Recently I have had several offers to host software reviews of programs that I have used and currently used. Watch this space for reviews coming on specific programs.

Due to a hard drive failure in my XenServer that took out one of my virtual servers, the Darkscape software was disabled and remove. We are not hosting Darkscape until further notice.

The Darkscape forums are hosted here.

Updated January 30, 2010.

Two unique sub-sites present my photo display and commentary on the ever widening list of locations I have visited in New Jersey’s vast Wharton Tract. For those who think the pinelands are just trees and sugar sand roads, think again. The entire area is a motherload of steadily vanishing history. Hidden off the narrow sand roads are cellar holes and foundations of lost towns from the bog-iron and cranberry industries spanning back to the early 1700s. The remains of numerous saw mills lie in often difficult to reach places, while once active cranberry bogs are now reverting to the wilds. There is much to see and discover in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens.

Friendship, NJ is a long abandoned company cranberry town. Other nearby ruins include the Alloway Homestead and Sandy Ridge.

Hampton Furnace, NJ was the site of a former bog iron furnace that closed in the 1860s. Nothing is left of the furnace today, except an iron slag pile. The property was acquired in the 1880s and became a cranberry business. Nearby sites include Deep Run Bog, Rider’s Switch and Springer’s Brook.