Learning to program, again

February 22, 2012, 9:45 pm

I haven’t written a program since Pascal was in it’s heyday. I learned to program in FORTRAN, then picked up assembly language for a couple of different DEC mini-computers, and finally became fluent in Pascal. Notably, C is not a language I have used, nor is Unix/Linux an OS I’m really familiar with.

Learning a […]

February 22nd, 2012 | Category: Computing | One comment

Geocaching milestone

February 1, 2012, 9:21 pm

Thanks to a few days of caching in the desert, in particular the Planes, Trains, and Automobile series near Barstow, I’ve reached over 4,000 caches found.

February 1st, 2012 | Category: Geocaching | One comment

How to find 30 caches per hour, solo

January 31, 2012, 10:24 pm

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

With all the hiking, driving, and bouncing around the desert in a 4×4, I was pretty lazy on Monday morning, and took my time packing up and getting underway driving from Palm Springs to the Barstow area. My objective was to find the caches belonging to the Planes, Trains, and […]

January 31st, 2012 | Category: Geocaching | Leave a comment
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