Category Archives: Miscellaneous

I am currently working on a project with a deadline in my day job, and I am having fun with it. Well, mostly. There was this little problem I was having that was beginning to make me quite frustrated. And … Continue reading →

Jenna Wortham of the New York Times seems to think that new technology should be cheap enough for poor people to afford it. My first question is: Why? Headlines are not normally created by the journalist, but are apportioned by … Continue reading →

Originally submitted at O’Reilly This cookbook provides more than 100 recipes to help you crunch data and manipulate text with regular expressions. With recipes for popular programming languages such as C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and VB.NET, Regular … Continue reading →

The occasion for this post is a little contretemps I experienced on StackOverflow.com recently. The topic of this blog post is the question posed by acidZombie24, a member of StackOverflow, over 3 years ago. I was one of those who … Continue reading →

Earlier I said that there was this bad crashing problem with HamTechExam and that I better find it and fix it.  Well. I cannot claim any heroism here.  It has taken me too long to get around to it, and … Continue reading →

Apologies for the long hiatus.  I’ve been busy is a bad excuse, but it’s true.  Well, it’s not so much busy as lazy. Anyway, I got quite discouraged after all this time with 8 apps in the marketplace, some since … Continue reading →