Kathy Sierra and the Blogger’s Code of Conduct
The blogosphere was aflutter last week after a slew of nasty comments and death threats were leveled at one of my favorite authors, Kathy Sierra of Head First fame, by one or more anonymous posters on...
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Wow, it has been a whole month since I last posted. It’s been an eventful one for sure though. In May, Cat and I got engaged and made plans to get married in November. We did in fact use the Star Wars...
View ArticleTime for another Godzilla remake
Tragic of course, but this is how great movies are born. A small amount of water containing radioactive substances leaked into the sea, officials said, and a fire broke out at the plant in Kashiwazaki....
View ArticleOn cruft, or, channeling Lao-Zi
I discovered this insightful nugget over on Slashdot. It was posted in response to a disillusioned “Ask Slashdot” submitter pondering whether such a thing as “Pretty Code” exists. Cruftiness is the...
View ArticleA new tonneau cover for the Frontier
This past weekend I installed a hard tonneau cover on my Nissan Frontier pick-up truck. I had been meaning to do it for quite some time, but choosing the right cover has been a challenge. Nissan sells...
View ArticleAll married up and honeymooned out
Ah, so it’s been close to two months since I last posted, but I have a good excuse. Cat and I were married on November 24th, the Saturday after Thanksgiving in Tarrytown, New York. We were thrilled...
View ArticleUltimate Fighting Cats
I recently dug up the following set of notes for a video Web site I was planning a little over 2 years ago. I brainstormed a bit, but in the days before YouTube, I didn’t think the video encoding,...
View ArticleDHS: Preserving our Freedoms, Protecting America, Sharing Files
I saw this interesting entry in my Web server logs today. It looks like the folks at the Department of Homeland Security may have some time on their hands to share their iTunes libraries among...
View ArticleEaster egg in the AIX InfoCenter
I had to double check the calendar when I first saw this gem in the AIX online documentation yesterday, but it was still March, not yet April first. AIX 6.1 information > Commands > Categorical...
View ArticleLearning to write Java apps for the BlackBerry
Early in 2009 I decided to start writing Java applications for BlackBerry devices. I’ll tell you why I chose this particular smartphone platform and how three books that I later received as review...
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