Last year I attended a few lectures and read news reports about the pharmaceutical business where drug researchers and clinicians spoke abou...

I have mentioned before Lawrence Lessig's work to remove the inequitable distribution of power through money and the dependency corrupti...

Rants (aka Tweets) on resumes: A resume should not be a ouija board. Your mother might not need to understand it but I do. Make your work ...

“Apple had just one customer. He passed away last year.” - Seth Godin

I seem to use my command line utility realpath all the time. All it does it take a relative path and return its absolute path. It is very u...

If you are following the explanation in Version Control with Subversion , "Repository Replication", page 177, of how to clone a Su...

My comment to So which IDE is the best and why? Im a beginner and only know of a few I prefer Eclipse : java : An IDE gives you three ve...

I have started to move and/or clone my code to GitHub -- like everyone else....

I work for a small publisher intermediary and while working with our data recently I needed a testing ISSN. It got me thinking about the wor...

Over the last few days I have needed a few command line tools -- mostly for data cleanup. I got tired of manually parsing command line argum...

I was having a devil of a time yesterday with the simple task of using a Java program to copy records as objects from one MySql database to ...

A response to EasyMX - An alternative to JMX | Javalobby : An advantages to using JMX is that the JMX client gets to the service via a diffe...

@jbarnette : Revised log levels proposal: "fyi," "wtf," and "omg."

I have to say, again , I find gnuplot's dumb terminal support is so useful when you are at the command line and need to see a plot of so...

I have been deeply troubled more recently by having been given a name to what I/we see happening. Our world's experiences are rapidly be...

Enjoyed Genevieve Bell's presentation about the lives of data: Genevieve Bell's presentation on bordom:

An ode to Dennis Ritchie , of C and Unix fame, who died this week. A Unix command that echos the input characters and swaps the foreground a...

In the posting Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying a commentator noted that at 98% accuracy the facial recognition software woul...

My comment on David Ascher's posting is Am I reading these trends right? What if the big 5 are perceived as "magazines." That ...

I attending Verner Vinge's lecture at URI on Tuesday night. He talked mostly about the art and mechanics of writing science fiction and ...