http://www.trygstad.org/blog/ The musings of Ray Trygstad: IT/Web guy, educator, Naval officer, world traveler and sometime preacher. en-us 2008-12-22T23:58:56-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000188.html The Tale of the Three Little Penguins Once there were three little penguins who decided to leave home and make their way in the world. The first little penguin decided to build his house of icicles, so he built it... Family trygstad 2008-12-22T23:58:56-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000185.html What I put on my daughter's new notebook PC (running 32-bit Vista Ultimate): 7-Zip Version 4.5 http://www.7-zip.org/Allows you to manage compressed files like .zip, .rar., .arj, .7z 32-bit http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z457.exe 64-bit http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z457-x64.msiAdobe AIR Version 1.0.1 http://www.adobe.com/products/air/Cross-platform runtime environment for building rich... InfoTech trygstad 2008-11-14T16:18:19-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000186.html This goes with my later entry on Free Software I Install on a New Windows Vista System: Essential Firefox Plugins...... InfoTech trygstad 2008-11-14T08:28:08-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000187.html This goes with my later entry on Free Software I Install on a New Windows Vista System: Essential OpenOffice.org Extensions...... InfoTech trygstad 2008-11-14T08:15:06-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000184.html I subscribe to a couple of services that watch Google for new references to selected search terms. As a result of this I discovered a blog, “Homeless Veteran of Microsoft” written by a former Microsoft employee, Kerry Wayne Burgess. Burgess... USNA trygstad 2008-09-22T19:57:42-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000183.html James Traub, writing in the New York Times has a good, high-level view of education at the Naval Academy in “What a Naval Officer Now Knows”. What they're really looking at here is how the education is different now than... USNA trygstad 2008-09-22T19:23:21-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000181.html Yesterday I was at a Winterguard competition. As one guard performed their show, I noticed one young lady in particular. She was—to put it quite bluntly—large. Yet at the same time, she was very, very graceful, and as she performed... Personal trygstad 2008-03-02T09:47:21-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000182.html Years ago, academic legend has it, a philosophy professor handed out the blue books (remember those?) and wrote her single final exam question on the blackboard (remember those?). The question was a classic question of philosophy, one actually posed by... Scouts trygstad 2008-02-29T12:22:49-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000180.html There is a huge amount of talk these days about an amnesty for workers who are in the U.S. illegally. At the risk of causing great discontent (I guess it may be a good thing that my blog comments are... Rant trygstad 2006-04-25T09:07:20-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000179.html John Walkenbach caught me napping when he posted my book list so I had not written my expansion on it. So here it is now! Die Deutsche Diktatur (The German Dictatorship) - Karl Dietrich Bracher An unflinching examination of Germany's... Personal trygstad 2006-04-18T09:03:06-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000178.html I discovered, quite by accident, USAFedForms, a site that has nearly every U.S. federal form in existance. The author of the site (and the forms) has created PDF files with embedded programming that allows text to be placed anywhere on... Navy trygstad 2006-02-15T23:43:13-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000177.html Fun trygstad 2006-02-10T17:10:46-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000176.html 1. Der's only one God, ya know. 2. Don't make dat fish on yer mantle an idol. 3. Cussing ain't Minnesota nice. 4. Go to church--even when yer up nort. 5. Honor yer folks. 6. Don't kill. Catch and... Fun trygstad 2006-02-10T13:03:18-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000175.html Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, author of the first graphical Web browser and founder of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, now has a blog at http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4. Check it out!... InfoTech trygstad 2005-12-17T22:40:53-06:00 http://www.trygstad.org/blog/archives/000174.html There has been a great deal of press lately about the huge lack of interest in science and engineering on the part of American college students (for an example, see Slacking Off in Science: From PhDs to R&D, the US... Academia trygstad 2005-11-24T14:01:13-06:00