Coding again...   It's just over a year since the last time I wrote any Java code.  Today I wrote a short little program, doing a little...

Progress report...   An electrical day.  I raided Home Depot for a couple additional ceiling boxes and some LED lamps.  Then Debbie and I pu...

A domain name transfer experience...   If you've any experience with managing domains (like “jamulblog.com”), then you're probably a...

Progress report...   Debbie and I worked on upgrading the lighting in the cattery today.  The existing lighting is four sets of 6' long ...

How government is destroying small business...   Warren Meyer (of CoyoteBlog , and a small business owner himself) has an outstanding discus...

The trip home...   I flew from Richmond, Virginia to Salt Lake City (connecting through Houston) on Wednesday.  The flight was almost uneve...

The Daily Shot...   If you're one of the three people who regularly read my blog, then you already know that I'm a fan of the Ricoch...

The Rosetta web site ... just dumped a bunch of beautiful images of Comet 67P, including the one at right.  Go take a look !

An upside-down iceberg...   The iceberg shown at right recently flipped over , revealing the ice without debris or sublimation...

4,018 days (11 years!) into its 90-day mission ... the Opportunity rover on Mars celebrates with a hilltop panorama .  What an amazing su...

Learning sequence inversion...   I just read an article about one fellow's experience in learning about how computers work with ones an...

Computers keep getting smaller...   The first truly general-purpose computer that I owned was one I built in about 1976, almost forty year...

Want to feel better in five minutes?   Read this twitter thread .  I read this and I had a twinge I haven't felt for a while.  I think i...

I was having such a nice day ... until I read this .  Damn you, Ilya Somin, damn you!  Now I have the urge to short-sell America.  But how...

Quote of the day...   Rex Murphy ( always read Rex Murphy when you have the chance): This part of the world has a sack full of pieties wh...

Made it to Virginia ... but only after a few adventures.  My original flight was from Salt Lake City, connecting in Houston, then to Rich...

Light blogging alert...   I'm traveling to Virginia this morning, to visit with my mom and siblings.  I'll be lugging my computer al...

The return of the analog computer?   Sort of .  I worked on (as a maintenance tech) electro-mechanical analog fire control computers in the ...

How to guarantee the continued inferiority of U.S. broadband access?  Simple.  Just get the federal government involved .  That will put us...

Twisted string actuators...   I had this idea about 15 years ago, after using an old-fashioned twisted wire-and-stick to straighten up a f...