My father, Jack Lawrence Martin, died this morning at 8:00 a.m. He was 85 years old. He served in the Civilian Concervation Corps and was Corporal in the Army Air Force during World War II. He loved farming, raising animals, collecting antiques, and old-time country music (especialy Roy Acuff and The Stanley Brothers).

scottdavidherman.com redesigns. The Pianist [here, here, and here] seems to have two official homepages (both flash-based but good) as well as a site just for its soundtrack, which includes some nice samples that play in a loop (I have it open in another window right now, in fact). The Pianist is another in a long [...]

Geek update: Been coding Flash MX all day for a new CD-ROM project that’s due August 15th. I’ll try to create a web version as well. And, either way, I’ll be adding some screen shots to the portfolio. Found some good info on setting up Tomcat on Windows 2000. It references Java 1.3 and Tomcat [...]

Found a good introductory tutorial on making JDBC connections to MySQL databases with the Connector/J driver. Great sample code helps you test your install in seconds.

I keep forgetting to mention Thirteen Conversations about One Thing, a nice little movie about life and why we bother living it. It stars Alan Arkin, whom I’ve liked since I first saw him in Glengarry Glen Ross. I also have a soft spot for Ray Liotta, who has done some fine work and some [...]