September 22, 2060 - Tux Paint was mentioned in an article in BusinessWeek online today!"With 4,000 students and just 21 computers, the Cotton Hill Girls High School in the south Indian city of Trivandrum wouldn't appear to be at the vanguard of anything related to information technology... [but] 'We're using something called Linux,' says 12-year-old Arya VM as she plays with Tux Paint, a Linux drawing and painting application."September 18, 2006 - Interest rate rise indeed.
September 17, 2006 - My sister-in-law Debby put together a wonderful baby shower for Melissa here in Mountain View yesterday! Thanks for everyone's help, well-wishes and gifts!
September 17, 2006 - I just discovered that Tux Paint is included on a CDROM that comes with the Young Digital Creators Educators Kit, a book from UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) that is "designed to help teachers and educators working in schools, youth clubs, community centres, and training institutes to generate and manage project-based learning activities with young people."
September 13, 2006 - File under: wishlist. I have a "MyIDE" cartridge for my Atari 8-bit, and an external 3.5" hard drive connected to it via an IDE cable. I didn't put much effort in how it looks, and my IDE cable isn't a ribbon, so it's bulky and messy-looking. To top it off, MyIDE replaces the Atari's OS, so it's not compatible with a ton of software I'd like to use.
Then there's "SIO2IDE." It connects right to the Atari's SIO port (just like my real floppy drive, and my SIO2PC cable). Software on the Atari has no idea there's a hard drive hooked up, and not a floppy disk.
Additional benefits: you can install an internal 2.5" IDE drive and it can be powered by your Atari. And like MyIDE, you can connect CompactFlash memory cards. Check out this awesome looking "Atari 1001" CF card reader someone put together using bits of cases and other spare parts.
September 13, 2006 - Welcoming myself to the late 1990s, I've implemented iCalendar (and recently, Google Calendar) support to the Linux Users' Group of Davis website. Together with the recent addition of RSS news feeds, the club's site has moved beyond being a website that you have to go visit (and mailing lists you have to sign up for), but an information service you can subscribe to.
I'm often asked: "what CMS are you using?" None! It's all pretty much hand-coded PHP written by yours truly, specific for the LUGOD site.
September 12, 2006 - A couple of weeks ago I received an interesting email regarding the silly little maze generator running over on my web-based games site:
Just wanted to say thanks for your maze generator. It has been used to evolve a population of cellular automata to solve mazes. I have made a video of it in action on youtube.September 12, 2006 - I've put up some photos (sorry, no real scans yet) of ultrasounds of our baby in a new baby photos page.
September 6, 2006 - My friend Sameer Verma from San Francisco State University took some photos of my Tux Paint demo at SF-LUG this week. Enjoy!
September 1, 2006 - An article on some Linux games that Melissa and I wrote is published in this month's TUX Magazine!
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