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I’ve been generally fatigued by the Presidential campaigning lately (I’ll post more about that a bit later), and I’ve been trying to think about the real differences between the candidates and about how that would actually affect our lives over the next four years. I realized that one of the biggest differences between the [...]

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I’m revisiting IntelliJ IDEA this week. I haven’t used since version 3.0 (it’s up to version 4.5), for various reasions, including having worked for a company that not only made competing products but also once employed the original creators of IDEA and thus not being able to get authorization to buy it. I’m eager to [...]

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Remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger told voters in California that he was so rich he wouldn’t need to sell out to special interests?

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I finally took the plunge and joined the wifi world this week. That tells you how late an adopter I am. I bought a laptop several years ago with the intention of buying a wifi hub and card for it, and I finally got the network set up last night. I haven’t actually used the [...]

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Andrew Brown points out that people who vote for Bush should know exactly what they’re voting for. Here’s the whole article from the New York Review of Books on Abu Ghraib.

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Jack Shirazi posts a dialogue between he and an experienced Java developer on the subject of whether Java is cool or not. I don’t really agree with either side to any great extent. I think that the “uncool” side person exaggerates his claim that hackers are abandoning Java. I also think he’s completely wrong about [...]

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Juan Cole wrote a timely post this morning about what it would be like in America if America were like Iraq. This post really hits home for me because the other day I was driving down the street in downtown Raleigh and started thinking about what it must be like to be in Baghdad. I [...]

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The September National Geographic had a huge series of articles on global warming that I’m only now getting around to reading. Needless to say, the magazine paints a bleak picture of where we are, and where we’re headed. To me, there have always been three questions about global warming:

Is global warming a real phenomenon? [...]

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I’ve been a happy customer of pair.com for Web hosting for 7 or 8 years, but I’m putting some thought into moving to dedicated hosting. The advantage is that I’d have root access so that I can run my own install of Apache and Tomcat. I’ve been working on a Java web application that I’d [...]

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Today Slate answers a question that has been hounding me since the first time I saw Da Ali G Show — how they rope in the guests. The fact that “Borat” blazed a trail through Mississippi, Oklahoma, and othe red states told me that the show banks on there being parts of the country where [...]

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