Is it just me, or did Palm Digital Media make it a whole lot harder to get the free version of their Palm Reader software? From their front page, there’s no mention of the free version anywhere, and I finally found it when clicking through the ad for the Pro version. …Oh. I just found… Continue reading Free? Palm Reader software
Author: Jon
Computer Languages History Timeline
From the Computer Languages History site comes an impressive computer languages timeline chart. It’s as much a language family tree as it is a timeline. Very nice, though a little hard to read.
Shakespeare Social Networks
This is an amazing link: Shakespeare Social Networks. PieSpy is a tool designed to infer and visualize social networks on Internet Relay Chat (IRC). It works by applying simple heuristics to work out who is talking to whom. This information can be used to produce a visualization of the social network, essentially showing which users… Continue reading Shakespeare Social Networks
Violent Pong
Here’s a link I found from Scoble, which was too good not to post: violent pong. No, it’s not a game (how many of you even remember pong?), which is what I thought at first; it’s a Flash movie. Watch it. It’s crazy and philosophical!
Everything Old is New Again
I’ve started tinkering with the design of my site here, changing things around, making the blog pages more blog-centric, and in doing so I realize that this “redesign” is basically the same design I was using up through July of last year. How quickly we forget. As to what I’m changing, I’m simplifying the table… Continue reading Everything Old is New Again
At least one new ebook
Lovecraft notwithstanding, I did finally get around to adding a new ebook, Anne’s House of Dreams (240KB .PDB file). It had been sitting in the queue for quite awhile now. The conversion went quick; I’d forgotten how quick, so that’s encouraging.
Lovecraft Copyright
Hmmm… I was all set to post up the H.P. Lovecraft ebooks tonight that were sent to me, but when double-checking the publication dates online I found this: Please note that Lovecraft’s fiction is still considered to be under copyright by Arkham House, and any texts presently available on the web without their consent are… Continue reading Lovecraft Copyright
Beautiful Day
It was an utterly beautiful day today here in Central Oregon, right around 70 degrees and sunny all day. Raked some leaves, played with the kids outside, just gorgeous. And the best part is, I didn’t have to be stuck at work on the first nice day of the year 🙂
Lovecraft Ebooks
Coming up in the next day or two, some H.P. Lovecraft Palm Reader ebooks, four of his short stories. The cool part of it is they were created by someone else who wanted to donate them for hosting, Leandro Liñares. Once I’ve verified that the stories in question are in the public domain, I’ll have… Continue reading Lovecraft Ebooks
SharpReader Gone
SharpReader is outta here. Last night’s crash wasn’t a fluke; after I downloaded the latest version and restored my feeds, I went back and added two Amazon feeds and sure enough, it crashed again. Turns out the URLs for Amazon’s feeds are too long for SharpReader to handle. The worst part is, after last night’s… Continue reading SharpReader Gone