Where Are The Wise Men?

In the early 20th century, The London Times asked the big writers of the day to write an essay on the following question: “What is Wrong With The World?’ One writer named G.K. Chesterton wrote:

Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely yours, G. K. Chesterton

This story is probably the best introduction to Chesterton. He was quick and witty [...]

Today marks Gina and I’s fourth anniversary.  It doesn’t seem like it should be that long, but:

We’ve owned two houses
Our daughter is almost three (which doesn’t seem possible either)
We’ve taken one trip to Michigan, two trips to Texas, and uncountable trips to Sioux [...]

I’ve spent the last day and a half trying to get Postfix to do SASL.  No, I haven’t had luck, but I’ve learned a lot.  I found this page, which seemed helpful but seemed to be lacking.  I was grasping at straws, so I sent a message to OLUG and got a really good [...]

I haven’t inflicted enough punishment onto myself in the past few weeks.  So now I’ve been trying to tweak our DB2 machine this week.

This page really says it all.  Read it and do it all the way through. It’s easier than looking through IBM’s docs.

It’s important to have an Event Monitor configured and running while you beat the crap out of your DB, because then you get all the wonderful statistics you need to figure out what the heck is happening.

Also, a normal runstats on schema.table seems to do just about nothing.  This seems to be a lot better:

runstats on table schema.tablename WITH DISTRIBUTION ON ALL COLUMNS AND DETAILED INDEXES ALL ALLOW WRITE ACCESS

I think programming in the DOM has effected Tim Bray’s brain.

Another great article from The Land of Ur:

We are drawing a circle around Christ that includes pro-life but excludes an economic system that is generous to the poor. It is fearful to speculate what could happen to Christianity if we don’t work through this—after all our political and socioeconomic views are fleeting compared to the [...]

I host some of my little projects over at Mike’s Software Garden.  Someone tried to get a program off since my provider moved stuff around, and got a “Permission Denied” error.  I looked and it seems that my provider has turned off directory browsing.  Which isn’t a bad thing, but I didn’t know they were going to do that.  I thought, ”Hey now would be a good time to put in darcs’ nifty CGI!”  And I did.  Well, almost.  To get full functionality you need darcs installed and PowWeb won’t let me do it..  Oh well . . . at least I tried.

Again, you should [...]

We just got back from a whirlwind trip to Michigan.  Gina talks more about it on her blog.

This group of pictures is a first for us.  Instead of using our Gallery we used the iPhoto/iWeb.  It was pretty easy — import the pictures into iPhoto, put the ones you want into an album, click the [...]

From Romans 3:21-24:

But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are [...]

We have a Swing application that communicates to an EJB application via RMI. This setup works fine with JBoss, WebSphere, and Weblogic 8.1 — but not Weblogic 9.1  When we try it, we get the following exception:

java.rmi.AccessException: [EJB:010160]Security Violation: User: ‘<anonymouse>’ has insufficient permission to access EJB: type=,

Some googles have turned up this thread, which [...]