I spent part of Saturday this past weekend as scorekeeper for team handball at a local Special Olympics competition. It was a lot of fun. And it reminded me that I should do more volunteer work (not only because it’s a good thing, but also because I enjoy it). My wife talked me into it [...]

Thanks to the anonymous donor who kicked five bucks my way in support of the wheatblog app project. If half the people who use my stuff were as generous, it would offset my yearly hosting costs and provide a little encouragement.

Now I know where my fellow English majors who didn\’t make the switch to IT careers wound up: they\’re writing spam copy for discount software houses. I got a spam today with this bit of text at the bottom to make it look like a legit email: 1ps4D6u49Rro3Ze55RdI was sub-divisional police officer of the town, [...]

If any of you regulars are interested in trying out Gmail (Google’s web-based email app), I have 49 invites left. Drop me an email or post a comment along with your email here and I’ll send ‘em out. I figure everyone has one by now, but maybe I missed someone. I don’t use gmail as [...]

Free Software Foundation guru Richard Stallman publishes a fine critique of Bill Gates’ recent comments about open source development and uses Gates’ own words against him. Nice.