Explorations large and small
In May 2024, a series of CMEs (coronal mass ejections) sent billions of tons of highly charged particles rushing outward from the Sun at between 500 to 3000 kilometers per second. When some of these particles reached the upper atmosphere Continue reading Aurora Borealis, May 2024
There has been much news froth about UFOs over the past several years, for no good reason. There are some who still argue the Earth is flat, and others that vaccines are a plot by Communists or drug companies or Continue reading UFOs: They’re out there, or right here
As mentioned elsewhere, NOAA has a wave pool. Designed by Jim Sanborn, it is formally known as Coastline, but there is no plaque or signage that displays the name, and almost no one knows it by any other name than Continue reading More on the NOAA Wave Pool
By this time, in the fourth decade of the World Wide Web, the concept of Web scams is well understood. Most everyone with a computer or a smartphone or a tablet has come across a text message, web page, or Continue reading Domain name scams, revisited
Among other things, I serve as the webmaster for a church. Specifically, a Methodist church. The church was recently sent a message by a web developer noting that the church site did not have a Terms and Conditions statement, nor Continue reading Terms and Conditions
April 7, 1931 — February 1, 2022 Saturday, April 9, 2022, 2:00 p.m. — Trinity United Methodist Church, Sequim, Washington Visual Memories Gathering Music: “Trauermarsch (Siegfried’s Funeral March),” by Richard Wagner [one of two musical selections requested by Pearletta] Welcome: Pastor Continue reading A Celebration of the Life of Pearletta Anne Harris
Pearletta Anne Harris Pearletta May Lemley was born on April 7, 1931, in the depths of the Great Depression, in the small Indian village of Olequa, north of Castle Rock, Washington. She was born in a primitive settler’s home, without Continue reading Eulogy
This is not a problem most people will have, since most people don’t run websites. But if you do run a website… Computers talk to each other using great gobs of numbers. Most of the time, the numbers are numbers, Continue reading Domain name scams