I’m cleaning out one of my book cases. Here are a few computer programming books that I’ve listed at Amazon.com. Most of these are Java titles (since I have given up any pretence of ever learning that dreaded language). Java 2 Study Guide by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates. 1st edition. (Osborne/McGraw Hill, 2003).   [...]

I blogged about these a million years ago. Now they’re back and improved (more options, no URL superimposed on the image you create, etc.). Here’s me (and Josie), more or less (there’s no option for adding a soul patch, damnit). If you’re bored. Do one of yourself or a friend, upload it to flicker, and [...]

Mosquitoes. Tons of them. I just finished spraying the yard with Spectracide. I’ve used this product before with some luck but you have to reapply it every 3-4 weeks. (Its active ingredient is permethrin). I’ve also been doing a little research into controlling them.

I’ve never had much of an opinion about Paul Graham, mostly because I have no interest in Lisp. I remember reading his essay on graduation and thinking parts of it had some merrit: especially his advice to work on hard problems rather than focussing on particular (marketable) skill sets. And his more recent essay on [...]

I love Milo Vermeulen‘s photography for many reasons. He has the gift of finding the beautiful in the everyday. You can subscribe to an RSS feed of his images, if you’re hip to that sort of thing.