The good news: my internet connectivity at home is back up and, in fact, is much faster than it has ever been previously. The bad news: a recent round of bad weather knocked out my linksys router and one of my laptops (my beloved Dell Latitude LS). I pulled the hard drive and mouted it [...]

NYT obit (free registration required). Wikipedia has a list of his works and a brief bio. I found a few poems online (text and real audio). There are several others here (warning: pop-ups). I can’t remember which book of his I read long ago.

Sorry for the lack of updates. I just got back from Fayetteville, Arkansas after a long trip to take care of some family business. I’ll give a full update and share some pictures when time permits.

I use Cygwin quite a lot, but I never tried printing from it until last night. I had assumed it would be difficult; it’s not. On Unix/Linux systems, you can print by piping commands to lpr (i.e. “local printer”). So, for instance, printing the results of ls -a (list all files in the current directory) [...]

First off, I just noticed that Ron Velosky’s excellent book, Sight Reading for the Bass now has its own web site. Ron, who sent me a review copy of this book years ago, died far too young. But he managed to write what I believe to be the best book on the subject. So, if [...]