Making Mirth

After a recent move I found myself without any place to plug in my ethernet cables to access the internet. In the new place, there was a single telephone jack in the house, in the kitchen no less. A DSL modem was connected to the telephone jack, and then to an Apple Airport […]

Thanks to a posting by Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing (one of my favorite sites!), I found this site intended strictly for making your own mirth, with a little help from Disney and history.
You can put your own message up on the (now gone) Disneyland entrance sign at the AddLetters website using the Disneyland […]

I’ve been recently playing around with the Miro Video Player. Miro is the free, open source video player that was recently released. More on this in another post, but if you haven’t had a chance to check it out for yourself, then surf on over to getMiro.com and grab the downloadable installation file, […]

During August 2007 I took the opportunity to visit my friend Martha Floyd. I’ve known Martha Floyd since high school, when I was a student in her English classes. We always liked one another, and kept in touch through all these years. After braving a few too many storms while living in […]

So, dear reader, you may be asking yourself -
What ever happened to Topfer PipeCAD? Is it ever going to be finished?
Fear not, intrepid friend! But please allow me to explain…
I’ve been in the process of moving halfway across the country, and it’s really been difficult to accomplish any software development while things are […]

My friend who writes the Higley1000.com website is a geographer, so you can bet that his world is all about maps! In the process of researching the data for the Higley1000, he has created hundreds of maps which show the precise boundaries of the neighborhoods under consideration. Google Maps has been a great […]

About a half hour south of Albany, along the banks of the Hudson River, you’ll find the charming little town of Hudson, New York. With a population just over 7000, Hudson has been experiencing a rebirth over the past several years. Apparently the word is out in Manhattan, and a modest contingent of […]

One of the highlights of The Big Trip was a visit to the Arlington County Fair. If you’re familiar with Arlington County then you already know how densely populated the area is. Situated just across the Potomac River to the west of the District of Columbia, the 26 square miles which constitute Arlington […]

It’s been just too hot in Alabama lately. Although summers are always hot in the South, this year has been particularly oppressive. Normally in the Birmingham area you can expect daytime highs in the low 90s, and overnite the temps generally will drop to around 70 or so. If you’ve been following the […]

I’m not sure if my excitement about PipeCAD is contagious, but perhaps a little of it has rubbed off on at least one other person. George Bozeman has been a tremendous asset as I have familiarized myself with the art of pipe scaling, and he has written a short primer on organ pipe scaling […]