August 12, 2005 spout

The Half Monty

I spent last weekend in Reno with Joel, my fraternity brother, wife’s sister’s husband and business partner (we have an investing business). We’d...

August 11, 2005 tools

What should I do w/ the metadata?

Imagine I’ve got some “metadata” that describes some functionality of my system, e.g. the command line parameters to a tool: Once I have this...

August 5, 2005 fun

Fight Clubthe rest of the Fight Club rules...

August 5, 2005 fun

HereIan and I submitted the final manuscript for Programming Avalon, Beta Edition, on July 13th (right on time, I’ll point out). Since then, the...

August 3, 2005 tools

I think the title says it all…...

July 28, 2005

I put my house in Beaverton, OR on the market today. Please buy it. Thank you...

July 27, 2005 spout

My 11-year old wants to do email and IM and he’s already surfing the web. Does anyone have any recommendations for good software to limit and...

July 22, 2005 tools

a cool trick for pulling out the default style of an Avalon lookless control...