Family Life

I learned to program on a computer like this one. It’s a Texas Instruments TI99/4A, popular in 1981. My high school acquired a lab-full of these, and I signed up for the very first class. I programmed in BASIC, which was about the only programming language available to home computers at the time, and in [...]

It’s Spring! Warmer weather, sunny days, tulips pushing out of the ground, birds, squirrels and the occasional fox back from hibernation. In that same spirit of renewal I’ve moved this blog to a new server. My frustration had been mounting at the problems with my old web host until I finally took the plunge and [...]