Craig's
Pages
Hi and welcome to my personal interest pages. Here you
will find
the stuff that flicks my bic so to speak. Even though I have
worked
very hard over the last 30 years I have been able to devote
significant
time to my hobbies, many of which are detailed on this page. In
fact it
was those very hobbies that helped keep me sane over the years
what
with long work hours, critical and/or impossible deadlines, stupid
management, closing
companies and shifts in the high tech industry. In March 2006
Heather
and I decided
it was time for me to leave the working world and spend time doing
what
I want to do for a change. My
body pointed this out to me as well as I had a series of ailments
I can
only attribute to stress and lack of exercise. Anyway we are
now both retired so I have the time to devote to this website.
I have had a lot of good jobs in my career that started out as an
electrical engineer and ended as a software programmer. I have met
most
of my friends through work and that I will miss but I'm still in
contact with many of them. My days are more fulfilling now that
work is
out of the way. I spend more time playing guitar, doing wood
working,
playing with my computer, traveling and being with Heather. And of
course during the winter carrying and chopping a lot of wood to
keep warm.
My
Interests
Click
on a link to go to an
area of interest.
Abstract
Art
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New experiments with algorithmicly generated
imagery.
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Geology
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If I had to do it
all over
again, I might have been a geologist instead of a computer
programmer. I love rocks and volcanoes. Check it out.
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Music
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Being a long time
guitar player
music is a big part of my life. I've recorded a series of
CDs both as a
solo artist and with others. Many of the songs I've recorded
are
available on this page.
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Raytracing
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Computer graphics,
image
processing and raytracing are all long term interests of
mine. A
selection of original raytraced
images can be found here along with some information about
raytracing.
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Woodworking
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I've created a lot
of sawdust in
my day building furniture and other things. Check out my
craftsman furniture and my other wooden projects here.
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Guitar
Building
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Some of my most ambitious
wood working projects to date, building guitars. Look here
for the
pictures.
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Electronics
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I recently revived
my interest
in electronics and programming. I have now designed and
built numerous
interesting
electronic gadgets. Check them out on this page.
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| Reading |
Recently read books are listed here. |
Writing
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At one point in my
life I was a
rather prolific writer of technical articles and
books. A
selection of my writings and a publication list are
available here.
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In July 2008 I was awarded
my first patent #7,401,238
entitled, “System
and method for causing an idle image to execute on an application
node of a distributed computing system when instructed to power
down”. In March 2010, I was awarded my second patent
#7,685,148
entitled, "Automatically configuring a distributed computing
system
according to a hierarchical model". On March 8th, 2011 I was
awarded my
third patent #7,904,543 entitled, "Dynamically generating custom
reports using self-defining report events". On
March
13th, 2012 I was awarded my fourth patent #8,135,751 entitled,
"Distributed Computing System having Hierarchical Organization".
On
June 3rd, 2014 I was awarded my fifth patent #8,745,124 entitled,
"Extensible power control for an autonomically controlled
distributed
computing system".
All of these patents were for technology
developed while at Cassatt
Corporation. All of these are now property of Computer Associates
Think, Inc. which bought the Cassatt intellectual property.
If you would like to
contact me about anything you see on our website
please send email to: calhjh@gmail.com.