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jeff_duntemann Feb 21, 2022 18:45

jeff_duntemann Apr 03, 2009 10:55

My Web article on how I designed my workshop has just been aggregated on the Make Blog.
Here is the best summary of sunspot-less days I've yet seen. We may be coming out of a freakish-high period of solar activity; five of the ten most intense solar cycles ever recorded have occurred in the last 50-odd years.
Even NASA admits that our near-record ( Read more... )

jeff_duntemann Feb 26, 2009 11:16

The dairy that delivered milk to our house when I was a kid was indeed Hawthorn Mellody Farms (as verified by the Sister of Eidetic Recall) which was unusual in several ways: They had an amusement park in Libertyville, Illinois, complete with a miniature train ride, a petting zoo, Western town, and pony rides, that was a famous destination in the ( Read more... )

jeff_duntemann Jan 06, 2009 08:11

Quick reminder: If I'm on your blogroll, or if you have a link to Contra on any of your pages, please check to see that the new URL is in place. Thanks!
Pete Albrecht sent me a link to a fantastic technical animation that "assembles" the Space Station one module at a time, while displaying a timeline on the right indicating when each part was ( Read more... )

jeff_duntemann Dec 21, 2008 21:26

Foxit Software (which sells a line of very good PDF-related software, including the Foxit Reader, which I use daily) has announced an e-ink based ebook reader, the eSlick. The device isn't being shipped yet, but there have been some early reactions in ( Read more... )

jeff_duntemann Dec 10, 2008 18:27

Carol and I just finished the bulk of our Christmas cards. The cards we bought this year had little sparkles glued (badly) to them, and as we processed the 70-odd cards going out, the cards began shedding, and sparkles are now showing up...everywhere. I'm looking ( Read more... )

jeff_duntemann Nov 28, 2008 19:29

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jeff_duntemann Nov 26, 2008 13:03

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal and New York Times (and many other outlets) reported that the Houghton-Mifflin trade division will be "temporarily" suspending acquisitions of new books. (The textbook division, which provides most of the company's revenues, is not ( Read more... )

jeff_duntemann Nov 21, 2008 17:40

My editor at John Wiley called and indicated that they want me (finally!) to rewrite Assembly Language Step By Step for a new edition in the spring of 2010. This will be a big job, since DOS will be jettisoned completely (and real mode relegated to a hisorical ( Read more... )

jeff_duntemann Nov 12, 2008 13:04

The pseudobachelor life does not become me, but I'm working on it. So far, the heuristics seem to be: Stay in touch (our cell phones are being given a workout), stay busy, and socialize whenever possible. I've also found that I must get out of the house at least once ( Read more... )