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Best wishes to all on this Christmas holiday. After a bunch of waiting around in the Portland Airport, I’m back with the wife. We just made our traditional meal of Christmas Pasta (quite yummy) and will have a slice of cheesecake in a while. Hope you all have a great holiday.

Mr. Plow, that’s my name! My name again, is Mr. Plow! Will I get home before Christmas? Taking all bets…

While it’s not entirely true, it’s more true than it should be. (Thanks to Dan for bringing it to my attention.)

Well, this morning we have eight or ten inches of snow on the ground at my Mom’s house, covered in a layer of ice from freezing rain. Last night, I shot this video of my brother’s dog playing in the snow. Addendum: Here’s a picture of Daisy in a more quiet mode.

On December 8, 2008, my son Adam Rogers took Rebecca Hand to be his wife. After all the excitement, I’m just now getting around to getting all the footage and photographs that we took organized, but here’s a still from the video footage that I snapped with my little Canon camera from my front row […]

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen on youtube in at least a few hours. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcL6-mjRNk”

Carmen got a cute little elf hat for Scrappy. He didn’t scratch or fuss too much, but neither was he especially happy. We decided to get a quick picture of him, and then gave him a little cat treat and let him get rid of his elf hat.

I must admit, I’ve been running WordPress for quite some time, and for the most part, I’m pretty happy with it as weblogs go. But there are a couple of things that bug me about it. For one thing, it isn’t really very simple. In fact, it’s not just that it isn’t simple, it’s that […]

I’ve posted links to the old time radio serial The Cinnamon Bear as part of my holiday preparations in years past. I updated this and got it working again. If you’d like to turn back your listening to a kind of neat 26 part Christmas story from 1937, try checking out The Cinnamon Bear.

Testing the Smart Youtube plugin for wordpress: httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdtOAOe1-qU

Jeff KE9V, over at KE9V.net is once again falling victim to pessimism about amateur radio. I can’t help but shake my head at the effort that we as hams seem to put into lamenting the impending death of our hobby. It’s very strange. I can’t think of another hobby that spends as much time as […]

I’ve been playing around a little bit with the Arduino microcontroller board that I bought a while ago. It’s a nice little board, but there are some alternatives that are also interesting, like the following board from Futurelec. It’s got more I/O pins (lots more) than the Arduino, and is based on the ATMEGA128, with […]

My WordPress “theme” seems to need a little maintenence. Don’t be alarmed if the look of my website changes a bit over the next couple of days. I haven’t upgraded it in a long time, and I’m trying to make sure it works with all the upgraded versions of WordPress that I’ve installed recently.

My blog indicates that I was decoding my first NOAA weather sat images about a year ago. I have made some progress on improving the images that I get out, but not alot. Witness this morning’s image, recorded beginning around 10:05 PST of NOAA 17 on 137.62 Mhz: It seems pretty good, except for one […]

I was bored. I had five minutes. I wrote some C code. A few minutes later, I had this movie. YouTube – Simple Mandelbrot Movie This is also the first time that I have tried to use the Youtube “annotation” functionality. Works pretty well. Wish I could overlay even a static, transparent image, similar to […]