Where Are The Wise Men?

If you subscribe to my blog, you get a nice group of links that I save throughout the day (or, really, when I have time to surf). Lately you may have noticed that I switched from delicious to magnolia.  The reason is simple: because I want to have access to my bookmarks at work as [...]

It’s not that there isn’t anything to blog about, it’s just that there is little time to do it.  So where should I begin?

The battery of my Mac Book Pro went bad late this spring and I finally got a new one.   Working on a laptop is annoying without battery.  Especially [...]

Late last week I had to do some major refactoring.  One of the things I needed to add was some Spring injection from SomeClass1 into SomeClass2.  No big deal — I do this all the time.  But after I did that, Spring would error out, saying that there was a circular injection.

This circular injection was [...]

I’ve struggled with my weight my entire adult life. You have to understand that to understand what follows:

Around the beginning of the year, I started making a list of “things I want to accomplish”. Not quite resolutions, but things that absolutely needed to be done. I put “Lose Weight” at the bottom [...]

Even though this is our sixth sprint on this project, we hadn’t had a Sprint Retrospective yet.  Until today, which was not only my first Retrospective but my first as the ScrumMaster.

I was amazed what came out of things they wanted to see in the next sprint but quickly agreed that we need to to [...]

I hate upgrading WordPress. I was reminded of that a week or so ago when I tried to get to WordPress 2.5.1. It’s not WordPress’s fault — it’s my provider.

I’m not going to rant against them, but I will point out that, whenever I try to FTP a lot of files, the FTP stalls [...]

Eclipse has been making me mad lately. Too many little things take too long, things aren’t working quite the way I think they should. And Eclipse is a beast to configure to do the way I want it to work.

I’ve heard good things about NetBeans and I downloaded the latest, but it seemed that [...]

Herein lies an update from our weekend:

Our dishwasher has been given us fits again. I found Sundberg Appliance by my house and they told me to clean out under the screen — that something was probably blocking the pump. Sure enough, I took about five orange seeds out. But it still [...]

On Weds, Feb 6, I’m doing a presentation on Django for the Omaha Python Users Group.

See their site for meeting information). But it’s on UNO’s main campus at 7pm.

This is actually my first meeting at the Omaha Python Group, and I’m very excited to meet (or reacquaint myself with) the faces behind the emails [...]

Deuteronomy 11:18-12 encourages the Israelites to fix God’s laws into their minds and even says to “write them on your doorframes.”

I’ve said before that our church building has some serious building needs and we are currently building a new sanctuary (Or “worship center” using the new parlance.). Two Sundays ago we were [...]