Posted on 24th Nov 2023
After many years had to change my office chair. Not sure where I got that one from, but the feature I liked was it adjusted from computer height to then also high enough to look through my microscope. Well earlier this summer it broke and while I fixed it, what it really needed was for the base...
Posted on 20th Nov 2023
Wow the website changed big time. A number of years ago, I read that the style for websites was going simpler and cleaner. The previous site was flashy with moving pictures, and many menu options down a level. So recently I was asked to do a website for a local charity clinic, and in loo...
Posted on 16th Jun 2023
I had to give it a try, maybe late to the party. Lots of wikipedia like verbage, but interesting
Posted on 17th Apr 2023
When we added SUB and FUNCTION to BASIC, and the compiler remained a single pass, which meant a SUB had to be defined before its use. The issue comes up, where does your program start. We adopted the C convention of using MAIN: Some other BASICs use that as well or we could have made it START: BASICtools allows compiling files (normal method as your program gets bigger) as well as being able to type in short programs to test something. The later I find to be very useful for quick debugging. But...
Posted on 15th Mar 2023
I was skiing in Colorado most of February and one simple thing I need is a way to heat up ski boots just to make them easier to get on.
Posted on 18th Jan 2023
I'm going on an extended trip, so I decided to leave my heavy Dell laptop at home. Since I won't be doing any code development, I decided to give a Chromebook a try. They are light, do email and web surfing. So I've been trying to do all the things I might normally do on my PC on the Chromebook. So far so good.