We-Almost-Got-It-Right-This-Time Industries

For people who absolutely, positively hate clicking on cute cartoons for an index, the following semi-alphabetical table of contents may help. Please note that all changes to this web site were suspended in June 2009.

Cameras and Photography:

A great hobby to develop patience and appreciation for subtle shadings of light. At least that's what you say when everything goes right. When they go wrong, get back to basics and learn more about your camera.

Computers and Support:

You're reading this on the internet, so there's a good chance that you have a computer nearby. Need help? Need advice?

Buying a New PC
Calendar Generators (spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel XLS format):

Character Maps for Windows (charts in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, 267 KB)
Color Adjustment Test Pattern
Computer Programming Advice
Computer Programming Examples
Copying Files with Windows Explorer (Acrobat PDF format, 73 KB)
Desktop Publishing According to Keith
Doing Your Backups
Fonts and Special Characters
Forwarded to Spam Hell (story about junk e-mail)
Free Software for Windows
Holiday Virus Attack (story about e-mail viruses)
Java Games (web page applets):

Dots and Boxes, Lines and Boxes (or download the application and documentation in a ZIP archive)
John Conway's Game of Life (or download the application)
Maze Fog (or download the application)
Reversi, Othello (or download the application)
Tic-Tac-Toe, Ticktacktoe, X's and O's, Naughts and Crosses (or download the application)

Java Programming Assignments (with explanations and solutions)
Java Utilities (most popular downloads in ZIP archives; see the complete list):

Character Map (display characters in text fonts and copy to system clipboard; see screen image)
Compare Folders (compare files, folders, and CRC32, MD5, SHA1 checksums; see screen image)
Erase Disk (erase the empty space on a disk drive or flash drive; see screen image)
File Checksum (compute and test CRC32, MD5, SHA1 checksums for files; see screen image)
File Redate Rename (rename multiple files or change their directory dates; see screen image)
File Search (find files with a given string or regular expression; see screen image)
Find Duplicate Files (find duplicate files with the same size and MD5 checksum; see screen image)
Font Rename (change file directory names to match internal font names; see screen image)
Hex File Editor (edit or view files as hexadecimal digits or text characters; see screen image)
Icon Editor (edit icon images in Windows or FAVICON.ICO files for web pages; see screen image)
Plain Text (convert Unicode characters to plain text, i.e., quotation marks; see screen image)

Keith's Windows User's Guide (PC support)
Networking in Homes or Small Offices
A Personal Firewall
Petiracco's E-Mail Etiquette
Remote Assistance on Windows XP
Running Java Programs
Send E-Mail to the Author of this Page
Virus Attachments in E-Mail

Stories and Writing:

As Owen Raccoon (celebrated author and world traveller) says, many great works of literature are written with the same words that you or I use every day!

As Cherry Blossoms Walk
Bloggo - The Non Blog (collected stories and articles)
Cockroach in a Basket

Working Overseas:

A tourist sees so little. Working in a foreign country gives you a much better understanding of the sights and sounds. Just be careful to avoid direct cultural comparisons, because differences are not necessarily good or bad, right or wrong.

Chinese Attack of the Network-Eating Rodents
Floating Papers on the Sea of Japan with Japanese translation by Kuniko Hosoya
Japan Photo Gallery
Private After-Hours English Schools in Japan and Korea
A Teaching Machine in Korea with Korean translation by Jin-Sil Kim

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