Category: everything else

  • Newly Cursed 🙂

    Well, Kent and Dayna were so kind as to give me a ride to the airport this morning (Dayna was driving—thanks Dayna!) in spite of threatening weather. Kent (half-)joked that I was cursed, because every time he gives me a ride to the airport, I-15 ends up turning into a soupy, snowy quagmire. In fact,…

  • Automated Merger of GEDCOM Files

    Have you ever had the misfortune of having to merge two GEDCOM files while doing family history research? I hope not. It’€™s dehumanizing. Dehumanizing? Yes, because doing a job that should be done 99% by a machine is most definitely de-human-izing. Here’€™s a typical example: Billy Bob Jones and Suzy Lee Jones are a brother…

  • Learning C++

    I’€™m taking (actually, retaking) Computer Science 240 right now. So I’€™m learning C++. This is someting I’€™ve always wanted to do. I was maybe 10 years old when we got Turbo C++. My dad was the only one who knew how to use it, but still, I had fun playing with the “Heap Walker”€ program.…