My father was a big solitaire player. While he played Klondike often, he also played a solitaire cribbage variant as well as others. One game that he taught me, another solitaire player, was a simple baseball game. With this game in hand, I used to build fantasy season schedules, play the games […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Today, as with most days, I am thankful for my family, my friends, both near and far, my job, which is better than most, and all the blessings that God, in His mysterious wisdom, has seen fit to bestow on me.
Thank you all for adding to the ongoing wonder that is my life.
Yesterday saw the Boston area’s first snowfall. While it did accumulate, it didn’t last long as the temps warmed up just enough to turn the snow to a light misty rain and obliterate what little had accumulated.
Still, I took advantage of that small window of opportunity by leaving work for an early lunchtime hike […]
As Remnants of a Deeper Purity was recently re-released with a 2nd CD of extra tracks, and considering that this album will be up for over a month, I decided to upload those additional tracks as part of the Album of the Month.
Enjoy.
I decided that embedding the music player on the main page was wasteful and not very useful. First of all, when editing posts with WordPress, the system will display a preview page of the post. This preview would include the player which would cause a series of site accesses and Flash startup. […]
Ported and fixed: Huffman, Arithmetic Encoding, Adaptive variants of the preceding two.
Working on LZ77.
On deck: LZW and Deflate
The latter two are necessary for reading GIF and PNG image files.
I updated the music player in the sidebar and used one of the new skins that came with it. I like the skin, but it’s not a good fit for the site. It’ll do for now.
I updated my peakbagging list. My goal is to hike all those mountains by my 50th birthday. That gives me 8 years. Considering the sheer number of peaks on that list, it’s an ambitious goal.
As part of my life reorganization, I cancelled my MySpace account. I really wasn’t doing anything with it and I already associate with my friends there in other venues.
I did get some good ideas there for Effluency 2.0, but that’s about it.
The new Flash music player and my Peakbagger’s List were part of my MySpace […]
I went for another hike in the Middlesex Fells Reservation today. This was my second hike from the Lost Pond parking area. My route went from the parking area to Molly’s Spring Road to the Skyline Trail to the Reservoir Trail and back to Molly’s Spring Road. The loop was roughly 1.8 […]