Old Tower News
This page contains an archive of items that once were news, but no longer are! Hopefully, this will keep the Tower Home Page from cluttering too much.
22 September 2004 Take back the web! You might have heard of Firefox, an open-source web browser that is experiencing incredible growth. It has many advantages over Internet Explorer, as you can see here , but if I had to pick the most important one, it would be this: it lets you take back the web. Firefox, being open-source, puts the interests of its users first, and doesn't care about anyones' bottom line. Get it here:
P.S. Happy birthday, Bilbo!
17 August 2004 Updated MSIM to version 0.3. Many functional changes have been made and many bugs have been fixed.
26 June 2004 Updated MSIM to version 0.2a. No functional changes have been made; an error that prevented it from being compiled cleanly has been fixed.
27 Mars 2004 Created a page for, and uploaded, some artistic creations by my good friend Miguel Zarazúa. They are a classic guitar piece and a very funny home video. Check them out over at the hobbies room .
26 Mars 2004 Updated MSIM to version 0.2.
15 Mars 2004 Added a section to hold my MIMO simulator.
30 November 2002. Did some maintenance job on some pages that didn't have very good HTML. I'm trying to make the whole site standards compliant by the middle of 2003. We'll see.
6 September 2002. Added a Computer Troubleshooting section in The Library .
9 December 2001. Added a Tour de France 2001 photo essay to the gallery, about the 2001 Edition of the Tour d the most important cycling event in the world. 9 pictures total.
18 August 2001. Added 9 images to the gallery.
12 August 2001. Long time since the last update, but a lot of work has been goin behind the scenes.
- Completely renewed the Gallery. New format looks more professi is easier on the eyes and is easier to navigate (I hope!).
- Inaugurated the Library with some lens and camera reviews.
- Finished the Teleport Room! The format is frozen, and a lot of links are categorized and commented. I have many more links to a page is no longer a chaotic mess.
17 June 2001. Added 7 pictures to the Paris section of the Gallery, and improv on the teleport page (links).
4 May 2001. Added 7 pictures to the Switzerland section of the Gallery, 5 pi the transportation section, and worked a bit on the teleport pag The Gallery now contains a whopping 58 pictures!!!
16 April 2001. Added 4 pictures to the Paris section of the Gallery, and one pi transportation section.
12 April 2001. I have been working on the teleport (links page), it looks a lit but still needs a lot of work. Stay tuned.
5 April. Started work on the teleport (links page), it's starting to take shape.
18 March. Added 12 new pictures to the Paris gallery.
11 March. Added 3 new pictures and two new sections to the gallery section.
28 February. Regrettably, Claude Shannon has passed away, at 84 years of age. Bell Labs has published an obituary here. Shannon is one of the few men whose impact has changed the world, by turning communications from an art to a science. He showed what the limits of human communication are, but he didn't showed us how to achieve them, giving thousands of engineers and scientists something to apply their minds to.
In the words of Dr. Manuel Guzman, he was "a giant". In the words of the International Herald Tribune, his contributions are "monumental".
To learn more about Shannon's work, go here.
21 February. The gallery has been updated with 13 new pictures.
14 February. In an amazing feat, NASA landed a space probe on an asteroid. If you want to see how an asteroid looks from 120m high, check out the pictures at www.space.com
13 January.For free books online, plus the philosophy behind them, check out the Free Online Library at www.baen.com/library