Yesterday I took some time in the morning to get a flu shot and, for the first time, a pneumonia shot. My arm has swelled up and I can’t make a fist. It is more than 24 hours and I still feel like crap. Each year the flu shot makes me feel like I have […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: September 2012
What I need for Christmas
Friday, September 21, 2012
I am a a believer, as is Author Ray Kurzweil, that the singularity is coming. You may know Kurzweil as an electronics engineer who revolutionized electronic synthesis of sound and music. You might know him as the guru who has a blueprint for living forever through diet and exercise. You might know him from his […]
My Hosting Account Hacked
Friday, September 21, 2012
I received an email from 1and1 that my website has been hacked. This is strange. They were able to access my FTP account. The FTP account password has not been changed in many years and was a very simple one. I have long since started including Upper Case, numbers and punctuation in the password. Some […]
Is it true that “not everyone can be a programmer”?
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Is it true that “not everyone can be a programmer”?. I taught programming from around 1980 to just a few years ago. I have to agree with the assessment of some of the studies. There are those who learn programming and those who don’t. I taught the class as through there were two kinds of […]