Category: technology
Web vs Desktop

For all intents and purposes, I haven’t done any desktop programming for almost a year. This was after years of writing Mac and Windows apps, even going so far as to be a regular presenter at REAL World. But since taking my current position, I’ve been all about the web. PHP, to be exact. To be honest, I miss the [...]

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Best 419 Scam Email

This is the best 419 scam email I’ve ever received. I’m so glad my spam filter didn’t catch it. Bonus points for an original take on a cliched genre. Email follow in its entirety. —— INTERNATIONAL POLICE AUTHORITY UNITED STATES SECTION (IPA) Region No. 2 New York City P.O. Box 804 Knickerbocker Station New York City, New York 10002-0804 USA [...]

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My Son, Future CEO Of Apple

I came home from work to find my son wearing blue jeans and a black mock turtleneck, looking for all the world like a very young Steve Jobs. This, of course, prompted my wife and me to take the following photograph: Yeah, we may need to get out more.

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Blue Streak

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, but I’ve been busy. The biggest news, of course, is my new job. I started at Manheim Township School District on October 1 after almost twelve years at Etown. Honestly, it was tough to make a change after so many years at Etown, but it’s been good for me and [...]

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Amazing

It’s almost as if Microsoft knows how bad Internet Explorer is. This must be a ham-handed attempt at (1) making people hate it less and (2) slowing the trend of people abandoning it in favor of better browsers like Safari and Firefox. Heck, even Opera. My translation: “Hey, look. We know IE sucks. So how about this deal. You download [...]

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Improvement

As much as it pained me to put Tangelo out of its misery, I have to admit that updating my weblog from my iPod is pretty cool.

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I’ve Done It

I’ve really done it. I moved my blog to WordPress. Why? Well, as you probably know, I’ve been using Tangelo, an application of my own creation, for my blog for about four years or so. But I haven’t updated Tangelo in a very long time. I haven’t had a public release since 2006, I believe. So I decided it was [...]

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On Commercial Databases

Nowadays I like to think of SQL Server and Oracle as the Death Stars of the relational database universe. Extremely powerful. Monolithic. Brilliant. Complex almost beyond the ability of a single human mind to understand. And a monumental waste of money except in those rare situations when you actually need to destroy a planet. – James Devlin

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Windows 7 Beta

Although I’ve only used it for a short time, my first experience with the Windows 7 beta suggests that Microsoft has not lost its focus or swerved from its original vision:

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At Long Last

It’s happening! It’s really happening!

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