Kleinhans Trail
The photo gallery for Kleinhans Trail can be found here and some information about the trail here. In addition, below I have included some information about the Magellan SporTrak Color. Magellan SporTrak Color SporTrak Color provides superior tracking and accuracy, showing your position to within 3 meters, even in difficult environments such as cities or […]
Marvel Of The Vatican
The Vatican Library is home for many of the world’s rarest books and documents.The library has more than 150,000 manuscripts, including the four oldest surviving manuscripts of the Roman poet Virgil dating from the fourth and fifth century AD; and the oldest known manuscript of the Bible, written in 350 AD. There are also more […]
Geocaching Hike
Today was my first attempt at geocaching and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in hiking. The basic idea is that individuals and organizations set up hidden storage places (caches) in various places around the world and place the locations (lattitude and longitude) of the caches on a web site like geocaching.com. […]
Old Stomping Grounds
Six months ago I got an email from Stan Birkin who is Chairman & Professor of the Information Systems/Decision Sciences Department of the College of Business Administration at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Stan was thesis advisor to me when I was working on a masters degree in 1971. He was a professor […]
Linux – The Penguin Marches On
Japan’s largest national research organization has ordered an IBM eServer Linux supercomputer that will deliver more than 11 trillion calculations per second, making it the world’s most powerful Linux-based supercomputer. It will join other Linux supercomputers on the Top 500 List.The new supercomputer is planned to be integrated with other non-Linux systems to form a […]