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Really small locomotive

The funny little tractor I saw a couple months ago next to the track reveals its power as a mighty locomotive.  This interesting little beast can drive on its tires on the road, or pull a train. The pictures here show it coupled onto  a set of Caltrain construction cars.  As always, these guys tend to [...]

Lyngso a rail customer once more

Today while riding the bike to work I saw something suprising. For years the only occupants of the siding off the Port of Redwood city branch leading to Lyngso building materials have been various pieces of MOW equipment. But today a BNSF hopper car was spotted at the end of the track and some kind of [...]

Fun with browser compatibility

Ever since the divergence between Netscape and Internet Explorer browser compatibility has been a major challenge for web designers. At Art in Action I’ve been very concerned about this, since our users are often very technically unsophisticated and we can presume run wide range of browsers on sometimes fairly old hardware. Proof of this [...]

Snow Leopard is here!

So I got snow leopard today and upgraded my computer. Actually, the whole install went very smoothly, which I think was one of the design goals. Mostly everything just worked. I installed the OS and xcode. Most things simply worked. I had had the foresight to upgrade the Cisco VPN to the latest version [...]