Once again, I’m working with a co-author, Karen Anewalt on a book project. It’s a text-book with working title “A Practical Introduction to Web Server Applications.” A book for students who want to know how to set up and use a Web server to provide applications on the Web. It deals almost entirely with tools, […]
Tagged Books, TeachingTh end of another semester! It is always sweet and a big emotional relief. I had my last classes, CPSC 104 and CPSC 470M, today. I really enjoyed the classes this semester, for some some reason more than other semesters. Lots of fun and work this semester and I’m glad it’s over!!!!
I was reading a portion of Identity Theft by John R. Vacca. The book is nicely done with straightforward information and it is well organized. One of the sections of the book described some relatively easy ways to find information about someone and also mentioned some sites where you can get fake or ‘novelty’ ids. […]
I found the book “A Shortcut Through Time” By George Johnson, published by Alfred A Knopf, 2003, ISBN 0-375-41193-3 on the recent additions shelf of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library. It was the subtitle, “The Path to the Quantum Computer”, that really got me interested. I teach computer science at Mary Washington College and I […]
Tagged Books, quantum computing, reviewI started making this recipe last year after our trip to France. The recipe is from Lulu’s Provencal Table, by Richard Olney, Harper Collins, 1994, ISBN 0-06-016922-2. It seems that a new edition by Olney is the one available at Amazon.com. This is an example of what the author calls a “flat omelette.” It is […]
Tagged chard, recipeI was looking for tofu cookbooks at the Central Rappahannock regional Library, and came across This Can’t be Tofu!, by Deborah Madison, ISBN 0-7679-0419-2. I’ve tried 2 recipes and they both have been very good. This one for asparagus and curried tofu is on page 66, and I think it’s pictured on the cover. Ingredients: […]
Tagged recipe, tofuI noticed today that HP is offering a choice of Windows XP or Mandrake Linux 9.1 on some of its business systems. There are some options for configuration and the various models come with a Celeron or Pentium processor. I wanted to know more about the features or workings of the Pentium chip and Googled […]
We’re going to France this summer and we were thinking about buying a France Saver Pass for train travel. Since we need to get from Paris to Cassis at a particular time on a specific day we wanted to make a reservation. We could get time table information at voyages-sncf.com I posted some questions about […]
I got to visit a site that once again made me feel that great excitement of finding an excellent resource on the Web. The site is Wolfram’s Research World of Science http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/. It’s clean, easy to use, and has lots of depth. The main categories are mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and biography. Not sure why […]
This started out by looking at what was available at Google labs. That’s a place where Google shows off some items it’s thinking of rolling out for public use. Today they included Google Compute, Google Viewer, Google Webquotes, Google Glossary, Google Sets, Voice Search, and Keyboard Shortcuts. Some of these have been around since May […]
