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At last... the Pammett family
finally (1998) have a home page
in Groton, Ma.,
with
music,
pictures,
panoramas,
kid's art,
an audio greeting
— using a variety of "voices" —
and other family value offerings...
Comments?:
contact me
 via email
or at
my blog.
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This page is — admittedly — somewhat "dense"; it should
be reorganized and broken up into several pages.
But the obvious truth is that most of this web site was done in fits and starts,
mostly correlated to the times I have been more serious about
my résumé than anything else.
Irrespective of job stuff... I do plan on working a lot more on these pages
now that I've got a cable modem
and now that
very interesting technology
is beginning to be readily available on the web.
Problem is... I keep getting distracted by things like
The Powers of Ten, etc.
Man, the world sure has changed now that
my ISP finally got its act together
(on my 50th birthday, 07/24/2001) so that I can have a cable modem
at my home.
Meanwhile, for a brief glimpse of our history...
I grew up
in Canada
but moved to the United States in 1977.
With my family, then,
we moved
from
Huntsville, AL
— home of the
Marshall Space Flight Center — back
to the Boston
(weather)
area —
to Groton, Mass
(weather)
at the end of 1977,
sadly leaving behind
our old homestead
way down south in Dixie.
For more on the "Pammett" family lineage,
check
here.
Or for more current stuff,
check out
my blog (the View from Kevin's corner).
Follow this link to browse my
current résumé
which describes
my 25+ years of experience in ...
...
Software 
Development ...
An alternate
résumé site is available —
follow
my Yahoo! résumé link
if my personal site isn't available.
Check out
my 4Jobs cover letter for
a résumé summary (synopsis).
Please
contact me
for
references
or if you have any questions or comments!
Click on the following to
obtain the résumé in the indicated formats:
This section is really just a spring board that I use to provide convenient access to various pages
where I'm currently trying out certain Web technologies. If you do read any of
it, please note that the content of these pages is
intended for demonstration (of the technology)
purposes more than anything.
The
audio greeting
at the beginning of this home page
was generated using a Text-to-Speech synthesizer
from Lucent Technologies (a.k.a. Bell Labs)
that used to be
available for free on the world-wide web
(at http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/voices.html
but that seems to have disappeared as of 24/Mar/2007 14:50).
To do it you simply type in the text you want it to synthesze,
pick a "voice", and it generates the audio file
in a variety of formats.
If your browser is set up to handle ".au"-type
files, you can click here to hear our welcome greeting in a
man's,
woman's,
child's voice.
Alternate types — supplied for curiosity's sake — include a
coffee drinker's,
big man's,
ridiculous,
or
raspy voice.
If you have a preference — or any comment on this experiment —
drop me a line
to let me know.
I personally think the voices are not very realistic,
but what do you want for free?
is my attitude.
There used to be several paragraphs, here, that had to do with
the various “music” things that I've done over the past several years.
But in Feb/02 in order to clean this up a bit
they have now been consolidated into
a Home Page for Kevin's Music.
For convenience,
I will leave a
direct pointer
to my Song Viewer
—
as long as its interface remains in the KISS category
(as long as I have
only one
Collection that you can chose from).
Likewise, I've been playing with some html-Table primitives as you can see in my
Flags (of Africa) page, my
signs of the Zodiac table that lets you consult eXcite's astrological
database to look up your horoscope for today, not to mention
the masthead at the top
of this page.
In this "exercise" I tell something like
the story of
my life in a demo that I put together for two reasons: (1) a
presentation that's primarily intended to show
an appropriate use of
html-Frames, and (2) an evolution of the
frameset paradigm where you
use a 3D cube navigator to "drive" the transition between
pictures and frames based on the Intel 3D cube (a Java applet) that was done by my
GeoCities colleague.
My Java Portfolio pages highlight a set of
Java Applets
and
Java Applications
— a growing list of "demos of technology"
(such as magic
on-going “experiments”)
that I am evolving as I work towards
Java Certification.
While I'm on the subject, I'll use links -
like
"How To Get Certified"
and
"Who, What, When, Where, Why and How" — to
(perhaps) start a list of useful links regarding
Java certification.
If you're interested...
this (Sun)
or
this ("Prometric")
is one way to find a training center near you
(where you can take the exam(s)).
I have a separate page that I use frequently to work on
my own Javascript
examples... One of the more useful demos lets you
consult eXcite's astrological database regrading your zodiac sign in
comparisson with that of a prospective mate's.
I cannot take all the credit for this one, and don't
even try it unless you're using Internet
Explorer... but this
JScript™ (Microsoft's name for Javascript) demo that
I've enhanced lets you
play a familiar childhood game (hangman). And when you discover that
this does not work with Netscape, don't say I didn't warn you! But if you know
why this is, please
contact me!
I do take credit for this intensely interactive demo (game), based on Wheel of Fortune.
Since this Javascript applet uses features of JScript™, you can (for now) only
do it if you are using Internet Explorer.
Try out my grabBag if you're looking for anything that I've told you I made
available in this way. Since most of that (so far) is html-related, I'll also
pass on this reference to
The Table of HTML Entities,
fyi.
If you don't know... Html Entities are the special character sequences that
you use in html to generate foreign-language references like résumé and Señor
Mañana. I copied the table from some site in Denmark because it's
such a gold mine that I was afraid that it might disappear if I didn't make my
own copy of it and because I've otherwise been keeping my eyes open for such a
table for years but haven't ever seen it in any of the other html references
I've come across. I also made some corrections to my copy of the table, but they
were just typo's...
Click here to send email to kpammett@charter.net ... Or, for a long-term solution, use my
email-for-life path that will get to me as I change companies and/or ISPs.
When I initially had a problem with the Java applet that
I did as a sample/learning exercise — when I first moved it from a Windows NT
system to HiWAAY's OSF/1 system — I planted the following link to my local copy
of the Lexis-Nexis Java Doc Counter page, just to see if it would work. (And it does.
They both do, now).
Contact me at
Kevin_Gene_Pammett@Bigfoot.com, my email for
life connection, courtesy of "Bigfoot".
If you already have an Internet connection and prefer to
do everything right from your Web browser, check this:
These pages look
best when viewed with one of the following browsers.
The credit for
this browser-detection and display goodie goes to the person who developed
RP Laboratory's home page.
Click Here to visit
my ISP
— Charter
(Yes! I finally got a cable modem).
Looking for something? Try
Google
!!!
Visitors to this page:
since 01/31/98, the day I officially moved the site from Alabama
to Massachusetts.
Last updated: June 2nd, 2007 (at 2/Jun/2007 23:51)
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