Print-On-Demand (POD) is a way of publishing books that have limited appeal. Book publishers have to count on selling thousands of books to justify a print run so many authors are never published. POD is not quite a vanity press, but it is far from being published the old fashioned way. The theory behind POD […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: August 2005
Rock and Roll Lyric site
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
I found a cache of 45,000 song lyrics. I combined that with an domain name that I wasn’t using and I wrote a program that created 45,000 web pages. I am now copying them to my new site Rock and Roll Lyrics at RockFind.com. The concept here is Shelf Space. A new web page will […]
Rucker Birthday Party
Sunday, August 14, 2005
I stopped by the Rucker’s House. Bob Rucker is an old friend and it was his father’s birthday. Here are some Rucker Birthday Party Pictures. I also put the album up at snapfish.com, which requires a registration. The advantage is that you can order prints of the pictures. SnapFish Album. I have a credit for […]
Hoax, Richard Gere
Friday, August 12, 2005
Here are the pictures Richard Gere and the set of Hoax that I took with the disposable camera. The camera’s lense was off kilter so that it did not take pictures of what I was aiming at. The process produced grainy pictures and I am guessing that the software does a histogram equalization that winds […]
Richard Gere filming at my office
Thursday, August 11, 2005
They are making a movie in the WestchesterGov office building. I forgot my digital camera so I bought a disposable camera at a bodega. Richard Gere is the star and they are shooting a scene at the front entrance. They will do another right outside the door to my office. I’ll have pictures here in […]
Blogging vrs. Politics
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Over at the Making Light blog, there is some discussion about right wing bloggers trying to hijack a news story by blogging that it is a hoax. These are anti-blogs. Unfortunately, the story of James Tobin effort to block Democratic phone lines in New Hampshire is not a hoax. The republicans hired a firm to […]
Web Site Additions
Monday, August 8, 2005
I’ve been working on a couple of my websites.1) I created a review of the new Marind Band Deluxe Harmonica on JT30.com.2) I worked a little on www.ecgraham.com and added a link for washing antique quilts.
KGP Productions Shuts Down
Friday, August 5, 2005
I received the following unhappy email today. I’ve been going to KGP shows for may years now. I even have a 6 show pass with three unused shows on it. After 26 years, PC SHows/KGP Productions has closed up shop and retired to Florida. We have cancelled all future computer shows. The Trenton Computer Festival […]