Aurora Borealis, May 2024

Moon on lower left, Victoria, BC lower center, looking northwest from the southern shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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

Domain name scams, revisited

Domain Listings scam, circa 2022

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

A Celebration of the Life of Pearletta Anne Harris

January 2020: Pearletta at her granddaughter Leia's house in Bremerton for a delayed (by a broken leg) Christmas party.

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

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

Awards and Honors

Everyone wants to be recognized for something. This has resulted in an explosion of different ways to be recognized, ranging from spending money to get your own trophy (or get your name engraved on a brick, or monogrammed shirts, or…) Continue reading Awards and Honors