Medicine for the Sky

I've been actively developing a new blogging engine titled Dinghy , designed to work with Google App Engine. I'm using it to host my...

I'm close to debuting a lightweight blogging engine using Go, App Engine, and Bootstrap 3, and I wanted to share a quick solution I fou...

I stopped making minimum wage in 1991, when I was 20 years old. I was working for Donatos pizza at $4.25 per hour as "inside help...

For reasons that may become significant, I began my first install of WordPress yesterday evening. My install was under CygWin, and most of t...

...and a small explanation of why that's important to me. In 2009 I became immersed in the world of check image files, often referred ...

For the sake of simplicity, my use here of number words (ten, hundred) instead of digits (10, 100) will refer to decimal values. "Ten...

Recently I've been watching some videos on the Go programming language, and I was impressed enough to go install it and start tinkering...

My impetus for developing this was the desire to populate a hidden page on my blog with live data from a pair of funds, namely an ebay merc...

As a young boy, diving into mathematics was a great release for me. I often manipulated numbers in my head, independently discovered cross-...

This blog entry won't serve as an introduction to Boolean Algebra or logic gates, but rather just to illustrate an HTML5 widget I wrote...

The form below is the result of combing through PDF files from irs.gov to get an accurate picture of how federal payroll withholding tables...

So Scout and I stopped into the grocery store to buy a couple extra things for her lunch. We got to the checkout area, and decided to use a...

About 10am on Wednesday, an instant message window pops up on my workstation, from my buddy and coworker Jim. "Hey, you see all those ...

First, thank you, now defunct Kenner, for the most excellent Spirograph toy. I had a Kenner 401 Spirograph set as a boy, and I fondly remem...

Below is a quick demo of me "typing" a short phrase and some numbers using a modified version of my Blind Input iPhone web app. T...

If you've drawn widgets with HTML5 canvases, you've no doubt come across such methods as ctx.translate(x, y), ctx.scale(x, y), and ...

This is a simple and straightforward converter between RGB and HSV values, with RGBs from 0 - 255 and HSV values with hue from 0 - 359 and S...

I noticed today that viewing this site in IE blew things up. This was due mainly to putting javascript source for HTML5 canvas operations ab...

NPR's "Science Friday" posted a square-counting puzzle on their Facebook page yesterday, and a friend of mine challenged me t...

So Scout's father moved to California, and this weekend I flew her out to see him, where she'll stay until just before school start...

In my quest to better understand the mechanics of encryption, I've found the Elgamal method the hardest to get my head around. The pr...

Background Before we get started on how exactly RSA works and how it's related to Chinese mathematicians, it's important to have a ...

There are animations of the 4 compass and straightedge construction techniques at the bottom of this entry, but they require an HTML5 capa...

This is a proof of concept build of an HTML5 engine to perform classical Greek compass and straightedge calculations, as described in this ...

This uses the HTML5 canvas architecture, so no IE8 or less; sorry. I have only tested it with Google Chrome, so it may not work in other HT...