MiddleClickClose: New Home!
For those of you who have been pining for a working 64-bit version of MiddleClickClose, your patience is about to be rewarded. A fellow called Tom has taken ...
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tech
MiddleClickClose Will Work With Snow Leopard But…
12/02/2009 Update : MiddleClickClose has been updated for 64-bit Safari. More info here. I have upgraded my Mac to Snow Leopard, and as soon as I loaded Safa...
MiddleClickClose Updated For Future Safari Versions
08/31/2009 Update : For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. Yesterday Apple release Safari 4.0.3 which, of course, broke MiddleClickClose. Again. The probl...
MiddleClickClose for Safari 4.0.1
A day or so ago Apple released Safari 4.0.1 and bumped the version number in the process. Safari 4.0 was 5530.17, while Safari 4.0.1 is 5530.18. After instal...
ExportToArchive Does Work With iPhoto ‘09
I just installed the iLife ‘09 suite, which includes version 8.0 of iPhoto. While I haven’t had time to try out any of the new features, I did check to see i...
Huzzah! MiddleClickClose Working In Safari 4!
08/31/2009 Update : For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. 08/13/2009 Update : It should now work with all future versions of Safari without having to upd...
iPhone OS 2.0.1 - Installed
I just finished updating my 2G iPhone to OS 2.0.1. Usually when I sync my phone, I skip the “backing up iPhone” stage because it takes too damn long, but ton...
iPhone OS 2.0.1 Is Out
I just read that the new version of the iPhone OS is out. I’ll be installing it in an hour or so. I’m really looking forward to this update, since 2.0 is bug...
Strange Seg Fault In Simple Cocoa App
I just got Aaron Hillegass’ 3rd edition of Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition) and am working through it as if I never went through the 2nd ed...
A Few Things I Hate About iPhone OS 2.0
I love the new iPhone 2.0 OS, mostly, though I really think they should have let it bake for another couple of months before releasing it. There are parts of...
I Paid My $99 To Apple
As I said yesterday, I finally got my acceptance letter from Apple that essentially allows me to pay them $99 in order to develop iPhone software. I have jus...
So Now Apple Will Let Me In…
After months of waiting, I received this email from Apple just a few minutes ago:
WordPress To Release An iPhone Blogging Client
Oh man, this is just too cool. I switched to WordPress just a few days ago and today I see that they have an iPhone blogging client that should be released “...
My iPhone Apps
After spending way too much time last night going through the App Store, I finally went to bed. But not before I took some screenshots of everything installe...
iPhone Password Entry Is Now 600% Better
One of the most frustrating things about the previous version of the iPhone software was password entry. Apple used a masked entry field, which means that in...
Why Can’t I Install iPhone Apps Via iTunes?
09/15/2008 Update : I wrote this article back in July, right after iPhone OS 2.0 was released. You’ll notice from the update on 08/01/2008 that I figured out...
iPhone 2.0, Installed. First App, Installed.
My download of the iPhone 2.0 kit finished successfully. I then installed it a restored my settings and such. Now, about 25 minutes later, I’ve installed my ...
iPhone 2.0 Is Downloading
I can’t wait until tomorrow to get the new iPhone 2.0 software. I’m downloading it now at a rate of 715.47K/s and once it’s downloaded, I’m gonna slap it on ...
MiddleClickClose for Safari 3.1.1
06/14/2009 Update : It now works with the just-released Safari 4, too. Someone wrote to tell me that MiddleClickClose was no longer working after upgrading t...
iTunes Should Remember Window Size
I subscribe to a lot of podcasts, and lately I’ve been subscribing to lots of video podcasts. I love watching GeekBrief in ginormous HD format. But not all o...
MiddleClickClose Updated
I announced here that I had updated MiddleClickClose to work with Safari 3.1, but that it had problems loading under Safari 3.0. Actually, the problem was th...
MiddleClickClose For Safari 3.1
As I reported two days ago, after I installed Safari 3.1, my MiddleClickClose extension stopped working. Well, I’ve gotten it working again. , but it doesn’t...
My, What a Large Amount of Virtual Memory You Are Using
I just checked my Activity Monitor to see how much of my 6 gigabytes of RAM was in use. I was shocked (shocked!) to discover that a Java RMI server program (...
Safari 3.1 Breaks My Middle Click Close Extension
If you install the new Safari 3.1, my MiddleClickClose extension stops working. The first time you launch Safari, SIMBL complains that the plugin hasn’t been...
Apple Tells Me “Thanks, But No Thanks”
Like 10 million other iPhone fanboys, I applied for the Apple iPhone developer program. Today, one week after applying, I received this email
iPhone SDK: No Joy For Me (So Far)
Like 10 bajillion other Mac fans yesterday, I downloaded the iPhone SDK. It took me four tries to get it, but I finally got it. I installed all 5.3 GB of it,...
Middle Click Close For Safari
08/31/2009 Update : For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. 08/13/2009 Update : It should now work with all future versions of Safari without having to upd...
Are My Local Krogers Blocking EDGE Data?
Since getting my iPhone, I’ve visited two Kroger stores near my house and in both stores I was unable to access the Internet over the EDGE network. In both s...
QuickTime Player Annoys Me
The QuickTime player that Apple ships really, really annoys me. There are two reasons why I hate it: volume and geometry defaults. By this I mean that the pl...
Monitor Log Using Console.app
When I’m working on a Linux desktop, I will frequently open a new shell window with tail -f on a log file I need to watch, such as my JBoss log. When I switc...
Objective-C Strings Are Not C Strings
I got bitten today by the fact that Objective-C strings in Cocoa programming are not the same things as plain old C strings. The problem is that Objective-C ...
Export to Archive iPhoto Plugin
03/13/2009 Update : As I explained here, ExportToArchive does, in fact, work with the new iPhoto ‘09. Ever since I switched to my exquisite Mac Pro, I’ve bee...
iWork vs. CVS
I recently bought the new iWork ‘08 suite from Apple and have started using the tools for stuff I used to use NeoOffice for. But I noticed something yesterda...
Capturing Middle-Mouse Click in Safari
06/14/2009 Update : You can download a plugin to do this from here. I have been a consistent user of the nightly builds of the WebKit project for some time n...
Third Time’s The Charm on Mac RAM — I Hope
Being at the end of a UPS route is hard. Tuesday morning I saw from the UPS website that my third set of RAM from Crucial was “out for delivery” from the loc...
Mac Pro RAM Woes
You may remember how excited I was about a month ago when I got the 2GB RAM upgrade from Crucial for my Mac Pro. Well, about two weeks ago I happened to noti...
My Mac Pro Goes Boogety Boogety-er
I said before that my Mac Pro was fast. But lately it’s been bogging down a bit when I have lots of apps open. Especially if I am using Parallels.
AppleScript and iTerm: Sweet!
I use iTerm for all my command-line needs. I really like it, especially the tabbed interface. I typically have two to three terminals open for my local box, ...
My Mac Pro Goes Boogety Boogety
I have a Mac Pro. It goes fast. A full dump of my production MySQL database is about 481 MB. To load that into one of my development machines (dual 1.4MHz 64...
iTunes Script Menu on Context-Menu?
Does anyone know if it’s possible to duplicate the iTunes Scripts menu in the context-menu? IOW, I want to right-click on a track and have a submenu on that ...
First Mac “Exploit” from MOAB – Yawn…
Yesterday was the start of the Month of Apple Bugs, and I have to say it was a big snooze. The “exploit” supposedly allows a malicious QuickTime “movie” file...
Pasteboard Op Hosed My Mac
Today, during lunch, I continued to work through Aaron Hillegass’s book, Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X. I was finishing up the chapter on using the Pasteboa...
Mac Firmware Upgrade Scare
I just got really scared. I noticed that Apple had release a new firmware update for the Mac Pro that said it fixed a bunch of stuff. I followed the directio...
One Week After The New Mac’s Arrival
I’ve had my shiny, new Mac Pro for just over one week now and all I can say is “Whoa,” in a very Joey Lawrence sort of way. This thing is the fastest machine...
I Got a Mac!
On Tuesday of this week, I traded my no-longer-used Dell Axim PDA for an iBook G4. I owned a Mac Toaster Model back in 1988, but that was a completely differ...
Strange Obi-Wan Error
I was doing some JDBC today and I forgot that column indexes are 1-based instead of 0-based. It took me a while to figure out what was wrong since the except...
I Need JavaScript Obfuscator Recommendations
Can anyone recommend a decent JavaScript obfuscator? I don’t really care about free vs. payware as I’ll gladly pay for a quality product, so don’t limit your...
Ruby + MySQL + Windows = SUCCESS! (Finally)
If you do a Google for “ruby mysql windows” you will find, among other things, lots of people trying to use Ruby to access MySQL on a Windows system. I’ve be...
I Am Bushed…
Today is Day Three of RubyConf2004 and I’m tired. This has been a good conference. Lots of stuff to think about and play with. Lots of code flying around and...
Can Someone Help With These Eclipse Files?
Is anyone familar with the format of the files in .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects in the workspace of Eclipse 3.0? I have an Ant task...
Free Eclipse Classpath Ant Task
This software is no longer supported! I have neither used nor updated this software since I originally posted it, back in 2004. You are welcome to both the b...
AtlRUG: Second Meeting
The second meeting of the Atlanta Ruby User Group will be next Tuesday, April 27 at 7:00PM. We will continue with my introduction to Ruby presentation and di...
Ant Talk At CJUG
I want to thank the folks at CJUG for having me up last night to speak on Ant. I thought the talk went well, though I did run long. I must say it’s rather em...
Atlanta Ruby User Group
If you read my stuff very often then you know that I am a huge fan of the Ruby programming language. I write a ton of Ruby code and went to RubyConf 2003, so...
Operator Overloading Stupidity
I’m back in .NET land after living, pretty much exclusively, for the last two years in Java-and-Ruby land and while I generally like C#, I ran across somethi...
New “Reading Room” Blosxom Plugin
I’ve just released a new plugin for Blosxom called Reading_Room. It is what I used to produce the “Reading Room” box at the bottom of the page on the left. ...
Lego Mindstorms Are Very Cool
I got some cash for Christmas, bought a Lego Mindstorms robotics kit and It arrived yesterday via UPS truck. Ooo boy, this thing is cool. So far I’ve built ...
SSH Util Ruby Script
OpenSSH, that ships with Cygwin has a nice utility called ssh-agent. This program is a daemon that will hold on to your keys so that hosts you are authorized...
New Version of My Google Blosxom Plugin
I’ve finally gotten around to updating my Google plugin for Blosxom that’s been languishing for several months now. No longer must you use the cheesy ‘KW:’ s...
Mixer Remixed
After reading several threads about the text scrmabler and various implementations, I revised my Ruby version and it’s now 21 lines shorter and much more Rub...
By Popular Demand, I Give You… Mixer!
“Popular demand,” yeah… right… That’s the ticket. Anyway, I saw this blog entry by Jamie this morning which caused me to write a Ruby program to mix up the l...
I’m Presenting at NFJS: Atlanta
If anyone will be in or around Atlanta, GA, October 24 - 26, you should think about attending the Atlanta Java Software Symposium which is part of the No Flu...
Java Regex APIs and Quoting
I’ve just been digging through the J2SE 1.4 regex stuff, and every time I have to do regex work in Java I keep thinking how much easier it is in other langua...
J2SE 1.4.2 + WLS 7.0 + weblogic.ejbc = Problem
I discovered something interesting the other day at the office. We have a guy who has been unable to build a certain entire jar of entity beans ever since he...
USAPhotoMaps GPS Software
USAPhotoMaps is one of the coolest pieces of (free!) software I’ve ever seen. It uses images from the MicroSoft TerraServer to populate location information ...
Lisp Macros Are Very Cool
So I’m playing around with Lisp, reading Successful Lisp and thoroughly enjoying myself. I really like Lisp, I just haven’t gotten to use it on anything othe...
Eclipse 3.0 M2 Is Out
I just got the notice that Eclipse 3.0 M2 is now available. I’ve already been using 3.0, but judging by the release notes there’s a lot of chewy Eclipse good...
Kata 6 In Lisp
I got bored tonight and had a go at writing Dave Thomas’ Kata 6 in Lisp. It just seemed like a good thing to do. The code is below. I’m not a Lisp wizard by ...
Simplicity and Consistency
Mike Clark this morning has a bit of a nudge for Rael to give Ruby a try. Mike makes the following statement that I completely agree with
Kata 6
I took a swipe at implementing Dave Thomas’ Kata 6 which is an assignment dealing with anagrams. The goal is to parse a list of 45000-ish words, finding all ...
First Cut At Kata 8
Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers has started publishing programming problems, calling them Kata. He’s just published Kata 8 this morning and I’ve had...
A Golden Gem
JavaPro Magazine has done a review of my book, Ant Developer’s Handbook!!! The first line is the best:
No (Apparent) Love Lost In JBoss Group Split
After this morning’s surprise announcement that JBoss Group was essentially forking, there has been a lot of speculation about what this means for JBoss Grou...
Jython Is Just Too Useful
A colleague just came to me asking about Java serialization and output options. We’re going to store some partially filled Serializable DTOs in a BLOB in our...
Tracking Down a Log4J Problem
I had a really interesting time tracking down a Log4J problem. We’ve been using Log4J for over a year now happily and even happier with the Commons Logging p...
Developing .NET Compact Framework Applications
I got my Dell Axim X5 handheld unit last night. Very nice device. Much nicer than my old Palm V. Gorgeous 16 bit color screen. Snappy response from the OS, w...
Ant Developer’s Handbook at JavaRanch
Starting today over at Java Ranch they are doing a book promotion with my book, Ant Developer’s Handbook. If you are interested in Ant and want a chance to w...
My One Complaint About The Latest Eclipse
I have but one complaint about the latest release of my favorite IDE, Eclipse. Everyone who uses Eclipse knows that to close an editor you click on the littl...
User-Agent Based Content Inclusion Plugin
I’ve just released a new Blosxom plugin called UAInclude that allows you to include specific content in the `` section of a page, based on the User-Agent of ...
Latest Nightly Eclipse Re-Adds Editor Linkage
The latest build of Eclipse has re-added a feature that I had been missing since the M4 or so. This feature is a linking of location between the Package view...
My Blosxom 2.0 Google Plugin
I’m releasing a preview version of my Google plugin for Blosxom 2.0. We’ve all seen blog entries with a little “G” or “Google” that when clicked execute a se...
New Version of Blosxom
Ooo yah! I checked my email this morning and see that Rael has dropped a new version of Blosxom. It’s 2.0 beta1 and it sports a new plugin architecture and o...
Eclipse M5 Painless Upgrade
Man, I love Eclipse more and more every day. I’ve been using it for almost a year and it just keeps getting better. The fabulous Eclipse team released Eclips...
What I Don’t Like About the Java Plugin
Why can’t the Java Plugin on Windows unload itself after you leave a page with a (stupid) applet on it, or after X amount of inactivity? I generally despise ...
It’s Dead, Jim
I’m working with some Java wrappers for some CICS programs on our mainframe. I’ve been having a devil of a time getting the thing to work properly. In typica...
OK, Maven is Cool
I installed Maven tonight and within about 20 minutes had one of my simple projects building with it. Once I create the project.xml file, running maven java:...
“Weird” Error Messages
Whilst trying to use the nifty management console included with JRockit (supposedly the world’s fastest JVM), I recieved this error
Maven and Eclipse
I got this from James Strachan’s blog. It’s about how you can have Maven generate the .project and .classpath files in order to have Eclipse auto-grok your p...
Cool Use of Jython
I just had to share this. I am working on a very large project using BEA’s WebLogic 7. This project takes a good 10 minutes to go through an entire compile/d...
Googling From Blosxom
I’ve made a few changes to my copy of Blosxom to add the little “Google” link you see at the end of this entry. I’ve seen this on other blogs here and there ...
Anyone Using Komodo?
I’ve seen this IDE from ActiveState for a while now called Komodo. Is anyone using it? It looks pretty nice. Quite a bit nicer than it did about a year or so...
movies
It’s Three Tigers, Not Two Bulls
On our recent trip to Myrtle Beach, we ate at the Planet Hollywood our first night there. Apart from the fact that they were out of Key Lime Pie and bananas ...
Hollywood Release Windows Suck
A couple of weeks ago I extolled the virtues of my new Netflix Player. I’m still thrilled with it, but the other day I happened to be looking at my instant q...
I Am Legend Sucks
I just saw I Am Legend and I seriously want my money back. The only two things it shared with the novella were the title and the main character’s name. My fr...
“The Departed” Won Best Picture? What’s Up With That?
I got The Departed from NetFlix over the weekend. We started watching it Saturday afternoon, but turned it off after about 30 minutes of incredibly foul lang...
Cars - Excellent Film
Thomas and I just got back from seeing Cars. What a great movie. I haven’t laughed so hard since… well.. since I saw Over the Hedge but that’s not important ...
The Amazing Has Happened
The amazing has happened. It really has. I mean it. What am I talking about? I’ve seen a film, a remake, that I actually thought was better than the original...
Go See “Robots.” Now.
We went to see Robots last night. What an excellent film. Robin Williams, who I haven’t really liked since Mrs. Doubtfire and Good Morning, Vietnam was absol...
Hey Hollywood! Come Up With Some New Ideas!
Is every single screenwriter in Hollywood completely out of ideas for new films? It would appear so. After the absurd remake of the classic Flight of the Pho...
Schultze Gets the Blues
I just saw the preview for a new foreign film called Schultze Gets the Blues, and it looks great. It’s about a German salt mine worker who is out of work whe...
Toy Story 3 Without Pixar
MickeyNews is reporting that Disney Pictures plans to produce Toy Story 3 without Pixar. That should be interesting since Disney has, to my knowledge, never ...
Fat Albert
Thomas and I went to see Fat Albert (or “Fat Albret” as Thomas says it) Monday night. Believe it or not, it was great! I was prepared for a mind-numbing movi...
Latest Movies Seen
I haven’t had much time to update the site recently because I’m spending most of my time working on the new company… but, in response to a plea from my mothe...
Band of Brothers
Two words: Watch It. I missed it when it first ran on HBO but caught it a few weeks ago on the History Channel. Absolutely amazing mini-series. I didn’t want...
The Oscars
I watched the last 20 minutes of The Oscars last night and was utterly disappointed to see that the wretched Return of the King walked away with 11 awards. W...
Latest Screenings
I’ve watched a few things lately and here are my mini-reviews.
Return of the King is AWFUL!
I went to see RotK today and it was so much worse than I ever could have imagined. Not only should Peter Jackson, et al, not win any awards for this travesty...
The Cat in the Hat Sucks Really, Really Bad
We just got back from seeing The Cat in the Hat and I can say without equivocation, that this is one of the absolute worst films I have ever seen. I sat ther...
Bubba Ho-Tep
I won free passes to see Bubba Ho-Tep at my new favorite art house cinema last night. Three words: funny as hell. It’s the heart-warming story of an elderly ...
And Now… Ladies and Gentlemen
I finally got a chance to see And Now… Ladies and Gentlemen Saturday night. I’ve been waiting over a year for this movie to make it to the States and it fina...
Freaky Friday
We went to see Freaky Friday last night. This, of course, is a remake of the original film of the same name from 1976. I was not terribly excited about seein...
The Matrix Reloaded
I just got back from seeing The Matrix Reloaded and I’m not quite sure what to make of it. I think I liked it, but there are several things I’m not sure I un...
The Manchurian Candidate
I can’t believe I’d never seen The Manchurian Candidate before last night! What an amazing film. I’d actually seen part of the rotating flower show/Communist...
java
LoLClojure - Chapter 3, Continued
I didn’t intend to wait a month between installments, but here we are. When we left off, we were discussing a couple of implementation os exponentiation, and...
LoLClojure - Chapter 3
Chapter three of Land of Lisp is all about Lisp syntax. This post will be sort of scattered as far as content goes, since the chapter covered a lot. Many thi...
LoLClojure - Locals
Just like in Lisp, Clojure uses let to define locals. The only real difference is that Clojure uses a vector of names and their bindings, whereas Lisp uses a...
LoLClojure - Land of Lisp In Clojure
I read Conrad Barski’s excellent book Land of Lisp a couple of years ago, and worked through all the examples using CLisp, but I thought it might be fun to g...
Get a REPL On Your Current Java Project
I like to test things out interactively, so I love working with languages that provide a REPL. I’m currently working on a Java project, but Java doesn’t have...
Objective-C 2.0 Properties Are Needlessly Verbose
I’ve been working in Objective-C for a little while now; not quite two years, off and on. I was really excited when Apple announced that Objective-C 2.0 was ...
Can Someone Help With These Eclipse Files?
Is anyone familar with the format of the files in .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects in the workspace of Eclipse 3.0? I have an Ant task...
Free Eclipse Classpath Ant Task
This software is no longer supported! I have neither used nor updated this software since I originally posted it, back in 2004. You are welcome to both the b...
Ant Talk At CJUG
I want to thank the folks at CJUG for having me up last night to speak on Ant. I thought the talk went well, though I did run long. I must say it’s rather em...
Eclipse 3.0 M2 Is Out
I just got the notice that Eclipse 3.0 M2 is now available. I’ve already been using 3.0, but judging by the release notes there’s a lot of chewy Eclipse good...
A Golden Gem
JavaPro Magazine has done a review of my book, Ant Developer’s Handbook!!! The first line is the best:
Jython Is Just Too Useful
A colleague just came to me asking about Java serialization and output options. We’re going to store some partially filled Serializable DTOs in a BLOB in our...
Ant Developer’s Handbook at JavaRanch
Starting today over at Java Ranch they are doing a book promotion with my book, Ant Developer’s Handbook. If you are interested in Ant and want a chance to w...
My One Complaint About The Latest Eclipse
I have but one complaint about the latest release of my favorite IDE, Eclipse. Everyone who uses Eclipse knows that to close an editor you click on the littl...
Latest Nightly Eclipse Re-Adds Editor Linkage
The latest build of Eclipse has re-added a feature that I had been missing since the M4 or so. This feature is a linking of location between the Package view...
Eclipse M5 Painless Upgrade
Man, I love Eclipse more and more every day. I’ve been using it for almost a year and it just keeps getting better. The fabulous Eclipse team released Eclips...
Maven and Eclipse
I got this from James Strachan’s blog. It’s about how you can have Maven generate the .project and .classpath files in order to have Eclipse auto-grok your p...
Cool Use of Jython
I just had to share this. I am working on a very large project using BEA’s WebLogic 7. This project takes a good 10 minutes to go through an entire compile/d...
sports
Ouch…
I just got back from my first ride of the year and all I can say is “Ouch.” About 20 yards into the ride my legs were berating me for being a heretofore lazy...
I Found the Old Mill Wheel
Tonight while riding at Tribble Mill Park, I found the remnants of the old mill wheel. I had been within about 20 feet of it before and never noticed it, but...
Still More Trails
I spent nearly two hours at Tribble Mill Park tonight exploring new trails. I had no idea how long I was out there, but it was a blast. These trails are beco...
I’m Digging the Off-Road Thing
I have recently started doing some off-road riding out at Tribble Mill park, as I’ve mentioned before here and here. I kicked it up a notch this morning when...
First GeoCache Find
As I mentioned yesterday, I got a handheld GPS unit and was going to give GeoCaching a go. Well, today when I got home, Thomas and I headed out for our first...
I Got A GPS Unit
I finally got around to getting a handheld GPS unit today. I got the Garmin eTrex Venture and took it for a spin today when I went cycling at my usual locati...
The Old Mill Site
I asked a fellow cyclist today at Tribble Mill if he knew where the trail was that would take you to the old mill site. He did and told me where to look. I h...
I Beat The Hill!
The hill at Tribble Mill Park that I mentioned here suffered a crushing defeat today as I surmounted its summit. It sounds impressive, but it really isn’t. M...
Ullrich Wins Stage 12
In an amazing ride, Jan Ullrich of Germany, riding for Team Bianchi, rode the 47 kilometers in 58’ 32”! Incredible. Lance came in at 01’ 36”, almost two minu...
I Overdid It
I went riding again last night with grand plans to ride 12 miles, topping the 10.6 I did Monday night. Well, about 30 yards into my ride my thighs just above...
Made It: Ten Miles!
I made my fourth trip in as many days to Tribble Mill tonight, planning on doing two circuits of the track, which would bring me to about 5.5 miles. After th...
Hamilton Will Ride!
Holy broken collarbones, Batman! According to Lance, Tyler Hamilton, who broke his collarbone in 2 places during that terrible pile-up in Stage 1 yesterday, ...
Bad Pile-Up On First Stage of Le Tour de France
There was a serious accident during the first stage of Le Tour de France today, with only 400 meters to go before the finish line. American Tyler Hamilton is...
Tribble Mill Day Three
I rode my bike out at Tribble Mill Park again today. That makes three days in a row, each day going further than the last. Today I rode the paved double-trac...
Tribble Mill Park
I said earlier today that I was going to take some pictures at Tribble Mill Park. Well, during a respite from the rain, I headed out for a ride and took the ...
New Riding Trail
A friend yesterday told me about a local park with a really nice paved multi-use trail called Tribble Mill Park, which is about a 10 minute drive from my hou...
osx
Two Features To Make Lion’s Launchpad Perfect
One of the features in Lion that I didn’t think I would like has become one of my favorites: Launchpad. This is essentially Springboard from iOS, but for the...
My Lion “Clean Install” Saga
Updated! Scroll down for the latest. I upgraded my 2011 Macbook Pro and my 2006 Mac Pro to Lion on Day 1. The MBP has had no problems at all. The Mac Pro, on...
OSX Lion To Lion File Sharing Not Working - How To Fix It
After upgrading both my Macs to Lion on Wednesday, I discovered this morning that I can no longer mount shared folders between them. I tried going in both di...
Xcode 4.1 Not Installing? Try This.
Apple released OSX Lion earlier today, but Xcode 4.0.2 is not compatible with it. Later in the day, they released Xcode 4.1 for Lion through the Mac App Stor...
Make a Copy of the OSX Lion Installer BEFORE You Run It!
If you’re planning on downloading OSX Lion from the Mac App Store and installing it on multiple Macs, heed my warning to make a copy of the .dmg file before ...
MiddleClickClose: New Home!
For those of you who have been pining for a working 64-bit version of MiddleClickClose, your patience is about to be rewarded. A fellow called Tom has taken ...
MiddleClickClose Will Work With Snow Leopard But…
12/02/2009 Update : MiddleClickClose has been updated for 64-bit Safari. More info here. I have upgraded my Mac to Snow Leopard, and as soon as I loaded Safa...
MiddleClickClose Updated For Future Safari Versions
08/31/2009 Update : For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. Yesterday Apple release Safari 4.0.3 which, of course, broke MiddleClickClose. Again. The probl...
MiddleClickClose for Safari 4.0.1
A day or so ago Apple released Safari 4.0.1 and bumped the version number in the process. Safari 4.0 was 5530.17, while Safari 4.0.1 is 5530.18. After instal...
Huzzah! MiddleClickClose Working In Safari 4!
08/31/2009 Update : For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. 08/13/2009 Update : It should now work with all future versions of Safari without having to upd...
No MiddleClickClose for Safari 4
06/09/2009 Update : I thought I’d updated all the pages on my blog about MiddleClickClose, but I missed this one. It now works with Safari 4. Read about it h...
OH NOES! I’ve Lost My .emacs File!
I was first exposed to Emacs back in 1991. It took me a while to warm up to it, but I did and I have been using it ever since. Once I started using it on a r...
Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?
I love your machines. Truly, I do. Back in 1988 I bought a toaster-model Mac SE, with one megabyte of RAM, and I loved it. It only had a nine inch, black-and...
Problems With Latest Version of iTerm
I love iTerm as a replacement for Terminal.app, but this morning after letting iTerm upgrade itself to “Build 0.9.5.0909”, all my settings, profiles and book...
Chrome Is Cool, But No Mac Version Yet
Yesterday, the internets were all a-flutter about Chrome, Google’s new surprise web browser. Sure, I downloaded it, like everyone else, and I was impressed b...
apple
GV Places Discontinued
I hate to have to do this, but I have just pulled GV Places from the App Store, and I will not be selling or maintaining it any longer.
GV Places 1.3 Available in the App Store
After just a week in the Apple queue, version 1.3 of GV Places is now available. Here’s the list of what’s new:
Fast Apple Customer Support
Today I bought the 24 song, 2.3 hour-long Van Halen record Live: Right Here, Right Now from the iTunes store. But there was a snag: “Why Can’t This Be Love?”...
GV Places 1.1 Now Available In the App Store
After sitting in the to-be-reviewed queue at Apple for a week, I’m happy to announce that version 1.1 of GV Places is now available for purchase. The full li...
GV Places 1.1 Submitted To App Store
Yesterday, I submitted version 1.1 of GV Places to the App Store for review. I am hopeful that it won’t take as long to get through this time, but I’m not ho...
GV Places Is Now In the iTunes App Store
I am pleased to announce that my first iPhone app, called GV Places, is now available in the iTunes App Store. If you have an iPhone (preferably a 3GS or 4)...
First Rejection of My iPhone App :-(
I submitted my first iPhone app, called GV Places, to the Apple App Store on Monday, May 23. On Friday, May 27, around 9:00 in the morning, it entered the re...
Apple Doesn’t Seem To Want My Money
Yesterday, like six billion other people, I tried to pre-order a new iPhone 3GS from the Apple Store online. After trying multiple times getting multiple tim...
Dear Nintendo: A Wii Storage Solution, Please!
We have a Wii. We’ve had it pretty much since they hit the market. We love it, yes Wii do. Except for one thing: the unbelievably small amount of internal st...
Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?
I love your machines. Truly, I do. Back in 1988 I bought a toaster-model Mac SE, with one megabyte of RAM, and I loved it. It only had a nine inch, black-and...
My First Impressions of iTunes 8 “Genius”
After Apple announced iTunes 8 yesterday, I downloaded and installed it, eager to see the new “Genius” feature. This feature had been rumored to be similar t...
Apple Still Working on MobileMe
I just received an email from Apple regarding MobileMe. Here’s what it said
GV Places Discontinued
I hate to have to do this, but I have just pulled GV Places from the App Store, and I will not be selling or maintaining it any longer.
GV Places 1.3 Available in the App Store
After just a week in the Apple queue, version 1.3 of GV Places is now available. Here’s the list of what’s new:
Google Chrome Sync Not Working? Try This
I use Google Chrome exclusively as my browser on both Mac and Windows, and I pretty much love everything about it. One of the things I love most about it is ...
GV Places 1.1 Now Available In the App Store
After sitting in the to-be-reviewed queue at Apple for a week, I’m happy to announce that version 1.1 of GV Places is now available for purchase. The full li...
GV Places 1.1 Submitted To App Store
Yesterday, I submitted version 1.1 of GV Places to the App Store for review. I am hopeful that it won’t take as long to get through this time, but I’m not ho...
GV Places Is Now In the iTunes App Store
I am pleased to announce that my first iPhone app, called GV Places, is now available in the iTunes App Store. If you have an iPhone (preferably a 3GS or 4)...
Bogus Search Results From Sys-Con
Updated! Be sure to scroll down for the latest! I’m writing a blog post dealing with Scala’s XML literal syntax and how to use it for object de/serialization...
My Google Apps Migration Is Complete
I mentioned [cref i-just-switched-to-google-apps-for-my-domain the other day] that I’d switched over to Google Apps, and had initiated a POP3 transfer of all...
I Just Switched To Google Apps For My Domain
I’ve been using Gmail for a few years now, just having it send mail as joey@joeygibson.com, and not using the actual @gmail.com address at all. Or so I thoug...
Chrome Is Cool, But No Mac Version Yet
Yesterday, the internets were all a-flutter about Chrome, Google’s new surprise web browser. Sure, I downloaded it, like everyone else, and I was impressed b...
Holy Clogged Arteries, Batman!
I love Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I mean love. Love, as in, if they were alive, I’d marry them. Love, as in, if I were on a desert island and a plane flew overh...
Google Reader May Trump Bloglines For Me
I’ve been using Bloglines.com for feed reading for a few years now. I had tried Google Reader before, but I was quite happy with Bloglines, so I never switch...
Cuil Thinks I’m More Relevant Than Dr. Horrible
I was looking through my web stats this morning and I noticed that I had a link from cuil.com, the latest in a long string of supposed “Google Killers.” I cl...
bible
That Insipid “Ancient Aliens” Show
O, how I hate that stupid “Ancient Aliens” show on the “History” channel. Tonight, as I was scrolling through the channel guide, I happened to see the info f...
Two Updates and a Trophy
Update, the First: As I said back on February 19, I’m working on translating the Gospel of Luke from Greek into English as a Lenten project. Once I changed t...
I’m Working on My Greek - Hard!
From an interview with Daniel B. Wallace, there is this question and Dr. Wallace’s response
A Comma Can Make Quite a Difference
As I said, I am reading the book of Luke in Greek as a Lenten project. At the urging of a friend, I have decided to write down my translation, which I will p...
My Lenten Project: Reading Luke In Greek
In 2007, I announced that I was going to try to translate all of the book of Jude from Greek into English as a Lenten project. It did not go well. I realized...
My Translation of Luke 2:1-20
Last year before Christmas I translated the nativity story from Luke 2:1-20 from Greek into English because I thought I was up to it. My family and I read it...
A Very Efficient Greek Word
On Saturday evening I was reading my Sunday School lesson when I noticed something interesting. (Well, interesting to me, anyway.) I always read whatever the...
Lunch Time Translation
Today during lunch I translated 1 John 1:5 – 2:5 from Greek into English. It was presented as an exercise in Dr. Mounce’s workbook, which is why it sort of j...
Biblical Greek Word Games
In my Sunday School class, we’re currently working through a book on the Gospel of John, by a man called Mark A. Matson. The book is pretty good, but in yest...
Georgia Republican Wants Obama to Make 2010 Year of the Bible
From FOX News comes this little gem Georgia Republican Wants Obama to Make 2010 Year of the Bible. According to the article, GA Representative Paul Broun has...
All Things Are Better In Koine
This video made me laugh out loud. You have to know some Greek to appreciate the whole thing, but even if you don’t, some of it should still make you laugh.
scala
Get a REPL On Your Current Java Project
I like to test things out interactively, so I love working with languages that provide a REPL. I’m currently working on a Java project, but Java doesn’t have...
99 Scala Problems #28 - I Like My Solution Better
I’ve been working through this list of 99 Scala Problems, which is modeled after this list of 99 Prolog Problems. As I’ve been going through them, I have bee...
Procedural vs. Functional
With the rise of Scala and Clojure, there’s been a lot of talk lately about procedural vs. functional styles of coding. Most developers are accustomed to pro...
Unmotivated
As you can probably tell, I haven’t been motivated to write anything in well over a month. I don’t know why, but that’s what’s happened. I didn’t finish my L...
Slides From My Presentation on Operator Overloading In Scala
Last night I spoke at the Atlanta Scala Enthusiats meeting about operator overloading and a little on implicit conversions. I think the talk went well as I g...
What the Heck Is a Tuple, Anyway?
Yesterday I was talking with a friend about Scala and the subject of tuples came up. We both had a bit of a laugh that neither of us was sure how to pronounc...
2 Solutions To Project Euler Problem #1
In an effort to not go a whole month without blogging, and in the interest of posting some code samples, I give you two solutions to Project Euler: Problem #...
I’m Liking Scala’s XML Literals
How many times have you written a class that you needed to save and restore to/from XML? How did you do it? There are libraries that will do this for you, bu...
Scala’s Nice Regex Class
I’m a big fan of regular expressions, because they let you parse text in very concise, and sometimes complicated, ways. Though I agree with jwz about regular...
Scala Gets Operator Overloading Right
02/20/2010 Update: I took this blog post and turned it into a presentation to the Atlanta Scala User Group, which I gave in January 2010. The slides from tha...
safari
MiddleClickClose: New Home!
For those of you who have been pining for a working 64-bit version of MiddleClickClose, your patience is about to be rewarded. A fellow called Tom has taken ...
MiddleClickClose Will Work With Snow Leopard But…
12/02/2009 Update : MiddleClickClose has been updated for 64-bit Safari. More info here. I have upgraded my Mac to Snow Leopard, and as soon as I loaded Safa...
MiddleClickClose Updated For Future Safari Versions
08/31/2009 Update : For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. Yesterday Apple release Safari 4.0.3 which, of course, broke MiddleClickClose. Again. The probl...
MiddleClickClose for Safari 4.0.1
A day or so ago Apple released Safari 4.0.1 and bumped the version number in the process. Safari 4.0 was 5530.17, while Safari 4.0.1 is 5530.18. After instal...
Huzzah! MiddleClickClose Working In Safari 4!
08/31/2009 Update : For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. 08/13/2009 Update : It should now work with all future versions of Safari without having to upd...
No MiddleClickClose for Safari 4
06/09/2009 Update : I thought I’d updated all the pages on my blog about MiddleClickClose, but I missed this one. It now works with Safari 4. Read about it h...
Strange Firefox+Mac WordPress Admin Page
Below is a screencap of what part of my WordPress 2.6.1 admin page looks like when I view it using Firefox 3.0.1 on Leopard.
Middle Click Close For Safari
08/31/2009 Update : For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. 08/13/2009 Update : It should now work with all future versions of Safari without having to upd...
video
Bohemian Rhapsody Parody
http://youtu.be/9Xa7cYMD-Dc
Three Songs From Anvil’s Show in Athens, GA on 02/03/2012
I went to see the awesome metal band Anvil last night at the Melting Point in Athens, GA. They played a great show, and here are three highlights. The first ...
The Perfect Summation of Our Trip to Myrtle Beach
We went to Myrtle Beach, SC, last weekend and had a wonderful time. I have lots of pictures that I’ll be posting to Flickr very soon. I just got back from ge...
Video: The Unexpected Blessing
I don’t know which country this commercial aired in, but it’s pretty good. And there’s a twist.
Windows 7 Party Kit Unboxing
My Windows 7 Party Kit arrived this afternoon via UPS, and I decided to be like the cool kids and film myself taking the bits out of the box and discussing t...
All Things Are Better In Koine
This video made me laugh out loud. You have to know some Greek to appreciate the whole thing, but even if you don’t, some of it should still make you laugh.
Thomas Interviews Me Using Our New Flip HD Camcorder
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31K_bkydcw4&w;=425&h;=344] We got a new Flip Video MinoHD Camcorder yesterday from Amazon. It’s a very neat l...
Dr. Horrible on Hulu
I don’t know for how long, but all of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog is available to watch for free on Hulu. Hulu is a legit service from NBC, so you’re not...
clojure
LoLClojure - Chapter 3, Continued
I didn’t intend to wait a month between installments, but here we are. When we left off, we were discussing a couple of implementation os exponentiation, and...
LoLClojure - Chapter 3
Chapter three of Land of Lisp is all about Lisp syntax. This post will be sort of scattered as far as content goes, since the chapter covered a lot. Many thi...
LoLClojure - Locals
Just like in Lisp, Clojure uses let to define locals. The only real difference is that Clojure uses a vector of names and their bindings, whereas Lisp uses a...
LoLClojure - Land of Lisp In Clojure
I read Conrad Barski’s excellent book Land of Lisp a couple of years ago, and worked through all the examples using CLisp, but I thought it might be fun to g...
Get a REPL On Your Current Java Project
I like to test things out interactively, so I love working with languages that provide a REPL. I’m currently working on a Java project, but Java doesn’t have...
Once More, This Time With Clojure
If you happened to read my post from the other day entitled My New “Top Artists Last 7 Days” Widget, you know that I went through three iterations of getting...
Fizzing and Buzzing With Clojure
I’ve known about the FizzBuzz problem for a few years. I’ve written solutions for it in a few languages, but never posted them. I’ve been working with Clojur...
Procedural vs. Functional
With the rise of Scala and Clojure, there’s been a lot of talk lately about procedural vs. functional styles of coding. Most developers are accustomed to pro...
ios
GV Places Discontinued
I hate to have to do this, but I have just pulled GV Places from the App Store, and I will not be selling or maintaining it any longer.
GV Places 1.3 Available in the App Store
After just a week in the Apple queue, version 1.3 of GV Places is now available. Here’s the list of what’s new:
GV Places 1.1 Now Available In the App Store
After sitting in the to-be-reviewed queue at Apple for a week, I’m happy to announce that version 1.1 of GV Places is now available for purchase. The full li...
GV Places 1.1 Submitted To App Store
Yesterday, I submitted version 1.1 of GV Places to the App Store for review. I am hopeful that it won’t take as long to get through this time, but I’m not ho...
Downgrading Your iPhone From iOS5 to iOS4.3.3: It Ain’t Easy
Like lots of other iPhone owners, I was excited about the announcement on Monday of iOS5, and all the new features. I don’t like to wait and since it isn’t g...
GV Places Is Now In the iTunes App Store
I am pleased to announce that my first iPhone app, called GV Places, is now available in the iTunes App Store. If you have an iPhone (preferably a 3GS or 4)...
First Rejection of My iPhone App :-(
I submitted my first iPhone app, called GV Places, to the Apple App Store on Monday, May 23. On Friday, May 27, around 9:00 in the morning, it entered the re...
GVoice: An Open Source Objective-C Google Voice Library
05/12/2011 Note : I failed to mention that the library, as it currently stands, builds for iOS only. I’m sure it could be rejiggered to work with OSX, becaus...
wordpress
So, I Resurrected My Blog
After just over a week of it being dead, I brought it back, but hosted at Wordpress.com. This is what I should have done in the first place, instead of movin...
New Wordpress Sociable Plugin Has Unintuitive Setup
I got a notification this morning that the Sociable plugin for Wordpress had a new version available, and did I want to install it. I try to keep my plugins ...
My New “Top Artists Last 7 Days” Widget
Note Redux : I changed my approach, yet again. Scroll farther down to see the latest. Note : I changed my approach on this, so scroll down to ...
iPhone Interface For My Blog
09/28/2009 Update : Now added a link to the view from Android. Last week I learned about WPTouch, which is a plugin for WordPress that reformats the theme fo...
I’m Going To WordCamp Birmingham
I paid my registration fee on Friday, and I’m really looking forward to attending. I’ve only been using WordPress since late June, but I’m already hooked. A...
Strange Firefox+Mac WordPress Admin Page
Below is a screencap of what part of my WordPress 2.6.1 admin page looks like when I view it using Firefox 3.0.1 on Leopard.
WordPress To Release An iPhone Blogging Client
Oh man, this is just too cool. I switched to WordPress just a few days ago and today I see that they have an iPhone blogging client that should be released “...
gps
GV Places Discontinued
I hate to have to do this, but I have just pulled GV Places from the App Store, and I will not be selling or maintaining it any longer.
GV Places 1.3.2 Now Available
Last week a bug report came in that it was impossible to turn off notifications for automatic region switches. That is now fixed, and the update should be ap...
GV Places 1.3 Available in the App Store
After just a week in the Apple queue, version 1.3 of GV Places is now available. Here’s the list of what’s new:
GV Places 1.1 Now Available In the App Store
After sitting in the to-be-reviewed queue at Apple for a week, I’m happy to announce that version 1.1 of GV Places is now available for purchase. The full li...
GV Places 1.1 Submitted To App Store
Yesterday, I submitted version 1.1 of GV Places to the App Store for review. I am hopeful that it won’t take as long to get through this time, but I’m not ho...
GV Places Is Now In the iTunes App Store
I am pleased to announce that my first iPhone app, called GV Places, is now available in the iTunes App Store. If you have an iPhone (preferably a 3GS or 4)...
The iPhone 3GS GPS Is Crazy Good
I have a Garmin eTrex Venture hand-held GPS that I bought about five years ago. I used it for years mounted to my bicycle handlebars for when I would go trai...
google-voice
GV Places Discontinued
I hate to have to do this, but I have just pulled GV Places from the App Store, and I will not be selling or maintaining it any longer.
GV Places 1.3.2 Now Available
Last week a bug report came in that it was impossible to turn off notifications for automatic region switches. That is now fixed, and the update should be ap...
GV Places 1.3 Available in the App Store
After just a week in the Apple queue, version 1.3 of GV Places is now available. Here’s the list of what’s new:
Google Chrome Sync Not Working? Try This
I use Google Chrome exclusively as my browser on both Mac and Windows, and I pretty much love everything about it. One of the things I love most about it is ...
GV Places 1.1 Now Available In the App Store
After sitting in the to-be-reviewed queue at Apple for a week, I’m happy to announce that version 1.1 of GV Places is now available for purchase. The full li...
GV Places 1.1 Submitted To App Store
Yesterday, I submitted version 1.1 of GV Places to the App Store for review. I am hopeful that it won’t take as long to get through this time, but I’m not ho...
GV Places Is Now In the iTunes App Store
I am pleased to announce that my first iPhone app, called GV Places, is now available in the iTunes App Store. If you have an iPhone (preferably a 3GS or 4)...
disney-world
Observations From WDW
Last Saturday night we got back from our latest trip to Walt Disney World. We spent a week there, like we do every year, but this year there were several dif...
Walt Disney World 2006 - Day One
Well, we’re here again at Walt Disney World. I believe this is my 10th trip here. To save money this year we’re staying at a Disney Value Resort, which is ni...
We’re Going to Disney World!
Our annual pilgrimage to Walt Disney World is rapidly approaching and I’m can hardly sit still waiting for it to arrive. At the sound of the beep, this is ho...
Disney World Days 3 & 4
On Sunday we spent most of the day at Disney’s Animal Kingdom and had a great time. There’s quite a bit of stuff to do there and lots to look at. Thomas had ...
Disney World Days 1 & 2
We arrived in Kissimmee, Florida around 1700-ish yesterday, tired but happy. We checked in to the Comfort Suites Maingate East and were treated to an enormou...
itunes
Fast Apple Customer Support
Today I bought the 24 song, 2.3 hour-long Van Halen record Live: Right Here, Right Now from the iTunes store. But there was a snag: “Why Can’t This Be Love?”...
Xcode 4.1 Not Installing? Try This.
Apple released OSX Lion earlier today, but Xcode 4.0.2 is not compatible with it. Later in the day, they released Xcode 4.1 for Lion through the Mac App Stor...
American Idol Switcheroo on iTunes
If you watched Idol last week, you were treated to a bunch of mediocre renditions of classic Motown songs, plus a stunningly beautiful re-imagining of Smokey...
I Am Full of Teh Happy
Yesterday was a good day for me on several fronts. Let me tell you them. First, whilst searching for various things in the iTunes store, I saw that Metallica...
My First Impressions of iTunes 8 “Genius”
After Apple announced iTunes 8 yesterday, I downloaded and installed it, eager to see the new “Genius” feature. This feature had been rumored to be similar t...
Why Can’t I Install iPhone Apps Via iTunes?
09/15/2008 Update : I wrote this article back in July, right after iPhone OS 2.0 was released. You’ll notice from the update on 08/01/2008 that I figured out...
software-development
Help Me With iPhone Dev Graphics Question, Please
Usually when I learn a new programming language or framework, I am plagued by the fact that I can’t think of anything to build with it, or I can only think o...
When Does an HQL Typo Not Cause A Parse Error?
I found something interesting at work yesterday. One of our developers mentioned that when he called a certain method with various sets of parameters, he was...
I’m Digging Java Again
I first started doing Java back in 1995. That’s quite a long time ago. Once I got going, I wrote Java code every single day, for thirteen years. I co-authore...
Strange Seg Fault In Simple Cocoa App
I just got Aaron Hillegass’ 3rd edition of Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition) and am working through it as if I never went through the 2nd ed...
I Paid My $99 To Apple
As I said yesterday, I finally got my acceptance letter from Apple that essentially allows me to pay them $99 in order to develop iPhone software. I have jus...
So Now Apple Will Let Me In…
After months of waiting, I received this email from Apple just a few minutes ago:
windows
Windows 7 Party Kit Unboxing
My Windows 7 Party Kit arrived this afternoon via UPS, and I decided to be like the cool kids and film myself taking the bits out of the box and discussing t...
I’m Hosting A Windows 7 Launch Party
No, don’t start checking your thermometers to see if Hell has frozen over. Believe it or not, I’m actually hosting a Windows 7 Launch Party. I know, I know....
Interesting Date Tracking There, Microsoft
My son was trying to clean up some space on his computer last night, so he was deleting massive amounts of crap. I encouraged him to uninstall anything that ...
1 eeePC, 2 SDDs, 1 Pendrive, Ubuntu, Win7 and dd - Hoo-wee!
If you’ve ever been here before, you know that I bought an Asus eeePC 900a a few months ago. After buying it, I pulled out the 1G RAM and 4G SDD and replace ...
OH NOES! I’ve Lost My .emacs File!
I was first exposed to Emacs back in 1991. It took me a while to warm up to it, but I did and I have been using it ever since. Once I started using it on a r...
Chrome Is Cool, But No Mac Version Yet
Yesterday, the internets were all a-flutter about Chrome, Google’s new surprise web browser. Sure, I downloaded it, like everyone else, and I was impressed b...
dr-horrible
Cuil Thinks I’m More Relevant Than Dr. Horrible
I was looking through my web stats this morning and I noticed that I had a link from cuil.com, the latest in a long string of supposed “Google Killers.” I cl...
Dr. Horrible on Hulu
I don’t know for how long, but all of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog is available to watch for free on Hulu. Hulu is a legit service from NBC, so you’re not...
Dr. Horrible, Act III
I just finished watching Act III of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog and it was very powerful. The end was not what I was expecting, I can tell you that. I do...
Dr. Horrible, Act II
Act II of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog was release today, and it’s just as funny as Act I. Once again, the music is great and the story is getting very in...
I Just Watched Act I of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog!
I just finished watching Act I of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog and it’s hilarious. It’s a web-only musical, created by Joss Whedon, the creator of the bod...
death
Reminders of Chloe
Chloe’s been gone for three days now and I keep getting hit by reminders of her. I keep walking into various rooms of the house, expecting her to be there an...
R.I.P. Chloe Gibson - You Were A Good Dog
Chloe Gibson, 1993 - 2008 Back in 1993 Tammy and I went to PetSmart one day to get some cat food. As we walked in, we noticed that they were doing dog adopt...
Bloody Hell, the Snail Died
I was wrong [cref another-day-another-fish-funeral about Pokey the snail]. He died today. I ran ammonia and Ph tests on the tank water and was shocked by the...
Another Day, Another Fish Funeral
As I mentioned [cref fish-funeral two days ago], we had a goldfish die, buried him at sea, and then bought another fish and a snail to keep the remaining fis...
Fish Funeral
For Christmas, my sister-in-law gave my son two goldfish. Without asking us. Needless to say I was not happy about this, but he had them before we knew what ...
groovy
Get a REPL On Your Current Java Project
I like to test things out interactively, so I love working with languages that provide a REPL. I’m currently working on a Java project, but Java doesn’t have...
2 Solutions To Project Euler Problem #1
In an effort to not go a whole month without blogging, and in the interest of posting some code samples, I give you two solutions to Project Euler: Problem #...
Grails Podcast Mentions My Closure Post
Like other bloggers with an ego, I have Google Alerts set up to let me know when someone mentions me or my blog anywhere that Google knows about. I got an al...
Groovy Sql Closure Examples
My [cref why-i-love-closures post about closures] last week generated quite a bit of traffic and comments, both positive and negative. I decided to followup ...
Why I Love Closures
I’ve been a big fan of closures for years. I was first introduced to them in Smalltalk, where they were just called blocks. Ruby has them and also calls them...
app
GV Places Discontinued
I hate to have to do this, but I have just pulled GV Places from the App Store, and I will not be selling or maintaining it any longer.
GV Places 1.3 Available in the App Store
After just a week in the Apple queue, version 1.3 of GV Places is now available. Here’s the list of what’s new:
GV Places 1.1 Now Available In the App Store
After sitting in the to-be-reviewed queue at Apple for a week, I’m happy to announce that version 1.1 of GV Places is now available for purchase. The full li...
GV Places 1.1 Submitted To App Store
Yesterday, I submitted version 1.1 of GV Places to the App Store for review. I am hopeful that it won’t take as long to get through this time, but I’m not ho...
GV Places Is Now In the iTunes App Store
I am pleased to announce that my first iPhone app, called GV Places, is now available in the iTunes App Store. If you have an iPhone (preferably a 3GS or 4)...
lion
Two Features To Make Lion’s Launchpad Perfect
One of the features in Lion that I didn’t think I would like has become one of my favorites: Launchpad. This is essentially Springboard from iOS, but for the...
My Lion “Clean Install” Saga
Updated! Scroll down for the latest. I upgraded my 2011 Macbook Pro and my 2006 Mac Pro to Lion on Day 1. The MBP has had no problems at all. The Mac Pro, on...
OSX Lion To Lion File Sharing Not Working - How To Fix It
After upgrading both my Macs to Lion on Wednesday, I discovered this morning that I can no longer mount shared folders between them. I tried going in both di...
Xcode 4.1 Not Installing? Try This.
Apple released OSX Lion earlier today, but Xcode 4.0.2 is not compatible with it. Later in the day, they released Xcode 4.1 for Lion through the Mac App Stor...
Make a Copy of the OSX Lion Installer BEFORE You Run It!
If you’re planning on downloading OSX Lion from the Mac App Store and installing it on multiple Macs, heed my warning to make a copy of the .dmg file before ...
lisp
LoLClojure - Chapter 3, Continued
I didn’t intend to wait a month between installments, but here we are. When we left off, we were discussing a couple of implementation os exponentiation, and...
LoLClojure - Chapter 3
Chapter three of Land of Lisp is all about Lisp syntax. This post will be sort of scattered as far as content goes, since the chapter covered a lot. Many thi...
LoLClojure - Locals
Just like in Lisp, Clojure uses let to define locals. The only real difference is that Clojure uses a vector of names and their bindings, whereas Lisp uses a...
LoLClojure - Land of Lisp In Clojure
I read Conrad Barski’s excellent book Land of Lisp a couple of years ago, and worked through all the examples using CLisp, but I thought it might be fun to g...
Fizzing and Buzzing With Clojure
I’ve known about the FizzBuzz problem for a few years. I’ve written solutions for it in a few languages, but never posted them. I’ve been working with Clojur...
musical
Dr. Horrible on Hulu
I don’t know for how long, but all of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog is available to watch for free on Hulu. Hulu is a legit service from NBC, so you’re not...
Dr. Horrible, Act III
I just finished watching Act III of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog and it was very powerful. The end was not what I was expecting, I can tell you that. I do...
Dr. Horrible, Act II
Act II of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog was release today, and it’s just as funny as Act I. Once again, the music is great and the story is getting very in...
I Just Watched Act I of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog!
I just finished watching Act I of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog and it’s hilarious. It’s a web-only musical, created by Joss Whedon, the creator of the bod...
The Danger Of Living In the Cloud: No Backups
Yesterday about 4:30 I tried to check my email, but got nothing more than a string of 502 errors from the server. My mail server is a Google Domain Apps acco...
My Google Apps Migration Is Complete
I mentioned [cref i-just-switched-to-google-apps-for-my-domain the other day] that I’d switched over to Google Apps, and had initiated a POP3 transfer of all...
I Just Switched To Google Apps For My Domain
I’ve been using Gmail for a few years now, just having it send mail as joey@joeygibson.com, and not using the actual @gmail.com address at all. Or so I thoug...
“Prize Notification” From “Microsoft”
I just checked my email and found this oh-so-exciting email from MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMOTIONS:
books
Picking the Bones At An Estate Sale
I just got back from an estate sale in my neighborhood. The people whose belongings were being sold were an elderly couple who lived just around the corner f...
Blue At The Mizzen - Finished
This morning I finished reading Blue At The Mizzen, the last complete book in the twenty-book Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. I’m a huge fan of the...
No “Pirate Sun” For Me Yet
I just got back from Borders attempting to buy Karl Schroeder’s Pirate Sun, but they don’t have it yet. Argh. I’ll be finished with The Yellow Admiral in a f...
If It’s Part Of a Series, Tell Me!
I went to my local Barnes & Noble yesterday to pick up book 18 of the Aubrey–Maturin series, The Yellow Admiral. While there, I looked around just to see...
ruby
Once More, This Time With Clojure
If you happened to read my post from the other day entitled My New “Top Artists Last 7 Days” Widget, you know that I went through three iterations of getting...
Grails Podcast Mentions My Closure Post
Like other bloggers with an ego, I have Google Alerts set up to let me know when someone mentions me or my blog anywhere that Google knows about. I got an al...
Why I Love Closures
I’ve been a big fan of closures for years. I was first introduced to them in Smalltalk, where they were just called blocks. Ruby has them and also calls them...
I’m Digging Java Again
I first started doing Java back in 1995. That’s quite a long time ago. Once I got going, I wrote Java code every single day, for thirteen years. I co-authore...
netflix
Netflix And Great Customer Service
I mentioned back in December how much I liked my Netflix player. I still do, but last week I ran into a problem. I have finally caught up with the rest of th...
Hollywood Release Windows Suck
A couple of weeks ago I extolled the virtues of my new Netflix Player. I’m still thrilled with it, but the other day I happened to be looking at my instant q...
Three Days With the Roku Netflix Player
My Netflix Player arrived on Wednesday. It was supposed to be a family Christmas present, but you know how those things go. When something this cool arrives ...
I Am Full of Teh Happy
Yesterday was a good day for me on several fronts. Let me tell you them. First, whilst searching for various things in the iTunes store, I saw that Metallica...
mac
My 2006 Mac Pro Is Having Issues…
I’ve loved this computer since I bought it in November 2006. It’s a massive workhorse, still. 2 dual-core 2.66GHz Xeon chips. 12 GB of RAM. 4 TB of hard disk...
Google Chrome Sync Not Working? Try This
I use Google Chrome exclusively as my browser on both Mac and Windows, and I pretty much love everything about it. One of the things I love most about it is ...
OH NOES! I’ve Lost My .emacs File!
I was first exposed to Emacs back in 1991. It took me a while to warm up to it, but I did and I have been using it ever since. Once I started using it on a r...
Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?
I love your machines. Truly, I do. Back in 1988 I bought a toaster-model Mac SE, with one megabyte of RAM, and I loved it. It only had a nine inch, black-and...
games
Now I Know: Aces High
From today’s edition of the Now I Know newsletter, this bit of interesting stuff:
Interesting Date Tracking There, Microsoft
My son was trying to clean up some space on his computer last night, so he was deleting massive amounts of crap. I encouraged him to uninstall anything that ...
w00t! Latest Wii System Update Addresses Storage Issues
I complained before about the abysmal storage situation on our Wii. Well, our troubles are lessened, if not necessarily over. On March 25, Nintendo released ...
Dear Nintendo: A Wii Storage Solution, Please!
We have a Wii. We’ve had it pretty much since they hit the market. We love it, yes Wii do. Except for one thing: the unbelievably small amount of internal st...
war
George Carlin On Flamethrowers
My favorite George Carlin quote of all time is this:
Let Them Build The Mosque
Unless you are living under a rock, you have heard the controversy surrounding the “ground zero mosque.” Essentially, a group of Muslims want to build an “Is...
Heartbreaking Photos From the Congo
You simply must see these images. It’s a pictorial of “life” in the “Democratic” Republic of Congo. As in many African countries, long-running civil wars be...
Risky Business
The world after Day Zero. Thomas and I started our first game of Risk last night. We got everything setup, I explained the rules, and then we began. As I wa...
vacation
It’s Three Tigers, Not Two Bulls
On our recent trip to Myrtle Beach, we ate at the Planet Hollywood our first night there. Apart from the fact that they were out of Key Lime Pie and bananas ...
Pictures From Myrtle Beach
Here are some of the pictures I took while in Myrtle Beach last weekend. Some are pretty good. Some, not so much. We had a wonderful time, and are seriously ...
The Perfect Summation of Our Trip to Myrtle Beach
We went to Myrtle Beach, SC, last weekend and had a wonderful time. I have lots of pictures that I’ll be posting to Flickr very soon. I just got back from ge...
Observations From WDW
Last Saturday night we got back from our latest trip to Walt Disney World. We spent a week there, like we do every year, but this year there were several dif...
christianity
Only Three Days Until the “Rapture”…
In case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard, the end of the world begins this Saturday , May 21 at or about 6:00 PM. According to Harold Campin...
Let Them Build The Mosque
Unless you are living under a rock, you have heard the controversy surrounding the “ground zero mosque.” Essentially, a group of Muslims want to build an “Is...
My Translation of Luke 2:1-20
Last year before Christmas I translated the nativity story from Luke 2:1-20 from Greek into English because I thought I was up to it. My family and I read it...
Biblical Greek Word Games
In my Sunday School class, we’re currently working through a book on the Gospel of John, by a man called Mark A. Matson. The book is pretty good, but in yest...
programming
Go: Beyond the Basics
Tonight I gave a lecture to the Atlanta Go User Group called “Go: Beyond the Basics.” Here are the slides from that talk: [slideshare id=24823577&doc=gob...
Fizzing and Buzzing With Clojure
I’ve known about the FizzBuzz problem for a few years. I’ve written solutions for it in a few languages, but never posted them. I’ve been working with Clojur...
99 Scala Problems #28 - I Like My Solution Better
I’ve been working through this list of 99 Scala Problems, which is modeled after this list of 99 Prolog Problems. As I’ve been going through them, I have bee...
Procedural vs. Functional
With the rise of Scala and Clojure, there’s been a lot of talk lately about procedural vs. functional styles of coding. Most developers are accustomed to pro...
lolclojure
LoLClojure - Chapter 3, Continued
I didn’t intend to wait a month between installments, but here we are. When we left off, we were discussing a couple of implementation os exponentiation, and...
LoLClojure - Chapter 3
Chapter three of Land of Lisp is all about Lisp syntax. This post will be sort of scattered as far as content goes, since the chapter covered a lot. Many thi...
LoLClojure - Locals
Just like in Lisp, Clojure uses let to define locals. The only real difference is that Clojure uses a vector of names and their bindings, whereas Lisp uses a...
LoLClojure - Land of Lisp In Clojure
I read Conrad Barski’s excellent book Land of Lisp a couple of years ago, and worked through all the examples using CLisp, but I thought it might be fun to g...
knitting
Adding Vertical Stripes To A Knitting Project
I read about this technique in the latest issue of KnitScene magazine, but then forgot where I saw it. I tried to describe it in episode 9 of the Unraveling ...
Knitting Cables Is Easier Than It Looks
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Wee Little Socks
[embed]https://flic.kr/p/xuZ4WX[/embed]
I’ve Taken Up Knitting and Crocheting
About two months ago, I decided to try crochet. I did this, mainly, so I could have a hobby that didn’t make much noise, that I could do while we were watchi...
yarn
Adding Vertical Stripes To A Knitting Project
I read about this technique in the latest issue of KnitScene magazine, but then forgot where I saw it. I tried to describe it in episode 9 of the Unraveling ...
Knitting Cables Is Easier Than It Looks
[embed]https://flic.kr/p/xX3KzV[/embed]
Wee Little Socks
[embed]https://flic.kr/p/xuZ4WX[/embed]
I’ve Taken Up Knitting and Crocheting
About two months ago, I decided to try crochet. I did this, mainly, so I could have a hobby that didn’t make much noise, that I could do while we were watchi...
cycling
Ullrich Wins Stage 12
In an amazing ride, Jan Ullrich of Germany, riding for Team Bianchi, rode the 47 kilometers in 58’ 32”! Incredible. Lance came in at 01’ 36”, almost two minu...
Hamilton Will Ride!
Holy broken collarbones, Batman! According to Lance, Tyler Hamilton, who broke his collarbone in 2 places during that terrible pile-up in Stage 1 yesterday, ...
Bad Pile-Up On First Stage of Le Tour de France
There was a serious accident during the first stage of Le Tour de France today, with only 400 meters to go before the finish line. American Tyler Hamilton is...
tour-de-france
Ullrich Wins Stage 12
In an amazing ride, Jan Ullrich of Germany, riding for Team Bianchi, rode the 47 kilometers in 58’ 32”! Incredible. Lance came in at 01’ 36”, almost two minu...
Hamilton Will Ride!
Holy broken collarbones, Batman! According to Lance, Tyler Hamilton, who broke his collarbone in 2 places during that terrible pile-up in Stage 1 yesterday, ...
Bad Pile-Up On First Stage of Le Tour de France
There was a serious accident during the first stage of Le Tour de France today, with only 400 meters to go before the finish line. American Tyler Hamilton is...
cocoa
Strange Seg Fault In Simple Cocoa App
I just got Aaron Hillegass’ 3rd edition of Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition) and am working through it as if I never went through the 2nd ed...
I Paid My $99 To Apple
As I said yesterday, I finally got my acceptance letter from Apple that essentially allows me to pay them $99 in order to develop iPhone software. I have jus...
So Now Apple Will Let Me In…
After months of waiting, I received this email from Apple just a few minutes ago:
cooking
Real Southern Cooking. Oh, Yes.
Friday we made one of our few yearly adventures into that most fearsome of places, the city of Atlanta. We live about 30 miles outside the city, but we only...
Ever Seen Purple Potatoes?
I have. Last night. I bought a bunch of “fingerling” potatoes and when I sliced the dark-skinned ones, they were purple on the inside.
That Smell
You know that smell? You know, when you’re cooking. And you heat up a skillet and you start heating a little bit of oil. And you mince up some garlic and may...
fish
Bloody Hell, the Snail Died
I was wrong [cref another-day-another-fish-funeral about Pokey the snail]. He died today. I ran ammonia and Ph tests on the tank water and was shocked by the...
Another Day, Another Fish Funeral
As I mentioned [cref fish-funeral two days ago], we had a goldfish die, buried him at sea, and then bought another fish and a snail to keep the remaining fis...
Fish Funeral
For Christmas, my sister-in-law gave my son two goldfish. Without asking us. Needless to say I was not happy about this, but he had them before we knew what ...
tv
Hollywood Release Windows Suck
A couple of weeks ago I extolled the virtues of my new Netflix Player. I’m still thrilled with it, but the other day I happened to be looking at my instant q...
Three Days With the Roku Netflix Player
My Netflix Player arrived on Wednesday. It was supposed to be a family Christmas present, but you know how those things go. When something this cool arrives ...
Speaking Punctuation
So we’re watching Project Runway (don’t ask) and the designers only have 5 minutes left. Tim Gunn walks in and says
animals
Neko Case And Anti- Records Give To Charity
I don’t usually believe it when I see emails or blog postings saying that for everyone who posts/forwards this email/blog posting that Company X will donate ...
I Was Wrong - They Weren’t Foxen
I mentioned the other day about [cref animals-out-of-place seeing two foxes] in the parking lot of my office. I saw the smaller one again on Thursday afterno...
Animals Out of Place
About 15 minutes ago I parked my car in the parking lot of my office, which is in North Atlanta, near Perimeter Mall. As I was walking across the lot toward ...
photo
Long Shot
IMG_1939, a photo by joeygibson on Flickr.
Project 365: Days 1 - 7
I heard about Project 365 some time last year, but when it came back up after New Year’s Day, I decided to take a whack at it. The deal is that you’re suppos...
Fail Blog - From The Cheezburger People
If you’re a fan of LOLCats, you’re going to love Fail Blog. Here’s one that made me laugh this morning.
gmail
The Danger Of Living In the Cloud: No Backups
Yesterday about 4:30 I tried to check my email, but got nothing more than a string of 502 errors from the server. My mail server is a Google Domain Apps acco...
My Google Apps Migration Is Complete
I mentioned [cref i-just-switched-to-google-apps-for-my-domain the other day] that I’d switched over to Google Apps, and had initiated a POP3 transfer of all...
I Just Switched To Google Apps For My Domain
I’ve been using Gmail for a few years now, just having it send mail as joey@joeygibson.com, and not using the actual @gmail.com address at all. Or so I thoug...
iphone
GV Places Discontinued
I hate to have to do this, but I have just pulled GV Places from the App Store, and I will not be selling or maintaining it any longer.
Google Chrome Sync Not Working? Try This
I use Google Chrome exclusively as my browser on both Mac and Windows, and I pretty much love everything about it. One of the things I love most about it is ...
Dear Nintendo: A Wii Storage Solution, Please!
We have a Wii. We’ve had it pretty much since they hit the market. We love it, yes Wii do. Except for one thing: the unbelievably small amount of internal st...
last-fm
Once More, This Time With Clojure
If you happened to read my post from the other day entitled My New “Top Artists Last 7 Days” Widget, you know that I went through three iterations of getting...
My New “Top Artists Last 7 Days” Widget
Note Redux : I changed my approach, yet again. Scroll farther down to see the latest. Note : I changed my approach on this, so scroll down to ...
My Varied Musical Tastes
I use the last.fm application on my Mac to “scrobble” what songs I’m listening to. This allows me to keep a record of what’s been playing, but it mostly allo...
myrtle-beach
It’s Three Tigers, Not Two Bulls
On our recent trip to Myrtle Beach, we ate at the Planet Hollywood our first night there. Apart from the fact that they were out of Key Lime Pie and bananas ...
Pictures From Myrtle Beach
Here are some of the pictures I took while in Myrtle Beach last weekend. Some are pretty good. Some, not so much. We had a wonderful time, and are seriously ...
The Perfect Summation of Our Trip to Myrtle Beach
We went to Myrtle Beach, SC, last weekend and had a wonderful time. I have lots of pictures that I’ll be posting to Flickr very soon. I just got back from ge...
hiking
Two Videos From Lula Lake
As I said earlier today, my buddy Tim and I went hiking on Saturday and ended up spending much time at Lula Lake. You can see pictures from that excursion in...
Hiking Cloudland Canyon and Lula Lake
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A-Hiking I Did Go
Yesterday I played hooky from church, and my buddy Tim and I headed up to the North Georgia mountains for a bit o’ hiking. Tim’s been doing this a lot, but t...
nature
Two Videos From Lula Lake
As I said earlier today, my buddy Tim and I went hiking on Saturday and ended up spending much time at Lula Lake. You can see pictures from that excursion in...
Hiking Cloudland Canyon and Lula Lake
[ichc-flickr-slide width=”500” height=”375” username=”joeygibson” set_id=”72157624892733526” player_r=”71649”]
A-Hiking I Did Go
Yesterday I played hooky from church, and my buddy Tim and I headed up to the North Georgia mountains for a bit o’ hiking. Tim’s been doing this a lot, but t...
parks
Two Videos From Lula Lake
As I said earlier today, my buddy Tim and I went hiking on Saturday and ended up spending much time at Lula Lake. You can see pictures from that excursion in...
Hiking Cloudland Canyon and Lula Lake
[ichc-flickr-slide width=”500” height=”375” username=”joeygibson” set_id=”72157624892733526” player_r=”71649”]
A-Hiking I Did Go
Yesterday I played hooky from church, and my buddy Tim and I headed up to the North Georgia mountains for a bit o’ hiking. Tim’s been doing this a lot, but t...
go
Go Dependency Managers
This past Tuesday, I gave a talk at the April meeting of the Go User Group Atlanta, discussing and comparing four different Go dependency managers. The four ...
Conway’s Game of Life, In Go
About a week ago, I decided to implement Conway’s Game of Life in Go. There was no particular reason, other than that I was bored, I wanted to do something e...
Go: Beyond the Basics
Tonight I gave a lecture to the Atlanta Go User Group called “Go: Beyond the Basics.” Here are the slides from that talk: [slideshare id=24823577&doc=gob...
golang
Go Dependency Managers
This past Tuesday, I gave a talk at the April meeting of the Go User Group Atlanta, discussing and comparing four different Go dependency managers. The four ...
Conway’s Game of Life, In Go
About a week ago, I decided to implement Conway’s Game of Life in Go. There was no particular reason, other than that I was bored, I wanted to do something e...
Go: Beyond the Basics
Tonight I gave a lecture to the Atlanta Go User Group called “Go: Beyond the Basics.” Here are the slides from that talk: [slideshare id=24823577&doc=gob...
blosxom
New Version of My Google Blosxom Plugin
I’ve finally gotten around to updating my Google plugin for Blosxom that’s been languishing for several months now. No longer must you use the cheesy ‘KW:’ s...
My Blosxom 2.0 Google Plugin
I’m releasing a preview version of my Google plugin for Blosxom 2.0. We’ve all seen blog entries with a little “G” or “Google” that when clicked execute a se...
music
Second Piping Lesson
Well, my second (again) piping lesson came off pretty well tonight. I say ‘pretty well’ because it’s been one month since the last lesson and very little pra...
Piping Lessons Well Begun… Again… Well, Almost…
Some of you who know me know that about six years ago I started playing the Highland bagpipe under the expert tutelage of Mr. John Recknagel. Some of you als...
spam
Really Clever ASCII Spam
I use Gmail, which has an awesome spam filter, so I very rarely end up with real spam in my inbox. Spammers, of course, are always trying to come up with way...
“Prize Notification” From “Microsoft”
I just checked my email and found this oh-so-exciting email from MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMOTIONS:
olympics
Michael Phelps - The Man Is a Machine
I’ve watched quite a bit of the Olympics so far, and I continue to be amazed at how Michael Phelps keeps racking up the medals. I just watched him win the se...
Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony
Oh. My. Goodness. We’re watching the opening ceremony and I am absolutely blown away. This is staggeringly beautiful. I think this just might be the most bea...
fox
I Was Wrong - They Weren’t Foxen
I mentioned the other day about [cref animals-out-of-place seeing two foxes] in the parking lot of my office. I saw the smaller one again on Thursday afterno...
Animals Out of Place
About 15 minutes ago I parked my car in the parking lot of my office, which is in North Atlanta, near Perimeter Mall. As I was walking across the lot toward ...
chloe
Reminders of Chloe
Chloe’s been gone for three days now and I keep getting hit by reminders of her. I keep walking into various rooms of the house, expecting her to be there an...
R.I.P. Chloe Gibson - You Were A Good Dog
Chloe Gibson, 1993 - 2008 Back in 1993 Tammy and I went to PetSmart one day to get some cat food. As we walked in, we noticed that they were doing dog adopt...
dog
Reminders of Chloe
Chloe’s been gone for three days now and I keep getting hit by reminders of her. I keep walking into various rooms of the house, expecting her to be there an...
R.I.P. Chloe Gibson - You Were A Good Dog
Chloe Gibson, 1993 - 2008 Back in 1993 Tammy and I went to PetSmart one day to get some cat food. As we walked in, we noticed that they were doing dog adopt...
birmingham
WCBHM10 & Birmingham’s New Railroad Park
For the third year in a row, I attended WordCamp Birmingham. And for the third year in a row, it’s delivered on great content. My favorite session was one th...
I’m Going To WordCamp Birmingham
I paid my registration fee on Friday, and I’m really looking forward to attending. I’ve only been using WordPress since late June, but I’m already hooked. A...
blog
So, I Resurrected My Blog
After just over a week of it being dead, I brought it back, but hosted at Wordpress.com. This is what I should have done in the first place, instead of movin...
I’m Going To WordCamp Birmingham
I paid my registration fee on Friday, and I’m really looking forward to attending. I’ve only been using WordPress since late June, but I’m already hooked. A...
wordcamp
WCBHM10 & Birmingham’s New Railroad Park
For the third year in a row, I attended WordCamp Birmingham. And for the third year in a row, it’s delivered on great content. My favorite session was one th...
I’m Going To WordCamp Birmingham
I paid my registration fee on Friday, and I’m really looking forward to attending. I’ve only been using WordPress since late June, but I’m already hooked. A...
rails
Grails Podcast Mentions My Closure Post
Like other bloggers with an ego, I have Google Alerts set up to let me know when someone mentions me or my blog anywhere that Google knows about. I got an al...
I’m Digging Java Again
I first started doing Java back in 1995. That’s quite a long time ago. Once I got going, I wrote Java code every single day, for thirteen years. I co-authore...
sql
Groovy Sql Closure Examples
My [cref why-i-love-closures post about closures] last week generated quite a bit of traffic and comments, both positive and negative. I decided to followup ...
When Does an HQL Typo Not Cause A Parse Error?
I found something interesting at work yesterday. One of our developers mentioned that when he called a certain method with various sets of parameters, he was...
closures
Groovy Sql Closure Examples
My [cref why-i-love-closures post about closures] last week generated quite a bit of traffic and comments, both positive and negative. I decided to followup ...
Why I Love Closures
I’ve been a big fan of closures for years. I was first introduced to them in Smalltalk, where they were just called blocks. Ruby has them and also calls them...
smalltalk
Scala Gets Operator Overloading Right
02/20/2010 Update: I took this blog post and turned it into a presentation to the Atlanta Scala User Group, which I gave in January 2010. The slides from tha...
Why I Love Closures
I’ve been a big fan of closures for years. I was first introduced to them in Smalltalk, where they were just called blocks. Ruby has them and also calls them...
editors
I Found My .emacs File! w00t!
As I lamented yesterday, I had lost my .emacs file. I searched all my computers that I thought I’d ever run Emacs on, but couldn’t find it. Then a few minute...
OH NOES! I’ve Lost My .emacs File!
I was first exposed to Emacs back in 1991. It took me a while to warm up to it, but I did and I have been using it ever since. Once I started using it on a r...
emacs
I Found My .emacs File! w00t!
As I lamented yesterday, I had lost my .emacs file. I searched all my computers that I thought I’d ever run Emacs on, but couldn’t find it. Then a few minute...
OH NOES! I’ve Lost My .emacs File!
I was first exposed to Emacs back in 1991. It took me a while to warm up to it, but I did and I have been using it ever since. Once I started using it on a r...
wifi
Skype For iPhone Is Full Of WIN!
We’re on vacation in Colonial Williamsburg, and the AT&T signal in and around our hotel sucks! This seems to be a common theme for me. At home, I have ne...
The Case Of the Too-Hot Transformer
Picture it. Friday night. 22:45. Outside Atlanta, GA. Cold. The wife and I were watching the final episodes of Season One of Burn Notice. Killer show. From t...
roku
Hollywood Release Windows Suck
A couple of weeks ago I extolled the virtues of my new Netflix Player. I’m still thrilled with it, but the other day I happened to be looking at my instant q...
Three Days With the Roku Netflix Player
My Netflix Player arrived on Wednesday. It was supposed to be a family Christmas present, but you know how those things go. When something this cool arrives ...
christmas
My Translation of Luke 2:1-20
Last year before Christmas I translated the nativity story from Luke 2:1-20 from Greek into English because I thought I was up to it. My family and I read it...
Christmas Kindness At Red Robin
Tonight Thomas and I needed to get some victuals, so we decided to go to Red Robin. You may remember the last time we went there and were less than impressed...
objective-c
GVoice: An Open Source Objective-C Google Voice Library
05/12/2011 Note : I failed to mention that the library, as it currently stands, builds for iOS only. I’m sure it could be rejiggered to work with OSX, becaus...
Objective-C 2.0 Properties Are Needlessly Verbose
I’ve been working in Objective-C for a little while now; not quite two years, off and on. I was really excited when Apple announced that Objective-C 2.0 was ...
nintendo
w00t! Latest Wii System Update Addresses Storage Issues
I complained before about the abysmal storage situation on our Wii. Well, our troubles are lessened, if not necessarily over. On March 25, Nintendo released ...
Dear Nintendo: A Wii Storage Solution, Please!
We have a Wii. We’ve had it pretty much since they hit the market. We love it, yes Wii do. Except for one thing: the unbelievably small amount of internal st...
storage
w00t! Latest Wii System Update Addresses Storage Issues
I complained before about the abysmal storage situation on our Wii. Well, our troubles are lessened, if not necessarily over. On March 25, Nintendo released ...
Dear Nintendo: A Wii Storage Solution, Please!
We have a Wii. We’ve had it pretty much since they hit the market. We love it, yes Wii do. Except for one thing: the unbelievably small amount of internal st...
wii
w00t! Latest Wii System Update Addresses Storage Issues
I complained before about the abysmal storage situation on our Wii. Well, our troubles are lessened, if not necessarily over. On March 25, Nintendo released ...
Dear Nintendo: A Wii Storage Solution, Please!
We have a Wii. We’ve had it pretty much since they hit the market. We love it, yes Wii do. Except for one thing: the unbelievably small amount of internal st...
plinky
When One Job Ends, Another Begins
In April of 2008, the owner of the company I worked for told me that he was, effectively, shutting down the company and that I needed to find a new job by Ju...
What Have I Got In My Pocket?
Ball-point Pen You always need a pen. I don’t like not having a pen. I really hate it when I let someone borrow my pen, and they keep it! Multi-tip screwdriv...
plugin
New Wordpress Sociable Plugin Has Unintuitive Setup
I got a notification this morning that the Sociable plugin for Wordpress had a new version available, and did I want to install it. I try to keep my plugins ...
No MiddleClickClose for Safari 4
06/09/2009 Update : I thought I’d updated all the pages on my blog about MiddleClickClose, but I missed this one. It now works with Safari 4. Read about it h...
civil-war
Courtesy, In the Midst of War
I’m reading a book called Tybee Island: The Long Branch of the South, by Robert A. Ciucevich, because my wife’s cousin and her husband have a house on Tybee,...
Heartbreaking Photos From the Congo
You simply must see these images. It’s a pictorial of “life” in the “Democratic” Republic of Congo. As in many African countries, long-running civil wars be...
islam
Let Them Build The Mosque
Unless you are living under a rock, you have heard the controversy surrounding the “ground zero mosque.” Essentially, a group of Muslims want to build an “Is...
Georgia Republican Wants Obama to Make 2010 Year of the Bible
From FOX News comes this little gem Georgia Republican Wants Obama to Make 2010 Year of the Bible. According to the article, GA Representative Paul Broun has...
junit
JUnitLaunchFixer 1.0.4 Released
I’ve just released a new version of my Eclipse plugin called JUnitLaunchFixer. If you’ve never heard of it, it lets you set the default heap size for new deb...
Announcing JUnitLaunchFixer Eclipse Plugin
My friend Chris and I both work for the same company. Our product has around 900 JUnit tests, and for some of them, the default heap size that Eclipse runs J...
party
Windows 7 Party Kit Unboxing
My Windows 7 Party Kit arrived this afternoon via UPS, and I decided to be like the cool kids and film myself taking the bits out of the box and discussing t...
I’m Hosting A Windows 7 Launch Party
No, don’t start checking your thermometers to see if Hell has frozen over. Believe it or not, I’m actually hosting a Windows 7 Launch Party. I know, I know....
southern
Matthews Cafeteria: A Disappointing Breakfast
In the late 1990s, I worked at a company in Tucker, GA. We would make almost-weekly visits to a local landmark: Matthews Cafeteria. In business since 1955, e...
Real Southern Cooking. Oh, Yes.
Friday we made one of our few yearly adventures into that most fearsome of places, the city of Atlanta. We live about 30 miles outside the city, but we only...
humor
Bohemian Rhapsody Parody
http://youtu.be/9Xa7cYMD-Dc
Video: The Unexpected Blessing
I don’t know which country this commercial aired in, but it’s pretty good. And there’s a twist.
funny
It’s Three Tigers, Not Two Bulls
On our recent trip to Myrtle Beach, we ate at the Planet Hollywood our first night there. Apart from the fact that they were out of Key Lime Pie and bananas ...
I’m Glad the Ho’s Can Find Gainful Employment
Submitted without further comment:
greek
Unmotivated
As you can probably tell, I haven’t been motivated to write anything in well over a month. I don’t know why, but that’s what’s happened. I didn’t finish my L...
Two Updates and a Trophy
Update, the First: As I said back on February 19, I’m working on translating the Gospel of Luke from Greek into English as a Lenten project. Once I changed t...
philosophy
On Motivation
I just read this quote on Reddit from Neil deGrasse Tyson when asked about finding motivation. I love what he said.
The Essentials of Happiness
Tonight, whilst reading my lesson for Sunday School, I came across a quote that I really like. I normally don’t get much out of quotes, since generally they ...
beach
Pictures From Myrtle Beach
Here are some of the pictures I took while in Myrtle Beach last weekend. Some are pretty good. Some, not so much. We had a wonderful time, and are seriously ...
The Perfect Summation of Our Trip to Myrtle Beach
We went to Myrtle Beach, SC, last weekend and had a wonderful time. I have lots of pictures that I’ll be posting to Flickr very soon. I just got back from ge...
functional
99 Scala Problems #28 - I Like My Solution Better
I’ve been working through this list of 99 Scala Problems, which is modeled after this list of 99 Prolog Problems. As I’ve been going through them, I have bee...
Procedural vs. Functional
With the rise of Scala and Clojure, there’s been a lot of talk lately about procedural vs. functional styles of coding. Most developers are accustomed to pro...
cloudland-canyon
Two Videos From Lula Lake
As I said earlier today, my buddy Tim and I went hiking on Saturday and ended up spending much time at Lula Lake. You can see pictures from that excursion in...
Hiking Cloudland Canyon and Lula Lake
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lula-lake
Two Videos From Lula Lake
As I said earlier today, my buddy Tim and I went hiking on Saturday and ended up spending much time at Lula Lake. You can see pictures from that excursion in...
Hiking Cloudland Canyon and Lula Lake
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waterfalls
Two Videos From Lula Lake
As I said earlier today, my buddy Tim and I went hiking on Saturday and ended up spending much time at Lula Lake. You can see pictures from that excursion in...
Hiking Cloudland Canyon and Lula Lake
[ichc-flickr-slide width=”500” height=”375” username=”joeygibson” set_id=”72157624892733526” player_r=”71649”]
georgia
Matthews Cafeteria: A Disappointing Breakfast
In the late 1990s, I worked at a company in Tucker, GA. We would make almost-weekly visits to a local landmark: Matthews Cafeteria. In business since 1955, e...
Review: Still Waters Restaurant
My friends Tim and Meg told me about a new place in Grayson called Still Waters Restaurant which had, they said, “pretty good bar-b-que.” I decided I needed...
restaurant
Matthews Cafeteria: A Disappointing Breakfast
In the late 1990s, I worked at a company in Tucker, GA. We would make almost-weekly visits to a local landmark: Matthews Cafeteria. In business since 1955, e...
Review: Still Waters Restaurant
My friends Tim and Meg told me about a new place in Grayson called Still Waters Restaurant which had, they said, “pretty good bar-b-que.” I decided I needed...
review
Matthews Cafeteria: A Disappointing Breakfast
In the late 1990s, I worked at a company in Tucker, GA. We would make almost-weekly visits to a local landmark: Matthews Cafeteria. In business since 1955, e...
Review: Still Waters Restaurant
My friends Tim and Meg told me about a new place in Grayson called Still Waters Restaurant which had, they said, “pretty good bar-b-que.” I decided I needed...
absurdity
I Just Voted For Obama
I just voted to kill babies, bankrupt our grandchildren, turn “the greatest healtcare system in the world” into a giant socialst death panel, outlaw the sayi...
Only Three Days Until the “Rapture”…
In case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard, the end of the world begins this Saturday , May 21 at or about 6:00 PM. According to Harold Campin...
black-belt
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Adding Vertical Stripes To A Knitting Project
I read about this technique in the latest issue of KnitScene magazine, but then forgot where I saw it. I tried to describe it in episode 9 of the Unraveling ...
I’ve Taken Up Knitting and Crocheting
About two months ago, I decided to try crochet. I did this, mainly, so I could have a hobby that didn’t make much noise, that I could do while we were watchi...
tips
My iPhone Apps
After spending way too much time last night going through the App Store, I finally went to bed. But not before I took some screenshots of everything installe...
sdk
I Paid My $99 To Apple
As I said yesterday, I finally got my acceptance letter from Apple that essentially allows me to pay them $99 in order to develop iPhone software. I have jus...
firefly
I Just Watched Act I of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog!
I just finished watching Act I of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog and it’s hilarious. It’s a web-only musical, created by Joss Whedon, the creator of the bod...
nigerian
“Prize Notification” From “Microsoft”
I just checked my email and found this oh-so-exciting email from MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMOTIONS:
lcd
Two New Monitors For Me! W00T!
I just bought two, count ‘em, two new 22” Samsung 2232BW+ LCD monitors for my office. That’s them in the photo below. I am replacing two 21” CRT’s that weigh...
monitors
Two New Monitors For Me! W00T!
I just bought two, count ‘em, two new 22” Samsung 2232BW+ LCD monitors for my office. That’s them in the photo below. I am replacing two 21” CRT’s that weigh...
hulu
Dr. Horrible on Hulu
I don’t know for how long, but all of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog is available to watch for free on Hulu. Hulu is a legit service from NBC, so you’re not...
scifi
No “Pirate Sun” For Me Yet
I just got back from Borders attempting to buy Karl Schroeder’s Pirate Sun, but they don’t have it yet. Argh. I’ll be finished with The Yellow Admiral in a f...
dyson
Our Dyson Vacuum Sucks
We have a Dyson vacuum, and it sucks. In both bad and good ways. On the good side, it has better suction, with a far fuller tank, than any vacuum I’ve ever u...
vacuum
Our Dyson Vacuum Sucks
We have a Dyson vacuum, and it sucks. In both bad and good ways. On the good side, it has better suction, with a far fuller tank, than any vacuum I’ve ever u...
phelps
Michael Phelps - The Man Is a Machine
I’ve watched quite a bit of the Olympics so far, and I continue to be amazed at how Michael Phelps keeps racking up the medals. I just watched him win the se...
swimming
Michael Phelps - The Man Is a Machine
I’ve watched quite a bit of the Olympics so far, and I continue to be amazed at how Michael Phelps keeps racking up the medals. I just watched him win the se...
usa
Michael Phelps - The Man Is a Machine
I’ve watched quite a bit of the Olympics so far, and I continue to be amazed at how Michael Phelps keeps racking up the medals. I just watched him win the se...
snail
Bloody Hell, the Snail Died
I was wrong [cref another-day-another-fish-funeral about Pokey the snail]. He died today. I ran ammonia and Ph tests on the tank water and was shocked by the...
cars
When General Motors Was Dreaming
The New York Times has a slideshow today of gorgeous old cars called When General Motors Was Dreaming. Some of the cars were just prototypes, but some were p...
retro
When General Motors Was Dreaming
The New York Times has a slideshow today of gorgeous old cars called When General Motors Was Dreaming. Some of the cars were just prototypes, but some were p...
style
When General Motors Was Dreaming
The New York Times has a slideshow today of gorgeous old cars called When General Motors Was Dreaming. Some of the cars were just prototypes, but some were p...
mobileme
Apple Still Working on MobileMe
I just received an email from Apple regarding MobileMe. Here’s what it said
cuil
Cuil Thinks I’m More Relevant Than Dr. Horrible
I was looking through my web stats this morning and I noticed that I had a link from cuil.com, the latest in a long string of supposed “Google Killers.” I cl...
search
Cuil Thinks I’m More Relevant Than Dr. Horrible
I was looking through my web stats this morning and I noticed that I had a link from cuil.com, the latest in a long string of supposed “Google Killers.” I cl...
cat
R.I.P. Chloe Gibson - You Were A Good Dog
Chloe Gibson, 1993 - 2008 Back in 1993 Tammy and I went to PetSmart one day to get some cat food. As we walked in, we noticed that they were doing dog adopt...
battery
My iPhone Battery Drain - Solved
Ever since upgrading my iPhone to 2.0.2 last week, I had noticed a marked drain on my battery. I don’t use my phone that much, so it surprised me that the ba...
push
My iPhone Battery Drain - Solved
Ever since upgrading my iPhone to 2.0.2 last week, I had noticed a marked drain on my battery. I don’t use my phone that much, so it surprised me that the ba...
firefox
Strange Firefox+Mac WordPress Admin Page
Below is a screencap of what part of my WordPress 2.6.1 admin page looks like when I view it using Firefox 3.0.1 on Leopard.
leopard
Strange Firefox+Mac WordPress Admin Page
Below is a screencap of what part of my WordPress 2.6.1 admin page looks like when I view it using Firefox 3.0.1 on Leopard.
blogines
Google Reader May Trump Bloglines For Me
I’ve been using Bloglines.com for feed reading for a few years now. I had tried Google Reader before, but I was quite happy with Bloglines, so I never switch...
feed
Google Reader May Trump Bloglines For Me
I’ve been using Bloglines.com for feed reading for a few years now. I had tried Google Reader before, but I was quite happy with Bloglines, so I never switch...
google-reader
Google Reader May Trump Bloglines For Me
I’ve been using Bloglines.com for feed reading for a few years now. I had tried Google Reader before, but I was quite happy with Bloglines, so I never switch...
rss
Google Reader May Trump Bloglines For Me
I’ve been using Bloglines.com for feed reading for a few years now. I had tried Google Reader before, but I was quite happy with Bloglines, so I never switch...
doughnuts
Holy Clogged Arteries, Batman!
I love Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I mean love. Love, as in, if they were alive, I’d marry them. Love, as in, if I were on a desert island and a plane flew overh...
krispy-kreme
Holy Clogged Arteries, Batman!
I love Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I mean love. Love, as in, if they were alive, I’d marry them. Love, as in, if I were on a desert island and a plane flew overh...
coyote
I Was Wrong - They Weren’t Foxen
I mentioned the other day about [cref animals-out-of-place seeing two foxes] in the parking lot of my office. I saw the smaller one again on Thursday afterno...
browser
Chrome Is Cool, But No Mac Version Yet
Yesterday, the internets were all a-flutter about Chrome, Google’s new surprise web browser. Sure, I downloaded it, like everyone else, and I was impressed b...
chrome
Chrome Is Cool, But No Mac Version Yet
Yesterday, the internets were all a-flutter about Chrome, Google’s new surprise web browser. Sure, I downloaded it, like everyone else, and I was impressed b...
linux
Chrome Is Cool, But No Mac Version Yet
Yesterday, the internets were all a-flutter about Chrome, Google’s new surprise web browser. Sure, I downloaded it, like everyone else, and I was impressed b...
fail
Fail Blog - From The Cheezburger People
If you’re a fan of LOLCats, you’re going to love Fail Blog. Here’s one that made me laugh this morning.
lolcat
Fail Blog - From The Cheezburger People
If you’re a fan of LOLCats, you’re going to love Fail Blog. Here’s one that made me laugh this morning.
conference
I’m Going To WordCamp Birmingham
I paid my registration fee on Friday, and I’m really looking forward to attending. I’ve only been using WordPress since late June, but I’m already hooked. A...
pandora
My First Impressions of iTunes 8 “Genius”
After Apple announced iTunes 8 yesterday, I downloaded and installed it, eager to see the new “Genius” feature. This feature had been rumored to be similar t...
jargon
Microfortnights Make Me Giggle
A long time ago (15+ years) I worked on a VAX. If memory serves, it was a MicroVAX 3900. I don’t recall ever seeing this unit of measure mentioned in the doc...
measure
Microfortnights Make Me Giggle
A long time ago (15+ years) I worked on a VAX. If memory serves, it was a MicroVAX 3900. I don’t recall ever seeing this unit of measure mentioned in the doc...
microfortnight
Microfortnights Make Me Giggle
A long time ago (15+ years) I worked on a VAX. If memory serves, it was a MicroVAX 3900. I don’t recall ever seeing this unit of measure mentioned in the doc...
vax
Microfortnights Make Me Giggle
A long time ago (15+ years) I worked on a VAX. If memory serves, it was a MicroVAX 3900. I don’t recall ever seeing this unit of measure mentioned in the doc...
vms
Microfortnights Make Me Giggle
A long time ago (15+ years) I worked on a VAX. If memory serves, it was a MicroVAX 3900. I don’t recall ever seeing this unit of measure mentioned in the doc...
iterm
Problems With Latest Version of iTerm
I love iTerm as a replacement for Terminal.app, but this morning after letting iTerm upgrade itself to “Build 0.9.5.0909”, all my settings, profiles and book...
dar-williams
I Am Full of Teh Happy
Yesterday was a good day for me on several fronts. Let me tell you them. First, whilst searching for various things in the iTunes store, I saw that Metallica...
metallica
I Am Full of Teh Happy
Yesterday was a good day for me on several fronts. Let me tell you them. First, whilst searching for various things in the iTunes store, I saw that Metallica...
nomeansno
I Am Full of Teh Happy
Yesterday was a good day for me on several fronts. Let me tell you them. First, whilst searching for various things in the iTunes store, I saw that Metallica...
weeds
I Am Full of Teh Happy
Yesterday was a good day for me on several fronts. Let me tell you them. First, whilst searching for various things in the iTunes store, I saw that Metallica...
grammar
I’m Loving Grammar Girl
I may be a bit late in discovering her podcast, but last week I found out about Grammar Girl, and it’s been love ever since. For those of you who are later t...
podcast
I’m Loving Grammar Girl
I may be a bit late in discovering her podcast, but last week I found out about Grammar Girl, and it’s been love ever since. For those of you who are later t...
dns
I Just Switched To Google Apps For My Domain
I’ve been using Gmail for a few years now, just having it send mail as joey@joeygibson.com, and not using the actual @gmail.com address at all. Or so I thoug...
hibernate
When Does an HQL Typo Not Cause A Parse Error?
I found something interesting at work yesterday. One of our developers mentioned that when he called a certain method with various sets of parameters, he was...
hql
When Does an HQL Typo Not Cause A Parse Error?
I found something interesting at work yesterday. One of our developers mentioned that when he called a certain method with various sets of parameters, he was...
pop3
My Google Apps Migration Is Complete
I mentioned [cref i-just-switched-to-google-apps-for-my-domain the other day] that I’d switched over to Google Apps, and had initiated a POP3 transfer of all...
ascii
Really Clever ASCII Spam
I use Gmail, which has an awesome spam filter, so I very rarely end up with real spam in my inbox. Spammers, of course, are always trying to come up with way...
space
An Asteroid’s A-Comin’
At the bowling alley tonight, after discussing the stock market for a while, my friend says to me, “Did you hear about the asteroid that’s supposed to hit us...
steve-jobs
Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?
I love your machines. Truly, I do. Back in 1988 I bought a toaster-model Mac SE, with one megabyte of RAM, and I loved it. It only had a nine inch, black-and...
sun
Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?
I love your machines. Truly, I do. Back in 1988 I bought a toaster-model Mac SE, with one megabyte of RAM, and I loved it. It only had a nine inch, black-and...
spanish
Greek and Spanish Simultaneously: Is It Possible?
Around April in 2006, I started learning Greek, because I wanted to be able to read the source materials of the New Testament (notice I didn’t say the “origi...
dictionary
Reading the Dictionary Is Fun
While waiting for my lunch to cook today, I picked up my son’s Oxford Desk Dictionary to look up a word. I had the word “fop” in my head, and I wanted to mak...
english
Reading the Dictionary Is Fun
While waiting for my lunch to cook today, I picked up my son’s Oxford Desk Dictionary to look up a word. I had the word “fop” in my head, and I wanted to mak...
vocabulary
Reading the Dictionary Is Fun
While waiting for my lunch to cook today, I picked up my son’s Oxford Desk Dictionary to look up a word. I had the word “fop” in my head, and I wanted to mak...
words
Reading the Dictionary Is Fun
While waiting for my lunch to cook today, I picked up my son’s Oxford Desk Dictionary to look up a word. I had the word “fop” in my head, and I wanted to mak...
grails
Grails Podcast Mentions My Closure Post
Like other bloggers with an ego, I have Google Alerts set up to let me know when someone mentions me or my blog anywhere that Google knows about. I got an al...
unix
OH NOES! I’ve Lost My .emacs File!
I was first exposed to Emacs back in 1991. It took me a while to warm up to it, but I did and I have been using it ever since. Once I started using it on a r...
power-supply
The Case Of the Too-Hot Transformer
Picture it. Friday night. 22:45. Outside Atlanta, GA. Cold. The wife and I were watching the final episodes of Season One of Burn Notice. Killer show. From t...
router
The Case Of the Too-Hot Transformer
Picture it. Friday night. 22:45. Outside Atlanta, GA. Cold. The wife and I were watching the final episodes of Season One of Burn Notice. Killer show. From t...
alphanumeric
Let Me Decide What A Good Password Is!
I have had it with web sites that won’t let me put really secure passwords on my accounts. What do I mean by that? I mean sites that won’t allow anything oth...
password
Let Me Decide What A Good Password Is!
I have had it with web sites that won’t let me put really secure passwords on my accounts. What do I mean by that? I mean sites that won’t allow anything oth...
punctuation
Let Me Decide What A Good Password Is!
I have had it with web sites that won’t let me put really secure passwords on my accounts. What do I mean by that? I mean sites that won’t allow anything oth...
web
Let Me Decide What A Good Password Is!
I have had it with web sites that won’t let me put really secure passwords on my accounts. What do I mean by that? I mean sites that won’t allow anything oth...
streaming
Three Days With the Roku Netflix Player
My Netflix Player arrived on Wednesday. It was supposed to be a family Christmas present, but you know how those things go. When something this cool arrives ...
bah-humbug
Christmas Kindness At Red Robin
Tonight Thomas and I needed to get some victuals, so we decided to go to Red Robin. You may remember the last time we went there and were less than impressed...
kindness
Christmas Kindness At Red Robin
Tonight Thomas and I needed to get some victuals, so we decided to go to Red Robin. You may remember the last time we went there and were less than impressed...
red-robin
Christmas Kindness At Red Robin
Tonight Thomas and I needed to get some victuals, so we decided to go to Red Robin. You may remember the last time we went there and were less than impressed...
santa-hat
Christmas Kindness At Red Robin
Tonight Thomas and I needed to get some victuals, so we decided to go to Red Robin. You may remember the last time we went there and were less than impressed...
project365
Project 365: Days 1 - 7
I heard about Project 365 some time last year, but when it came back up after New Year’s Day, I decided to take a whack at it. The deal is that you’re suppos...
customer-service
Netflix And Great Customer Service
I mentioned back in December how much I liked my Netflix player. I still do, but last week I ran into a problem. I have finally caught up with the rest of th...
charity
Neko Case And Anti- Records Give To Charity
I don’t usually believe it when I see emails or blog postings saying that for everyone who posts/forwards this email/blog posting that Company X will donate ...
neko-case
Neko Case And Anti- Records Give To Charity
I don’t usually believe it when I see emails or blog postings saying that for everyone who posts/forwards this email/blog posting that Company X will donate ...
game
Risky Business
The world after Day Zero. Thomas and I started our first game of Risk last night. We got everything setup, I explained the rules, and then we began. As I wa...
risk
Risky Business
The world after Day Zero. Thomas and I started our first game of Risk last night. We got everything setup, I explained the rules, and then we began. As I wa...
ipod
O NOES! My iPod Has Gone Tango Uniform!
We went to my mother-in-law’s house this weekend, because my wife was singing at her mom’s church yesterday morning. We had a nice time, and had some great S...
love-boat
YouTube - Star Trek as The Love Boat
YouTube - Star Trek as The Love Boat. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWyxZR69CI0&w;=425&h;=350] That is 1:35 of PURE WIN!
star-trek
YouTube - Star Trek as The Love Boat
YouTube - Star Trek as The Love Boat. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWyxZR69CI0&w;=425&h;=350] That is 1:35 of PURE WIN!
high-school
I Felt Very Old Last Night
I’m 38. I’ll be 39 in May (the 4th, if anyone wants to send me a gift). Last night, I felt older than I ever have. We had gone to see the Winter Guard unit t...
memories
I Felt Very Old Last Night
I’m 38. I’ll be 39 in May (the 4th, if anyone wants to send me a gift). Last night, I felt older than I ever have. We had gone to see the Winter Guard unit t...
time
I Felt Very Old Last Night
I’m 38. I’ll be 39 in May (the 4th, if anyone wants to send me a gift). Last night, I felt older than I ever have. We had gone to see the Winter Guard unit t...
winter-guard
I Felt Very Old Last Night
I’m 38. I’ll be 39 in May (the 4th, if anyone wants to send me a gift). Last night, I felt older than I ever have. We had gone to see the Winter Guard unit t...
zombies
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Blue At The Mizzen - Finished
This morning I finished reading Blue At The Mizzen, the last complete book in the twenty-book Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. I’m a huge fan of the...
jack-aubrey
Blue At The Mizzen - Finished
This morning I finished reading Blue At The Mizzen, the last complete book in the twenty-book Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. I’m a huge fan of the...
patrick-obrian
Blue At The Mizzen - Finished
This morning I finished reading Blue At The Mizzen, the last complete book in the twenty-book Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. I’m a huge fan of the...
stephen-maturin
Blue At The Mizzen - Finished
This morning I finished reading Blue At The Mizzen, the last complete book in the twenty-book Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. I’m a huge fan of the...
surprise
Blue At The Mizzen - Finished
This morning I finished reading Blue At The Mizzen, the last complete book in the twenty-book Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. I’m a huge fan of the...
children
Heartbreaking Photos From the Congo
You simply must see these images. It’s a pictorial of “life” in the “Democratic” Republic of Congo. As in many African countries, long-running civil wars be...
congo
Heartbreaking Photos From the Congo
You simply must see these images. It’s a pictorial of “life” in the “Democratic” Republic of Congo. As in many African countries, long-running civil wars be...
ethnic-fighting
Heartbreaking Photos From the Congo
You simply must see these images. It’s a pictorial of “life” in the “Democratic” Republic of Congo. As in many African countries, long-running civil wars be...
suffering
Heartbreaking Photos From the Congo
You simply must see these images. It’s a pictorial of “life” in the “Democratic” Republic of Congo. As in many African countries, long-running civil wars be...
sound
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Snow In Georgia 2009
On March 1, 2009, we here in the South finally got some snow. In fact, at my house, we got loads of snow. I took a bunch of photos at three different times ...
interview
Thomas Interviews Me Using Our New Flip HD Camcorder
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31K_bkydcw4&w;=425&h;=344] We got a new Flip Video MinoHD Camcorder yesterday from Amazon. It’s a very neat l...
thomas
Thomas Interviews Me Using Our New Flip HD Camcorder
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31K_bkydcw4&w;=425&h;=344] We got a new Flip Video MinoHD Camcorder yesterday from Amazon. It’s a very neat l...
graphics
Help Me With iPhone Dev Graphics Question, Please
Usually when I learn a new programming language or framework, I am plagued by the fact that I can’t think of anything to build with it, or I can only think o...
opengl
Help Me With iPhone Dev Graphics Question, Please
Usually when I learn a new programming language or framework, I am plagued by the fact that I can’t think of anything to build with it, or I can only think o...
quartz
Help Me With iPhone Dev Graphics Question, Please
Usually when I learn a new programming language or framework, I am plagued by the fact that I can’t think of anything to build with it, or I can only think o...
adam-lambert
American Idol Switcheroo on iTunes
If you watched Idol last week, you were treated to a bunch of mediocre renditions of classic Motown songs, plus a stunningly beautiful re-imagining of Smokey...
american-idol
American Idol Switcheroo on iTunes
If you watched Idol last week, you were treated to a bunch of mediocre renditions of classic Motown songs, plus a stunningly beautiful re-imagining of Smokey...
koine
All Things Are Better In Koine
This video made me laugh out loud. You have to know some Greek to appreciate the whole thing, but even if you don’t, some of it should still make you laugh.
outage
The Danger Of Living In the Cloud: No Backups
Yesterday about 4:30 I tried to check my email, but got nothing more than a string of 502 errors from the server. My mail server is a Google Domain Apps acco...
skype
Skype For iPhone Is Full Of WIN!
We’re on vacation in Colonial Williamsburg, and the AT&T signal in and around our hotel sucks! This seems to be a common theme for me. At home, I have ne...
diy
The Never-Ending Project: Completed!
The Original Satellite Spigot A couple of years ago, I built the device shown in the photo on the right. It’s an extension to our back yard garden hose, whi...
home-repair
The Never-Ending Project: Completed!
The Original Satellite Spigot A couple of years ago, I built the device shown in the photo on the right. It’s an extension to our back yard garden hose, whi...
projects
The Never-Ending Project: Completed!
The Original Satellite Spigot A couple of years ago, I built the device shown in the photo on the right. It’s an extension to our back yard garden hose, whi...
bullshit
YouTube - The Truth About Bottled Water
YouTube - The Truth About Bottled Water. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfPAjUvvnIc&w;=425&h;=350] I have to be honest, I do drink bottled w...
water
YouTube - The Truth About Bottled Water
YouTube - The Truth About Bottled Water. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfPAjUvvnIc&w;=425&h;=350] I have to be honest, I do drink bottled w...
eeepc
1 eeePC, 2 SDDs, 1 Pendrive, Ubuntu, Win7 and dd - Hoo-wee!
If you’ve ever been here before, you know that I bought an Asus eeePC 900a a few months ago. After buying it, I pulled out the 1G RAM and 4G SDD and replace ...
macgyver
1 eeePC, 2 SDDs, 1 Pendrive, Ubuntu, Win7 and dd - Hoo-wee!
If you’ve ever been here before, you know that I bought an Asus eeePC 900a a few months ago. After buying it, I pulled out the 1G RAM and 4G SDD and replace ...
ubuntu
1 eeePC, 2 SDDs, 1 Pendrive, Ubuntu, Win7 and dd - Hoo-wee!
If you’ve ever been here before, you know that I bought an Asus eeePC 900a a few months ago. After buying it, I pulled out the 1G RAM and 4G SDD and replace ...
win7
1 eeePC, 2 SDDs, 1 Pendrive, Ubuntu, Win7 and dd - Hoo-wee!
If you’ve ever been here before, you know that I bought an Asus eeePC 900a a few months ago. After buying it, I pulled out the 1G RAM and 4G SDD and replace ...
regex
Scala’s Nice Regex Class
I’m a big fan of regular expressions, because they let you parse text in very concise, and sometimes complicated, ways. Though I agree with jwz about regular...
sys-con
Bogus Search Results From Sys-Con
Updated! Be sure to scroll down for the latest! I’m writing a blog post dealing with Scala’s XML literal syntax and how to use it for object de/serialization...
serialization
I’m Liking Scala’s XML Literals
How many times have you written a class that you needed to save and restore to/from XML? How did you do it? There are libraries that will do this for you, bu...
xml
I’m Liking Scala’s XML Literals
How many times have you written a class that you needed to save and restore to/from XML? How did you do it? There are libraries that will do this for you, bu...
internet
The Live On The Internet Song
Finally, I catch on to a meme before it’s too late!
leolaporte
The Live On The Internet Song
Finally, I catch on to a meme before it’s too late!
meme
The Live On The Internet Song
Finally, I catch on to a meme before it’s too late!
puppies
The Live On The Internet Song
Finally, I catch on to a meme before it’s too late!
fraud
So A Guy Comes To My Door, Wanting To Sell Me Some Meat…
As the title suggests, about 30 minutes ago a guy comes to the door, wanting to sell me some meat. That sounds like the setup for a bad joke, but it isn’t. M...
meat
So A Guy Comes To My Door, Wanting To Sell Me Some Meat…
As the title suggests, about 30 minutes ago a guy comes to the door, wanting to sell me some meat. That sounds like the setup for a bad joke, but it isn’t. M...
scams
So A Guy Comes To My Door, Wanting To Sell Me Some Meat…
As the title suggests, about 30 minutes ago a guy comes to the door, wanting to sell me some meat. That sounds like the setup for a bad joke, but it isn’t. M...
netbook
I’m Hosting A Windows 7 Launch Party
No, don’t start checking your thermometers to see if Hell has frozen over. Believe it or not, I’m actually hosting a Windows 7 Launch Party. I know, I know....
unboxing
Windows 7 Party Kit Unboxing
My Windows 7 Party Kit arrived this afternoon via UPS, and I decided to be like the cool kids and film myself taking the bits out of the box and discussing t...
frank-sinatra
My Varied Musical Tastes
I use the last.fm application on my Mac to “scrobble” what songs I’m listening to. This allows me to keep a record of what’s been playing, but it mostly allo...
friendfeed
My Varied Musical Tastes
I use the last.fm application on my Mac to “scrobble” what songs I’m listening to. This allows me to keep a record of what’s been playing, but it mostly allo...
euler
2 Solutions To Project Euler Problem #1
In an effort to not go a whole month without blogging, and in the interest of posting some code samples, I give you two solutions to Project Euler: Problem #...
progrock
Prog Rock Yodel Solo‽
I saw this video linked from this Cracked article about lame “progressive rock,” and I just had to share it. The article is funny as heck, even though I love...
atlanta
Real Southern Cooking. Oh, Yes.
Friday we made one of our few yearly adventures into that most fearsome of places, the city of Atlanta. We live about 30 miles outside the city, but we only...
tuple
What the Heck Is a Tuple, Anyway?
Yesterday I was talking with a friend about Scala and the subject of tuples came up. We both had a bit of a laugh that neither of us was sure how to pronounc...
lent
My Lenten Project: Reading Luke In Greek
In 2007, I announced that I was going to try to translate all of the book of Jude from Greek into English as a Lenten project. It did not go well. I realized...
luke
My Lenten Project: Reading Luke In Greek
In 2007, I announced that I was going to try to translate all of the book of Jude from Greek into English as a Lenten project. It did not go well. I realized...
translation
A Comma Can Make Quite a Difference
As I said, I am reading the book of Luke in Greek as a Lenten project. At the urging of a friend, I have decided to write down my translation, which I will p...
tae-kwon-do
Two Updates and a Trophy
Update, the First: As I said back on February 19, I’m working on translating the Gospel of Luke from Greek into English as a Lenten project. Once I changed t...
weight-loss
Two Updates and a Trophy
Update, the First: As I said back on February 19, I’m working on translating the Gospel of Luke from Greek into English as a Lenten project. Once I changed t...
backgammon
Unmotivated
As you can probably tell, I haven’t been motivated to write anything in well over a month. I don’t know why, but that’s what’s happened. I didn’t finish my L...
mercurial
Unmotivated
As you can probably tell, I haven’t been motivated to write anything in well over a month. I don’t know why, but that’s what’s happened. I didn’t finish my L...
happiness
The Essentials of Happiness
Tonight, whilst reading my lesson for Sunday School, I came across a quote that I really like. I normally don’t get much out of quotes, since generally they ...
ocean
Pictures From Myrtle Beach
Here are some of the pictures I took while in Myrtle Beach last weekend. Some are pretty good. Some, not so much. We had a wonderful time, and are seriously ...
car
My New Ford Focus
Last Thursday, on the way home from the office, I got on I-285 and quickly merged over five lanes to the left. I then realized that my accelerator was no lon...
focus
My New Ford Focus
Last Thursday, on the way home from the office, I got on I-285 and quickly merged over five lanes to the left. I then realized that my accelerator was no lon...
ford
My New Ford Focus
Last Thursday, on the way home from the office, I got on I-285 and quickly merged over five lanes to the left. I then realized that my accelerator was no lon...
saturn
My New Ford Focus
Last Thursday, on the way home from the office, I got on I-285 and quickly merged over five lanes to the left. I then realized that my accelerator was no lon...
raven-cliff-falls
A-Hiking I Did Go
Yesterday I played hooky from church, and my buddy Tim and I headed up to the North Georgia mountains for a bit o’ hiking. Tim’s been doing this a lot, but t...
tallulah-gorge
A-Hiking I Did Go
Yesterday I played hooky from church, and my buddy Tim and I headed up to the North Georgia mountains for a bit o’ hiking. Tim’s been doing this a lot, but t...
water-falls
A-Hiking I Did Go
Yesterday I played hooky from church, and my buddy Tim and I headed up to the North Georgia mountains for a bit o’ hiking. Tim’s been doing this a lot, but t...
wcbhm10
WCBHM10 & Birmingham’s New Railroad Park
For the third year in a row, I attended WordCamp Birmingham. And for the third year in a row, it’s delivered on great content. My favorite session was one th...
recipe
My Grandma’s “Orange Stuff” Recipe
We don’t have a name for this, so we just call it what it looks like. My wife calls this a “congealed salad.” I call it a dessert. We both call it yummy. Her...
bad-movies
Dracula vs. Frankenstein: 1971 Bad-Acting Award-Winning Film…
As I was downstairs this morning toasting a sourdough English muffin, I was flipping through the channels on the TV. I noticed a “film” on the MGMHD channel ...
current-events
Current Events In the Fifth Grade
I don’t know what made me think of this, but this morning while driving to the office, I remembered something from the fifth grade. It was 1980, and every Fr...
hostages
Current Events In the Fifth Grade
I don’t know what made me think of this, but this morning while driving to the office, I remembered something from the fifth grade. It was 1980, and every Fr...
iran
Current Events In the Fifth Grade
I don’t know what made me think of this, but this morning while driving to the office, I remembered something from the fifth grade. It was 1980, and every Fr...
school
Current Events In the Fifth Grade
I don’t know what made me think of this, but this morning while driving to the office, I remembered something from the fifth grade. It was 1980, and every Fr...
library
GVoice: An Open Source Objective-C Google Voice Library
05/12/2011 Note : I failed to mention that the library, as it currently stands, builds for iOS only. I’m sure it could be rejiggered to work with OSX, becaus...
grayson
Review: Still Waters Restaurant
My friends Tim and Meg told me about a new place in Grayson called Still Waters Restaurant which had, they said, “pretty good bar-b-que.” I decided I needed...
loganville
Review: Still Waters Restaurant
My friends Tim and Meg told me about a new place in Grayson called Still Waters Restaurant which had, they said, “pretty good bar-b-que.” I decided I needed...
snellville
Review: Still Waters Restaurant
My friends Tim and Meg told me about a new place in Grayson called Still Waters Restaurant which had, they said, “pretty good bar-b-que.” I decided I needed...
history
Courtesy, In the Midst of War
I’m reading a book called Tybee Island: The Long Branch of the South, by Robert A. Ciucevich, because my wife’s cousin and her husband have a house on Tybee,...
tybee-island
Courtesy, In the Midst of War
I’m reading a book called Tybee Island: The Long Branch of the South, by Robert A. Ciucevich, because my wife’s cousin and her husband have a house on Tybee,...
rapture
Only Three Days Until the “Rapture”…
In case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard, the end of the world begins this Saturday , May 21 at or about 6:00 PM. According to Harold Campin...
sales
O Sears, You Disappoint Me
I just got a cold call from Sears saying that the warranty on my refrigerator is about to expire, and asking me if I wanted to extend it for three more years...
sears
O Sears, You Disappoint Me
I just got a cold call from Sears saying that the warranty on my refrigerator is about to expire, and asking me if I wanted to extend it for three more years...
sleazy
O Sears, You Disappoint Me
I just got a cold call from Sears saying that the warranty on my refrigerator is about to expire, and asking me if I wanted to extend it for three more years...
warranty
O Sears, You Disappoint Me
I just got a cold call from Sears saying that the warranty on my refrigerator is about to expire, and asking me if I wanted to extend it for three more years...
apps
First Rejection of My iPhone App :-(
I submitted my first iPhone app, called GV Places, to the Apple App Store on Monday, May 23. On Friday, May 27, around 9:00 in the morning, it entered the re...
downgrade
Downgrading Your iPhone From iOS5 to iOS4.3.3: It Ain’t Easy
Like lots of other iPhone owners, I was excited about the announcement on Monday of iOS5, and all the new features. I don’t like to wait and since it isn’t g...
ios4
Downgrading Your iPhone From iOS5 to iOS4.3.3: It Ain’t Easy
Like lots of other iPhone owners, I was excited about the announcement on Monday of iOS5, and all the new features. I don’t like to wait and since it isn’t g...
ios4-3
Downgrading Your iPhone From iOS5 to iOS4.3.3: It Ain’t Easy
Like lots of other iPhone owners, I was excited about the announcement on Monday of iOS5, and all the new features. I don’t like to wait and since it isn’t g...
ios4-3-3
Downgrading Your iPhone From iOS5 to iOS4.3.3: It Ain’t Easy
Like lots of other iPhone owners, I was excited about the announcement on Monday of iOS5, and all the new features. I don’t like to wait and since it isn’t g...
ios5
Downgrading Your iPhone From iOS5 to iOS4.3.3: It Ain’t Easy
Like lots of other iPhone owners, I was excited about the announcement on Monday of iOS5, and all the new features. I don’t like to wait and since it isn’t g...
iphone4
Downgrading Your iPhone From iOS5 to iOS4.3.3: It Ain’t Easy
Like lots of other iPhone owners, I was excited about the announcement on Monday of iOS5, and all the new features. I don’t like to wait and since it isn’t g...
app-store
Make a Copy of the OSX Lion Installer BEFORE You Run It!
If you’re planning on downloading OSX Lion from the Mac App Store and installing it on multiple Macs, heed my warning to make a copy of the .dmg file before ...
install
Make a Copy of the OSX Lion Installer BEFORE You Run It!
If you’re planning on downloading OSX Lion from the Mac App Store and installing it on multiple Macs, heed my warning to make a copy of the .dmg file before ...
xcode
Xcode 4.1 Not Installing? Try This.
Apple released OSX Lion earlier today, but Xcode 4.0.2 is not compatible with it. Later in the day, they released Xcode 4.1 for Lion through the Mac App Stor...
file-sharing
OSX Lion To Lion File Sharing Not Working - How To Fix It
After upgrading both my Macs to Lion on Wednesday, I discovered this morning that I can no longer mount shared folders between them. I tried going in both di...
launchpad
Two Features To Make Lion’s Launchpad Perfect
One of the features in Lion that I didn’t think I would like has become one of my favorites: Launchpad. This is essentially Springboard from iOS, but for the...
lego
Lego VW Microbus
Thomas and I spent six hours this past weekend building this. It was my big splurge from our last trip to Disney World, back in October. What is it? It’s a c...
volkswagen
Lego VW Microbus
Thomas and I spent six hours this past weekend building this. It was my big splurge from our last trip to Disney World, back in October. What is it? It’s a c...
php
My New “Top Artists Last 7 Days” Widget
Note Redux : I changed my approach, yet again. Scroll farther down to see the latest. Note : I changed my approach on this, so scroll down to ...
amendment
We Have To Get the Money Out of Politics
It costs a lot to get elected to high political office. A lot. So much, in fact, that a candidate has to either be independently wealthy, or they have to sel...
bennett
We Have To Get the Money Out of Politics
It costs a lot to get elected to high political office. A lot. So much, in fact, that a candidate has to either be independently wealthy, or they have to sel...
constitution
We Have To Get the Money Out of Politics
It costs a lot to get elected to high political office. A lot. So much, in fact, that a candidate has to either be independently wealthy, or they have to sel...
michael-moore
We Have To Get the Money Out of Politics
It costs a lot to get elected to high political office. A lot. So much, in fact, that a candidate has to either be independently wealthy, or they have to sel...
sanders
We Have To Get the Money Out of Politics
It costs a lot to get elected to high political office. A lot. So much, in fact, that a candidate has to either be independently wealthy, or they have to sel...
senate
We Have To Get the Money Out of Politics
It costs a lot to get elected to high political office. A lot. So much, in fact, that a candidate has to either be independently wealthy, or they have to sel...
html
Once More, This Time With Clojure
If you happened to read my post from the other day entitled My New “Top Artists Last 7 Days” Widget, you know that I went through three iterations of getting...
how-to
New Wordpress Sociable Plugin Has Unintuitive Setup
I got a notification this morning that the Sociable plugin for Wordpress had a new version available, and did I want to install it. I try to keep my plugins ...
sociable
New Wordpress Sociable Plugin Has Unintuitive Setup
I got a notification this morning that the Sociable plugin for Wordpress had a new version available, and did I want to install it. I try to keep my plugins ...
100000
Fast Apple Customer Support
Today I bought the 24 song, 2.3 hour-long Van Halen record Live: Right Here, Right Now from the iTunes store. But there was a snag: “Why Can’t This Be Love?”...
download
Fast Apple Customer Support
Today I bought the 24 song, 2.3 hour-long Van Halen record Live: Right Here, Right Now from the iTunes store. But there was a snag: “Why Can’t This Be Love?”...
error
Fast Apple Customer Support
Today I bought the 24 song, 2.3 hour-long Van Halen record Live: Right Here, Right Now from the iTunes store. But there was a snag: “Why Can’t This Be Love?”...
van-halen
Fast Apple Customer Support
Today I bought the 24 song, 2.3 hour-long Van Halen record Live: Right Here, Right Now from the iTunes store. But there was a snag: “Why Can’t This Be Love?”...
anvil
Three Songs From Anvil’s Show in Athens, GA on 02/03/2012
I went to see the awesome metal band Anvil last night at the Melting Point in Athens, GA. They played a great show, and here are three highlights. The first ...
concert
Three Songs From Anvil’s Show in Athens, GA on 02/03/2012
I went to see the awesome metal band Anvil last night at the Melting Point in Athens, GA. They played a great show, and here are three highlights. The first ...
heavy-metal
Three Songs From Anvil’s Show in Athens, GA on 02/03/2012
I went to see the awesome metal band Anvil last night at the Melting Point in Athens, GA. They played a great show, and here are three highlights. The first ...
asian
The Most Painful Thing I Ever Ate
Back before Christmas, I discovered a restaurant called Genghis Grill. It’s Mongolian BBQ, and it’s quite tasty. I eat there about once a week, because it is...
pain
The Most Painful Thing I Ever Ate
Back before Christmas, I discovered a restaurant called Genghis Grill. It’s Mongolian BBQ, and it’s quite tasty. I eat there about once a week, because it is...
peppers
The Most Painful Thing I Ever Ate
Back before Christmas, I discovered a restaurant called Genghis Grill. It’s Mongolian BBQ, and it’s quite tasty. I eat there about once a week, because it is...
astrophysicist
On Motivation
I just read this quote on Reddit from Neil deGrasse Tyson when asked about finding motivation. I love what he said.
neil-degrasse-tyson
On Motivation
I just read this quote on Reddit from Neil deGrasse Tyson when asked about finding motivation. I love what he said.
On Motivation
I just read this quote on Reddit from Neil deGrasse Tyson when asked about finding motivation. I love what he said.
tucker
Matthews Cafeteria: A Disappointing Breakfast
In the late 1990s, I worked at a company in Tucker, GA. We would make almost-weekly visits to a local landmark: Matthews Cafeteria. In business since 1955, e...
tumblr
So, I Resurrected My Blog
After just over a week of it being dead, I brought it back, but hosted at Wordpress.com. This is what I should have done in the first place, instead of movin...
hardware
My 2006 Mac Pro Is Having Issues…
I’ve loved this computer since I bought it in November 2006. It’s a massive workhorse, still. 2 dual-core 2.66GHz Xeon chips. 12 GB of RAM. 4 TB of hard disk...
memory
My 2006 Mac Pro Is Having Issues…
I’ve loved this computer since I bought it in November 2006. It’s a massive workhorse, still. 2 dual-core 2.66GHz Xeon chips. 12 GB of RAM. 4 TB of hard disk...
democrat
I Just Voted For Obama
I just voted to kill babies, bankrupt our grandchildren, turn “the greatest healtcare system in the world” into a giant socialst death panel, outlaw the sayi...
election
I Just Voted For Obama
I just voted to kill babies, bankrupt our grandchildren, turn “the greatest healtcare system in the world” into a giant socialst death panel, outlaw the sayi...
obama
I Just Voted For Obama
I just voted to kill babies, bankrupt our grandchildren, turn “the greatest healtcare system in the world” into a giant socialst death panel, outlaw the sayi...
board-breaking
Back to top ↑instrument
Are You a Southeast Uker?
Do you play the ukulele? Have you always wanted to? Do you live in or near Atlanta, GA? The Southeast Ukers are a group of ukulele players who get together t...
ukulele
Are You a Southeast Uker?
Do you play the ukulele? Have you always wanted to? Do you live in or near Atlanta, GA? The Southeast Ukers are a group of ukulele players who get together t...
language
Go: Beyond the Basics
Tonight I gave a lecture to the Atlanta Go User Group called “Go: Beyond the Basics.” Here are the slides from that talk: [slideshare id=24823577&doc=gob...
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Now I Know: Aces High
From today’s edition of the Now I Know newsletter, this bit of interesting stuff:
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Now I Know: Aces High
From today’s edition of the Now I Know newsletter, this bit of interesting stuff:
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Conway’s Game of Life, In Go
About a week ago, I decided to implement Conway’s Game of Life in Go. There was no particular reason, other than that I was bored, I wanted to do something e...
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Conway’s Game of Life, In Go
About a week ago, I decided to implement Conway’s Game of Life in Go. There was no particular reason, other than that I was bored, I wanted to do something e...
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That Insipid “Ancient Aliens” Show
O, how I hate that stupid “Ancient Aliens” show on the “History” channel. Tonight, as I was scrolling through the channel guide, I happened to see the info f...
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That Insipid “Ancient Aliens” Show
O, how I hate that stupid “Ancient Aliens” show on the “History” channel. Tonight, as I was scrolling through the channel guide, I happened to see the info f...
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That Insipid “Ancient Aliens” Show
O, how I hate that stupid “Ancient Aliens” show on the “History” channel. Tonight, as I was scrolling through the channel guide, I happened to see the info f...
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Get a REPL On Your Current Java Project
I like to test things out interactively, so I love working with languages that provide a REPL. I’m currently working on a Java project, but Java doesn’t have...
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Get a REPL On Your Current Java Project
I like to test things out interactively, so I love working with languages that provide a REPL. I’m currently working on a Java project, but Java doesn’t have...
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George Carlin On Flamethrowers
My favorite George Carlin quote of all time is this: