Update I worked on the auto email program a bit at lunch. I cleaned up my code by moving specific operations that take more than two or three lines of code into functions. This makes the main loop easier to read since the function names are a bit…
Continue readingI have started writing an email program that is fully automated. The intent is to let people send emails and text messages to any email address at my domain and get a reply that is appropriate to their message. For instance, if you were to send “hidden” (not…
Continue readingThis is a copy of a post I made on paddling.net. This is a not-too-short trip report. It is about paddling along the coast and then watching as my inexperienced friend decide to catch a wave or two. We started at Mission Bay in San Diego. We paddled…
Continue readingI looked around and there are a few different ways to get line numbers to show up in code that is posted on a blog or other web page. The most important thing about posting code on a web page is that it can be cut and pasted…
Continue readingI was working on my kayaking web page and came up with a new feature. I wanted to allow the URL to include a parameter for highlighting a specific route. “Highlighting” the route means the map will be zoomed in and panned to the location of the route…
Continue readingAt work, I do a little bit of web design because there is a web interface to our product. Customers buy a computer from us that comes with Apache and a website for accessing our product remotely. I wanted to improve the site by making footers stick to…
Continue readingI did some work on the kayaking trips web page. The page shows a list of routes I took on various paddling outings. The page looks something like this: Updated Kayaking Page This is not a log of all trips but is instead a list of routes I’ve…
Continue readingI just “finished” this by giving up on polishing it more and adding a coat of wax. Click on the image to see a bigger version of it. This was made from a 4 inch steel tube cut with a plasma cutter. After that and some grinding, it…
Continue reading“Circumnavigate” is an interesting word. I’m not sure it is applicable to paddling around the perimeter of a lake as opposed to paddling around the outside of an island or continent. In the link below, the map will be centered on Lake Tahoe. Donner lake is the small…
Continue readingThere is a type of kayak roll, aka Eskimo roll, called an “Angel Roll.” With this roll, the paddle is held in the very center with one hand. In the picture above, the paddler is half way into the upright position. He will leave the paddle and the…
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