More on the NOAA Wave Pool

As mentioned elsewhere, NOAA has a wave pool. Designed by Jim Sanborn, it is formally known as Coastline, but there is no plaque or signage that displays the name, and almost no one knows it by any other name than Continue reading More on the NOAA Wave Pool

Domain name scams, revisited

Domain Listings scam, circa 2022

By this time, in the fourth decade of the World Wide Web, the concept of Web scams is well understood. Most everyone with a computer or a smartphone or a tablet has come across a text message, web page, or Continue reading Domain name scams, revisited

Terms and Conditions

Among other things, I serve as the webmaster for a church. Specifically, a Methodist church. The church was recently sent a message by a web developer noting that the church site did not have a Terms and Conditions statement, nor Continue reading Terms and Conditions

A Celebration of the Life of Pearletta Anne Harris

January 2020: Pearletta at her granddaughter Leia's house in Bremerton for a delayed (by a broken leg) Christmas party.

April 7, 1931 — February 1, 2022 Saturday, April 9, 2022, 2:00 p.m. — Trinity United Methodist Church, Sequim, Washington Visual Memories Gathering Music: “Trauermarsch (Siegfried’s Funeral March),” by Richard Wagner [one of two musical selections requested by Pearletta] Welcome: Pastor Continue reading A Celebration of the Life of Pearletta Anne Harris

Eulogy

Pearletta in 1949.

Pearletta Anne Harris Pearletta May Lemley was born on April 7, 1931, in the depths of the Great Depression, in the small Indian village of Olequa, north of Castle Rock, Washington. She was born in a primitive settler’s home, without Continue reading Eulogy

Domain name scams

This is not a problem most people will have, since most people don’t run websites. But if you do run a website… Computers talk to each other using great gobs of numbers. Most of the time, the numbers are numbers, Continue reading Domain name scams

Washington Apple Pi Journal

It will take some time to post the Washington Apple Pi Journal articles. There are a lot of them, and the articles and any illustrations are mostly not in digital form. Laziness dictates that I not retype everything 😇 and Continue reading Washington Apple Pi Journal

Christmas in Sequim: Sparkly

Sequim, Washington is a very small town on the Olympic Peninsula, which is a very large peninsula. Each year the town, and the Jamestown S’Kallam Tribe, do an extraordinary job of turning the town into a winter fantasy of lights Continue reading Christmas in Sequim: Sparkly