I like that Markdown and its kin have been adopted by more than just the geek community. The simple inline directives do not take away the f...

Dear Marco, I really like the audio tools included in Overcast , but I am not going to create another account just to use them. I read th...

I stopped by Slashdot today and found Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software . I read it and many of the comments and s...

I wrote a logging layer over log4j sometime ago. The layer was to encourage our developers to log at any point in the code where they though...

I had a surreal moment this morning while walking Milo at our usual spot. A car was found in the nearby pond. (I later found out that two ca...

If you searched for Gnuplot in this blog you know I am a fan of the tool. It is easy to install, somewhat easy to use, and very likely some...

Atlassian has forgotten that Jira is a communication tool. Comments need numbers so the team can communicate with specificity everywhere. Se...

The last of our chickens were attacked last night. Two dead and one so badly mauled that it had to be put down. Our home is once again witho...

I bought a copy of Dreadball earlier this year mostly to have a sports boardgame that Henry and I could play. (Owen is happy playing non-sp...

I was very sad to hear that Walter Dean Myers died today. While he wrote for young adults I enjoyed reading them as did my son Henry. It wa...

My employer extensively uses Skype to coordinate and communicate. (Email is almost unused.) Within a software development team there are som...

An oldie, but a goodie. Jeff Bigler's tact filter theory

Leo and I were talking about our first-world troubles of 1) not having a permanent miniatures painting station and 2) the that the temporary...

You can have NetBeans use OS X's standard open dialog instead of the poor Swing alternative. To do this, update your "netbeans.conf...

My iPhone 5 has lint between the camera lens and the external housing. I had the same problem with my iPhone 3G. Is this a common problem fo...

I am about to convert a female fantasy figure into a dark age warrior. I have clipped off the fantasy weapon, modified a hand to hold a swo...

I have been playing with "dip" again to quickly apply shading to my minis. The Army Painter Dark Tone is, essentially, a black s...

I am clearly the last person to ask about English language usage, but I am very interested in its edge cases. I subscribe to the http://engl...

I have all these local, really high tech hardware, software, & networks on my desk and the only easy way for me to copy a URL from iPhon...

The "Wednesday Gamers" will be playing SAGA starting next week. (Even if our minis are only primed!). To help prepare the gamers I...