Dave's www.The-Hurds.net

About this website

I have created this website as a method to share the genealogical research that I have performed on the family lineage, various hobbies and interests that I have, and to have a sort of online yard sale, using my PayPal account.

I also use this website as a canvas for my GIS and GPS skills, in order to keep them current. If something seems like a good reason to make a map, then I will examine all of my GIS data resources and make a map of it!

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2023-07-18 - Most recently added to my website are a number of up-to-date news links and YouTube videos of the Faithway Drive Sinkhole reawakening, in Seffner, Florida.

Recently added are updates to my Machining webpage

Newly added to this website is a photo gallery of model railroading locomotives and cars that are either in my model railroading collection, have passed through my collection or are going to be sold on eBay. Currently, I only have HO-scale model railroad locomotives on these new gallery webpages, but I will be adding items from my other scales there as well. These pages will also have background information about the cars and locomotives, to aid those looking for information or images about those items.

My review of the SayoDevice Gaming/Macro Keyboards. I had purchased two of them from Amazon, a 3-key version and later, a 5-key version. They are awesome and hold up well to daily hard use. I have started to prepare a webpage reviewing these, along with a link to the website for downloading the software. I had a answer request from Amazon this weekend, about where to find the software to program these keyboards. By the time I had found the link that I had bookmarked on my computer, the Amazon question had timed out. So, I thought it would be a good idea to setup a webpage about these cool gaming keyboards.

Newly added to this website is a review of the SayoDevice Gaming/Macro Keyboards. I had purchased two of them from Amazon, a 3-key version and later, a 5-key version. They are awesome and hold up well to daily hard use. I have started to prepare a webpage reviewing these, along with a link to the website for downloading the software. I had a answer request from Amazon this weekend, about where to find the software to program these keyboards. By the time I had found the link that I had bookmarked on my computer, the Amazon question had timed out. So, I thought it would be a good idea to setup a webpage about these cool gaming keyboards.

I have just started a new category of product on my www.HistoryThroughPhotos.com website. At this point I only have one item listed, a Henry Ford 12¢ Postage Stamp Plate Block, 1968. But, now that I have a structure resolved, future pages for selling more plate blocks from my collection should be easier. The next item that will be listed there will be the Dag Hammarskjold misprinted plate block, with the yellow plate inverted.

If a search engine brought you to this webpage, then any of the following subjects may be what you are specifically looking for, so you can just click on a button and skip over all of my babbling:

Or, you might be looking for one of the other websites that I host:

2020-10-25, the past week has been quite busy, so I only managed to tend to a few bad pieces of code and add a new sinkhole webpage, Florida Sinkhole Attractions. Sinkholes are not always a disaster, sometimes they can be enjoyed, like walking down into a tropical forest. I have also started the graphics for a map showing the latest Gainesville, FL sinkhole on NW 13th Place. That will be a map that you can zoom in on and pan around to see what is around that sinkhole. I hope to write the code for it Monday evening.

I created a new set of webpages on another of my websites, https://www.HistoryThroughPhotos.com for the sale of high-resolution scans of vintage topical postcards, from prior to 1923, thus being in the public domain. The most interesting early-1900 postcard scans currently available online are Vintage Halloween themed postcards.

My Android cellphone, tablets and accessories webpages received a major facelift this weekend. Stop by and see what my Android experiences have been, including what I have found to be my favorite Android Smartphones since 2010.

I just finished making a map of Belize, depicting The Great Blue Hole of Belize. This is the first page of three pages about it.

This past weekend, we went on a hike in Franconia, New Hampshire. We spent the afternoon hiking Coppermine Trail, to Bridal Veil Falls. Many photos were taken, some of the more interesting ones have been uploaded to a set of webpages at Hiking Coppermine Trail to Bridal Veil Falls. I used a image format that allows viewers to zoom and pan within the photos on these webpages. I hope everyone enjoys them.

And, I have started to invest more time into my earthquake map webpages, inspired after hearing about the earthquake that occurred on 2020-06-23, whose epicenter was located in the Oaxaca Mexican State region. I created a zoomable map that allows the viewer to zoom into the map to see more detail. This is the link to this Map of Mexico showing the earthquakes that have occurred over the previous 30 days.

In March 2020, I finally bit the bullet and purchased a 3D printer, model CZ-300, to be exact. I have started a webpage about it at the link in this paragraph. Right from the beginning, I encountered problems with assembly and setting it up for printing. The instructions provided with the unit leave LOTS to be desired. I will be expanding on this subject, to hopefully help others avoid the same issues that I have encountered. If you cannot wait for me to write something, then go ahead and email me.