Me: My name is Carson Sasser.  I live in Florida.  I’m a retired Mathematician / Operations Research Analyst.  I worked for the Defense Department for 40 years as a civilian employee and private contractor.  I now spend my time enjoying my children and grandchildren, fishing, improving my home and grounds, hobby computer programming, and harassing politicians via the internet.  Now that I have this blog up I intend to do more of the latter.

Research: Most of my posts will be composed of commentary and opinion based on my take on what I read and hear, and will usually not be annotated with references. When I do post a piece based on research, that research will most likely be done entirely on the web. I don’t have easy access to a good library.  

Browser: I recommend that you use either Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 2.0.0.1 (or later versions of either) if you are a frequent reader of blogs. If you use Firefox with Windows, and the text looks too thin and squiggly, you need to enable ClearType:

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Appearance and Themes, and then click Display.

2. On the Appearance tab, click Effects.

3. Select the Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts check box, and then select ClearType from the drop-down list.

4. Effect your change by clicking OK to close the open dialog boxes. (These instructions are for Windows XP. Vista is set to ClearType by default.)

Theme: The theme and templates used on this blog were built from scratch but were loosely based on the default theme.  It has been tested on Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8; Firefox 2.0.0.1 and Netscape 7.2.  It seems to display the best on IE7 or IE8.  If you want a copy of the theme files e-mail me at the address on the Contact page.