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Rex Robards is the owner of
For Handheld Computers
IttyBittyComputer.com was
initially a synonym for
http://www.rexrobards.com/palm, but is now a
separately hosted domain. Itty Bitty Computer distributes free
ebooks and
a simple five-function calculator for Palm-powered PDAs and smartphones.
IBC also sells more advanced calculators that are based upon that free, simple,
five-function calculator. The advanced calculators incorporate special
functions for
business,
finance, and simple
statistics.
The same site also distributes more than 200 different, free eBooks for the
eReader, which was
formerly known as the
PalmReader.
All of these ebooks are compatible with all current versions of both the
eReader and the PalmReader.
For Musicians
Valvette.us and
BuildYourOwnAmp.com were
synonyms for http://www.rexrobards.com/ampco,
a site dedicated to design and construction of vacuum tube audio equipment
(especially electric guitar amplifiers).
Valvette.us is now separately
hosted as a mirror of
http://www.rexrobards.com/ampco.
Valvette.us was moved to a separate
server principally to serve as a host for the
tube amp builder's
forum.
I also operate a banner exchange
for music web sites, which is called Fair Exchange. This service
began life at RexRobards.com/fair,
but has since assumed an independent existence at
FairExchange.US. The banner
exchange is a service that offers free advertising to any web site that is
of interest to musicians or music fans. Members of the banner exchange
earn credits each time that any Fair Exchange banner ad is displayed
on the member's web site and when visitors click on a Fair Exchange
ad. Additionally, every new member receives 250 free credits just for signing
up, and 100 more credits at the beginning of every month of continued
participation in the exchange. Members get their own ad displayed on
another member site for every two credits earned. The exchange is easy
to join and provides real-time reports of current-month banner performance.
Rique Riquardo's Guitar
Museum is located at
http://www.valvette.us/rique.
It is a site devoted to the hobby of musical instrument collecting and
restoration. The content of the site includes a lot of information about
the history and construction of the instruments featured on the site. The
types of instruments covered include guitars (acoustic and electric),
mandolins, bass guitars, and guitar amplifiers.
For Investors
Statistical Investor is
a web site that was founded in May of 2006 to expand on some ideas about the
use of statistical analysis of stock prices. Some of those ideas were first
introduced here, and grew out
of courses in finance, statistics and forecasting that were part of
my MBA curriculum.
The Summary
In 2004, these sites served a total of 205,860 pages which was an increase
of 18.4% over the 173,846 pages that were served in 2003.
And The Details
Technology
All static pages on these sites are handwritten HTML, created with the
"vi" text editor that was created by Bill Joy and is familiar to UNIX
programmers dating back to the 1970s. To edit text files that contain
extraordinarily long lines, I sometimes use MicroSoft WordPad.
All CGI scripts are written in the Perl
scripting language. Perl has also been used to write scripts that generate
pages that are frequently updated and to format ebooks (for
Itty Bitty Computer),
as well as to serve banner advertising and generate member reports for
the FairExchange banner service and
to randomize advertising on all of my websites.
For image manipulation, I use ACDSee
(image viewer/format converter), Adobe
PhotoShop (2.0), MicroSoft Paint, and the Advanced GIF
Animator (AdGIF) from CreaBit Development.
and Other Stuff
If you're looking for Rex's
academic/financial pages, they're
here.
Mothra
If, on the other hand, you are a webmaster who has been driven to this
site by puzzling references to Mothra, NetScan, or
PingPage in your site's weblogs, your questions can be answered
here.
Or, maybe you were looking for
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