and see its cost.

Dell Computer Company - A mail order computer company.  Like Gateway, has forms which you can fill out to specify a computer and see its cost.

Unix for Windows - Do you use Windows 95 or Windows NT?  Have you been wishing wistfully for vi or the ability to do 'du * | sort -n' or perhaps the ability to use the find or grep programs?   This package, which is free, gives you a fairly nice use shell that is implemented using the Win32 API.  Thus, you have complete access to your Windows system but from a Unix perspective.  Very cool.

VMWare Virtual Platform - First there was the IBM VM (Virtual Machine).  Now, at last, a product is being developed to allow us lowly users to run virtual machines on our PCs.  I will certainly give it a test spin once they release a non-beta version.  The most promising scenario for me is to run Windows NT on my current system and then run Linux in its own virtual machine.   The really interesting thing is that they can both run simultaneously.

WinGate - The proxy server which I use to share internet connections.  One machine has the connection, the other ones connect through that one machine.  Uses standard TCP/IP.


Entertainment

A Prairie Home Companion - From Minnesota Public Radio, the web site of Garrison Keillor's radio show.  Here you can listen to the weekly broadcast online, and also listen to earlier shows in their entirety.

OCnow's Recommended Restaurants - A nice listing of recommended restaurants in Orange County.

Radio Station Guide - Microsoft's online radio station guide.  Microsoft Internet Explorer users probably already have this favorite available under the media folder.

The Wine Enthusiast - Wine Cellars and Unique Gifts

Classic FM - Classical music from the United Kingdom.  Click on the Listen In tab and then follow the instructions.  Keep in mind that they are 8 hours ahead of us.

WFMT - Chicago's Fine Arts Station.  I like this station better than the two LA based classical stations.

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