Lately we’ve been experiencing technical difficulties with raising our kids. It seems that we have been unaware of the importance of being together as a family unit. Modern society has become a light-speed blur and the price we are paying… Read More »Detecting Undercurrents
Can a robot/android suffer Post Dramatic Stress Syndrome? That is the case with 347, the android belonging to the main character in Starforgers. Devon is forced to leave 347 on the remote moon where she was stationed as a Stellar… Read More »Shell Shocked Android
Every once in a while I come across a web site that I feel needs to be spotlighted. This time it’s AE7Q. This guy has created a host of search tools using the FCC’s ULS system. I found his site… Read More »Ham Radio Tidbits
This is the latest image from Hayabusa the Japanese spacecraft orbiting the asteroid Itokawa. The spaceship caught its own shadow on the asteroid’s surface. It reminded me of a scene from Star Wars. The most interesting thing Hayabusa has found… Read More »Tie Fighter above Asteroid?
I just checked out the bright green and yellow kid’s laptops that the MIT Media Lab has debuted. It looks really cool. I want one. Some folks have suggested that they allow US geeks to purchase one if they buy… Read More »MIT’s $100.00 Laptop
This is a test to see if a Gnome Blog Entry Poster actually works.
In learning a new programming language, I will often make a one-off program to explore the language and get real-life experience in using it. With Perl, I created a programmatic version of a game I play with my kids as… Read More »Perl Practice
My friend Dave (K1ZH) came over today and helped me fix up my 6 meter FM Genave radio to work with a tone generator on the local repeater. We studied the schematics and suffered through a power supply failure but… Read More »6 Meter Mobile
Many geeks take pride in their hardware and will boast about it without prompting. Some of us are less boastful and are hard pressed to say exactly what we are running. I’m definitely in the later category. The only time… Read More »Hardware
I’m getting back into Perl again, for a web site rewrite at work using Apache’s mod-perl. Many folks have learned Perl from the O’Reilly book, Learning Perl by Schwartz and Phoenix. About all I remember from it was that it… Read More »The Lama Book