2.22.2003

Adaptive optics and other geek stuff...

While I'm waiting for the new carpet to replace my flooded 2 bedrooms...figure I'll get back to the site. So, some techno-geek stuff that's interesting out there: Adaptive optics for telescopes... (We have bigger telescopes and arrays down here, but the atmosphere makes the images blurry The mirror flexes to compensate for the turbulence in the air. Computer controlled, of course.

2.18.2003

Blizzard of '03

Well, with all the snow around here (the likes of which I haven't seen since '83...26 inches this time), not much to do but work on the site (and of course, shovel).  Or pay off the neighborhood kids to do it...heh.

1.01.2003

Welcome

This is the framework for my new web site. Hopefully better than my old site...this is the first major redesign in many years. If you don't remember how much it sucked before, I'll put up some screen shots sometime. This should be the first 100% original version...no graphics ripped from someone else's page, hopefully.

Yes, I know the site looks very bare now...still working on the graphics, but the hard technical stuff is done. One of the complaints I was getting was not putting up vacation pictures for months after I got back...well, the photos page is just one ASP file that generates all the image galleries, so I have to write ZERO pages when I bring a batch of pics back from vacation. Just add one line of code, download and resize the pictures in Photoshop and it's done. The Lazy Programmer at his finest, a principle I live by.

Be sure to check out the photos from my nice Nikon digital camera (a wonderful birthday present from the woman in my life).

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-R.