{"id":2,"date":"2010-04-21T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:07:52","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may be a retired programmer, but I&#8217;m still writing programs.&nbsp; I wrote my first program in 1979 for an IBM 650, a small (for that time) computer with <em>tubes<\/em> not transistors.&nbsp; It had a 4,000 ten digit word memory.&nbsp; Since then, most of my programming has been on small systems.<\/p>\n<p>My interests include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong>&#8211;I have ~10,000 books in my house.&nbsp; Most of them are science fiction, fantasy or young adult books.&nbsp; A lot of very good fantasy has been published as young adult fiction.&nbsp; Can you say &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221;? Nearly all cataloged with Koha an integrated library system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Garden&#8211;<\/strong>I got a Duchess du Brabant rose bush some years ago.&nbsp; It has been flattened by a number of hurricanes and was under the tent when I had the house tented for termites.&nbsp; It&#8217;s still going strong.&nbsp; That inspired me to add a number of miniature roses to the garden for my railroad. None of which survived.<\/li>\n<li><strong>3d<\/strong> Printing&#8211;I&#8217;ve used my 3d-printers to print stuff for my model railroad, 3d-printer accessories, key chain tags for various events, pipe stems, business cards and whatever I can find an excuse for.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Photography<\/strong>&#8211;Mostly I record events.&nbsp; Once in a long while, I get something worth putting up on a wall.&nbsp;&nbsp; My cameras include:\n<ul>\n<li>Nikon D80<\/li>\n<li>Canon SD-1000<\/li>\n<li>Sony Cybershot DSC-HX5V<\/li>\n<li>Leica IIIb (It&#8217;s as old as I am)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Baby&#8221; Speed Graphic (Remember the old press cameras from the 40&#8217;s?)<\/li>\n<li>A number of other old ones I haven&#8217;t wanted to part with.<\/li>\n<li>Of course my android phone.&nbsp; It has an app which shows the strength of all the wifi stations nearby.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t do that on an iPhone.&nbsp; I tried for a couple of weeks, but had to give it up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Computers<\/strong>&#8211;Naturally. I currently have a bunch including:\n<ul>\n<li>IPFire firewall between me and the internet<\/li>\n<li>server which stores files and runs Koha, to keep track of all those books<\/li>\n<li>Backup server<\/li>\n<li>Work station<\/li>\n<li>Guest machine<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;A windoze machine needed to run 3D printing slicers which haven&#8217;t been updated to Linux.<\/li>\n<li>Some tablets.<\/li>\n<li>Some raspberry pi boxes for connecting to my 3d printers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vehicles<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>2012 Hyundai Sonata<\/li>\n<li>1950 Studebaker \u00bd ton pickup truck<\/li>\n<li>1954 Studebaker Champion 4 door sedan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may be a retired programmer, but I&#8217;m still writing programs.&nbsp; I wrote my first program in 1979 for an IBM 650, a small (for that time) computer with tubes not transistors.&nbsp; It had a 4,000 ten digit word memory.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/?page_id=2\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobsown.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}