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... to my home on the net, the home of the techscribe.

What's Cooking?

There are a number of exciting things going in my life.
First and foremost I've taken the big step forward by finally getting theEverex Cloudbookwith XP for compatibility reasons. Even though there are some downsides to the machine, the bottom line is that I am very glad I bought it and I wouldn't want to trade it for any other machine. It accompanies me everywhere I go. Here's what living with the Cloudbook looks like to me.
With the Cloudbook always handy, I have begun shopping for a capable "scrapbook" type software. Some kind of software to keep track of everything, stuff, people, ideas, things I read somewhere, and everything else too. I like the way outliners work, so I am test driving the commercialware-turned-freeware information managerEccoPro.
Yes, once again I've run out of money. The next rental payment seems right around the corner, so it's time to get to work on a real money maker. Since there's not alot of time left, I need to be extremely productive. What shall I use as my development tool? I get another email from the Alpha Software, offering me their Alpha Five database development software at a highly discounted price as a same-day special offer. Very tempting, but I'm broke. So, I sent them a reply to hold the price for me. I was surprised by their response, saying they'd freeze the price for me. I installed their 30-day demo, and I'm off to work.

About the techscribe

The techscribe has been designing and implementing software for close to thirty years. His voyages through techland have taken him from Digital Equipment Corporations' mini computers (VAX running VMS), via IBM PCs and MS DOS, Mac Plus, The Apple Quadra, Sun workstations (both Motorola 680X0 based as well as Sparc), the Next cube, all the way to Intel based machines, such as the Altos running Xenix, SCO Xenix, Interactive Unix, FreeBSD, Linux, as well as MS Windows 3.0 through XP.

Software has been implemented using different programming languages, including Assembler, C, Objective C, C++, C#, Java, Forth, Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Modula, Oberon, Smalltalk, Scheme, J, and others. Some of the scripting languages I have utilized are Javascript, REBOL, Perl, PHP, Ch, SATL, and Tcl/Tk.

Current Interests

While I continue to implement business applications and an occassional Website (mostly server side processing), I am currently experimenting with software for voice recognition, implemented in C++ and Prolog.