What I Do
I'm currently employed at| At work you can reach me via jloverso | @ | MathWorks.com |
You can also find me at
The Network Schooner
or via
surf.to/loverso.
I used to work at the OSF Research Institute
And... I used to work at a number of other places...
What else I do
Tcl/Tk
I like to work in and around this useful language.
I'm was the local OSF maintainer of many tcl and wish variants.
Almost until the last, my primary work at the RI
had me working in this language.
- My Tcl/Tk page has pointers to all the things I've done, including the comm extension, and a X10 cp-290 command script.
- I've made many contributions to Brent Welch's exmh, a Tk front-end to MH. Snapshots of some of my exmh work in progress available.
- Some of my Tcl/Tk code is also available in the Tcl archive.
WWW
Some of my work will be listed here. For now,
this is a convenient place to list other Web related things I've done.
-
Bust banner ads
by using the proxy auto configuration of Netscape
(2.x or later) or IE (3 or later).
-
I have a collection of
JavaScript bugs and related problems
I found in Netscape Navigator 2.x and 3.x.
These mostly reflect security or privacy problems with JavaScript.
-
I have a collection of
hacks for JavaScript in Netscape Navigator
(and perhaps IE4)
most of which prevent you from
reading the content of pages when JavaScript is enabled.
(Why? Because I could.)
WARNING: viewing this page may damage or crash your browser.
Operating Systems
I used to do operating systems work for a living,
but I wised up. This is ok,
since I can still play with real operating systems, but with the added
advantage that other people will likely see whatever I might produce.
I use FreeBSD on many machines all
over the place.
I've been known to call the install disk a virus.
Unlike Linux, at least this is UNIX.
Not to offend Canadians, but I've been known to say
"Linux is like UNIX as Canada is like the US; if you go to Canada,
everything looks and feels the same as long as you don't look too closely".
I used to maintain a collection of reference material for the
local use of FreeBSD and NetBSD at OSF.
This is only available for internal OSF use, but OSF doesn't exist anymore.
Rocketry
Everybody needs a hobby, and, for practical reasons, space travel is out.
- I've prepared an area about some of my own interesting rockets (or, sometimes, what is left of them).
- I've run a web server for my local club, CMASS, the Central Massachusetts Spacemodeling Societry.
- My collection of saved articles from rec.models.rockets is accessible via the web (archived with hypermail).
- Other available resources are my bookmarks file and the newsgroup rec.models.rockets.
Humor
I'm a collector of things I find poignant, interesting or
(somethings) humorous.
- Get a fortune from my
quote collection.
If you have a quote you'd like to submit, just mail me. - These are the comics I read daily.
Potpourri
This is a list of various random things I have on-line for one reason
or another. If you find something you like, let me know.
- The recipe for Evil cookies, now also known as Shadow Cookies, since they resemble the spacecraft used in Babylon 5.
- The recipe for Applesause jello salad.
- The recipe for Pingolotta, an Italian Christmas cookie/biscuit my family has made for generations.
- I also have a collection of miscellaneous images I've saved.
- This is an old directory tree of public docs, humor, and whatnot.
- Other Lo Verso's in the world.