My comment on How will the driverless car affect the design of our cities? A car allows me to get to a destination for specific purpose. For...

Always, always ensure that automated processed are checked by independent automated processes. If you don't do that then make sure the a...

Open letter to the South Kingstown, RI's School Committee, Superintendent, and Curtis Corner Middle School principal: Dear Superintende...

The "Wednesday Gamers" have been playing an Age of Sail game in my absence. (I have had work and family events that prevented me ...

I want to sit at a bar with Chris McMillian behind it!

I don't like waiting on the completion of a task that should be run in the background. For example, when I bookmark a page using a Delic...

I have an itch. I want to create a podcast. Not of myself talking on & on about something of importance to me. (I do this in my day job ...

Comment on Project Configuration with Spring We added a further twist to the properties and added "conditional sections" to the ...

Another amazing animation by Piotr Kaczmarek!

I am happy to pay for good service and tools. I have decided that Google does not give either. Perhaps it is because I am both a customer an...

Crazy world example #1: Staples wants $23.40 to print 40 pages in color and duplex in their Copy & Print center. They can also sell me a...

If you want to change the system-wide set of paths for OS X edit the file /etc/paths . (It took me too long to find this out.)

For some applications and tools there can be no output for a long time. When these are tailed seeing nothing is disquieting. The following ...

The following story is not pretty. I am hoping there is an easier way in the future. Until then, here is how I installed a music server on a...

Everynote is a good "everything bucket" tool. I have begun to use it more and more for notes, tasks, etc. A feature of Evernote is...

Note: This posting has been updated so as to work with Confluence 4.x. (The previous version of the posting targeted Confluence 2.x.) I ...

What I am focusing on in this photo is that he is using a computer and a notebook. I do the same. It suddenly occurred to me that every craf...

I am because we are.

I have been slowly working on a metrics collection and monitoring service. There are many others, but I wanted something very simple to feed...