I’ve gone to the TCF since 1980 or so. I’ve never missed one, but I don’t think that I will be going next year. The time of the computer show has passed. This one was rained out and there were only a few outdoor vendors. Here’s a self portrait. I was soaked. It really came […]
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: April 2006
I’m Back
Saturday, April 22, 2006
One of my Java applications went berserk and used 97% of the cpu at the server where I host these pages and others. I was in trouble already because of the bandwidth from my websites and they used it as an excuse to suspend my account.I agreed to remove the java apps from the website […]
Ducks at the Lake
Sunday, April 16, 2006
I put a bunch of stuff up at my Cat Blog. I took a picture of these odd ducks – small with a white beak. Can you identify them? (turns out they are not ducks at all, but American Coots.) They clustered together in a tight pack.
Image Scarfing
Saturday, April 15, 2006
I often use images from other websites here. I usually take the image, resize it, and then host it myself. If I am linking to a website, though, I will sometimes use a reference to their image. It is bad form to use an image hosted somewhere else and then not give the website the […]
City of Dreams
Thursday, April 13, 2006
City of Dreams: “J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of Babylon 5, teams with Seeing Ear Theatre to bring you an exclusive, all-new audio drama anthology series featuring tales of dreamers, madmen and fanatics.”
Software rewrite – No more Java
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
I re-wrote the Harp-L Archives software in PHP that I use on my HarpAmps.com website. It turns out Java is too tempermental and crashed three or four times a month for up to a day at a time. For those who are interested in the technical details, I wrote my own PHP program to read […]
Go Buzz Aldrin!
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Buzz Aldrin’s reaction to one of those “moon landing was faked” conspiracy nuts. I love this. Remember Buzz is 75 years old.
Sunday Afternoon
Sunday, April 9, 2006
I walked around Rockland Lake. In the parking lot I found this thing. It’s a kind of key made of pot metal with a gold paint on on it. It looks almost like the symbols on it are from kind of strange cult, but they are not distinct enough to really mean anything. The entrance […]