Hi,

Thanks for visiting "down here"; I have many interests, but don't ever seem to take time to create a full-blown personal web page. When I do find time, I'll probably write about:

• My Magnatrac crawler
• My ham radio setup
• My old microkernel operating system VSTa
• My work on the embedded operating system ForthOS
• An interesting parallel cpu
• I also hacked on a Tetris program for UNIX; you can download the (ANSI, POSIX, C) source code here

In the meantime, let me attach a couple links:

Traveller is my personal solution for the spam problem. Both me and my wife have been living with it for several years now.

My design for a 64-bit Forth engine.

Fred on Everything is a web columnist I enjoy reading very much.

I wrote a CLI based PIM in Python. Compact and powerful, and works in the classic UNIX fashion. I call it myPIM and you can download the source here.

Even if you don't want the PIM, if you deal with calendar dates you might want the xcal.py module. It's a port of FreeBSD's libcalendar, written by Wolfgang Helbig, and handles a much wider range of dates than Python's "time" module.

Larry Wall is famous for creating the programming language perl. But did you know that a long, long time ago he wrote a really cool ASCII game named "warp"? I resurrected it and made it work right on Linux with modern console speeds. If you're interested, please grab the source for Warp8.

I run (or ran) these Yahoo groups: SuperPET, gizmo-users, and SEAforth CPU. The Gizmo is an electric motorcycle, and the SuperPET is a funky old 6809 microcomputer made by Commodore a long, long time ago. The SEAforth is a cool microprocessor with 24 parallel CPUs running inside.

I dug up a really good essay written a long time ago after I saw a billboard which asked "What is the difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic?". I think it does an excellent job of explaining this. I would be delighted to get current contact information for Mr. Sandler.