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January 14, 2002
Started a 2002 What's New. Archived the 2001 What's New.
January 13, 2002
Added the latest and best of our JavaScript "N" calculators to our
Magic Sinewave library page. CD ROMs containing thoudands of
useful sequences, plots, and generation sourcecode can now be made
available to Magic Sinewave partners and associates.
January11, 2002
Here's an interesting Product Liability Notice.
January 8, 2002
Proved the feasability of partial differential Magic Sinewave
calculators. These are ~much~ faster. More significantly, their
key calculation time only goes up as the square of the number of
pulses rather than the cube, meaning that as many as several
thousand harmonics can now be forced close to zero.
Preliminary calculators and autogeneration code is currently available
to our Magic Sinewave partners and associates.
January 4, 2002
Found an interesting web sit of electronic logos useful to help
identify strange chips. Still could use your help on identifying
this chip. These fiber optic transceivers look super interesting.
January 3, 2002
You can easily build your own gas chromatograph or similar lab
instruments with these TSD temperature sensitive detectors
that double as precision mass flowmeters. Listed with our other
current eBay offerings. Two remain available.
January 1, 2002
Verified an important marketing lesson: Our surplus recorder pen
motors refused to sell at any price, but we quickly sold out of our
laser light show galvo kits.
December 22, 2001
Uploaded MSCAL172Q.ASP, a Magic Sinewave that zeros out
its first 172 even and odd harmonics. Code (while still suboptimal)
is much faster, especially for Delta Friendly options. The "floating
point display shift" hassle is also now gone with a new formatter.
The amazing thing is that my PostScript program writer sourcecode
that generates the JavaScript calculator .ASP routines builds the entire
highly custom 700K file error free in a mere three seconds!
Sourcecode is available to Magic Sinewave Partners & Associates.
December 20, 2001
Linked Arcata Pet's Imageviewer32 in the Auction Help library.
This is my favorite image processing package. It does Photoshop
essentials far faster, simpler, and cheaper. Free full featured trial.
December 19, 2001
Added a Parabola From Three Points math routine to the Cubic
Spline, PostScript, and Math library pages.
December 17, 2001
Bee just picked up a bunch of professional medical books and is
offering these on eBay. Let her know your needs.
December 14, 2001
Added a link to the US Post Office auctions to our Auction Help page.
This is basically urban lore, though. To participate, you have to own an
eighteen wheeler and live in Atlanta. Sales would appear to be quite
competetive and almost certainly favor long term insiders.
I cannot believe that all of the USPO mistakes and leftovers nationwide
can be offered in a single short auction every few months. Nor that
they would be reshipped zillions of miles.
December 10, 2001
There would appear to be all sorts of new uses for Magic Sinewaves
that have their first one or two thousand harmonics zeroed out. These
would still be more efficient than PWM, have no possibilities of audio
whine, would allow extreme speed ranges, and might permit harmonic
trapping rather than low pass filtering.
The current versions of the JavaScript calculators take too long to use
above 200 zeroed harmonics. New methods involving partial differential
evaluation are under active development. They should be much faster.
These await your funding.
December 7, 2001
Updated the mil surplus info on our Auction Help page.
Basically, all DRMO auctions are now privitized, except for
term sales and hazmat. Most are handled by one firm going by
the three names of Levy-Latham, Surplus Bid, or Government
Liquidation.
December 4, 2001
Added some JavaScript Calculator User Guidelines and a
Chebycheff Tutorial to our Magic Sinewaves Library.
November 28, 2001
Upgraded and improved the Magic Sinewave Development Proposal.
November 25, 2001
Continuing to experiment with the high level nav on our home page.
November 23, 2001
Found a unique cache of early General Radio gear in what appears
to be restorable condition. 616, 1106A-C, 696C, 617C, 699A, 616D
617C, 619E, 619P1, 614C, 612C, 693B, 692B, 1107A, bunches more.
email me if you have any interest in these.
November 22, 2001
Stripped out the Gould recorders for parts. The pen servos should
make dandy laser light show galvos. Now up on eBay.
It really saddens me to strip out equipment that refuses to sell for
fractions of a cent on the dollar. But, then again, line cords at an auction
are ~much~ cheaper when they are attached to 386 computers.
November 21, 2001
Just awarded a ton (literally) of professional law books. email me
if you have any interest in these.
November 23, 2001
Revised and updated our Steplocked Magic Sinewaves tutorial in our
Magic Sinweaves library.
November 21, 2001
Added some color coding and emphasis to the main nav blocks on our
home page.
November 20, 2001
Here's some tips on using the new Magic Sinewave "Q" calculators:
(A) The highest amplitude values may sometimes "mode jump"
on you, giving bizarre results. Valid sequences will always have
pulses that start before they end, do not overlap, and do not exceed
90 degrees. The workaround is to "sneak up" on any problem values,
starting with a valid lower amplitude and incrementally increasing it.
(B) If a solution is slow converging, try asking for a somewhat higher
or lower amplitude to help it along.
(C) Extremely rarely, a solution may "oscillate" between two amplitude
values. The workaround is to temporarily ask for a very slightly higher
or lower amplitude. Later, you return to your desired target amplitude.
(D) Calculation time goes up as the fourth power of the number of
pulses, so slow high pulse calcs are normal and expected. Optimizing
one decimal point at a time is much faster than going for all eight
at once.
(E) The most common causes of JavaScript errors are using a browser
other than Internet Exploder or failing to wait before a load is complete
before activating any box or button.
November 19, 2001
Added MSCAL124Q.ASP, MSCAL140Q.ASP, and MSCAL156Q.ASP
to our Magic Sinewave Library. Along with their sourcecode.
Even as the number of MS transitions approaches PWM, there apparently
would ~still~ be advantages of single versus double switch flips for higher
efficiency, lack of any need for modulation or demodulation, easy three
phase compatibility, and a "carrier" amplitude that never significantly
exceeds the fundamental. While offering very wide speed ranges that
are combined with no harmonics in the audio range.
November 17, 2001
Ever see that "Convert your television into a big screen oscilloscope"
scam ad that has gone on for decades and decades? I just got a whole
pile of Tektronix 7912AD's that actually do this! Yeah, they are huge
and ungainley, but they still hold their own as high speed digitizers. As
well as being able to convert scope probe inputs into video outputs.
email me if you want to play with some of these.
November 15, 2001
Just got some Quantachrome instruments used for particle surface area
analysis. Apparently for everything from toner to geological clay to
respirator filters. You can email me for details.
Price is pennies on the dollar on current production units. Older models
also available. As are sample holders and other accessories.
November 13, 2001
Added a new brief intro apnote to the Magic Sinewave page.
November 11, 2001
Examples of PostScript routines that automatically write their
own JavaScript programs (!) include newly posted MSCAL108Q.PSL
and MSCAL92Q.PSL and MSCAL76Q.PSL.
November 10, 2001
You say you don't want a hundred harmonics? MSCAL108Q.ASP
won't give them to you. Even longer sequences are newly available
per our InfoPack service.
The Magic Sinewave calculation times and complexities do go up as
the fourth power of the pulses in use, so these longer sequences will
be slower. Practice on the shorter ones first.
November 9, 2001
Did you hear about the deli operator who was having trouble collecting
his bill from the avairy? He took a tern for the wurst.
November 8, 2001
The latest Magic Sinewave calculator is our MSCAL76Q.ASP.
It is a simple digital sinewave synthesizer that zeros out the first
SEVENTY SIX harmonics! A delta friendly option gives you full
three phase compatibility and still zeros out all of the even and odd
harmonics 2 through 58. BEFORE FILTERING!
Longer Magic Sinewave sequences like these still offer significant
efficiency advantages over conventional PWM; they also minimize
audio whine problems and allow very wide motor speed ranges.
Consulting services available per our InfoPack services.
November 6, 2001
The new Magic Sinewave "Q" calculators are intended for Internet
Exploder rather than Netscape. If you experience Netscape blowup
problems, rerun the source code using a true /Netscapeok variable
This will defeat the conflicting neat-o IE automatic carrier tracking.
Much as I like Netscape, we are down to less than one in six users,
and the double testing and frustratingly infuriating differences no longer
seem worth the hassle.
November 3, 2001
Just completted debugging a PostScript system that writes Javascript
Programs! Its big advantages include the ease with which PostScript can
read or write any disk file in any format. Magic Sinewave calculators
for larger sizes take twelve to eighteen hours done by hand; the PostScript
routines reduce this to mere minutes.
See MSCAL44Q for the first sample, which includes a premium grade delta
friendly solution that has zero harmonics up to the 34th!
Custom assistance available per our InfoPack services.
More to follow as time and banner advertisers permit.
October 30, 2001
Got a pair of HP 3455A super dooper digital voltmeter / data acquisition
systems. 7-1/2 digits with calcs. email me if you have any interest in these.
October 27, 2001
Added new links to our Auction Help Library pages.
Split the classic tutorials from the new files on both the Home
Page and the Library Access page.
October 25, 2001
Picked up four GOES satellite time clocks. email me if you have
any interest in these.
October 24, 2001
Added a new Magic Sinewave data accuracy analyzer as
MSCAL28Q. This lets you easily evaluate how many bits of
amplitude data are needed for a given minimum distortion.
It turns out that 8-bit amplitude data can sometimes be used
with limited distortion reduction (half percent unfiltered) , but 12-bit
or 16-bit amplitude lookup tables are strongly recommended.
October 20, 2001
It turns out that delta friendly Magic Sinewaves only need half as
much data storage as regular ones. Added a file reduction note and
new algorithms to DELTAPAT.PSL
October 19, 2001
May be getting a bunch of Tektronix 7912AD's. These are a 750 MHz
9 bit digitizer somewhat long in tooth. Please email me IMMEDIATELY
if you have any interest in these.
Otherwise, they will be scrapped out for parts. They do still list for $8600
each at major dealers.
October 18, 2001
Added an improved Delta 322R to our Magic Sinewave Library.
This is probably the "best" magic sinewave so far for three phase
motor uses. The DELTAPAT.PDF demo has also been updated.
October 15, 2001
Just picked up a pair of Olmpus microscopes. Also some 60 Hertz
military servo motors. email me if you have any interest.
October 13, 2001
Uploaded a new DELTAPAT.PSL utility and DELTAPAT.PDF demo
on three phase formatting to our Magic Sinewaves Library.
October 7, 2001
Added a brand new Precision Fonts and Bitmap Manipulation library
page. Lots of demos and utilities to do true integral antialiased fonts,
image relettering, direct PDF bitmap conversion, and even combining
aerial photography with topographic map info.
October 4, 2001
Put a precision pulse metering pump, a time mark generator, and a poly
storage tank up on eBay for auction.
October 2, 2001
Just got a bunch of fancy digital scales. You can email me for details.
September 30, 2001
Did I ever show you this aerial photo of Pacman, Arizona?
September 27, 2001
Check out the stunningly exceptional apparent resolution in the lower
right corner of once again updated PDF2BMP.BMP and its companion
PDF2BMP.PSL sourcecode. This is SEVEN POINT type on a screen!
The secret is a pile of insider stunts that include true grayscale antialiasing,
reduced visual spectrum, reduced contrast, kerning, true alpha transparency,
and a mere one click of sharpening.
September 26, 2001
A sneaky trick called integral grayscale antialiasing can dramatically
improve the viewability of low resolution screen fonts, image retouchings,
and ebooks. These techniques can provide up to THIRTY TWO times
the information per pixel as ordinary fonts. And they work on CRT's.
I've just added a new ANTIGRAY.PSL true gray antialiased font character
extractor. A companion PDF2BMP.PSL character positioner along with its
PDF2BMP.BMP demo has also been recently upgraded.
You can also see MUSE141.PDF for an older antialiasing tutorial. Or
ANTIGRAY.PDF for a typical antialiasing font work screen.
September 23, 2001
Just got a pair of classic TASCAM TSP-8 classic half inch rack mount
reel-to-reel audio recorders with remotes. email me for details if you want
one or both of these. We also have lots of half inch tape available.
September 20, 2001
Once you start writing PostScript code, there's no telling where it
will end up. Sometimes you can nudge it in a certain direction, but
other times its got a mind of its own.
Added transparent overlay and FULL ALPHA TRANSPARENCY (!)
capabilities to PDF2BMP.PSL and its PDF2BMP.BMP demo.
September 18, 2001
Well, I did just cheat a bit by adding four clicks of sharpening to that
PDF2BMP.BMP by using ImageViewer32. Note the exceptionally
legible four point type.
September 17, 2001
Added CIRCULAR ARC capabilities plus improved error trapping
to PDF2BMP.PSL and its PDF2BMP.BMP demo. Virtually any math
function can now be directlly plotted and pasted into any .BMP image!
Consulting services available per http://www.tinaja.com/info01.asp
September 17, 2001
Added over a dozen fonts, individual character kerning, and line
drawing and area fill to PDF2BMP.PSL and its PDF2BMP.BMP
demo. Compare this against any other method of doing very small
ultra legible lettering on a .BMP bitmap.
September 15, 2001
Added a major new PDF2BMP.PSL PostScript utility that lets
Acrobat DIRECTLY(!) generate bitmap .BMP files under precise
program control!
And a PDF2BMP.BMP companion demo.
I find this particularly handy for retouching ultra small and precisely
controlled lettering on my eBay test equipment panel images. Just
type, distill, load into Paint, cut and paste.
Other uses include watermarking, steganography, and letting you
alpha blend two .BMP files, perhaps a map and aerial photography.
September 7, 2001
Just got several zillion O-rings off the feds. Mostly 5/8 od by 3/32
thick and only slightly off date code. Most individually sealed in
original packages. email me if you have any interest.
September 6, 2001
A reminder about our ongoing eBay auctions.
September 5, 2001
Continuing to add new items to our Bargain Pages.
September 4, 2001
Improved our onsite search engine. There should now be fewer
but much more relevant hits. Try it above.
September 3, 2001
The latest Blatant Opportunist #65 is on My eBay Secrets.
September 1, 2001
Just got a pair of Tektronix 321A Oscilloscopes in. These are both a
nice collectible and a useful lightweight portable scope. email me if
you have any interest in these.
August 30, 2001
Started adding sourcecode to certain Blatant Opportunist columns.
August 29, 2001
Added a new Steganography ("hide in plain sight") and watermarking
book list to our Book Access pages.
August 26, 2001
Added a new Bargain Gallery Tour. Thery'll be some construction
dust for the next few days or so. Also, this might create problems
on certain NetScape browsers. Am working on a possible fix. For
now, if you have NetScape, click on the text and then on the image.
Note: The tours need a free Acrobat Reader plugin for your browser.
August 25, 2001
Our latest Guru Gonzo PostScript Utility is a mind-blower.
GALLEY1.PSL gives you full sourcecode to emulate an HTML
"gallery" or "tour" or "thumbnails page as a single downloading
compact file working from very convenient data base style entries.
You can view a Galley Slave Demo here.
August 24, 2001
Did I ever tell you about the time I worked on the old MacDonald
farm interface? It eventually reached Electronic Industries Evaluationary
status and thus became an EIE I/O.
August 23, 2001
Just got in some really nice, premium grade Barcode Scanners with a
two foot range and wedge interface. You can email me for details.
August 21, 2001
Updated and added to our Its a Gas hydrogen energy page.
August 20, 2001
Would any of you be interested in attending a "just for" weekend
conference and retreat? I have an in with the Black Range Lodge in
Kingston NM ( in the secret part of New Mexico you can't get to ),
so the on-site costs would be fairly low.
email me if you have any interest.
August 19, 2001
Uploaded the PCMCIA & PC Card bargain page.
August 18, 2001
The latest Blatant Opportunist #64 is on Degubbing Secrets.
August 17, 2001
Uploaded the NDT Testing bargain page.
August 16, 2001
I am not at all sure what the present status of Midnight Engineering is.
But there are these three alternative resources: (1) My own Blatant
Opportunist columns contine as ezines. (2) Don Johnson offers his fine
Imagineering site; and (3) The new Entrepreneurial Engineers website
from Jack Krupansky.
August 12, 2001
Latest Tech Musings is our MUSE153.PDF on my bouncy brick
secrets, privatized military surplus, bogus water powered cars,
reducing table lookup sizes, and bounty hunting patents for $$$.
August 11, 2001
Just got a bunch of really nice new PC Card (PCMCIA) to IEEE
1284C drivers with CEN36 connectors. These should be perfect
as Laptop-to-Anything custom interfaces. Only tiny detail is no
docs or drivers. Very easy to modify and CPLD just may be
reprogrammable, though.
I'll be happy to send you a free one if you have the capabilities to
come up with a suitable driver. Either way, email me for details.
August 9, 2001
Added some new content to our Auction Help library page.
August 5, 2001
The "autobrowser" on our Bargain Pages is now working, and we
should have most of the bricks populated soon. Our hope is to add
a product a day for the next few months. Just click on the Browse
button on any page to continue your tour.
August 3, 2001
Poptronix really underdid themselves on the pyramind story.
See how many "not even wrong" technical "facts" you can spot.
Last time I checked, limestone was sedimentary, not igneous. And
20 to 20K are audio, not radio frequencies. There's no saturation
involved with the skin effect. And "ac" electrolysis gets rectified.
Plus many dozens of other howlers.
August 2, 2001
Not sure how many DRMO RCP sales remain. The (seemingly
broken) search listed another eight upcoming. But the present
ones have been extended. Cutoff date is probably October.
July 30, 2001
Expanded and improved the Offsite Links on our Home Page.
July 29, 2001
Just got a bunch of super premium Nicolet Recording Oscilloscopes.
Some 4094's and some 204A's. email me for further details.
July 28, 2001
Added an apnote on reducing Magic Sinewave table sizes. More
details will soon be posted as part of MUSE153.PDF.
July 27, 2001
It appears that the steplocked Magic Sinewave table sizes
can be significantly reduced by using quadratic interpolation.
The full data apparently needs only be stored for every eighth
amplitude, along with linear and quadratic step values.
Custom Analysis is available and depends upon application.
July 26, 2001
Got the Grand Tour Browser working on our Bargain Pages.
Should be adding lots of goodies real soon. now. Just keep
hitting the Browse bouncy brick for your tour.
July 24, 2001
The second phase of DRMO privitization has been completed,
which means that most direct military surplus sales will end about
October. Levy-Latham has merged with Government Liquidation
to become your expanded source for most mil surplus items.
July 22, 2001
Latest Blatant Opportunist #63 is our WAYWERE.PDF An
unauthorized autobiography and perspective on early personal
computing history.
July 18, 2001
Latest Tech Musings is our MUSE152.PDF on energy basics
banner rotators, driving lots of LED's from a microcomputer
port, n-connectedness math, shuffling algorithms, and more.
July 17, 2001
Phase one of Our Thousand Book Browse is finally complete!
Just click on above, then hit the BROWSE button repeatedly.
Or click here for the full directory. Please report any problems.
Please also email me with suggestions for additional categories.
July 16, 2001
Revised and expanded our Virtual Reality book access page.
Revised and expanded our Wind Energy book access page.
July 15, 2001
Added an almost all new Santa Claus Machine book access page.
Revised and expanded our Tesla book access page.
Revised and expanded our RFID book access page.
July 13, 2001
Revised and expanded our Recommended book access page.
Revised and expanded our Recently Reviewed book access page.
July 12, 2001
Bee is off on a weaving conference, so our eBay Offerings
will be somewhat lean for a few days. Watch our Bargain
Pages for lots of new items meanwhile.
July 11, 2001
Added an almost all new Thermodynamics book access page.
Revised and expanded our Pseudoscience book access page.
Revised and expanded our Radio Astronomy book access page.
July 10, 2001
Expanded and upgraded the offsite links on our Home Page.
These are my "best of web" that I personally use most often.
July 9, 2001
Added a NREL hydrogen economy analysis to our Its a Gas page.
July 8, 2001
Expanded and upgraded our Webmastering Library page.
July 7, 2001
Just got our eBay Purple Star.
July 5, 2001
Just picked up an older Durantz 600 Power Line Disturbance Analyzer.
Please email me if you have any interest in this one.
July 3, 2001
June 29, 2001
More exact results can be gotten by using these Magic Sinewave
Calculators. They use 64-bit math instead of the original 32-bit.
Much more on magic sinewaves at www.tinaja.com/magsn01.asp
Seminars and design services are available by emailing me.
June 24, 2001
A reminder that our area code is now (928) for our main telephone
number (928) 428-4073. Our fax number stays the same at
(847) 574-1462 as we use the eFax service.
June 24, 2001
Latest Tech Musings is our MUSE151.PDF on exergy fundamentals,
Radio Shack Wireless Humidity data formats, Cheby polynominals,
and lots more.
June 23, 2001
Just got three Gould 2800S eight channel data recorders in with
lots of accessories. email me for details if you can use these.
June 22, 2001
Added an almost all new Webmastering book access page.
June 19, 2001
Our latest surplus additions include a HP 9000/200, 5183A, 9720A,
6823A, 1600A, and 1607A. Plus a 3KW quartz heater, some TEK
oscilloscope CRT's in original boxes and some mint Gould eight
channel analog recorders. email me for details.
June 17, 2001
Added an all new Fluxgates & Magnetometry book access page.
June 16, 2001
Just got a rare collection of early GR stuff. 1601A, 1603A, and
1551-P1. email me for details.
June 13, 2001
Please note our area code is changing to (928). Our current
voice phone number is (928) 428-4073. Our fax number stays
the same at (847) 574-1462 as we use the eFax service.
June10, 2001
The Latest Blatant Opportunist column reveals the secrets
of the Bouncy Bricks.
June 5, 2001
Started a major upgrade of our Bargain Pages. It will take a
few weeks to get everything into the new format.
Most of our older inventory will be closed out. You can still
temporarily view the Old Bargain Pages here.
June 5, 2001
Got a pair of NIXIE TUBE collectibles from Hewlett Packard as
their 5216A general purpose counter and a very rare 5332B dual
predetermining counter. email me for details.
June 1, 2001
Just got a load of goodies from Holloman AFB that include
a pair of Tek 390AD's a Tek 539, a HP 8614A, a HP 3780A,
a Durantz power line disturbance recorder, some Systron
Donner pulse gens, and a few others.
Plus some rare hp NIXIE TUBE collectible counters and meters.
email me if you have any interest in thee.
May 31, 2001
Added the latest Steplock-06, Steplock-10, and Steplock-14
bridging Magic Sinewaves.
May 30, 2001
Did I ever tell you about the time I was on a New Mexico group
hike and we got caught in an unexpected storm? We found some
boards and an extremely horizontal tree and managed to build an
A frame structure, plugging up the cracks with what little raingear
we had among us.
And managed to stay quite dry in our poncho villa.
May 28, 2001
Added the latest Steplock-18 bridging Magic Sinewave. This
JavaScript calculator includes a newer, more general, and much
shorter minimum seeking optimizer code.
May 25, 2001
Over a dozen new website pages are now updated, including
HOME01, ADVT01, AUCT01, BLAT01, BOOKS01, CUBIC01,
H2GAS01, INFO01, LIBRY01, MAGSN01, MAP01, MUSE01,
TINAJA01, and the WHTNU01 gang.
Please email me with any and all link or layout problems you may
find. A tutorial on the bouncy bricks should arrive shortly. As
should the rest of the book listings.
May 20, 2001
I'm in the process of updating and improving our Main Library
Page. You can view the ongoing progress here.
May 19, 2001
Still have three superbly rugged silver alloy 10 conductor high voltage,
high current slip rings available. Email me if you are interested.
May 18, 2001
Further enhanced and improved our new Sample Files include.
Also rearranged our Home Page somewhat. This one works best
with IE.
May 17, 2001
We've just gone live with our new home page. You may have to use
your reload button to view it. Please report any problems .
The old home page should stay here for a while.
Sadly, several features are IE specific and not NetScape available .
The bouncy bricks are apparently not possible in Netscape 4, and
since there are only two known users of Netscape 6 (Both in a group
home for the terminally clueless), the additional time and code length
did not appear excessively urgent.
May 16, 2001
Just got a bunch of Type T Thermocouple EXTENSION wire,
Conax brand. Email me if you want to get in ahead of the hoarders.
May 15, 2001
Please email me with your seven most favorite web pages. I
may want to add a select few to our new home page.
May 14, 2001
The home pages should be next on the upgrade list. You can
monitor our progress at http://www.tinaja.com/default.asp
One new feature will be this samper of our very best files.
May 12, 2001
Upgraded and improved our Hydrogen Energy library website.
Links to the NASA safety sites have also been newly corrected.
May 9, 2001
Got some real nice mint Marsh compound pressure gauges in.
Vacuum to 0 to 200 PSI perfect for fire engines and other drafting
pumps. 105 available. You can email me for details.
May 6, 2001
There's a big flap over on the eBay newsgroup over whether a
private business by law has to accept cash or money orders. The
answer is that they emphatically DO NOT. Especially for a contract
agreement to exchange goods and services of value. Which is a
totally different legal entity than a debt.
Here's the relevant US Treasury Web Site "horses whatever" info.
May 5, 2001
Our new Tech Musings library page should finally be complete.
Please report any typos, broken links, or other problems
May 4, 2001
A new fuel cell handbook at http://216.51.18.233/fchandbook.pdf
May 3, 2001
A reminder that our new search engine only works properly on the
new website pages. Such as the search box at the page top or with
this nav link to the "what's new?" page bottom.
May 2, 2001
Just got a bunch of classic Motorola 6800 microprocessor trainers.
Their answer to the KIM-1. email me if you have any interest in
picking up one or more of these community college surplus items.
May 1, 2001
Latest Tech Musings is our MUSE150.PDF on RFID, hydrogen
energy scams, PostScript trig functions, industrial waxes, and a
controversial new AAPSK coding scheme that may or may not
end up being totally what it seems.
April 29, 2001
Uh, AAPSK may in fact be bogus, and EDN Magazine just may have
gotten itself severely done in. Here's The Other Side of the Story.
April 28, 2001
Watch those reserved words! Just got into all sorts of unbelievable
PostScript problems because of a typo that mis-defined an /edn
magazine website link as /end !
April 27, 2001
Just got four super premium Nicolet Oscilloscopes in stock as
Kirtland AFB military surplus. Please email me for further details.
April 25, 2001
Added four ACOSASIN.PS PostScript utilities to pick up acos
and asin trig angle capabilities to the PostScript library page. These
have been conspicuously absent from the core PostScript code.
PostScript consulting available per our InfoPack service.
April 24, 2001
If you are into appliance repair, you already know that FSP is ~the~
superb quality factory replacement parts for Whirlpool and Sears
Kenmore. Just got a bunch of mint FSP 4326758 valve tops RA.
Not sure what they are (half of a 0.5 PSI adjustable regulator?),
but they are available super cheap if you email me.
April 23, 2001
April 22, 2001
Added an all new JavaScript book access page.
April 21, 2001
Updated and improved the Hydrogen, Impulse Radar, Induction
Heating, Stage Lighting, and Magnetic Recording book access.
April 19, 2001
Latest surplus bargains to come in the door include scads of #0
Jiffy Bags and a bunch of Life Raft (and sport inflatables) repair
kits. You can email me for details.
April 16, 2001
Added more files to the new Tech Musings library page. The entire
page should be done "real soon now". The web updates are talking a
lot longer than I expected them to.
April 13, 2001
Made all the new book links live. The 'missing" older links
that should go up in a few days can still be found here.
April 12, 2001
Updated and improved the Home Automation, Homepage, Hot
Springs, HTML, and Hybrid Vehicle book access.
April 8, 2001
Just got a bunch of really nice FSP (Whirlpool or Sears) Dishwasher
motors and pumps. You can email me for details.
April 6, 2001
The revised and upgraded Tech Musings library page should be
done in a few days. You can preview it here.
April 4, 2001
Updated and improved the Error Correcting Codes, Richard
Feynman, Fuel Cells, and GPS Navigation book access.
April 2, 2001
Added some fast navigation buttons to the Blatant Opportunist
library page. Added a new tools section to the Auction library page.
April 2, 2001
Updated and improved the Electrochemistry book access.
March 30, 2001
Updated and improved the Carbon Nanotube & Fullerines
book access page.
March 29, 2001
Added a new page of ASP Application Specific Programming
books. These show you the secrets of our new web features,
such as the bouncy buttons and bricks, ad rotations, includes,
secures web commerce, and great heaping bunches more.
March 28, 2001
Its a tad early to go live yet, but here is a preview of our
brand new autobrowsing and bouncy bricks Book Access
pages. The old book pages can still be found here.
March 26, 2001
Updated and improved the Bezier & Cubic Splines library page.
March 24, 2001
Got the first of our "bouncy bricks" working to go along
with our "bouncy buttons". This is a unique way to provide
groups of menu options without lots of images or long code.
Sadly, the code is IE only so far. While Netscape 6 can do
something similar, we apparently have negligible N6 users.
March 22, 2001
Updated and improved the Magic Sinewaves library page.
March 19, 2001
Added a revised and improved Steplock-16 Magic Sinewave
JavaScript Calculator and a Steplock-12 Magic Sinewave
JavaScript Calculator to the Magic Sinewaves Library Page.
March 18, 2001
Added a revised and improved Steplock-20 Magic Sinewave
JavaScript Calculator to the Magic Sinewaves Library Page.
March 17, 2001
Added a revised and improved Steplock-24 Magic Sinewave
JavaScript Calculator to the Magic Sinewaves Library Page.
March 16, 2001
Added a revised and improved Steplock-28 Magic Sinewave
JavaScript Calculator to the Magic Sinewaves Library Page.
A new delta friendly "322" is included that is both well behaved
and highly recommended.
March 15, 2001
Added a revised and improved Steplock-32 Magic Sinewave
JavaScript Calculator to the Magic Sinewaves Library Page.
March 14, 2001
Added a revised and improved Steplock-36 Magic Sinewave
JavaScript Calculator to the Magic Sinewaves Library Page.
A new delta friendly "333" is included that is both well behaved
and highly recommended.
March 13, 2001
Updated and improved the Tinaja Questing library page.
March 12, 2001
Did I ever mention the free QuickPhrase utility? This one is
essential for online auctions or anywhere else you want to
quickly recall stock boilerplate.
March 11, 2001
Added a brand new Auction Library & Links library page.
March 11, 2001
I've apparently picked up at least some JavaScript Calculator
expertise. Email me if you need any custom design done here.
March 9, 2001
Revised and updated our InfoPack Research Services page.
March 8, 2001
Revised and updated our Site Map and Directory page.
March 6, 2001
Revised our Banner Advertiser's page. We've just added a bunch
of new banner features, including random launch positioning, better
day and month reporting, faster updating, database control and "all
page" availability.
You can repeatedly click on your Reload button for a demo. It will
take a few weeks to fully upgrade the entire site.
March 5, 2001
March 4, 2001
...and you're viewing our latest major page upgrade. Please report
any errors or comments to don@tinaja.com. The rest of the What's
New? archives should follow shortly. Try the links below.
March 2, 2001
Did a major upgrade of our Blatant
Opportunist library page. This is the
first one to offer most of the new site features. Note the rotated ads,
the
new "bouncy buttons", and the greatly improved search in particular.
Some temporary redirects have been added to mix and match old and
new
web pages. Should your back arrow "get stuck" on any of these,
try a fast
double or triple click.
Plese report any apparent errors or problems to don@tinaja.com.
March 1, 2001
There's supposed to be a Slashdot
interview in the works. More on this as
it unfolds.
February 27, 2001
One possible cure for an intermittent muffled yowling in a laser
printer is to
open the top and let the cat out.
Feburary 25, 2001
Just installed a brand new upgrade of WebTrends
for our site stats.
Stats will look somewhat "empty" for the next few days till everybody
gets online at the new site. Before changeover, we were running around
1200 visitors per day and 430,000 hits per month.
You can click here for Trailing Monthly stats and here for Daily stats.
February 24, 2001
We should be moving over to a new server over the next several days.
Please report any problems that persist for more than a week or so.
JavaScript will be ~required~ to activate many of the new site features.
February 23, 2001
Some temporary client side redirects may be needed while we are
building our new site. The need for these should go away as your
links get updated. Sorry for any inconvenience.
February 22, 2001
We seem to have the new site search engine working properly. Shortly,
you
will be able to reach it from all of my web pages. Its new address will
be
http://www.tinaja.com/search/searchg1.asp
February 20, 2001
Added several more in our series of Magic Sinewave Calculators.
February 20, 2001
As you probably know by now, Google
has bought key assets from Deja News.
This seems to temporarily place the Guru's
Lair Forum in limbo. We are working
on a solution, but our new site move and upgrade has to take precedence.
On the other hand, Google now
indexes PDF files as well as HTML! Not sure
whether they simply bought into the Adobe
Search Engine or started their own.
February 17, 2001
January 2, 2001
Hopefully, we will soon be going to a new and far more modern server
that gives
us lots of opportunities to correct previous problems and add new features.
In
the works are improved search and stats, dynamic html, greatly expanded
tech
coverage, .asp files that dramatically improve site management, includes,
banner
rotations, secure site sales, and great heaping bunches more. Stay tuned.
Dec 28, 2000
Improved & expanded the JavaScript Magic
Sinewave Calculator.
This one looks best with NetScape's continuous updates rather than
Internet Exploder's "update only after function complete" style.
Dec 19, 2000
Here's a link to an "adequate supply" of Pittsburgh Streetcar Photos
WARNING: Attempting to view all of these in one session will
result
in yunz guys pronouncing "beer" as "airn". Or making
a mill outta a
chopaam sammitch and Olde
Frothingslosh Pale Stale Ale in Sliberty.
Fortunately, in regards to this matter, a desert rat like me is immune.
Skooze me while I redd up the website.
Dec 14, 2000
Just uploaded an interactive JavaScript Magic Sinewave Calculator.
Dec 9, 2000
Many thanks to Kevin Kelly and others in the Winter 2000 edition
of
the latest Whole Earth Catalog.
See our mentions on pages 43 and 44.
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