XYZZY

Greetings Hacker, You've entered a private web page, which you are invited to wander through at your leasure. You are greeted as a Hacker here for one of two reasons. Either 1) you have clicked on a word ("xyzzy") you did not know just to find out what it did, or 2) you are hacker enough to have remembered what "xyzzy" was, and where it came from.

I feel the first link you come across should allow you to E-mail me at n4scy@amsat.org with comments, or flames.

"Xyzzy" comes from an ancient computer game called "Adventure", where you travelled through caves, and gather treasure. It was later marketted as Zork - The Great Underground Empire. "Xyzzy" was a magic word that transported you from the grate in the ground (where your adventure started) to the cave-room that had the word "xyzzy" painted on the wall.

Why such random stuff is here.

I edit xyzzy.html (the file this page is based on) in my personal laptop computer, and then upload (or magically transport) it to the system. This way, I can put URL's (Universal Resource Locators) that I run across in daily life, into the file as I run across them. Then they're here in the Xyzzy Page to remind me to look (magically transport myself) to them. My Home Page is for Public Consumption, and this page is for me - but I'm happy to share it. This technique of uploading URL's I wish to check out allows me to hold down my on-line time. If I find anything really useful (like some of the "Electronic Commerce" stuff), I'll probebly put it on my regular Home Page.

Ozzie's World Cup page. The USA/SWE poster.

Florida Today "Next Launch" information

Florida Today"Space Today" information

Florida Today Launch Sked Page

Florida Today's STS-84 Mission Diary

Johnny Bowles' PAFB Launch Schedule page.

Hot Wheels Hot Wheels Action Pack: JPL Sojourner Mars Rover

Fast Jumps

Links from Orlando Hamfest, Packet Radio Dinner
• FADCA, the Florida Amateur Digital Communications Associatioin.
• Scott Edwards Electronics, (Seetron) folks who sell LCD screens that accept serial data at 2400 or 9600 baud.
• APRS Maps, maps for Amateur Packet Reporting System, a method of tracking people on PC maps who are transmitting their GPS generated positions.
• Microchip.com, software for single chip micro-controllers programmed in a simple BASIC language

Links from Nuts & Volts magazine, 2000 February
• DOS 7 Command Set
• Parallax, Inc, microcontrollers.

• Ham Radio Stuff: Ham Radio, Dayton Hamfest, Packet Radio, APRS, APRS Alt, AMSAT, PacComm Packet Radio Systems, JARL(?), Amsat-UK,
• Broadcast Stuff: WMFE 90.7 FM, Audio Reading Service, NPR, CBC Radio, Radio Canada Intl, BBC, NHK(?), Radio Japan(?), ORF (Austrian Radio), Radio Austria Intl,
• Space Stuff: SpacePort, USA (The visitor's center to New SpacePort address, The Kennedy Space Center), Shuttle Home Page), SpaceLaunch News, Shuttle Launch Viewing Info, (?), "Amsat/Elsewhere", Space Systems pages @USC,
• Emergency Communications: UN Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications, Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee, , Emergency Preparedness Canada, EPIX, Emergency Preparedness Information eXchange, Alachua County EOC, HURICANE ZELDA, Alachua County, Collier County EOC
• Maritime Communications, Maps & Navigation: GPS, Marine Communications, ITU, US Geodetic Survey, Inmarsat, Euro Maritime Coopeation Agency,,
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Haberdashers here - it's really just fancy, authenticated E-Mail of highly formatted files): DISA: Data Standards Interchange Assoc, DISA (alt guess), GE TradeWeb, St Paul Software (EDI), STC Corp, STC Corp (verbatum), EDI World Magazine, EDI World Magazine (alt), Electronic Commerce World institute, First Union Bank, Nations Bank, Computing Technology Industry Assoc, CTIA (alt), Assoc of Amer RR, Xplor.org, Link Internet EDI,
• Random Stuff: Let's hide an antenna!: Fiberglass Statues, A Molded fibregalass statue manufactured, Sleepy Valley Glass Works,

  dogs, The WorldCon: The World Science Fiction Convention, Project Gutenburg, A Soccer Fan, Quancom, Florida Locator, Women's Wear catalog & Swimsuits, Adult sample photos, Adult sites, More Adult Things, A Japanese List,

• HTML Special Characters, and HTML Special Icons

Experimental Tags

Abrev: Abreviating TLA
Aconym: TANJ
Footnote: How do you know it's a Size 9?
IXC's? (Inter eXchange Carriers)

Different stypes of print, including bold, italics, underlined, strike-out, Teletype font. H₂O, 12^³,

Same Experiments with alternate method

Additional Information

   For a tutorial introduction to HTML see:
   
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
.
   
   For an introduction to forms within HTML see: An Instantaneous
   Introduction to CGI Scripts and HTML Forms.
   
   For general information about HTML, see
   http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html