Ben Jackson

About ben.com

Flying Experiences

I picked possibly the worst possible weekend to start flying, September 9th, 2001, but nevertheless I've found it very enjoyable, if expensive. There's also a printable E6-B in there.

Making Noise in the Garage

Due to my short attention span I do a lot of different things with my tools including making some rolling ball sculpture. A new project is a good excuse to hang out in the garage with noisy, hot, dangerous tools.

Photography

I'm in the middle of reorganizing my photography stuff, but at least you can find some of it now.

Modifications to jpegtran

I added lossless cropping to jpegtran which is a useful tool when you're archiving raw digital camera shots in the JPEG format.

LEGO Raytracing

People are drawn from far and wide to see my LEGO Raytracing. I actually updated it! Now the trick is to figure out what I updated.

I can't believe it took me this long to get some LEGO Mindstorms sets. Now you can see what I've been building.

GIMP Scripts and Plug-Ins

My new favorite application is The GIMP, an extremely powerful image manipulation tool for X Windows. So much like Photoshop that I expect a lawsuit any day now.

For fun I converted an old ppm program I wrote to be a GIMP plugin which can load Civilization II saved game files.

MOO Projects

I've written a TinyFugue MCP Implementation. You can now get macros for both MCP 1.x and 2.1 from that page.

I've done a lot of undistributed work on MOO, but you can get the spiffy super-fast MOO 1.8.0r8 which I worked on with Jay Carlson. Jay registered the server at sourceforge.net which is presumably where future releases will show up.

I've also made my WAIF datatype available in the form of patches to 1.8.0r6.

If there is interest, I could put up @dumps of my NNTP Server, POP3 server, my DWIM player class, super room matching utilities or furniture vehicle. If you are a corporate interest, ask me about my extensive MOO profiling tools!

System Administration

There's a mirror of several useful system administration utilities that my friend KSB maintains. If you look carefully you can find some that I wrote or improved while we both worked at Purdue. The README suggests an order for installation and you can see what is available in the index.

XPilot

My cable modem is the best XPilot connection I've ever had, which would be better if the popular servers were in the US. My XPilot page would be much better if I spent more time updating it and less time playing XPilot.

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