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Abstract

After seven years and 32 columns, the Electronic Seismologist (ES) may have blown a fuse, short-circuited, or just powered down. There ain't no more juice in the circuits. The bit bucket is empty. The do-loop is done. Syntax error and the core-dump file is zero-length. It's time to pass the keyboard to someone with an object-oriented approach; with massive pushdown stacks, megabytes of memory, and an eight-pipe, parallel processor. Now in shutdown mode, the ES produces his last column. However, before your eyes glaze over and you go back to doing something useful, check out the report by the new ES that follows my ramblings. This time you get two ES's for the price of one. Such a deal! As I retire from the publish-or-get-nagged business of providing columns for SRL every other month or so, I feel the need to look back to see how it all started. Don't worry, I won't get maudlin. A quick glance through some of my early columns reveals just how transitory much of this geeky computer stuff really is. My first column in early 1995 was published in the early days of the “World Wide Web” and …