Ken Martin’s Blog

Almost. But I have renewed intentions. Stay tuned. :)

Well… I have all sorts of stuff to say, but no time to form it into moderately meaningful sentences. So here - if you want something to do - go check out my new YouTube channel!

I’m only three days into three year and I’ve got mysteriously failing house wiring, a backed up main line, a flat tire, and a broken refrigerator shelf. Oh, and I slipped and fell on the stairs (and thus broke a coat hook). Sheesh. May I have 2008 back, please? It was pretty good. :)

Maybe it’s just me with my stochastic interest in history and our country’s founding, but I found this article by Steven Hayward (Reagan’s biographer) concerning Sarah Palin very interesting. What do we really think about “government of the people, by the people, for the people”?

…even though today was billed as possibly being the “End of the World”. The Large Hadron Collider is intended to collide a bunch of particles at about ~99.99997% of the speed of light, thus reproducing conditions quite close to the moment of the Big Bang. Some folks are concerned that doing so will unleash tiny black [...]

The EAA air show in Oshkosh in Wisconsin, that is. flyGarmin was going to be released to the public for the first time in conjunction with the beginning of the air show. Garmin had a Monday morning press conference announcing all sorts of stuff, and flyGarmin was on the list. I was pacing around the [...]

I know that may not mean anything to you, but that’s a big project I’ve been working on at work for the last many months. It’s been a fun, complicated project focussed on making it a lot easier for pilots who use Garmin equipment to keep their equipment up to date. It let’s pilots enter their [...]

Life is settling down. A big web site release looms. Wordpress 2.6 is installed, with whatever shiny goodness that brings. And I can blog from my iPhone. And I have things I want to talk about. Stay tuned…

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Ska music created entirely with old Atari game sounds. Seriously.