Home Automation Hobby
Home automation has been one of my hobbies for more than twenty-five years. In the early days it was mostly lighting control using X10 technology. There was a PC program written by a researcher at IBM’s Almaden Research Center that calculated the precise time of the daily sunset and at that time signal went across […]
Visa 2000
The upcoming trip to China requires a visa and the visa application requires a passport photo. The instructions were clear that it should not be a “home photo”. I was anxious to get the application in the mail and was confident that the processor of the application would not reject my photo printed from the […]
Power to the People
There has been a lot of discussion here in the blog and in Net Attitude about "Power to the People". The "power" discussed had to do with empowerment made possible by the Internet. To get connected to the Internet requires another kind of power — electricity. Although some improvements have been made there are still […]
Musical Gala
It was a very special privilege to attend the 14,326th concert of The New York Philharmonic last night at the Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The gala was to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Zoellner Center. It was a special evening in many respects. The gala tent where 420 people […]
Jubilee
The weather has made it impossible to resist motorcycling the last few days. Yesterday’s ride started down route 507 to New Foundland, then up route 191 through Sterling and over Spring Hill Road to one of the many small airports that dot the countryside of Pennsylvania. It is always interesting to see what kind of […]