Doug Toppin's Home Page
http://home.comcast.net/~dougtoppin/
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Here is our 2009 family newsletter:
page 1
page 2
Other "Stuff:"
Personal Interests:
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- graduate school at The University of Virginia
- flying, boxing (LA Boxing), bicycling, software (Unix/Linux/C),
- play the trumpet, and watch way too much TV and
- movies (I don't think that it causes drain bamage).
- flying! (at http://www.av-ed.com/)
- Linux
- I am a firm believer in Linux and try to find
every opportunity to use it that I can.
I use it at home and at work.
My old office server had an uptime of 488 days (77,000 WWW hits,
5,000 xterms run, 14 machines mounted filesystems from it)
before I left it.
All this on a Pentium 286 w/48MB memory and a $50.00 operating system
(Red Hat 5.2) that from 1 to 3 people were using all day.
- Bicycling
- Cannondale R1000 (triple) I finally broke down and bought an upright road bike
because I was getting tired of falling behind on the hill climbs
when I was on my recumbent.
This is a great bike.
- Linear recumbent, long wheel base (LWB), underseat steering, you
will not find a more comfortable ride, trips with it include:
- 1994 - 3 weeks going up Atlantic coast of Canada (PEI, Newfoundland,
New Brunswick), fantastic trip
- 1995 - 10 days in Michigan (UP), bugs galore
- Santana Sovereign aluminum tandem (a seriously fast bike)
- Bike Friday New World Tourist,
great for travelling with a bike, our trips with them include:
- 1997 - 1 week in the Netherlands, good trip, needed more detailed
bike route maps because there were so many bike routes
- 1998 - 2 weeks in Ireland, good trip, finally got used to the rain
- 1999 - 10 days in Italy (Tuscany), was a great trip, some tough hills,
had my butt kicked climbing them by a 62 year old man (from
the Senior Olympics)
- Trek 820 MTB for tooting around the off road areas here
Recent Changes:
- sat, 01-nov-2008 added novalug novalug-mysql presentation,
session capture
- sat, 01-mar-2008 added novalug novalug-eclipse presentation
- sun, 25-nov-2007 using flickr.com gallery while i am upgrading gallery on my server
- sun, 26-aug-2007 added 2007 newport jazz festival pictures to gallery
- sat, 30-dec-2006 migrated home page to comcast.net
- sun, 17-dec-2006 updated novalug vim presentation
- sun, 24-sep-2006 updated novalug making movies presentation, (OpenOffice odp file
making movies)
- fri, 30-mar-2006 updated novalug gdb presentation, (OpenOffice odp file
gdb)
- sun, 30-sep-2005 updated novalug gdb presentation, (OpenOffice odp file
gdb)
- thu, 08-aug-2005 novalug gdb presentation roughed in
- thu, 07-apr-2005 using gmail address now
- sun, 13-mar-2005 removed link to gallery1
- sat, 01-jan-2005 photo gallery changed
- tue, 28-dec-2004 changed ip
- tue, 16-nov-2004 added my coffee cup picture
- tue, 28-sep-2004 added countries that i have visisted
- sun, 15-aug-2004 another link to photo archive
- tue, 03-aug-2004 gforge presentation updated
- sun, 01-aug-2004 finally straightening out chili cams
- fri, 30-apr-2004 novalug - gforge
- sat, 01-nov-2003 novalug ethereal presentation (pdf)
- fri, 03-oct-2003 novalug callerid presentations
- fri, 03-oct-2003 novalug wardriving presentation
- fri, 28-feb-2003 novalug midori presentation, (openoffice impress file)
- 03/04-Jul-2002, AAU National Karate Championship, i got gold in kobudo (long weapons), bronze in kata (matsukazi), and bronze in kumite (sparring)
- sun, 05-May-2002, Region II AAU Karate Championship, for the first time I take gold medals in all three events: kobudo (long weapons), kata (matsukazi), kumite (sparring), the national championship is next
- sun, 14-Apr-2002, medals I won at
the AAU State Karate Championship (silver kumite, gold kobudo, gold kata)
- 2001 AAU National Karate Championship
