Programming in Structured English It’s a gray Saturday here in Seattle. We get quite a few of those. I was planning to take a hike today, but my goal wasn’t really the exercise. Hikes, like many things I do, are just excuses to go take some cool pictures. And on a cloudy
open xml Creating a DOCX out of thin air Suppose you were stranded on a desert island, and you wanted to create a document. A “Hello World!” document, just to let the world know you’re out there. And let’s say you’re going to send it to a bunch of people back at the office who are
photography Hurricane Katrina (part 2) This blog post contains photos I took when Megan and I returned to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in late September 2005. Our trip to the area two weeks earlier is covered in Hurricane Katrina (part 1). On our first trip to Gulfport right after the hurricane, we were mostly focused
photography Hurricane Katrina (part 1) This blog post contains photos I took while Megan and I were on the Mississippi Gulf Coast September 3-8, 2005, to help relatives who had lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina. Our return trip two weeks later is covered in Hurricane Katrina (part 2). I wrote many long blog posts
The Ramsey Flying Bathtub This post is something I had on my website in 2005, which my Uncle Irv put together for helping to sell the "flying bathtub" aircraft that he had built. I've recently recovered it from my backups and restored it here for posterity. This unique and unusual
Fun With Math This post is something I wrote in 1996 for my niece Madeline, who was 9 years old at the time. It was an attempt to convey to her some of the things I found interesting about numbers and arithmetic when I was her age. BIG Numbers There are big numbers,
