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pChess

Download: pChess 0.7.7.zip
(322Kb, October 14, 2009)

A basic chess programme for Macintosh OSX, written entirely in FutureBasic.

v0.7.7 FEN Flipper Edition: The eval is a static two-ply function, grabbing the highest opponent piece that cant be recaptured. This version now has GUI menus, supports board flip, and copy/paste of FEN positions. It also checks for Mate, and if the King is merely in Check - takes appropriate action. Future versions should include a fully recursive engine with alpha/beta search. Comes complete with FutureBasic source code. Type 'help' for built-in help.

Sternelicht

Ambient Alternative Music formented from the reincarnating Hollowmen — Making Spaces and Leaving Spaces — click to hear Sternelicht on MySpace.

Oh to the Wind and Weathers.mp3
New Sternelicht Demo October 23, 2009

Goethe

Heard a lot about Goethe - Lily and the Green Snake.
So read his Theory of Colours, and Faust.

This was all very interesting, but for years I found it difficult to find a copy of this Lily and the Green Snake in print. Finally found one, and thought it may be of use for others, so promptly OCR'd it into a little file that now lives here (1999).

Steiner

Occult Signs and Symbols • Found this lecture at the world's biggest bookstore (Toronto), and it introduced me to the fellow of Rudolf Steiner whom I have found to be quite a genius. As it wasn't available on the web, typed in the text (60 pages), and is available online as of 1998. Please note, this text is Copyright ©1972 by Anthroposophic Press.

The Story of My Life • Located an original 1928 edition of Steiner's autobiography, which was out of print (as of 1999). Scanned and edited the text into electronic format; available online: 2000.

Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception • This book was also generally unavailable. Digitized, edited, and available online: 2004.

Goethean Science • Steiner's first Epistemological work, is finally available online: 2006.

Tesla

The Internet, power distribution, and everything that uses AC (alternating current) electricity owe their foundation to the father of electrification - Nikola Tesla.

Edison's DC (direct current) cannot sustain the long distances that alternating current can. Edison's system would have set back development of electricity by decades.

Tesla saved the situation by conceptualising 'the rotary magnetic field', making possible the AC induction motor. The generators Tesla designed and built are still in use today at the Niagara Falls generating station.

In 1994, I found a booklet titled, The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla. It was made with typewriters, and then photocopied and stapled. I spent the Christmas holidays typing this in, and it was the first electronic version of Tesla's autobiography available on the Internet. It duplicates the original six-part series published in Electrical Experimenter Magazine in 1919, and the original text has been republished in book form as: My Inventions, The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla.

Click to download a copy of Nikola Tesla's Autobiography.

Quote Genie Widget 2.0

Download: quoteGenie.wdgt.zip (543Kb)

A collection of over 1400 Quotes, wrapped in a handy OSX Dashboard Widget.

Click the Quote Genie for a Daily Quote - This collection has been gathered over fifteen years of finding great quotes from: Music, Art, Life, and Literature. Quote Genie doesn't claim to have the most quotes, but it has more than 1400 of the best. Everything from Elephants to Einstein.

Older Stuff  (1992 - 1995)

A basic Tarot reading programme for the Macintosh (requires OS9!) with nice colour graphics, and both Celtic and Astrological layouts. It also includes a scanned copy of both the Rider-Waite and Thoth decks. The readings are done per-card, and don't take into account the inter-relationships between the various positions.

Although the Tarot can be a useful aid for understanding the dynamic archetypal forces acting within the domain of one's consciousness, one may question if you would trust your fortunes to the static output of the pseudo-random number generator in your computer.

The counter-pole to working as a Technical Writer during the day is this dreamlike existential poetry... like water, dark and warm all around you, lit by the gaze of your glistening starlike eyes...

Ambient Industrial Gothic Music produced in a basement with an Ensoniq EPS sampler and a distortion pedal. If you'd like to inflict your ears with this youthful experimental angst, mail me, and i'll send you the mp3 files.

(Photo, Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1992)