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Testing CloudFlare

June 28, 2011 Art Zemon

I have been reading about CloudFlare for some time and decided to give it a try. CloudFlare promises to speed up a web site using several technologies, including caching static content on their CDN, minifying content, and blocking access to malicious bots. I installed it on this site for testing and, at least initially, I […]

Business, Internet

Innovative Transportation Ideas

April 7, 2011 Art Zemon

Electra One in Solar Hangar

Gas prices jumped again: $3.89 today and I know that Missouri’s prices are lower than many. I should count myself lucky; I work from home so I burn a lot less gas than most of my friends. I struggle to hang onto that warm, fuzzy feeling when I fill up my plane, though. The last […]

Aviation, Ecology, Technology

Remember Modems?

April 4, 2011 Art Zemon

Sometimes I forget how long I have been using a some nifty technology so the universe whacks me over the head with a clue stick and reminds me. Over the weekend, my younger son was building a file server out of an old PC that he found in the basement. Digging through the case, he […]

Technology

Geezer Tech

December 23, 2010 Art Zemon

System/370 Reference Summary

The discussion on one of my favorite mailing lists has turned toward nostalgic reminisces of the golden days of technology, including antique floppy disks and RT-11 cheat sheets. Scott Adams then made my morning with this strip (and a very merry Christmas to you, Scott!): Since I can’t fight it, I might as well wallow […]

Fun, Technology

Google’s eBookstore: Yay! eBook Licenses: Boo!

December 7, 2010 Art Zemon

Google’s new eBookstore is open for business, selling over three million books. This is great news. I like books and I like technology and I like competition. I particularly like the partnership which Google has forged with local bricks and mortar bookstores, allowing the stores to sell ebooks through their own web sites. I will […]

Business, eBooks, Technology

That Comfy Small Town Feeling

November 15, 2010 Art Zemon

I remember how nice it was, after I moved from Chicago to Valparaiso, IN, that I could tell someone my name and he knew where I lived. It was a small town. We all knew where pretty much everybody lived. One time, just to see what would happen, I sent a letter to my step-father […]

Internet, Safety

Software Jobs

October 10, 2010 Art Zemon

First two frames of today's Dilbert comic strip

By day, I own a software company and occasionally write software. Wally, Dilbert’s friend, reveals all about my job in today’s strip. Click the image to read the whole comic. The disturbing question is: Which job do I hold???

Business, Fun, Software

Real Virtual Alchemy

July 14, 2010 Art Zemon

I have learned to change lead into gold, and back again, for real! Well, sort of. Thus far, it only works within the virtual world of programming languages like Python. Here is the recipe. (If you are not into geek-speak, skip to the bottom where I natter on about reading ebooks on an iPad.) class […]

eBooks, Software, Technology

Python Generators Neatly Untangle Loops

July 2, 2010 Art Zemon

The Python programming language has become my first choice for most tasks over the last year or so. The more I use it, the more I find to like about it. I just stumbled across generators in a way that made them make sense to me and it is so cool that I want to […]

Software

Instrument Approach Plates on the iPad

June 26, 2010 Art Zemon

3 styles of approach plates

I just upgraded the instrument approach plates that I use when flying IFR in my airplane. My new iPad with ForeFlight Mobile HD replaces my Sony PRS-505 with ReaderPlates that I have been using since December 2008. The Sony and ReaderPlates replaced paper that I had been using since 1987. This is a very good […]

Aviation, Technology

Facebook’s Last Straw

May 30, 2010 Art Zemon

Facebook Third-Party Privacy

Facebook added the proverbial last straw with its latest privacy faux pas. It has demonstrated, yet again, that in pursuing it’s goal of selling advertising, Facebook places very little importance on our personal privacy. Remember that, while Facebook ostensibly is a web site designed to help people connect with like-minded people, in fact Facebook is […]

Business, Internet, Rants & Raves

Infrastructures are Important

May 23, 2010 Art Zemon

Sometimes (often) XKCD hits the nail squarely on the head.

Business, Communicating, Technology

Happy Passover from the R&D Institute for Intelligent Robotic Systems (and Me)

March 24, 2010 Art Zemon

May this passover find you free from all bondage and from anything which keeps you from thoroughly enjoying life. L’chaim (to life)!

Fun, Judaism, Technology

Server Backups are Important

March 6, 2010 Art Zemon

I got a frantic email from a friend this week. One of his subcontractors went crazy and trashed several of my friend’s clients’ web sites as well as my friend’s own business site. The police have been involved but much damage has already been done. I wish I had been hosting my friend’s sites. Had I […]

Recommendations, Safety, Software, Technology

More Bandwidth Than a Station Wagon

January 14, 2010 Art Zemon

DEC RM03 disk drive

Back when I administered VAXen running BSD UNIX at FileNet, “just” 25 years ago or so, we didn’t have a high speed internet connection to use in transferring files between computers. I used a bank of Racal-Vadic 2400 baud modems to run UUCP and shuffle email and usenet articles around. With five modems in the […]

Internet, Technology

Netflix Watch Instantly Coming to the PS3

October 26, 2009 Art Zemon

I am so happy. Netflix will finally stream movies to the Sony Playstation PS3. We have a Roku player, too, but it will be more convenient to have all of our entertainment stuff in one box. And the PS3 ought to produce a better picture, too.

Fun, Movies, Technology

Retro Slide Rule

September 2, 2009 Art Zemon

My deepest appreciation to ThinkGeek for making me feel old first thing in the morning. They have recreated the “classic student slide rule” and are hawking them for a pittance of what this paragon of useful technology is worth. The sad thing is… not only do I remember slide rules, I depended on them to […]

Fun, Technology

Step 3: Google Chrome to Replace Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, and Linux

July 9, 2009 Art Zemon

As I predicted in Google Chrome to Replace Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, and Linux (September 2008) and again in Step 2: Google Chrome to Replace Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, and Linux (December 2008), Google is moving to replace the operating system, not just the browser. What changed two days ago is that Google is finally […]

Business, Internet, Software, Technology

NSA Illegally Collecting US Citizens’ Email

June 19, 2009 Art Zemon

I am not surprised, but I am still dismayed, by the continued erosion of our personal privacy in the shadow of George W. Bush’s administration. The New York Times reports in E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress that the National Security Agency (NSA), as recently as early this year, is illegally collecting email from Americans: […]

Communicating, Government, Software

It’s a Boy!

May 20, 2009 Art Zemon

Cindy and Geoff did a great job and produced Caedmon Geoffrey, a wonderful, healthy baby boy at 7:12pm on May 20. He’s 9 lbs 1 oz, 21 inches tall. His plumbing works so well that he peed on the doctor during delivery. I take that as a great omen!

Family, Rants & Raves, Software

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