Scratch is another graphical programming language oriented towards children. It is built in Java and has a programming environment and a ru...

I am working on a small project to build a web application using current best-practices and tools. To start, I am working on the RESTful int...

There seems to have been a resurgence in paper craft models . I think part of the reason is the ability of tools like Pepakura Designer to ...

I have been thinking about teaching my kids how to use eToys . To do this, it would be best if they each had their own box and so I have bee...

Leigh Dodds had a link to the fun Wordle tag cloud. Here is mine from del.icio.us . What is striking is the large number of links I have t...

Yard Sale Saturday, June 21 8 AM to 1 PM 574 Saugatucket Rd Peace Dale, RI Help us clear out Chris's art stutio and my kids's rooms!...

When you spend many weekends gardening -- new beds to dig, old ones to weed, plants to move, plants to add, grass to mow, etc -- sometimes y...

No excuse now for not riding the bike the few miles into town to buy groceries and small gadgets.

When you write scripts that are the controllers for processing data make sure to log when they start and finish the work. It is so frustrati...

RI's Governor Carcieri has proposed that a photo-id be required to vote in RI . After all, (to paraphrase) "you need an id in order...

I listened to some of How the States Got Their Shapes on the drive today. I was fascinated by the history of West Virginia -- a state that ...

Two 3G iPhones + AT&T family plan + one mini Mac + development kit + reduced billable hours learning, developing & playing = one exp...

Henry is the goalkeeper for his soccer team. I was practicing with him the other day and trying to explain how to protect the goal by forcin...

The sign said "Cake is the new flowers". I do like both but tend to go to Sweet Cakes far more often than to Rose Shack.

These internal views of how the browser renders an HTML page are fantastic. Here is how the browser sees mozilla.org's home page Th...

A bookmarklet for displaying today's world clock meeting planner times in CA+RI+UK .

It occurred to me the other day that both the account name and the account password should be recorded in the database as MD5 digests. There...

My web experience needs the equivalent of workspace persistence found in Screen . I am too often working with old web applications that proc...

Most successful -- that is, used! -- online search tools have a remarkably simple query interface. The single input field is where your quer...

David Coté, of the South Kingstown Republican party, is once again in the local news. This time, he is not calling for the removal of severa...