I recently installed a piece of open source software called phpGedView. “GEDCOM” is the database tagging system developed a few decades back by the Mormon Church, which is big into genealogy and retroactive baptism of the ancestors of its converts. The phpGedView code base takes existing GEDCOM files and makes them easy to view and [...]
I love G4 TV. The network recently did a delightful show on how the 1984 E.T. game for the 2600 killed the video game business for ten years. And truth told, I bought a Commodore Vic-20 on the same day E.T. opened, using my snow-shovelling money. (A couple years ago I addressed an internal audience [...]
All three of my uncles and my maternal grandfather Harry Ten Broeck made careers of electrical work or electrical engineering. One of my uncles helped build Telsat, and my grandfather installed the electrical conduit that powers the lights atop the Chrysler Building. Harry’s father Charles was a book printer on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, like [...]
