Gardner’s Beacon, Vol. XIII, No. 1

See GB, XIII, 1. With respect Gloucester’s 2023 commemoration of the 1623 party, we found out that there was more data with regard to Thomas Gardner, Margaret Fryer and their children. So, there is more research to do. The next issue (GB, XIII, 2) will cover what we know and how to go forward with…

Research notes

In March, several posts in the TGS blog were related to new findings that came from a review of digitized records at the Sherborn Parish in Dorset, UK. The following image is from the “Research Notes” section of the Thomas Gardner profile on WikiTree and provides list of the findings. Notice that the list includes…

Gardner’s Beacon, Vol. XII, No. 3

See GB, XII, 3. With respect Gloucester’s 2023 commemoration of the 1623 party, we pay attention and support this as we can. We will target 2024 and 1624 as our target for several reasons, such as the arrival of the Zouch Phenix. There are many questions that point to the need for additional research. Our…

New site (alpha/beta)

We were looking for a means for delivery (all aspects) and have started to use WordPress, where it fits. This blog will continue for the purpose of having a technical forum with regard to this theme and the many that relate. The first effort will be to publish on-line versions of existing and future documents…

Programming languages

We like to follow the IEEE yearly survey: Top Programming Languages 2022. Python leads with the three Cs right after. But, the three Cs grouped far outweigh Python. They have three reports (buttons on top). For “Jobs”, SQL is tops. For “Trending”, we see Lisp holding its own along with Haskell and Julia. We have…

Magna Carta, technical

We are still at it. The past few months have been oriented toward looking in depth at AIn’t (as in, artificial intelligence ain’t) with respect to the various technological views involved in the domain. Basically, a clever bit of computer configuration is being sold as more than it is, similar to what we saw (see)…

CMS, again

We have been looking to take the next step with respect to our portal (https://TGSoc.org) and our heritage site (https://ThomasGardnerSociety.org) for sometime. Yesterday, we put a comment on our Devlog page. But, as we have mentioned, there are roles and roles. Each of these requires its own hat. And a small firm requires people who…