General Blather

Just a starting point...I've got a ton of ripped media on the home network that I'd like to be able to play on the PS3, but I've not been able to find the bits necessary to get it to work. more »

We're back from a weekend in Cancun. While it's nice to be home, it's still winter and I want to go away again now. more »

I've been in Cancun for a couple days. I wonder if I can get away with running out for smokes never do return. Nope; I don't smoke, so I guess that makes the rouse too obvious. Guess I'll have to enjoy it while I can. Last night, Coco Bongo 'til 2AM.… more »

At my current client, there's a drive to put more unit tests on the Java code. It's been a long hard process as few of the developers do strict, or even just "mostly," test-driven development. As an attempt to try and drive this home, they've also tried… more »

A Slashdot story pointed out the Windows 7 Beta release was made public, so I downloaded the DVD image, made up a quick VMWare image, and installed the new Windows for play. more »

I just got an installation of Hudson continuous integration running on my (older) Tomcat server, and I thought I'd knock out a few notes to both remind me what to do in the future, and possibly help someone else who's hit the same problems I've hit. more »

In response to an e-mail received from one of the current DNS providers demanding another payment (trivial as it is) for hosting my web sites' DNS services, I decided to give a little overhaul and move as many as I could over to FreeDNS.ws. more »