This holiday break hasn’t felt very productive, but, if I accomplish nothing else, I’ll at least have my revamped laptop ready to roll. For Christmas, I got a new hard drive and more ram. So I’ve been installing everything from scratch. And the sheer numer of third party apps I need to make a Win2K [...]

I recently rediscovered internet radio. There’s some good hard bop on Dr. Horner’s Classic Jazz Corner. You can groove on old time radio suspense programs like Suspense and The Whistler on Knotted Note Radio. Our local student radio station KXUA is online as is local public radio station KUAF (I also enjoy WEMU, an npr [...]

GenJ is a geneology program done in Java. Nice GUI. Spits out gedcom files, html, and whatever else you might need.

Java Rules. A judge has ruled that Microsoft must include Java (the real version, not their nonsense version) in Windows. This is great news for Java developers (and would-be Java developers–like yours truly). It’s also great news for computer users in general, as deploying a Java app is quite a bit easier if the runtimes [...]

Seven designs to replace the World Trade Center. I haven’t had a chance to look at all of them yet.