Archive for August, 2007

Friday, August 31st, 2007

As we approached Hardin, Calhoun County the scenery became picturesque, New England like, with the colors of the trees turning their yellows, reds, coppers on the hillsides.  River is 100-400 yards wide, tree lined, twists and turns.  Nicely marked with red and green buoys and day markers.  Great navigating.  We are soaking in the beauty of the sunshine reflecting on the water, like diamonds sparkling all around us.  Our wake at times is like curved glass reaching from one bank to the other.  Passed a number of barges in narrow channels.  The under water turbulence pushes us a bit but Al keeps us on a steady course.  He handles the boat like a pro.  He is a little possessive about driving though, and doesn’t give me much time at the helm.  He likes me to bring him things so I’m up and down pretty much fetching this, cleaning up that, making food, getting water, etc.  Al’s knee is a little sore today.  Twisted it in the middle of the night last night while keeping watch while at anchor.

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

For miles the banks of the river were built up levys to control the flooding. 

 

West of Springfield we went under a bridge on Route 36 that we crossed by car numerous times as we traveled from our home in Plainfield, Illinois to Columbia, Missouri to see our daughter, Tracy, and her family; our daughter, Heidi and her husband as well as our son, Jonathan.  Also, Al drove across this bridge almost every week while he was building a house in Columbia after he left LCFS in January of 2003.  He has always said, “Someday I would like to go under this bridge in a boat.”  Today he finally did.  Lots of photos.

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Waited for a barge to go through then locked us through by ourselves.  We floated/no tie to wall.  Nice.  Only a short drop. 

 

We kept the generator running while underway today.  Breakfast of microwaved sausage wrapped in toast, coffer and apple slices on the flybridge as we continued to make our way down the river.  Uh oh, Al found the donuts Eric bought.

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Mist on inlet but river clear.  Isinglass was wet, and cloudy.  Raised the front smiley.  Burr.  Still pretty chilly but ya gotta see the river to cruise it.

EWEPS: Eric Warren Frost World Wide Web Experimental Projects Server

Welcome to the EWF WWW Experimental Projects Server (EWEPS). This site is intended to be a platform for my exploration of web technologies and as such parts may appear broken at times, I do not intend to put little construction zone icons anywhere, so be forewarned.

EWEPS is running on Windows 2000. If you'd like to try to hack this site or server I request that you let me know and I will let you let you put a message and/or link (in good taste) on the top of the page, so please start hacking.

Last updated April 10, 2008.

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Successful hacks

None so far. Impress your friends, be a star -- be the first to make EWEPS go oops!

Update: The /var/log directory was found to be mysteriously missing on January 3, 2000 and certain services (like httpd!) would fail to start... Jon reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled Linux -- we have applied all the security updates this time.

Update 2: Puppy has been running solid like a rock since, well, that Blaster SQL worm or whatever its name was. We've done fairly well keeping ourselves updated though I will admit not having done much hardening. Heck for all I know I am already a "zombie" for spammers etc though I doubt it.

Interesting tidbits and news

My e-mail ISP, Voyager.net, did not renew the cnsnet.com domain (which I have used for e-mail the past several years) so I snuck in and bought it out from under them. Not sure how Network Solutions handles this or how Voyager.net will respond. I hope to see my name on the Whois information in the next day or so.. check it out here.

EWEPS Showcase

This will be a bunch of junk where I try out different web stuff. Too get started, here's a animated gif map showing my building.

     Statler

The first is the eggdrop bot which sits in #muppeteer on EFFNet. Statler will generate pages related to conversation that appears in the channel and also periodically create other pages like to look up the weather and check the MapInfo stock price, meaningless, idiotic stuff like that. Here's a Java IRC client so you can say hi to Statler yourself! [Ed. note: Statler's been let go due to lack of IP addresses.. he may find a home via a host under hrandassociates.com in the near future.]

     Current Weather

This jpg is generated on-the-fly by my home weather radar kit and mapping software. You may link to this image in your own home page with my permission.

Also, here's an experimental Java animated version. This will take some moments to load.

     SVG Elves

Lots of learned and clever elves crafting magic with SVG, developed and maintained by a short, skinny guy who sleeps on my couch (not kidding).

     Elfcorp

     MP2K Magazine - The Magazine for MapPoint

MP2K Magazine covers topics on MapPoint and MapPoint programming.

     Will Frost

Links to resources on the web.

     MapInfo

Car .NET news and information.

     MapPoint Blog

A MapPoint blog.

     MapPoint 2009

Another MapPoint blog about MapPoint 2009.

     MapPoint Blog

Yet another MapPoint blog.

     Bugaboo Strollers

Bugaboo Strollers.

     MapInfo-L

Directions Community sites and news.

Humor

This might be a collection of e-mail forwards, mini-games and images, links to other sites, etc. of stuff that amuses me and might amuse (or offend) you. For starters, here's some stuff. Featured item is Stress Relief.

Life Tip

"There is no need to slump through life with a bad back. Massage chairs can give you daily relief in a way that no other piece of home furniture can. But a couple of minutes every day probably isn't enough if you aren't sleeping in a way that is conducive to caring for you spine. A foam mattress will conform to the shape of your particular body, and cradle you for a perfect night's rest."

Resources

This is the start of my portable 'Favorites' list.

About me

I am about 6'3" and like to swim. I might put a picture here, as well as a resume.

My e-mail address was on the top but since some people may feel dizzy without a blurb at the bottom for balance and to list a contact person here it is: e-mail.