2006 November

My small and agile company, which is currently ISO 9001 certified, has decided upon hearing about a possible kill switch in Microsoft Office and Vista to switch document editing tools. The upper level echelon has also decided to start converting all their required documentation to a more portable format. PDF is the current favorite. This [...]

This entry is about an Open Source game that I came across that might be of interest to some. This stunt cycle genre does not particularly interest me, although I played this particular game for about an hour, before I became bored. I am more a “Zero Hour” kind of guy. But this [...]

When I was working for a big fat company, it insisted that everything be put in a flowchart or a diagram. No one was allowed to submit more than a page unless there was a summary in the form of a flowchart or a diagram. Later, as I progressed through my career, I found that [...]

This is my first entry in a blog. Although I have been programming computers for nearly 30 years, my coding has been in BASIC, C, C++, PASCAL, Forth, and even some hardly ever used database languages like MUMPS, or RBase. Initially the formatting will be minimal, Bold for titles, and little else until [...]