The Supermarket of Choice
The A & P claims to desire to be our “supermarket of choice.” If I were shopping for choice, that would be swell, but their variety is no better...
The A & P claims to desire to be our “supermarket of choice.” If I were shopping for choice, that would be swell, but their variety is no better...
Apparently some folks are in a tizzy over Google’s autolink doohickey. Phil Ringnalda pointed out a substantive difference between this thing and the Micr...
I’ve had an issue with the DNS bridging in Apple’s Airport since day one, but it hasn’t really bothered me since nslookup started working on m...
Martin Geddes complained that his new hp desk doesn’t have a built-in microphone. That was news to me. I thought they just pretended to have microphones, ...
Speaking of idiots, the always, ahem, useful Slashdot relays this drivel from AppleInsider: that Apple will release a two-button mouse. I suppose that now that ...
For those not from the area, New Jersey does not have self-service gas stations. The joke, among New Yorkers at least, is that this is because the folks down in...
I’ve been using del.icio.us to keep my bookmarks recently because it solves the bookmark synchronization problem, but I’ve found that there are a lo...
There’s only a certain amount of time in the day. I could either fill my head with rote memorization, and gain no deeper understanding of the systems, or ...
The Little Sister is fascinated by the antenna. She calls the radio, “phone.” The Big Sister wants to know if it has Disney music, which it
I got my Grundig radio. Thanks, David, for mentioning that there was such a beast as a $29 shortwave radio. Of course, I had to call my Dad to tell him. He soun...
You need more memory. Really, you do. I had 256MB of RAM on my laptop; now I have 512MB. This is not enough. This is not enough because I will swap. Performance...
We initially thought, oh, let’s build up, and add a second story onto the house. That’s not going to work due to the cost of construction, so our cu...
Microsoft ended support for Windows NT 4.0 on January 1, 2005. Novell has taken advantage of this sales opportunity by releasing a public service announcement. ...
Instead of building yet another authentication source for your web application, you should strive to make use of existing sources. Depending on your environment...
I think Technorati is pretty neat, but I haven’t gushed over it. It attempts to answer the question, “who’s talking about me?” But, unle...
They like riding in strollers.
As I put on my boots this morning, on my way out to shovel the snow, I was accosted by the Little Sister. Daddy, don’t go. Stay here with me. And Mommy. A...
This dialog, how one developer explained REST to his wife, is funny, and close to home. Toward the end, he mentions the motivation behind SOAP. We’re usin...