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Ashland’s White Rabbit Creator Clubhouse and Cafe

White Rabbit Creator Clubhouse (on the Ashland Oregon Plaza), during the day, is a cafe, Noble coffeehouse and collaborative workspace. By night, White Rabbit is a cultural venue. It’s where individual potential meets collective possibility. Integrating technology, arts, and entrepreneurship. It is Ashland’s “pollinator hub” where people move their ambitious projects from someday to today—whether READ MORE

StoryTown Ashland – Ashland Oregon has a cool new app

The Storytown App is an interactive events Calendar App for Ashland. Currently, the app is available for iPhone/iOS. I am assured by the developers that an Android version is in the works. The app allows locals and visitors to explore and interact with Ashland’s events, businesses, and experiences in real-time. You can search & find READ MORE

Ashland Oregon Wildfire information, videos and articles

Better Prepared for Wildfires: What’s Your Plan? – July 16, 2025 When a wildfire hits the city of Ashland, Oregon, and surrounding areas, what’s your evacuation plan? An estimated 400 attendees packed the Historic Ashland Armory for a two-hour workshop Wednesday, July 16, 2025, to learn more about what to do to prepare should such READ MORE

Computer science programs rethink curriculum in a world of Modern AI

In a recent GeekWire article, “Coding is dead: UW computer science program rethinks curriculum for the AI era“, by Lisa Stiffler (on July 10, 2025 at 7:25 am), she writes “The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence in the workplace has academic institutions wrestling with the question of how best to prepare the next generation of READ MORE

The Oregon Wildfire Risk/Hazard Map Saga is Over

July 2025 update – Governor Tina Kotek signs the repeal of Senate Bill 83 The Saga Timeline In 2021, Senate Bill 762 was passed with bipartisan support that will provide more than $220 million to help Oregon modernize and improve wildfire preparedness through three key strategies: creating fire-adapted communities, developing safe and effective response, and READ MORE

Quick David I fun with Copilot and Hedra

Taking a quick break from Delphi programming, I wanted to see if I could take one of my selfie pictures and do some quick “modern AI” manipulations using Copilot and Hedra prompts. I started with a selfie picture of me in my home office: That me standing next to the framed Turbo Pascal v1 ad READ MORE

51 Years Ago Today – Tillie the All-Time Teller and Me

Fifty-one years ago today, May 15 1974, First National Bank of Atlanta introduced “Tillie the All-Time Teller” ATM system. The architecture involved the integration of the bank’s mainframes, a minicomputer, and the network of ATMs. Why am I noting the 51st anniversary of the public launch of the first Docutel Total-Teller ATM system in the READ MORE

Ashland Oregon’s 2025 Community Wildfire Protection Plan is Approved

The final draft of the City of Ashland Oregon Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) reflects a citywide commitment to address the escalating threat of wildfire with inclusive planning, science-based strategies, and community-driven solutions. Guided by the Ashland City Council’s 2022 “priorities, vision, and values” statements, this CWPP is a comprehensive wildfire risk reduction blueprint that READ MORE

My list of Wildfire, Weather/Wind, Lightning and Air Quality web sites and apps

The following is a list of the web sites, apps and other sources of information that I use on a daily basis to track the status of weather, wind, air quality, lightning and wildfire information. Wildfire InciWeb InciWeb is an interagency all-risk incident information management system. The system was developed with two primary missions: 1) READ MORE