Programming and politics

In the past I've been annoyed by the lack of HTTP header access in Flash . Turns out there are some hacks you can do to get around it. L...

The world is full of dumb baseball analysis. The popularity of fantasy sports has only lead to greater proliferation of this strain of stupi...

Barack Obama certainly had an impressive victory yesterday in South Carolina. I am definitely rooting for him over Hillary Clinton. Now I vo...

You might have noticed my Nike+ widget has disappeared from the blog. That's because my Nike+ has disappeared from me when I run. It sta...

The following is a nifty trick that works in JavaScript, but you should be able to tweak it slightly to work in ActionScript as it leverages...

I got Office 2008 for my MacBook, and I have to say, I love it so far. Actually, I should say that I love PowerPoint and Entourage, as those...

My biggest reason for supporting Ron Paul is because I am sure he will get us out of Iraq. The war in Iraq is the most important issue of th...

Take a look at this page , and view its source. The key is this little bit o' JavaScript: function loadSwf(){ window.location.hash =...

A couple of pieces that I wrote on Rails appeared on IBM at the end of last year. I didn't even realize it until today when somebody ema...

Today I did something that I never thought I would do. I registered Republican. Is this because I have suddenly decided to oppose gay marria...

I was listening to sports radio (stupid me) and heard the following: Caller: "Everyone wants San Diego to beat New England this weekend...

Two interesting blogs inspired this post. First, there is the amazing analysis of the great Neal Gafter . And then there is the insightful r...

I use MyBlogLog to see the traffic stats to my blog. I noticed a lot of the referrers each day were from a Google search for MTOM . The sear...

There is a lot of hype this year about Scala.... Heck, even al3x is talking about it . As someone who has no problem being called a Java guy...

A few months ago I wrote about the lack of access to HTTP headers in Flash . I recently came across some other people talking about this . T...

I got a Wii as an early Christmas gift. I have to say that after being away from gaming for almost four years, I am really impressed where t...

It's a new year, and an election year. So time for some politics. The Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary were both mildly interesting...

Changing four airline tickets on Delta: $75/ticket = $300 Adding new rental reservation for 5 days = $250 Being able to let kids recover fro...

Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails -- Favorite artist releases very good concept album. I can't ask for anything more. Carnavas by Silv...

I find it funny that Michigan has wanted Les Miles so badly. I am terribly unimpressed with Les Miles. He has had a great team the last two ...