I’m going to see the launch of the SpaceX Dragon! History is complete with men and women of an “easy comfort” (i.e., loaded) who became patrons to the arts and sciences. In some cases themselves becoming skilled practitioners in their own right. Galileo owed his livelihood to funding from the Medici family; Tycho, the Danish court; Copernicus, the wealthy Watzenrode family of the Polish town, Torun’. Lick Observatory above San Jose, California,...

The reason why Distant Suns has not received too many upgrades over the past 6 months has to do with Apress contacting me to write two books. One on programming OpenGL on iOS and the other on Android. Over 6 months and countless Red Bulls later, the iOS version has just be released. Pro OpenGL ES for iOS is now available from Amazon. Now to complete the Android one, along with a nice Distant Suns enhancement at the same time. For anyone wanting...

We’ve extended our sale through Midnight, Tuesday, November 29. Distant Suns 2 for $.99, and Distant Suns 3 for only $3.99. Happy Holidays!

Distant Suns 2 on sale through Saturday, Nov.26 for $.99, and Distant Suns 3 for only $3.99.

Both products are still off of the appstore, until I can get access to the live cloud data. The terms of the service that supplied the full-earth cloud images has changed, as well as the servers, so I need to get those cleared up. And that will come only when I am done with a book I am writing on OpenGL ES. “Sleep deprived” is my middle name.

I never met him, but saw him twice in person (once while driving his black Mercedes with “NEXTINC” as the plates) and the other was at a Steve-note introducing the too-little-too-late NeXT Stations. Only a few months ago I figured out what made Apple’s equipment so good to use. Normally we think of performing a task on a computer as a  going from A to B. The in-between part is the time spent watching the computer work, or not work in some...