Alabama Jubilee-Day 2
The weather this morning was awesome for a balloon ride. We got to Point Mallard early enough to catch almost all launches. Here are a few pics from this morning.
Alabama Jubilee 2012–Day 1
This year the weather was a lot more cooperative for the balloon glow. On Saturday evening we attended the balloon glow and watched some tethered rides.
Mac mini is here!
I’ve gone to the dark side… Partly gone to the dark side anyway. I went out today and bought a Mac mini. es, I agree with Nan that I didn’t NEED it, but I wanted it so I could learn all about Mac’s. I still have the Windows 7 64bit beast and I won’t be … Read more
Digitizing Vinyl: Part 1.
Since I’ve been asked… Here’s how *I* digitize vinyl… there are many ways to do it, There are lots of different tools that you can use. This is how *I* do it at the moment on my Windows 7 computer. The procedures I use make it a tedious process but the results are well worth … Read more
Revisiting “The Internet? Bah!”
I recently ran across an article from the February 25th 1995 issue of Newsweek (http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1995/02/26/the-internet-bah.html) written by Clifford Stoll entitled “The Internet? Bah!”. In it he asks “Do our computer pundits lack all common sense?” and states that online databases won’t replace our daily newspaper that CD-ROMs can’t take the place of a competent teacher … Read more