I wanted to put up a quick update about a side project I have been working on over the last month. Collingswood Bible Presbyterian Church has been working hard to re-start their Christian school. A big part of getting it going has been the need to get the word out and get students enrolled. To [...]

Richard Feynman was a Nobel prize winning Physicist who was a highly respected not only for his research, but also his lectures. Dr. Feynman gave a very famous set of lectures to the students at Caltech which were designed to introduce undergraduates to the field of physics. On of the principles Dr. Feynman put forth [...]

I have been playing with Kazehakase, a very lightweight browser with some nifty features. However the version in the Ubuntu Hardy repositories has a serious bug: it crashes every time you try to open the Preferences dialog. This bug has been fixed upstream, but I couldn’t find a deb for Ubuntu with this fix. So [...]

Recently my Ubuntu system at work started showing a couple of really annoying bugs: The line spacing in all Java applications was doubled. This meant that I could only get 1/2 as much text on the screen in JEdit. When numlock was off the keypad allowed me to use the arrow keys,  but when I [...]

My to do list has been getting out of hand. I have two research project, a summer internship, and general life stuff (cooking, laundry, etc.) and have been having trouble keeping track of it. So I decided I needed some help. In the past I have used Hiveminder and really liked it. However it has [...]

Grrr! These Dell Optiplex 320′s are eating too much of my time. We just upgraded one to Hardy Heron and I lost a full day getting the machine back on its feet. For my own reference (because I know I will have to deal with this again) here are the problems and solutions: First, the [...]

A little while ago I wrote about my problems booting Linux on a Dell Optiplex 320 the solution was to install Grub 2 and tweak the boot options. Since then I have run into a couple other problems which have required me to learn a little more about managing Grub 2 on a Debian based [...]

One of my projects this summer has been to learn Python. I want to be able to use it to replace Matlab and LabView. I may try to write a little more of the how and why later. I have been learning a great deal about Python in the last month or so and thought [...]

I know it has been a long time since I have poster here. Sorry,  I have been busy. (That is the best excuse I can come up with at least) Here are some pictures that I took in March. I had seen this twice, but only got around to taking pictures the second time: (You [...]

October 31, 1517: Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the church door. A much better thing to celebrate today than some of the other options …