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Back when Carol and I lived here in the '90s and early oughts, I had a large lot and a 200-foot wire antenna for the low bands. The antenna didn't work well...because what I didn't have was a good ground. Now that we're back in Arizona, I decided to begin with the ground system, and work up from there toward the antennas.

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• Wanna know why I'm an optimist? This is why I'm an optimist. (Among other things.)
• NASA says that cosmic rays are bad and getting worse, which has consequences in several areas, from heart health to manned spaceflight to climate. Cosmic rays seed clouds, increasing the Earth's albedo and cooling the planet. Weirdly, cosmic rays are linked with ( Read more... )

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Sure, you've got Amazon Prime. (I do too.) But I have something that (most of) you don't have: Fry's Electronics. It's a 12-mile drive from here, so I can't just dash over anytime I want, like I can to Artie's Ace Hardware. However, I realized after stopping in after a 15-year hiatus the other day that I need to go there more often.

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• Author Nick Cole has his finger on what's wrong with print publishing. A big chunk of it is Barnes & Noble. He says what I've been saying for some time: The fate of the Big 5 print publishers is tied to B&N's. When B&N goes under, there will be blood in the streets of Manhattan.
• Great article on that 1920s curiosity, spinning-disk television, with ( Read more... )

Carol and I were in Costco last week, stocking up on consumables ( Read more... )

• Lazarus 1.6 has been released. It was built with FreePascal 3.0.0, a first for Lazarus. Mostly incremental changes, but there's a new rev of the docked form editor that looks promising, even though it's not quite stable yet. Wish I had more time to play with it!
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