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15 Aug

Robot with rat brain

3 Aug

Dr Geo
view your mind software for linux

28 July

My page on Google Sites
Google sites blog
Sustainable living website

23 July

Great plan to use wind and solar power

17 July

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1138054372
Moodle a free tool to build computer assisted learning courses
Advanced Registry Optimizer 5 - free registry cleaner if your windoze PC slows down.
Anki flash cards - make your own flashcards

7 July

Matt Fulmers squeak blog
Cage code finder
Google hot trends

3 July

Floating cities

22 June

GTD
Stellar Activation Cycle

16 June

HIIT workouts
Link to flooding in China from earthquake
Drill here Drill now

27 may

Squeak on XO

24 May

NASA Phoenix
Peak oil survivalists
http://www.realtyna.com/dubai_real_estate/images/dubai_real_estate/dubai_properties/real_estate_damac_developer_property/property_developers_projects/dubai-future-project/299070446_e853dc9c41.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.realtyna.com/dubai_real_estate/dubai-future-projects.html&h=327&w=500&sz=80&hl=en&start=13&sig2=jOF4lCZgXsA8JOyxANClCw&tbnid=uJ_JCxIv8r2QBM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=130&ei=fqw2SO3bCJCSeqqv0KgO&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddubai%2Breal%2Bestate%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG

22 May

Calorie counting
Interesting website

20 May

Kindle with digital ink
http://www.thelearningweb.net/
http://www.happychild.org.uk/acc/tpr/bkr/0010revo.htm

1 May

Brendan graduation party
Toshiba micro nuclear reactor - this is amazing

20 Apr

Cool space drawings

31 Mar

Pat Condell
Phun a 2D physics engine
Bakken formation
Pig truck crash
exercise blog

10 Mar

Orion spacecraft to replace space shuttle.

24 Feb

http://www.manytracks.com/home.htm

7 Feb

Social Calc spreadsheet for OLPC
Use this link to run the spreadsheet in a browser.
http://www.alpeng.com/wood_truss_info.html
Battery replacement for Palm Tungsten E
Instructions on replacing Tungsten E battery

17 Jan

Python spreadsheet
Candle heater
Candle heater
Trollson twins
Palm island Du Bai
Kandle heater
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Homesteading-and-Self-Reliance/1984-11-01/A-Lifesaving-Heater-From-Candles.aspx

11 Jan

We refinanced the house yesterday; saved almost 1 point in interest.
Dylan on doing commercials - very prophetic.
Katie Kouric off air

4 Jan 08

I heard from Dan Kabel and Mike Murphy this week; hadn't corresponded with them in a long time.
Openproj a open source version of MS Project
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/01/what_future_for_olpc.html

30 Dec

College info
Kinoki foot pads

19 Dec

Xmas 07 stuff
AI course notes from 1976

11 Dec

Treasury yield news
Treasury bond prices
Unofficial  info on Google
Xmas around the world

5 Dec

Global incident map

30 Nov

News
Today I hit 250 pages of content on my wiki - whoohoo !

12 Nov

Croquet programming environment.
A must hear video clip from Newt Gengrich on terrorism.

6 Nov

Article on making backups
Boating blog with nice wooden boat pictures and article on self steering gear.

4 Nov

Walmart $200 linux PC which runs gOS
Another review
Linux desktop

2 Nov

Hipster PDA
Scan Cards

24 Oct

Peak oil

17 Oct

List of free video creation software:
Wink
Cam Studio
http://coedmagazine.com/news/3050

14 Oct

I took Brendan to an open house at MCP on Sunday. We spoke with the director of the BS in Pharmaceutical Marketing program

4 Oct

Found some info on Cyc project today; it still lives.
http://www.opencyc.org/
http://www.cyc.com/
Info on Squeak and OLPC: http://bigfractaltangle.com/

28 Sept

http://www.comcast.net/home.html
Frodos path to Rivendell on Google maps

22 Sept

Our back lawn was hydroseeded last week. Info on new lawn care.
http://www.hydroseedingexperts.com/Care.htm
http://www.trahonhydroseeding.com/faq.htm#three
http://www.johnsonhydroseeding.com/lawncare_hydro.html
http://bearhydroseeding.com/care.htm
Natural lawn care

3 August

Walked thru some PERT charts today at work; kind of different; almost like problem solving.
Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love Truly,
Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you Smile.

30 July

Check out http://slideshare.net and www.hyperscope.org

15 July

Jeannie's 50th birthday. Need to plan for her BD party.
Info on Hoodia supplement.

26 June

Trained at Golden Triangle aikido tonite; good class with Gordon and very hot.
Need to check out this and this and these notebooks
What if I won the lottery

11 June

My birthday - yay! I bought a scanner to scan my old slides into digital fomat.
Here is a tutorial on using Mediawiki.
Nice pictures of small boat construction.
USMMA admissions

7 June

I heard about the Asus laptop today which will sell between $200 - $300 and will compete with the OLPC.

27 May

Record aikido techniques from yesterday.
Make a wiki on solar energy. Collect info from various sources and put in one place. Show how solar can be effective.
Need to check into Wiki Nodes and install one on my wiki. Here it is: WikiNode
I also need to check out Google gadgets.
A Logo classroom wiki.

16 May

This is a great commercial.

9 May

Global warming good
Segway personal transporter

2 May

Astronomy picture of the day and info about NASA New Horizons spacecraft.

25 April

I listened to an interview with Robert Parker , who wrote the Spencer PI novels, this morning. He is a very interesting person.
I'm working on an aikido website for my friend Wayne. http://demotricity.pbwiki.com

16 April

Need to investigate nordic walking, using ski poles. It is supposed to burn more calories than normal walking.
Need to refinance the house next; check out Lennox Financial for no closing cost mortgages.

7 April

This is a very unique website.
Here is more info on Sophie.
The complete McHales Navy TV series on DVD

4April

Info on Jericho tv show
Wind turbines for home use

25 March

End times?
Iraq video diaries
St Francis School pbwiki

21 March

Check out Linspire and Freespire Linux distributions. They offer a 3 GHz Linux desktop PC for $300 (no monitor). These won't work on older, slower PCs, however.
I upgraded from Puppy 2.11 to 2.14 on the old home computer. The upgrade was seamless and the external speakers now work when playing videos. 2.14 has an improved package loading system to add additional applications easily.

18 March

Check out the game Kye for Windoze, Palm OS and Linux.
Take a look at the Great Global Warming Swindle. (If the link doesn't work, search on Google video for Swindle; sometimes this video gets deleted because it is not politically correct.) I didn't realize that water vapor is a greenhouse gas as well as CO2. Water vapor makes up 95% of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. A different view on Global warming

15 March

So there really was uranium yellow cake found in Iraq. Here is a BBC report.

9 March

Solar power ideas from Popular Mechanics.
Gmail tips
A wiki about Google
Check out Zoho wiki , a free wiki.
NSR forum

4 March

Check out organic gro fertilizer; they are based in Framingham.
Interesting simple boat designs

3 March

Looking at pellet guns to deter geese. Sports Authority is in Framingham and Milford; they have a Crossman Benjamin pump action. Look for Daisy Powerline 901 too. I am learning about airsoft rifles too. This looks like a good one.

24 Feb

Should fiberglass insulation be covered?
http://www.sustainableenterprises.com/fin/Basics/FAQ.htm
How about a sail around the Great Lakes?
Warmup pants

20 Feb

This is cool, you can search to see how many people in the US have the same name.
I think I will try Turbo Tax this year to do my taxes. I should check out this site too.
A site with many webcams. Another blog site to look at.
Check out this aikido site too.

Directions: 84 to Scranton, 81 south to Butler and then pick up 80 west

16 Feb

A cool short movie about Web 2.0, making the web our own.

12 Feb

I start my South Beach diet again today. I'm going to try the Phase 1 for 2 weeks. This is my first part of training for Sandan.
This etymology dictionary looks cool.

26 Jan

Alan Kay presentations
Another wiki
On line game of Go

23 Jan

I am running into problems on where to save my electronic notes. Some are in this wiki, others are in Note Studio, more in Palm OS memos and some in text files on my PC. I have to decide on one place and be consistent. I would use this wiki, but when I am not online, I need something else. I figured out the other day that I can copy the source of PBwiki pages and paste them into Palm OS notes. They are not linked on the Palm, but I can read them, modify them, and then upload the file to replace the wiki page.
I am going to start a new wiki at work for my department using Confluence; this should be really cool.
I need to keep a record of things I am interested in.

17 Jan

I discovered a new way to enter text on my Palm OS today. I had used Fitaly with my old Palm, but it doesn't work on the color Palms. It will take a while to get used to new key layout, but it should be worthwhile. I am having trouble with Grafitti these days. Don't know if it is the machine or my eyes or some combination.
This is cool. A site where people can contribute how to information.
Contemplative order
I am planning to start my vegetable gardening again this year. I also want to plant some Dawn Redwoods in the backyard this spring.

10 Jan

If only the US had the same courageous leaders as Australia
Found some cool links on mindmaping
http://pathmed.com/
http://www.mamamedia.com/
Works by Seymour Papert.

7 Jan

I need to take a look at Google notebook. I also didn't realize I had a Google homepage.

2 Jan

Some day I should memorize Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

http://templates.pbwiki.com/
http://widget.pbwiki.com/

1 Jan 07

We could see the fireworks in Boston from our house last nite. We got the new 32 inch tv set up in the living room. I've been comparing small cruising boats the last week; some stock production, some build yourself. I haven't spent as much time learning Squeak as I planned. I need to start planning my Sandan test. Also need to organize receipts and bills, especially for taxes.

27 Dec

An idea to make money with wikis? Wiki training

18 Dec

I was delighted to find out today that I am Time Magazine's person of the year!
I also learned today that Google has bought the Jotspot wiki company. Can it be that Google will offer a free wiki service to everyone?
Check out the free high school science books being written.

Please send the pics to pics@pbwiki.com. They can be pics of students or educators using PBwiki. One submitter will win a lifetime Platinum wiki, but we really just want to see our users using PBwiki.

11 Dec

I read an article about cool stuff you can do with Google.

8 Dec

Stumbled accross Elica logo today, a Object Oriented version of logo with 3D graphics too.

6 Dec

Had my first colonoscopy today because I am > 50. Results are that I am healthy. The procedure was nothing; I slept thru it and had no after effects. The worse part was the preparation the 2 days before.

28 Nov

Discovered the Paradox microcruiser the other day - a build it yourself, coastal cruiser for 1 or 2 people.
Current balls I am juggling
This site has better resolution maps than Google maps (even though I think Google is supplying the technology).

25 Nov

I need to check out wikispaces

8 Nov

I lived in Guam for 2 years when I first got out of college, working in a shipyard and tugboat (Dillingham Company).
Want to ski in the desert?
Ned has some wild stuff!
Anyone need some Gorilla tape?

6 Oct

My DD Character
This is a neat review of the $100 laptop. Press the link at the bottom of the article. Then hover over each letter and a description of that feature appears.
Wiki Presentation for work
Info on surviving nuclear atack

1 Oct

Stumbled accross an ad for the Aiptek digital MPEG4 camcorder today, on sale at Target for $90 bucks. It sees really neat, being able to take movies or stills with the same camera. From what I read of the reviews, the quality of the pictures are not that great. I'm sure, given time, some company will do it right.

At some point I would like to build a small camp up north in NH. The plans that I am considering now are for a 14 x 24 foot cabin. The camp can be built on a concrete pier foundation to minimize construction costs. Here is a sample floorplan; I would extend it another 12 feet in length for a bedroom on the 1st floor like these folks did. I'll keep the space over the bedroom open, for a 12 x 14 foot loft. A standard pull down attic staircase, would provide access. I plan to be off the grid and use battery and solar power for lighting. Rain water would be stored in a large tank under the house. The major expense would be for a septic system.

I downloaded and installed Firefox browser for my Linux machine. Surfin with firefox on puppy linux - yeah!

24 Sept

I got Puppy Linux installed on a hard drive partition on the old 333 mhz PC. The install was easy; I was prompted at each stage. I made a boot floppy, which takes me right into the Linux desktop. I changed the resolution to approx 800 x 600. Then I installed a NIC card. The Linux network setup wizard interrogated the NIC card (water boarding, a few electric shocks), came up with a driver and then tested the connection to my existing router. It works; I'm now on the internet with my old PC and it is a lot faster than an identical PC I have, which is running XP. No hoards of useless programs running in the background. No more Windoze!
Now I have to learn more about Linux. I mounted another portion of my hard drive and was able to read and access files stored there. Puppy comes with a linux office suite of programs which will read and write MS Office products. This version of Puppy came with the Opera browser pre-installed. Next I have to get the linux version of Squeak.

19 Sept

Kids are back at school and got colds last week. This week they passed cold to me. Yuk! I taught aikido last nite; beginners class of 15 students - wow!

9 Sept

Took Brendan for his second drive today. I had him shift into 2nd gear and make a few trips around the block. He did great.

5 Sept

Flew to Canada today. My 2pm flight was cancelled due to a power outage in Halifax. I was able to get a 8 pm flight on AA. Flight didn't leave until 9 and it took me an hour to get thru customs/immigration in Canada. 45 minute drive to hotel followed. I arrived at hotel at 12:30 am Wed morning. Can we say tired?

2 Sept

I took Brendan out driving for the first time today around the neighborhood. We used the Ford Escort with the clutch.

1 Sept

I learned about NASA's Project Orion today, which will be used to return man to the moon. It's about time the US takes the lead again in space technology.
NASA link Wikipedia link
There is a movement to implement a standard wiki markup. OLPC is interested in using a superset of WikiCreole.
Some videos of Bob Dylan.

27 August

I spent all afternoon hooking up a NIC card and router for the home PCs and it's working - yay! The old PC needed the NIC card; that was an easy install. Next came running the Cat 5 cable thru the floors and along the cellar wall. I had to buy a 5/8 drill bit to pass the cable thru the floor. I tried the old computer directly into the cable modem, but I couldn't get it to work. (Obviously I don't understand networking). Finally I hooked up and configured the router. Once that was done, both PCs could see the internet. Now no more kids fighting over the internet. Tomorrow I'll try connecting my work laptop and see if I can connect to work.

25 August

We visited Dick & Hildy this week and my mom yesterday. I need to notify a number of places about our address change.

16 August

I've been following the development of a new personal information manager called Chandler for over a year now. The current alpha release looks interesting.

15 August

We closed on our old house this afternoon. Yay!! What a relief! We put the old house on the market in early Sept of 05 and it took us until 15 Aug 06 to unload it. Unfortunately we just missed the busy spring market of 05 by a few months. Timing really is every thing. The buyer's mortgage broker kept pushing the closing date up. We were supposed to close the end of Aug. As it turns out the buyer is just borderline qualified for the loan and the broker was trying to push the closing through before the financing fell through. My 77 year old 2nd cousin, Ralph, represented us at the closing. The bank's attorney was rather full of himself and was 20 minutes late for the closing. Ralph brought him down to size very quickly! Ralph says to him, "I need signed copies of all the documents we sign today". The bank's attorney says "I have unsigned copies of all the paperwork right here". Ralph says again "I need signed copies of all the paperwork before I leave today". And Ralph got them. Later when the bank attorney was giving our realtor the bank check to hold in escrow until tomorrow, Ralph says "I'll need a copy of that check please". The bank attorney says "Couldn't you have asked for that, before I made copies?" Ralph says to him: "You're a young guy, you can get up and make another copy; the exercise will do you good!" Our realtor will give us our check tomorrow, after the deed is recorded. We had asked the buyer if we could have until 24 Aug to get all our possessions out of the house, since the P&S had the closing on 31 Aug. The buyer said OK, but wanted to hold back $1500 until we got all our stuff out of the house. Ralph starts out today by telling them his clients are not having $1500 held back, since the buyer is the one who wanted to move up the closing. The buyer said OK, so we get our full check tomorrow. First I need to find out the payoff amount for the 2nd mortgage on the new house and pay that off. Then the remaining proceeds from the sale will go toward principal on the 1st mortgage.
Ever hear of Wizard schools?

14 August

I'm taking vacation the next two weeks. But I won't be relaxing, I'll be moving the rest of our stuff out of the old house and then organizing and trying to find room for stuff at the new house.
The movers came today to move the heavy furniture, bureaus and piano to the new house. Everything went pretty smoothly - no broken furniture or holes in walls. Now we have places to sit and bureaus to store our clothes - no more camping out!

10 August

MI5 stops a major terrorist attack.
I need to look into zoom clouds
Some ideas on education.

6 August

Today is Brendan's 16th birthday! He wanted to bake his own cake! He also asked to mow the lawn with the power mower for the 1st time!
I want to get some Dawn Redwoods to plant out back next spring. This site seems to have a decent price on 30 to 40 inch seedlings. The tree grows 50 to 60 feet in 20 years; 3 feet a year for established tree. The base diameter is 25 to 30 feet. I also need to look into dwarf apple trees for next year. And I get to start my vegetable garden in the spring, yay!
I found some pictures of Jacqueline skating a few weeks ago.
I hit 150 pages on my wiki today! Onward towards 200 now!

2 August

We signed the P&S on our old house today - Yay! Now I have to find a mover. The temp was 100 today; I took the day off to work in the heat, moving boxes, taking stuff to the dump!
A neat Logo link.

30 July

Thoughts for my Raytheon webpage link: list education and work history. There is a name for a type of on line resume. I can't remember it right now.

29 July 06

I created a wiki for my college alumni and emailed my classmate who sends out the class info in the alumni magazine. I need to make a wiki to link to from my Raytheon email signature. I could put some background info (education, etc.) there. All this talk of diversity is driving me crazy. This is my idea of diversity.
I got Puppy Linux ver 2.0 running on the old Toshiba 333mhz computer. It has the C drive FAT formatted, so Puppy can store working files on it.
I started lifting again and need to drop a few pounds. I'm thinking of racewalking in morning before work.
Hey we won the Long Range Radar program yesterday - great news. Here is some Strange stuff and a cool way to display the current weather on your site.
Check out this video of a Japanese katana versus a 9 mm bullet; be sure to watch the high speed images.

24 July 06

Getting Things Done is a time management system developed by David Allen. This is applicable to wiki use. Some links for using GTD with wikis are here and here.

I was talking to a friend today, who just took a 5 day sailing course with his sister on a 36 foot sailboat. He is now certified for bare boat charters. I was thinking this would be a wonderful thing to do with my son in a couple of years.

Jewel weed is a wonderful plant. My son has poison ivy, so I cut some jewel weed tonite and applied the juice from the stalk directly to the blistered area. Somehow the jewel weed juices react with the oil in the poison ivy and break down the oil, and drying out the affected area. Article on poison ivy.

22 July 06

I had downloaded an archive of the Squeakland mailing list about a year ago. I went thru it off line, removed extraneous info and highlighted interesting conversations. I am in the process of pasting certain discussions onto my Squeak site.

21 July 06

Teaching aikido class tonite, there was a great deluge and noisy thunderstorm. Surprisingly, it was a nice environment to practice aikido in. Thinking more of getting a linux distribution running on one of the old computers. Maybe DSL or Puppy linux. Need more hours in a day.

Twiki is now running at work, which I requested the system admin to install for my department use. I have made some tweaks, including making the title of the current page larger, so people know where they are. The system admin set up some aliases so I can link directly from Twiki to files on our server (only a few directories). I have to prepare a presentation on uses of the wiki at work for next month's staff mtg. I'm going to give the URL to a couple of people at work and let them play with it.

Check out this mind blowing site on expanding your view by powers of 10.

12 July 06

I watched a special on Woodie Guthrie tonight on PBS. It was very well done. He was an amazing man and prolific writer.

8 July 06

Want to know more about Crop circles? How about the end of literacy? Alan Kay characterized the Dynabook years ago, as: "An instrument whose music is ideas"

4 July 06 Happy Birthday to These United States !

Do I like this date format better?
This link provides info on the origins and meaning of names, (thanks to Laurie).

I spent an hour this afternoon finishing setting up aikido mats in my basement.

We went to parade in Norwood tonight. There were a number of WWII tanks, half tracks and jeeps in the parade. 4 Warthog tank killers flew in formation over the parade route.

I've been thinking of different wiki formats and how to convert between them. I use PBwiki online and Note Studio offline and on my Palm OS device. The basic link markup is similar: they both use single square brackets around links. Bullets are * space in PBwiki and a - in NoteStudio. Headings are ! in PBwiki and + in NoteStudio. I guess I could do a find and replace in a text editor to convert pages back and forth. It would not work with multiple + ! - or *, though.

A comparison of wiki formatting at a glance:

Effect	PBwiki	NoteStudio	Swiki
Bold	**	*
Italic	''	=
__Underlined__	__	_
Strikethrough	-	N/A
Bullet	* space	-
Ordered list	# space	#
Heading	!	+
Horizontal line	---	___

30 June 06

Well yesterday I ran the Getleft program to download this website to my home PC. (It wouldn't work at work due to the firewall) All the links work too, so I can jump from page to page. The only drawback is the pages are static, so I can't change them. I can however make changes in an editor, save them and then upload them when I am back online.

25 June 06

Wow, this wiki now contains 135 pages, which I created myself. I started this wiki in January 06. I'll probably blow by 150 pages this week. So I'll set my next big mark at 200 pages. I lifted weights today, doing Power of 10 slow motion workout. It really is exhausting just doing 1 set of each exercise to exhaustion.

23 June 06

A special day: I was awarded the title of Master Sandwich Maker today by David Weekly, the owner of PBwiki.com. I am also setting up a TWiki at work, behind our firewall. I'm trying to make TWiki simple enough for the average user to work with. Looks like at least the Feds are interested in protecting our private property rights. I need to do some wiki housekeeping. I need to do some organizing and refactoring of pages. I also need to clean out my In box.

22 June 06

Well, well, well, it looks like WMDs really did exist in Iraq, according to a new report. However we still screwed up the occupation, once we defeated Sadam. Where is General MacArthur when you need him?
I also learned about heat bursts today, in interesting meterological phenomenon.

21 June 06

Jacqueline had Needham track Monday nite. She was doing hurdles and I snapped a great picture of her in mid-air! Sheer photographic luck on my part. I also learned more about childhood cooties today!

20 June 06

Bad news today: 2 missing soldiers were found killed and mutilated in Iraq. I'll elaborate on this war another time. Suffice it to say, that if I was commander-in-chief, the war would be over, the locals would not like us, but they would fear and respect us. There would be a dusk to dawn curfew and those clerics who didn't play ball with us, would be spending time praying to Allah at Club Gitmo.

On the tech front, IBM announced a 350 ghz chip today; unbelievable - this should have a big impact on computing in a couple of years.

It doesn't get much better than this: I'm sitting out on my deck tonite, watching a thunderstorm in the distance, cooking 2 hot dogs on the grill, and sipping a cold beer. The storm is a mixture of heat lightning, which lights up the sky and an occasional lightning bolt. Distant thunder in the background. It was a hot day; I did aikido class tonite and sweated like a dog; great workout. There is a strong breeze blowing on the deck and even though it is in the mid 70s, it almost feels cold.

19 June 06

To blog or not to blog, that is one question. I'm not a fan of blogs; I am a fan of wikis. But wikis can function just fine as a blog. I can insert pictures
and let visitors post comments.
As you will soon find out, I like to do things my own way.
So what is the purpose of this "blog"? Most likely it will contain interesting things I have come accross and some of what I'm doing. So here we go.

I just turned 52 a week ago; so far it is no different than being 51.

As you have noticed I like wikis. Other interests include aikido, One Laptop Per Child and Squeak Smalltalk, all of which can be found on my wiki.

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