What's New -  September, 2006

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September 29, 2006:    BugTimeTrials evolved from a vehicle simulation experiment.  When my prototype vehicle looked more like a ladybug, I decided to make a course and run time trials.    You can too.
 

September 23, 2006:  I posted a program to answer a viewer's  "Card Probability Question"  today..  The question: What is the probability of one or more occurrences of  two given card rank values being adjacent or with only one intervening card in a well shuffled standard 52 card deck?  The  program answers the question experimentally, I'll let one of you viewers send me the analytical solution.

September 12, 2006: 

Back to work.  Here's a little program , "Monitor Off" that  blanks the screen when the "Pause" key is pressed within any running program.  I use it to turn off the weather display on my "Weather" laptop before going to bed in the evening.  The weather program continues to collect data overnight.   A mouse wiggle in the morning  restores the screen.   It uses a Windows facility called Global Key Hook  which allows checking every key press.  I couldn't decide whether it was a "Utility" or a "Delphi-Technique", so it appears in both indices. 

September 11, 2006:  We are almost back in business after being down for a week.  The old host had moved the web site to a new server which broke it and they did not seem able to get it fixed.  We are up today on a new host so we'll see how it goes.  Please use the feedback link to let me know if you see things that look strange or broken.  Note: The  Booksearch site requires a small update for each school which I will be doing today.