Monthly Archives: June 2005

Spray-on mud: the ultimate accessory for city 4×4 drivers

John Shirley is all upset about this over on his blog. It doesn’t seem surprising. It is is in the same class as spray on hair and spray on tan. Putting image in a spray can is one of our society’s major goals. Guardian Unlimited | Life | Spray-on mud: the ultimate accessory for city […]

Cosmos 1: The First Solar Sail

I found this on Bruce Sterling’s Blog and I had to spread it around. This is a private effort to put an experimental solar sail in orbit around the earth. The sail will catch the solar wind and use it to push itself into higher and higher orbit until it completely breaks out of earth […]

Ipod text converter

I am getting into a mode of programming that I haven’t experienced since the late 1980s. I used to write huge amounts of ShareWare programs. I made some good money in 1989 (about $40,000) on a few of my successful programs. I stopped programming for free because Window programming required too much of an effort […]

Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)

I have bookmarked this. It is a nice summary of the advanced syntax for google searches. Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)

Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing

Most of these you’ve heard, but all are worth rereading. I am not sure that studying writing makes you a better writer. My personal stumbling block is sentence structure. Too many years as a programmer tends has taught me to write programs, not paragraphs, so my sentence structure is often algorithmic rather than poetic. (She […]

Secure Dog 24-hour Surveillance Sensor

There is a problem at my house with Racoons getting into the garbage, not to mention an army of neighborhood cats who would rather live at my house than their own. You can set this motion detector to a dog barking and it will go off whenever anything comes within 23 feet. I want one. […]

Ambrogio Professional – The Robot Store

This is what I want when I hit the lotto. Ambrogio Professional – The Robot Store

Cybertales — Live Wire

You can buy a copy in eBook format at: Whortleberry Press You can read an older version of the story at my Fiction Page. Email me for the password. –