My just-purchased SV102ED is my first "real" telescope and is a purchase I've put off for decades (ever since I realized what a huge \$ gap there was between a mall-store telescope and a decent one). After a lot of research, I went for the SV102ED "clearance special" with the M1 …

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This from a reader of a newsletter sent out by one of my publishers:

First, quit being political by having garbage like this:

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In the spirit of new U.S. President Barack Obama's call for service 
in our communities, we offer up this e-mail from SPTechReport reader …

I have a brand new 4" refractor which is my first "real" telescope (as a kid I had a let's-say-3" Newtonian, your typical shopping-mall refractor, and I've had some decent binos and spotting scopes since then).

The world of amateur astronomy has vastly changed since I was a kid. Alan …

I'm as thankful as anyone that everyone got off the plane that went down in the Hudson, but I'm kind of ticked that all the news sites are calling it "The Miracle on the Hudson," or "Miracle Landing." That cheapens the tens of thousands of hours the pilot spent flying …

For much of the past week, I've been doing a bunch of accounting stuff. I am incorporating (as "Faster Programmer LLC" ? as in "Faster can mean both higher productivity and higher performance," but actually as in "Faster, Programmer! Code! Code!") and trying to get monetary things (new bank account, credit …

I've been writing this blog since 2002, which I'm fairly sure makes me the graybeard among the Big Island's small blogging family. For what it's worth, I also was a magazine editor for 7 years (and won a few awards). So I'm going to shake my finger at the trio …

Look who's getting in shape on the Big Island of Hawai'i! Kick ass?

ResolverOne is one of my favorite applications in the past few years. It's a spreadsheet powered by IronPython. Spreadsheets are among the most powerful intellectual tools ever developed: if you can solve your problem with a spreadsheet, a spreadsheet is probably the fastest way to solve it. Yet there are …

Inference for .NET is an alternative to Infer.NET & IronPython.

Bonus: Inference for .NET integrates with ResolverOne.