Out & About About Me: Born 1952, software engineer since 1969. My son Nik was born in 1976 and lives in Ohio. I've lived in Santa Cruz County since 1981; been married to Deborah since 1982. About GIGO: a weblog. A learning experience. GIGO is the hacker's acronym for "Garbage In, Garbage Out". As with many Radio Weblogs, you can look at a subset of the postings via the weblog's categories. Here are handy links to my current (bgS == 24 July 2002) set of categories: bp — Backpacking, hiking and sometimes other outdoor pursuits cs — Computer Science — stuff I'm interested in but that doesn't necessarily relate directly to my job. Also, computer and Web industry issues go here. humor — Stuff I find funny, amusing or just plain silly; some of it is mine. mtb — Mountain Biking music — A few of my interests and a list or two personal — Entries in this category are diary entries rather than the normal link-rich weblog-style entries pix — any item with some pictures or links to pictures should go into this category radio — Questions I come up with about the Radio Userland software, or sometimes more general entries, about writing weblogs. About weblogs in general: they're something like journals or diaries, but with hyperlinks. There's more about Weblogs here. About the silly name & subtitles: 'GIGO: words unreadable aloud' was the best anagram I found for "Doug Landauer's Radio Weblog" . I used to have subtitles ("description" in Radio UserLand's terms) of 'bolder language, audio sword' and 'arguable words, golden audio'. They're the next best two anagrams I found. But then I saw this Bonny Doon wine "Domaine des Blagueurs" ... see http://radio.weblogs.com/0100945/2002/09/13.html for the rest of the story. Except that didn't really explain the rest of the story, especially since whatever I had done to the subtitle has since been changed again. And a friend pointed out to me (on 19 June 2004) something that I hadn't noticed at all: that "Domaine des Blagueurs" is an anagram for "IBM sees Doug Landauer". Whaddaya know. So then I came up with this:. "Domaine des Blagueurs anagram" is an anagram for "Doug Landauer, a being, a mess". Hopefully, I'm done with anagrams now. About the software: I maintain this weblog using Radio UserLand. I'm learning a little Usertalk, and about the Outliner that's hidden in there. I run Mac OS X (10.3, aka Panther) nearly all of the time at home. Pre-Jaguar, I would still reboot into Mac OS 9 for a few things, because Classic would crash a few times too often to be able to trust it. Since installing Jaguar, I haven't used "real" Mac OS 9 at all. Since I started running Panther, I haven't used "classic" at all. The Mac OS X "Preview" application can finally read MS Word documents. About the Ben Lomond Sand Domes: Here is the 1996 Sunset article that I saved until finally getting a scanner yesterday. That OCR stuff has gotten way better since I tried it at Apple in 1997. To borrow my oldest brother's saying: More later. © Copyright 2007 Doug Landauer . Last update: 07/2/6; 12:59:07 .