Archive for February, 2006

Basketball at PCC Killingsworth

Monday, February 27th, 2006

PCC Panthers played the CCC Cougars on February 15th in two intense battles that saw the men’s Cougars beat PCC 69-66 and the ladies beat PCC 66-61.
I shot the game, played in the new Killingsworth Road gym, as part of a PCC News Photography course. The lightning speed of the game and lighting conditions made [...]

An evening’s entertainment

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

A few winters back when I was working as a support engineer, I was called to a job at an unusual religious sect’s mountain retreat. It was a complicated job and took me well into the evening. By then the snow had fallen and getting home would be difficult so they offered me [...]

Common computer terms

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Digging through some very old papers, I found a really old glossary of computer terms from the days of mainframe computing (the copy is have is data February 1977). Punched cards might be a thing of the past, but the spirit of those old programmers still lives on.

Computer
Device for transforming boring clerical operations into [...]