Where Are The Wise Men?

I recently discovered that a co-worker of mine put out some of his woodworking projects up online. Very neat stuff.

This is a little slow on the draw, but IronPython 0.9.5 is out. I hafta start playing with it again. Soon, I will be able to dedicate some time into implementing FePy into my Java/COM testing application. What has been stopping me is the .Net requirements — our stuff is on [...]

I hope all my loyal readers (and the newcomers too!) had a good Thanksgiving! We stayed home and let everyone come to us. Thanksgiving has become the holiday that Gina and I have traditionally hosted. A few highlights:

Once again I made the Good Eats Roast Turkey and, once again, it was [...]

Here is good question about the Sony virus fiasco: why didnt’ anti-virus tools pick up on it? Why did the news filter up from the bloggers?

Bruce Schenier explains why and George Hotelling has a good response.

Ain’t big business great?

It was my turn to do the “Thought of the Day” on the Christian mailling list at work. This is a slightly expanded version of a point Pastor Dan made in his sermon on Sunday.

Matthew 6:25-36

It’s hard to be both thankful for the things in our life and to worry about them at the [...]

Someone at the Guardian took a poll of the Top Twenty Geek Novels. I’ve only read nine of them!

There seems to be a problem with VirtualPC, Linux and memory over 624MB. See my thread here. We are going to get a copy of Virtual Server to see if that works better.

For some reason, this story hasn’t been appearing too much in the Omaha press. Not only is it something out of a movie, it seems to say there is a hole in the Social Security system when the Fed sends two checks to two different addresses for the same SSN number for years. [...]

I finally downloaded Tony Lawerence’s Podcasts. The sound quality on the early ones aren’t that great, but the later ones are better (he says in one podcast that AudioBlog lets you record a podcast over the phone — that explains the sound problems). They are short — I listened to three of them [...]

An announcement was just made that Brian Zimmer steps down as head of Jython development. There is someone to replace him and continue the work.

Brian Zimmer did a great job getting the ball rolling on Jython 2.2: he applie for and received a PSF grant, he built a community of developers around Jython, [...]