Archives: 2004 April
Emanuel Ax
April 30th, 2004, No Comments
Earlier this Month, Susan and I were able to see a perfomance of John Adams‘ Century Rolls at the Bass Performance Hall in Ft. Worth. It was performed, of course, by Emanuel Ax, for whom it was originally composed. Generally you have to drive to Austin or Houston to hear a symphony play anything by [...]
Unusual Mammal Report
April 24th, 2004, No Comments
So, a few days ago we were walking in Campión Trail (location of my infamous Campión Trail chigger adventure) after a thunderstorm. As we came around a curve in the trail near the river, we saw what looked like a very large feral house cat lying in the grass watching joggers go by. We stopped [...]
Mod_Virgule Update
April 15th, 2004, No Comments
I’ve been spending a little more time working on mod_virgule again. I’ve applied a modified version of the “forgot my password” patch and several other patches to bring my fork back up to date with the official version. I should have the new source packaged up shortly for anyone who wants to play with it. [...]
Robot Software Success
April 3rd, 2004, No Comments
I mentioned in my last entry that I’d been experimenting with the Not Quite C programming language for use with the Lego Spybotics brick. The hardware hack we made for line-following combined with a few lines of NQC code allowed one of the robots to successfully complete the line following course at Roborama 04.A (it [...]
