Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Today's haiku

My eyes glance down
The chill wind blows from the East
The leaf has gone

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

An interesting paper on mortality decreases in an ICU after stringent blood glucose control was instituted.

Thursday, September 22, 2005


Corporate Challenge 2004 Posted by Picasa

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Avalanche Press

Nice naval titles can be found here.

Friday, August 26, 2005

Shuttle Radar Topography maps

These maps are great for use with Radio Mobile software.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

NASA Human Space Flight

Well, it looks like NASA astronaut Steve Robinson has done something nobody else has ever done - spacewalked (if you can call it that when attached to the Canadarm2) under a Shuttle whilst on orbit. Wow!

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

The Writer's Almanac - JUNE 6 - 12, 2005

The Calf Path by Sam Walter Foss. For some reason this struck a chord with me.

ARRL June QSO party 2005

The June QSO party for 2005 is over. The 222 HT I bought worked OK - added a few more points and mults to the score. It has a sticky PTT button when it gets hot, and boy was it hot this weekend! Temps in the 90s and humidity never below the 90% mark even at night. My score came in around 14,500 points or so.

Because of the humidity, 24 and 47 GHz were mostly non-players, which stunk. I need a bigger dish for 24 I guess.

I did manage to work WA2IID in a couple of grids and that helped a lot! :-) He has a very nice rover setup ARRL Soapbox and it was nice to see him and Tom KB2SSS again.

On the positive side of the ledger, my 2304 MHz and 3456 MHz transverters worked fine, as did the dish that Dennis N2LBT loaned me. I didn't get a chance to break out the 902 MHz transverter. Next step is to add some power to those guys. I have amps from Pyro Joe for 2.3 and 3.4; John K2JJB gave me 55 watts for 902. I just need to get them integrated.... yeah, just.

Sunday, May 15, 2005

CR-282

CR-282

Some good instructions on installing a CR-282 high stability reference in an Icom 706 mkIIG.

Thursday, March 31, 2005


IBM System/3 model 15D Posted by Hello

Monday, February 14, 2005

CPYFRMIMPF at V5R3

IBM made some changes in their V5R3 implementation of CPYFRMIMPF. It turns out that they are really starting to obey the CCSID set for the file, so if your system value is set to 65535 (binary/no translation) then you'll really get no translation. Read the below APAR for an explanation, and the PTF that's available to restore the V5R2 behaviour.



IBM eServer iSeries Authorized Problem Analysis Reports (APAR): II13784

IBM eServer iSeries Recommended Fixes - Database: SI16664

PTF SI16664 - Operating System/400

PTF/FIX #: SI16752 - Operating System/400

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Linrad home page

Linrad is a software designed radio that runs under Linux. It uses the sound card as a DSP.

Friday, February 04, 2005

USS San Francisco

USS San Francisco SSN 711
USS San Francisco SSN 711
USS San Francisco SSN 711

USS Sanfrancisco crashed into an uncharted undersea mountain south of Guam. These are some photos of the damage. One sailor was killed, 23 seriously injured. Obviously, the crew sailed the boat pack to port.

Thursday, February 03, 2005

Panzerblitz and Panzer Leader variant counters.

Panzerblitz and Panzer Leader variant counters.

Found this nice web site for new PB/PL counters. Panzerblitz and Leader are Avalon Hill games from the 70s.

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

January VHF contest

Just sent in my score for the January VHF contest. Pitiful. It's easily the worst I've done in a long time, but the blizzard and lack of participants didn't help at all. Here's a summary



I use RoverLog by Tom N1MU to log my contests




RoverLog QSOs by Activated Grid:
Grid QSOs Grid QSOs Grid QSOs
FN22 9 FN23 8 FN32 12
FN33 3

RoverLog Score Summary, Using new rover rules:
Band QSOs Value QSOPts Mults
50 3 1 3 2
144 18 1 18 3
222 0 2 0 0
432 11 2 22 3
903 0 4 0 0
1.2 0 4 0 0
2.3 0 8 0 0
3.4 0 8 0 0
5.7 0 8 0 0
10 0 8 0 0
24 0 8 0 0
47 0 8 0 0
76 0 8 0 0
119 0 8 0 0
142 0 8 0 0
241 0 8 0 0
300 0 8 0 0
LIGHT 0 8 0 0

Grids activated: 4

Totals: 32 43 12

Claimed Score: 516

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Outsourcing angst

It's amazing the level of vitriol that can be raised over an Indian firm spamming for work.

On the one hand, it's reasonably clear that US programmers are losing jobs to India. Not good for US programmers. But I don't recall the same level of stink when US consultants were taking their jobs in the 90s.

Remembering Columbia

http://history.nasa.gov/columbia/index.html

iSeries blogs

Found David Gibb's site, http://planet.midrange.com/ It collects a bunch of iSeries blogs. Interesting stuff.