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Sun Aug 28 2005

Running Skencil on Mac OS X

Filed under: — midtoad @ 12:27:36 MDT

Recently, I switched from Linux to Mac OS X with the purchase of a Mac Mini, and I’ve been busy getting some of my favourite Linux apps running on Mac OS X (for those that don’t know, Mac OS X is effectively a pretty face on top of a customized version of Linux; techies please excuse this simplification). One of the apps I wanted to get running is Skencil, a vector-based graphics program that can create and edit .svg images.
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Tue Aug 9 2005

Google Earth

Filed under: — admin @ 11:52:48 MDT

Mt. Seven
Mt. Seven Ramp
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Tue Aug 2 2005

Thoughts on risk

Filed under: — midtoad @ 14:42:13 MDT

Last Friday, July 29th, while I was flying my hang glider cross-country along the range south of Golden, BC, another pilot was critically injured and died a couple of days later. His name was Charles Warren, and he was flying a paraglider. I’m sorry to see him go, and though we weren’t close, I’ll miss him. He took over from me as HPAC webmaster, and had made many improvements to the site.
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