JON PRATT HONORED AT WHITE HOUSE: I'm not kidding. Jon received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Thursday in a ceremony at the White House. The PECASE is the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. AND WHAT'S MORE, the linked page has links to audio and video streams (Real format) of the ceremony. The direct link to the video is here. Your Forrest Gump moment is about 13 or 14 minutes into the stream, as Jon shakes hands with Commerce Secretary Don Evans, who earlier refers to the awardees as "a shining example to the youth of today, and the problem-solvers of tomorrow." Congratulations, Jon!

A FURTHER NOTE: While Jon should be proud to receive such an award, I would note that Jon spoke very highly of his teammates at NIST during the 2003 Pate reunion picnic, to people who would have no idea about it. So if this page is accessed by any NISTies, know that Jon gives you your props. And given the level of musicianship of Claude Pate, it seems safe to say that Jon still has an eye for spotting folks who will make him look that much better.

For those of you that have little toddlers, you know about Blues Clues. Currently the host of this popular kiddie show is a guy named Joe. But the urban legend about Steve Burns, says that he overdosed on heroin and died. Well I got exposed to this little urban myth, through my baby sitter, who said that Steve Burns committed suicide. She said that she read it in the paper. But a simple Google search got me to Steve's Web Page. Apparently, Steve has an album out and a video on his website. Big contrast from Blues Clues to indie rock musician.

I have uploaded a bunch of pictures. Some of them from the other website. A bunch of them from Regina Escue. Thanks Regina. Check them out in the gallery.

A new version of Gallery was released today, and it included the fixes that we needed! As I previously mentioned, there was an issue with the previous version that prevented uploads from PostNuke users. Now I'm able to allow uploads into the photo galleries, so you should be seeing some new images soon.

I'll create album categories as needed, so if you think of any category of photos you'd like to see, let me know. And if you have any photos that you'd like to upload, and I haven't yet granted you the ability to upload, please let me know as well...