Programming and politics

It's election time again. The election is just over a week away, and I have a lot of candidates and propositions to read up on and make ...

I upgraded my home computer with Firefox 2.0 when it became GA this week. The other critical factory in the upgrade was that the del.icio.us...

There are a lot of Hibernate/Eclipse plugins out there. One that I used recently was the Hibernate Tools plugin that is part of the JBoss ID...

I got a "critical" Windows Update today to install: IE7. Yep, Microsoft has not only released it to the masses, but as expected, i...

A few random things I came across while eating my lunch today. First, there's this hilarious video about a guy and his struggles with hi...

The big news in the Valley is Google's acquisition of YouTube for $1.65B. I gotta say that I was pretty surprised, like most people.  Y...

I was surprised as anyone to see the Yankees go down in four games to Detroit. I knew that New York's pitching was very suspect, but I t...

I saw this article recently on Slashdot. A similar thing happened to my wife, too. We are Vonage and Comast customers. Comcast called our h...

I started a small project using Ruby recently. It is indeed a Rails project, though the code I am writing for it has little to do with Rail...

Recently I installed iTunes 7.0 . One of the options it included was to install Apple Software Update. At first I thought, great just what I...

National League It's a shame that the Mets and Dodgers meet in the NLDS. The Mets were clearly the class of the NL this year, but stat...

Today was a sad day. No baseball. The regular season ended yesterday, and the postseason starts tomorrow. This postseason is bitter sweet, a...

I was reading this article from the San Jose Mercury suggesting that the San Francisco Giants should not re-sign Barry Bonds for next year....

According to former president Bill Clinton: all you need is ubuntu. I actually installed the latest version of Ubuntu on my home PC this w...

For about a week I've been running Windows Vista RC1 on my laptop. I had used the Beta 2 on my desktop machine. I was unable to use the ...

I decided this week that it was time to buy new running shoes. Most folks say buy new shoes every six months or every 500 miles, which ever ...

I've installed a couple of updates to widely used programs: Internet Explorer 7 RC1 , and iTunes 7.0 . IE7 RC1 I don't use IE6 muc...

One of my co-workers came to me with a familiar problem. He had class that was being rendered as XML. The class itself could have different ...

I read this interesting article about Windows Vista. Vista may well be more significant than the author realizes. It may well be the greate...

So I guess I should've posted this before the start of the regular season... but today's action did not change any of my predictions...