Monthly Archives: August 2005
Toss in the Moss 2005
For the second week-end in a row, I played in an Ultimate tournament, but this was the first in about two years that I actually traveled to. Our (former) masters team, THOR, decided to try “one last tournament”. We added … Continue reading
Masters Hat Tournament
With a heat index of 109° this must have been the worst week-end of the year to hold a masters tournament, but that’s where I was from 10:30 to 5:30 on Saturday. Fortunately, we were blessed with an afternoon shower … Continue reading
Factoring Realized
I found an GNU library for fast multi-precision arithmetic called gmp and decided to try my graphically inspired factoring algorithm. I’m pretty sure it’s just an inefficient version of Lehman’s Method, which is only an improvement over Fermat’s Method. And … Continue reading
JSPWiki Migration Page Provider
I’ve contributed a migration page provider to JSPWiki. The engine supports a variety of page providers that handle the storage and retrieval of page contents from whatever store you want to use. This provider is really just a proxy for … Continue reading
Out with the Old, In with the New (Car)
After 10 good years, I’ve finally parted ways with my Saturn wagon. The photo shows the old Saturn and new Prius as we make the sale in the parking lot of Sam’s. The supply for Priuses is just catching up … Continue reading
JDBC Providers for JSPWiki 2.2.8
When I first encountered the creatively named JSPWiki two years ago, I thought it strange that the server relies on the file system for storing its content. JSPWiki is very extensible and I found a simple database page provider plug-in … Continue reading