fighting the lack of good ideas
I have been fortunate to both know and know of many folks in the US military over the past 70 years. In approximate historical order, thank you for your service: Roger M Ralph M Ken C Joe M Ken C Warren M EJ N June N (C) Donald C Jeremy F Joe D Ben W…
About 14 years ago, good friends of the family bought an old farm house with some outbuildings in rural Schoharie County in NY (outside Middleburgh, in a locale called “Hunter’s Land”). One of the first things they wanted to do with the house was to re-engineer the heating, which included properly insulating the house, and…
Thanks to the myriad WordPress developers and contributors, themes are widely available. I just switched to “Dragonskin 1.5 by Angelo Bertolli” from “veryplaintext”. Go go gadget community!
There have been a variety of stories recently about MacDefender, and the recent [small] wave of malware attacks on Mac OS X systems. For years, one of the most-touted features of the Mac was its [relative] immunity to malware: the number of viruses, trojans, etc for any edition of the Macintosh is remarkably small: with…
Saw in a tweet from David Pogue that someone has finally implemented a DVR-for-radio. Only took three years for someone to build 🙂 I haven’t started playing with DAR.fm yet, but it looks pretty cool!
This past Saturday, I gave a presentation/talk on Haiku for the BGLUG in Lexington KY. For those unfamiliar with Haiku, it is an open-source reimplementation of my favorite OS of all time, BeOS. Instead of having a formal slide deck for the event (as initially planned), I kept it informal with an oral history of…
Years ago, my mom and I would routinely try to catch episodes of Square Foot Gardening (SFG) on PBS. Hosted by Mel Bartholomew, a retired civil engineer, SFG was a program whose aim was to enable gardening by the masses in confined spaces (though, naturally, if can be implemented in larger settings as well). Mr Bartholomew’s…