Last night, after finishing the last few pages of Popper’s book, I sat and tweaked wheatdesign for a while, updating content here and there and making a few minor design changes to certain pages. It was fun to focus on the design of it more than the coding of it, for a change. I share [...]

I know it’s been quiet around here lately, but all the last minute hassle of getting wheatblog app out the door took the wind out of me. And, of course, I already have a list of features to implement for the next version. It’s also about time to revisit the showlister code and get a [...]

I was installing the Java 2 SDK (version 1.4.2) on a Windows XP box yesterday when I ran into the mysterious “Error 1722″ which is mentioned here in Sun’s installation notes. Unfortunately, their fix didn’t fix my problem. The solution? Make sure there aren’t any previous installs of Java on the box. I found four [...]

An op-ed piece from The New York Times about the Hattiesburg, Mississippi incident (free registration required). I’ll be interested to see how this one plays out.

I released wheatblog app version .02b today. I am using a slightly customized version of it to maintain this blog. I’m happy to have it out the door. The original (.01b) version came out in July 8, 2001! I am happy with this new version and look forward to making further improvements to the code.