View from the North
I haven’t had a chance to read all the pages yet, but what I’ve read so far has been fascinating! I’m talking about a first person trip report posted by someone who recently … Read more
Year: 2003
Don’t Leave Home Without It
By now, most folks have heard about the recent experiences of the American astronauts who finally returned to Earth a couple of days ago. They had been stranded on the International Space Station … Read more
An Old Tale … Or Is It?
The Wolf and the Lamb, by Aesop Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside, when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning … Read more
Riverside Cafe is Back Online
My linux server, an AMD Duron 1200 at the end of a consumer DSL line, hosting riverside-cafe.com, was off the air most of the weekend. I had occasion to reboot and the system … Read more
Windows, Southern Edition
Windows XP Southern edition may be recognized by the unique opening screen. It reads: WINDERS XP, with a background picture of General Robert E. Lee superimposed on a Confederate flag. It is shipped … Read more
Where in the World?
There are some flash applications that are truly cool, and the geoblog site hosts one such example. Displaying a cool world map (it shows the current daylight area), the application monitors a list … Read more
Take Another Look
Just the thing for Monday: an exploration of The Principles of Artistic Illusions. This site, enriched with many illustrative examples, reviews a few classic Escher works as well as exploring the general topic … Read more