Where Are The Wise Men?

I will admit — I was a little concerned whether I should read this book or not. The fact that man has a mountain for a father and his mother is a washing machine says that Doctorow is taking things to the limit. But I found myself in the library, looking for someone to [...]

Here are two YouTube videos I would like to share.

First, here is Steve Harvey making a fantastic introduction of Jesus Christ when He comes back.  Courtesy of ThinkChristian.net

Second, from BoingBoing, a rare TV appear of the Beatles . . . on Doctor Who!

When I’m in the middle of battle a project, I don’t usually stop to write a script or work on configuring my tools until I get to a calm in the storm.  Instead I jot that down on my todos and, when things settle down, I work on that todo list.[1] Maybe it’s because I’m [...]

Let’s just say that my development environment it is a little messed up.

The Company has an ancient Cygwin version installed that is somewhat broken and not all the tools are there.  That said, it has bash and I can’t complain.  But I can’t install any other Cygwin packages on it, because I don’t have permissions [...]

brian d foy started this meme at the beginning of this month and many Pythoneers have joined in.  So it’s time I joined the party.

The Whitespace.  I love it and I hate it. I love it because it makes the code look clean and readable.  But if you are editing someone [...]

I’m finally posting a Python module I wrote months ago that I have found to be very handy.

Our log4j log files get big — really big. It doesn’t help that we log just about everything under the sun. This makes it difficult to parse through and find the messages that we are looking [...]

Jeremy sent me a couple of alarming posts this weekend, both concerning a daughter: one on big books and one on American Girl dolls.  The fact that people like this exist frighten me, yet I shouldn’t be surprised.

Leah is currently going through a Lego phase.  Every night, she gets our small bucket of Lego blocks [...]

I love reading tales of hacker folklore and I just stumbled upon this piece of RMS talking about the AI lab at MIT.  Yep, it’s slanted but it’s a good read. It’s also a bit over 20 years old.

When I read thing like this, I’m jealous that I wasn’t involved in anything like the AI [...]

Please read How I Became A Music Pirate from the Consumerist.   It explains what is so asinine about the music industry today.

But I admit it — I have an iPod and use iTunes.  And I like to put my CD’s in iTunes and import them in.  But I don’t buy CD’s anymore and [...]

I’ve been blogging about TextMate recently, but Emacs is still my editor of choice for my day job, and it more than adequately fits the bill.  I’m still not sure which I like better overall, but this post is about Emacs, not comparing it with TextMate. So I have been doing quite a bit with Emacs [...]