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More on the NOAA Wave Pool
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
Domain name scams, revisited
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
Terms and Conditions
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
A Celebration of the Life of Pearletta Anne Harris
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
Eulogy
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
Domain name scams
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
Washington Apple Pi Journal
It will take some time to post the Washington Apple Pi Journal articles. There are a lot of them, and the articles and any illustrations are mostly not in digital form. Laziness dictates that I not retype everything 😇 and Continue reading Washington Apple Pi Journal
Christmas in Sequim: Sparkly
Sequim, Washington is a very small town on the Olympic Peninsula, which is a very large peninsula. Each year the town, and the Jamestown S’Kallam Tribe, do an extraordinary job of turning the town into a winter fantasy of lights Continue reading Christmas in Sequim: Sparkly