Occasional notes / Sam Foster

A lumpy emulsion of work and play

2001-02-09

Homesite: Comment/unComment Code

Homesite: Comment/unComment Code

I just put a new page up under the Homesite extensibility section that provides and documents a pair of activescripts for commenting and uncommenting code selections.

2001-02-02

CritSuite: public annotation on the Web

CritSuite: public annotation on the Web

Looks very interesting… I lot of what I’ve been thinking about. I’ve downloaded but not got the annotation server to run on my NT4 box yet. Worst case there’s some interesting source code to study.

2001-02-02

The START Natural Language Question Answering System

The START Natural Language Question Answering System

I made a bookmarklet to query it:
ask START

2001-02-01

Stefan's Florilegium Archive

Stefan’s Florilegium Archive

All kinds of arcana (culled from various mailing lists / newsgroups) on period stuff - including a good section on traditional crafts.

2001-01-31

Marking a helical line around a Cylinder.

Marking a helical line around a Cylinder.

2001-01-31

Beonex Communicator

Beonex Communicator

Checking out the beginning of the new generation of browsers/apps based on the mozilla source code (at Applications Based on Mozilla Source on Open Directory).

This is a passable browser / suite that so far I prefer over Netscape’s offering..but the thing is still a 6MB download. I wanna see <2MB, then I’m happy…

2001-01-31

Scroll Carving Tools from Hacksaw Blades

Scroll Carving Tools from Hacksaw Blades

detailed and fully step by step with drawings and charts for tempering and annealing the blades.

2001-01-31

Woodworking: Thoughts and Ideas

Woodworking: Thoughts and Ideas

Workbench tips, tool sharpening, planes and other good stuff…

2001-01-31

Michael Black's Casting Manual

Michael Black’s Casting Manual

Moldmaking for the paleontologist - lots of good tips and details

2001-01-22

WINDOWS RELATED UTILS FOR DOS USERS

WINDOWS RELATED UTILS FOR DOS USERS

The best tools always turn out to be less than 10k it seems. Like wclip - “Redirect text to Win3/9x clipboard from STDIN or from clipboard to STDOUT”

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