Where Are The Wise Men?

(Once again, it’s my turn to write the “Thought of the Day” on the Christian Believers mailing list at work.)

Romans 12:3-7

When we think about the saints in heaven, we tend to think on people who made the church or the world better — in our eyes. We think of people like C.S. Lewis, [...]

Yesterday I found that I needed to compare to XML files. Usually if the differences are few, just a simple diff on the command line will suffice for me. Ah, but this is XML — the start tags can be on the same line as the end tags or not, the content can [...]

A few years ago, I had a Palm IIxe and I loved it — I loved having my datebook and addresses with me, and, yes, even having games with me wherever I went. But it died suddenly. I was able to bring it back to life for a little while this fall, [...]

Here I present my first working Ruby script that actually does something useful. I wrote it yesterday but wanted to do some more testing before presenting it here.

The Problem: I wanted to take the geocaches from the geo-nearest script (see the geo-* scripts which I have talked about before) and put them into my GPX [...]

Eventually, I have write a script that does something with XML. I used to muck a lot with RSS stuff, but lately it’s been using GPX files. Regardless of the type of XML, I’m always mucking around with it and I’m comfortable with XPATH, DOM, and other accesses. I decided this would [...]

In case you are curious, I’m the Mike mentioned on PodCacher » Show 36: The Degree Confluence Project. The video I refer to in my comment is from the Christmas scagvenger hunt he made Sandy go on to get her Christmas present. For some reason, I can’t find it on the site anymore.

I have a theory that we should judge a language by how it handles dates out of the box. I’m not saying that dates are trivial (because they aren’t) but sooner or later we are going to have to write some code that compares dates, figures dates, etc. Since we are all going [...]

In danger of seeming to jump on the bandwagon, I’ve spent part of my afternoon writing my first Ruby program. First off — does this mean I’m leaving Python behind? No. Hey, it’s an up-and-coming language that seems to be catching on. I know quite a few people doing Rails stuff. [...]

One of the reasons I change from del.icio.us to de.lirio.us was that the former has no copyright protection while the latter is under the Creative Commons. In other words, I wanted to own my content — not some third-party (which is currently Yahoo)

And then I see this message from the developer and need to [...]

Another successful experiement with geo-map. I rendered another map only this time I created an HTML image map. So now you can click on the little red “+” and goto that caches page on Geocaching.com. This time I rendered the page with Terraserver, which should be safe for redistribution. Check it [...]