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Next Steps
Rather than relying on email for a task list that is changing all the time, I am keeping the next steps and status on this page.
By Dan Allen

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Music
Dan's Playlist

By Various Artists

Slow Is Fast
Plugging Into Bedrock
Even though immediate objectives are in sight, still necessary to delay speed for infrastructure development. In this case, infrastructure is spelled V-T-D-i-g-g-e-r.
By Dan Allen

VTDigger Story
Smart Grid Over Broadband
Assebling the pieces slowly in the Work Queue go go go

What is AJAX Programming?
AJAX is a special program for updating parts of a webpage. The benefit is that tiny parts of a web page can display changes without re-displaying the parts of the page that have not changed. Re-display forces the internet to carry mountains of data it already has delivered. AJAX lets the internet say: "Update this one part of the webpage, and leave everything else still."

By Dan Allen

cURL Journal

Dedicated teamwork makes the difference in G1 Endy racing. Here,
a team of engineers crack the cURL code for spinning the Earth.
The Earth is spinning at Dan Allen Dot Com, thanks to cURL and the Swiss Earth Observatory
By Dan Allen

Ferguson and the Montpelier 650

Stephen Ferguson pays the freight, but is not allowed to drive. (Indy News Service)
Stephen Ferguson grew up near the speedway. Even though he practically owns the team, team captain, Jimmy Glass, will not let him strap-on the car for a ride.
By Tim Twinam, Montpelier Star

Data Bridging

Bridges only go in difficult spots, whether the bridge is for G1 Endy racing or data streams. In this Montpelier Telecommunications Super Speedway photo, data bridging is set in place during a driver rest period (August 2008). In the Boston area, data bridge work like this takes place under lights at night, to avoid disrupting traffic. Montpelier Speedway road crews have the relative luxury of working in the sunlight, kept cool by Green Mountain breezes.

Moving data from one kind of software or database to another is difficult. Paste this web page, or even just a part of it, into Word, email, Excel, or almost any other program, and most likely what you get will be wild distortions of what you are looking at now.
By Dan Allen

Basic Racing Skills
FTP
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is our friend in web racing.
By Dan Allen

Vermont Electric Running Super High Speed Broadband
Over the next three years, Vermont's electric companies, through Velco and Vermont Transco LLC are installing super high bandwidth backbone for public use.

From the Archive
Allen's Beacon on Mount Everest Signals OK
May 8, 2008 - As weather cleared on Mount Everest, a beacon signal from Dan Allen indicates all is well.

Clear morning on Mount Everest
By Anthony Vinsensen

Lose Yourself
If you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, would you capture it?

By Eminem

Email Spam Filtering
Sample solution, from the MIT Alumni Association
By MIT Alumni Association