Just received notice that I have to move Club Josh and friends to another web server. The place I have hosted has had a few problems over the last two years and now it will be gone as of next Friday!! I hope to make to transition as smooth as possible, but knowing the complexity of the Gallery site on the Gorn Page, I am…
March 7, 2014One of the first “live” videos I ever saw broadcast on the internet was back in 1995(!) and it was the Jarre Concert for Tolerance on July 14, 1995 at the Eiffel Tower. I remember being able to stream the show for a bit at work when it was live and then being able to go home later and download a Real Player version of…
March 4, 2014March is a very special time of the year for earthquake nerds like myself. This month has several big quake anniversaries which I will be marking with special posts. The first is the Great East Japan (Tohoku) Quake of March 11, 2011 which registered a M9.0 and the other is the 50th Anniversary spectacular of the M9.2 Great Alaskan Earthquake on March 27, 1964 (also…
March 3, 2014A long time ago on this site (at least 10 years ago or more) I had a routine with the Oscars where I would join a pool and try and predict the winners. Over the years I have started watching less and less movies and I became disinterested in the actual winners vs the ceremony itself. I love the Academy Awards and wish that mere…
March 2, 2014I’ve spent the last few hours getting Charo.info back up and running. It was the last of my web sites still rattling around on the old server. Grand plans were had to re-do the entire site, but like when this site went down, I was forced to just get something up, lest I lose some good Google search rankings. So I put the old site…
March 1, 2014Andy Woodruff is a cartographer that I follow on Twitter and he posted a link to a fun way to see the distortions inherit in different map projections. I only wish that I was half the cartographer that Andy and his friends at Axis Maps are. Check it out! Guaranteed funny only to those who love maps.
February 26, 2014