• Back to the Future Part IV

    For fun I started writing the screenplay for the fourth installment of the Back to the Future series: Doc Brown’s kids are now 18 and 22. We see them acting like typical teenagers, hanging out in their cabin on the train, listening to their iPods and watching their iPads when the girl gets up to…

  • Free Second Chapter of a Time Travel Romance, Time Tempest

    This is the second chapter of my first book, which is a story about time travel and growing up into the future called Time Tempest. It’s currently available on Amazon for the Kindle, but you can also read the first chapter here. Charlie raced into his high school and down the hall. He still had…

  • Free First Chapter of a Time Travel Romance, Time Tempest

    This is the first chapter of my first book, which is a story about time travel and growing up into the future called Time Tempest. It’s currently available on Amazon for the Kindle. Here’s an excerpt from the story: “Charlie jumped out of the front seat and into the back. Almost before he grabbed the…

  • Unix 2038 Date Problem

    There is a Unix date problem! What?! In case you weren’t aware of the Unix 2038 problem, on Unix, 2038 will roll over to 1970 as things are currently set up. As Unix vendors move to support 64 bits, this problem will disappear. Why? UNIX stores time as seconds since January 1, 1970 (the 32…