David Jaquay's Home Page

Introduction

A Few of My Interests.

• Faith and Spirituality
  • I have been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints since August of 1986. The more I understand and live its teachings, the better my life gets.
• Programming
  • Some programming topics that might be of interest to other programmers.
• Music
  • A few guitar links worth looking at.
• Trains
  • I've loved railroading since I was a kid, and have spent many hours trackside as an adult as well, (if "adult" means "age > 18"). So here's some of my favorite train info I've put online.
• Books Online
  • Reading is one of life's true joys, and as much as I enjoy curling up in bed with a good book, there are also some very interesting sites out there with some fascinating reading online.
• Geek Stuff
  • A few sites that fellow geeks might find interesting.
• Bookmarks
  • Since Netscape, my browser of preference, is polite enough to save bookmarks in HTML form, I can put mine on my web site, here.
• Quotes
  • I've also been collecting quotes from various sources, and have put them into a textfile for your perusal.

Programming Tips

• Tips
  • Adding a parm to a callback method
• Debugging
  • When malloc() blows chunks, (AKA Heap stomping, and how to find it)

Guitar Sites

• Guitar Chord of the Week describes a new chord every week, complete with fingering and notes on playing. Chords from previous weeks are archived there as well.
• Dansm's Guitar Chord Theory Page looks to be a really nice set of theory lessons. I haven't been through them all yet, but the ones I have seem to be quite readable and easy to follow.
• Greg Taylor put together a really nice collection of links to some of the best-quality guitar pages on the web, including the two listed above. "Quality, not quantity" is the slogan, and it fits.

Online Books and Other Reading

CMU also has an online book site complete with a search engine that covers many of Project Gutenberg's texts, but many others as well. For those interested in words as well as writings, Webster has an online dictionary. There's also A Word A Day, which puts out a new word (as well as a new quote) every day. You can either go to the web site every day, or subscribe (for free) and get each day's word and quote in your inbox.

For a nuts and bolts approach to losing weight, there's The Hacker's Diet by John Walker.

And when you just want a good laugh, there's The Dilbert Zone.

Geek Sites

• The Nerdity Test will help you determine the degree to which you are a nerd, through a series of yes/no questions; (it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that if you take this test, you're a nerd to start with). My current score is 59.60%, although I hope to do better later...
• Ever wanted to find the biggest prime number? The Mersenne Prime Search will let you help.
• Don't want anyone reading your email except the person you sent it to? Wanna keep other things from prying eyes? PGP can help.
• Wanna know what a hacker is? No, I mean, what a hacker really is? Look here. And for more info on how hackers think and talk, there's The Jargon File
• Even more info on us geeks can be found here.

And now, my favorite logos.

My home computer is (even though my ISP probably isn't).

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