First: Principles

A day or two after Katrina, a blogger whose link I've now lost wrote a story about a little girl watching an ad for a benefit concert fo...

I haven't gotten around to reading the Da Vinci Code yet. I read Angels & Demons and liked it; I like the sort of book that combin...

It's a fun opera season this year, with the Barber of Seville, Carmen, and a couple of Shakespeare adaptations on the agenda. The opene...

The blogosphere is abuzz about Google's plans for a WiFi network. There's a lot of talk going around about datamining and selling a...

Here's a interesting C++ fact I had never figured out. The pImpl idiom is a method of hiding implementation details of a class from use...

At work my current task is to rejigger a bunch of applications into Windows Services. Prosolv has four primary applications that run as ser...

Frank Dixon and a cast of thousands, that is. But Caves was #7 in the original series, which means it was actually written by Leslie McFar...

I was easily able to get the Word toolbar to work on a machine where I have local administrative privileges, but I don't normally log in...

Kevin Barnes writes a nice article on Fear of code . The opposite of fear is courage , which is of course one of the core values of agile d...

Budget Numbers have been released for Monroe County. I haven't analyzed it carefully yet, but Kurt Van Der Dussen of the Herald-Times...

Here's a list of hurricane bloggers. It sounds nightmarish down there. Our prayers are with them. Some of these bloggers appear to b...

My wife has been going through and reading all the Hercule Poirot stories from Ms. Christie, and we picked this one up to read together, so ...

Within a few years, you won’t be able to make money as a salaried software developer anymore. No, it’s not because all the jobs are going to...

This is a fun toy, by way of 0xDE : Spell with flickr

This site is surprisingly sophisticated. When I think of industries or communities that really need an online meeting place, Medical Billin...

I've now made the Bloomington Downtown Plan available here . It's not very pretty or formatted very well, but it's less than 20...

The new Bloomington downtown plan is now available online. (It's a PDF file that's around 15 megs, so I hope the link stays valid...

I'm not sure how I undocked the window, but there's no obvious way to get it back. Searching for "Dock" and "Pin"...

A lot of research is going on now into what gives online writers credibility - how it is earned; how it can be rated numerically, etc. This...

So the local paper sent out a survey about the comics page. Even the the funnies are the first thing I turn to when I read the paper, I'...