Originally posted 2010-07-06 08:06:58 Everytime my 16 year-old son sees the screen of my iPhone 3GS, he mocks me as if I were carrying a dog turd. He claims that the jagged pixelation tears his retinas, and he hurriedly scurries to the rounded curves of his …
Read more →Originally posted 2004-07-29 13:23:48 A friend of mine who works with .NET recently expressed some interest in Java. I urged him to download and install Eclipse and give Java a whirl. A couple of days later, he e-mailed me this gem: \Ok, I looked at Eclipse …
Read more →Originally posted 2005-06-16 04:49:45 Naming babies has always caused my wife and me angst, and we had to do it five times. I wish we’d found The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager to help guide us. It’s a Java applet that shows name popularities over time: you …
Read more →Originally posted 2010-05-16 07:41:50 I love software updates, and both my iPhone and my iPad offer me plenty. I’ve downloaded enough apps, both free and purchased, that I can count on available updates a few times a week. Like unwrapping a gift, updating …
Read more →Originally posted 2005-03-15 18:01:55 You’ve done it before: you’ve picked up the telephone and dialed the wrong number. Sometimes, you’ve realized immediately, and hung up. Other times, you haven’t realized your mistake until the answering machine answers, …
Read more →Originally posted 2007-05-15 14:02:20 Last Sunday–Mother’s Day in the United States–my wife’s purse disappeared. Actually, someone put a crowbar through the passenger window of her van as it sat in our church parking lot and helped him or herself to the purse. …
Read more →Originally posted 2008-04-28 01:28:26 People are always careful when typing emails. People are now always careful when typing emails. People are not always careful when typing emails. Emailers often both read and write the above statements synonymously, …
Read more →Originally posted 2006-02-18 17:38:39 I went to a different T-Mobile store yesterday, and found that same mystery phone that’s not yet available. This time, however, I got a name, and Google found me some reviews: CoolSmartPhone.com - T-Mobile MDA Vario Review …
Read more →Originally posted 2005-08-07 18:06:23 Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Thus penned Dylan Thomas, the great Welsh poet, to his dying father. I felt as if he were writing to me, instead, when I left my development …
Read more →Originally posted 2005-07-13 06:12:12 I just came across this, which explains how to put Eclipse project settings like code styles in version control. Eclipse continues to amaze me with how they’re advancing the state of IDEs!
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