BLURRING THE LINE BETWEEN WORK AND FUN ARE:

drawing of me with a laptop done by someone at a church meeting
Mouse the above drawing for a picture of me. WARNING: Will make your mouse roll over!!:=)

Internet and Computers - my introduction to the Internet was using an FTP program to collect visibility sensor data from a Canadian test site at work back in 1994. The site was chosen because of its frequent incidence of blowing snow, not to mention frequent fog events. Soon, I was using the World Wide Web at work - first with Mosaic then with Netscape, more recently, with MS Internet Explorer.

Before and since that, I used various types of computers - from mainframes such as Digital Equipment DEC-10 and Prime to Sun and HP workstations to PCs and laptops (mostly IBM clones, a little bit of Mac used at my church and also checking e-mail at the 1998 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ..) and PDAS (personal data assistants - HP Palmtops - used for getting visibility sensor data from several Alaskan sites, USR PalmPilot)...

The first computer I ever used was the old DEC-10 mainframe when I was at WPI in the late 1970's where I learned FORTRAN and a little BASIC.  Yes, I still use FORTRAN at work, so FORTRAN is not yet extinct.  I also have since learned PASCAL and some C and am beginning to play around with JavaScript and Java. I am also going to play around with DHTML now that I have Dreamweaver up and running. Soon, I also want to learn how to use databases to dynamically generate web pages because I have used such database programs as dBase, Paradox and Access over the years and have learned how to write scripts in Paradox and dBase. I have also used Paradox Engine as well.

Because I am into digital photography, I am also learning how to use Paint Shop Pro and Macromedia Fireworks. I now use both Internet Explorer and Netscape. If you see a new look to this web site in the near future - that's done with my new tools/toys. I do almost all of my web site stuff on my laptop.

Besides my Internet related stuff, I am also interested in learning how to use mathematics related applications. I have played around with Mathcad a little and hope to learn more once things slow down over the summer with the church and MIT Club of Boston web sites. I have used several statistical applications such as MINITAB and BMDP durng my college years.

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