Papers and Essays

Bicycling across America - September, 1993 - Most of my twenty-third summer was spent pedaling from New Jersey to Arizona. I had a blast!

It's the Drug War, stupid - April, 2000 - Brent Baccala's article in the Washington City Paper condemned the War on Drugs, illustrated his personal experiences, and called for an anti-Drug War campaign. See also his explanation.

Personal Robotics - July 2000 - Brent Baccala expounds the possibility of a Personal Robotics revolution, paralleling the Personal Computer revolution, and it's potential to liberate mankind.

Smart Cars - August 2000 - The car of the future may run Linux.

Guardian Alert: How it works - August 2000 - Design of a simple microwave radar.

Wireless Internet - September 2000 - Decentralization should be the buzzword of freedom.

Capitalism and Christianity - October 2000 - Is capitalism an un-Christian philosophy?

On Napster - January 2001 - Napster represents a real technological advance

Christianity and democracy in Les Misérables - March 2001 - Can the majority be trusted to lead society?

Isearch Internals - August 2001 - A short technical paper with an algorithm for binary search of an index containing invalid entries

The Spirit at Thirty - Fall 2001 - Brent reflects on his recent spiritual trials

Guardian Alert - Part 2 - January 2002 - further explores the design of microwave devices

Future directions in Web Architecture - June 2002 - alternatives to HTML; caching of dynamic web sites

Notes

I recently (August 2003) started using a Toshiba Portege 3500 tablet computer. Although pricy ($2300), it won some awards and is really a very nice machine. The tablet feature, for drawing graphics and math equations, is quite superior to a mouse. Here are some notes I put together on the machine, using Microsoft Journal. Be warned - the files contain handwritten text and can be quite large.