Programming and politics

Continue to lose weight . I should get down to my target weight of 185 lbs. this year. Run a half-marathon . Maybe the SF Marathon this summ...

I mentioned before that the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium had to be my favorite CD of the year. I bought it in May, and the t...

You might have heard that XML Schema is dead . I read that, and the article it links to as proof , a couple of weeks ago, and was not overl...

I was picking songs to listen to on my iPod last night, and thought about my favorite songs of the past year. Here they are, in no particula...

My company bought everybody Bose Quiet Comfort 3 Headphones as holiday gifts. I thought that was a pretty nice gift. I think last year my ...

Remember back when the news was filled with stories of some new computer virus or worm that was wreaking havoc with corporate networks and h...

Six months ago, I posted that I had left Vitria and was working for a start-up called Sharefare . I couldn't say too much about what we ...

Saturday I finished up my Christmas shopping. I was researching a certain product and found it very cheap at Circuit City. What was bizarre ...

About a year ago, I switched my wireless service to Verizon and bought a Samsung SCH-A950. It has a lot of nice features, but in typical Ver...

So it was a good weekend for the Gator Nation . I was surprised to see USC fall, though they've really been pretty shaky at many time th...

One of the nice features of my car is that it's stereo plays MP3 CD s. However, the display is kind of annoying. One of the great thing...

I decided to try out BEA's JRockit JVM a try as my server JVM. It bills itself as being a much faster JVM on x86 machines. So far it do...

I have to admit, I was more relieved that Florida beat FSU than thrilled. It wasn't because I'm getting caught up in the hopes of a ...

I changed my diet and lifestyle in August of 2004. Since then I've lost 135 lbs. and I'm planning on losing another 20 lbs. or so. T...

Everybody loves Eclipse, right? It's become ubiquitous , right? It's been my primary IDE for a couple of years now. Lately, I've...

I wasn't too worried about the "what if Rutgers goes undefeated" talk and how they would "deserve" a shot at the BCS...

This week saw the passing of the great economist , Milton Friedman . There is a nice homage to him on Cato . I can proudly say that I am one...

It's that time of year again. Time for BCS controversy. I have a particular interest this year, as the Florida Gators are ranked #4 in t...

This past weekend was Raymond's first birthday party . One of the things I did for Michael's first party was make a slideshow video...

My company's resident JavaScript guru likes to use a technique called Data Islands. While I can roll some JS and have even been known to...