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Judy is fascinated with the barges and trying to not take too many pictures of them.  Find ourselves passing and repassing some of the same barges after our lunch.  Great fun following the river as it winds down towards Alton with it lush foliage, islands and streams feeding into it. 

 

The bridges are all quite different.  Some are very old and ornate constructed of all steel.  Some bridges are railroad tracks that stay in the raised position and lowered when there is train traffic. Others are long sleek spans of concrete.  Watching the charts for the heights is important.  We need 18 feet.  Measured it ourselves with a clothesline hung from a long pole and marked with duck tape, so it must be an accurate height.  We have had clearance along this leg of the trip, unlike our trip from Cal Sag to Wilmington where we radioed almost every bridge tender requesting them to open the bridge.  That was a long run down the Cal Sag/Illinois River with our terrific Captain Walt Pilny when we first brought our boat home from Eastlake, Ohio.  It was the likes of a survival trip.  Warning:  never, you hear me, I said, never, run your boat at night on the Cal Sag unless you are feeling suicidal or paying a captain $200 a day and you hear on the radio that they are closing a lock for two days.

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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.