I contributed my first file to iStockPhoto late last week. It’s been approved and added to their collection of royalty free photographs. I’m the only “wheat” on their site, so if you search by user name, you’ll find it. Twenty-two other people have downloaded it so far, which makes me smile. I have several others [...]

SSH recomendations In these days of increased internet security, many web hosting services (including the one you’re currently soaking in, jtlnet) no longer allow telnet access. But any hosting service worth its weight in salt allows access via telnet’s more mature cousin, secure shell (SSH). On the Mac, the best freeware SSH client I’ve found [...]

Gina B-Day We celebrated my wife’s birthday last night at Uncle Gaylord’s, a nice local restaurant with a cozy bar. A dozen of our friends showed up (many bearing gifts, which we hadn’t anticipated) to celebrate with us. It was a great time. Thanks to all of you, sincerely. I know Gina enjoyed it.

AbiWord, the great open source word processor from AbiSource is now at version 0.9.4. The latest release is, like every previous one, a significant improvement. AbiWord gets my vote for the best open source alternative to MS Word. Grab a copy and try it out.

I knew chimpanzees were smart and had been taught to communicate with sign language and the like, but I was amazed by an account I read today about Dr. David Premach and ‘Sarah’, one of his most successful language-using chimps: “Premack and his colleagues taught this chimpanzee not only to read and write the names [...]