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Earth Day was last Friday, April 22, so I thought I'd throw up some pictures of our backyard herb garden for the occasion. One of the ...

I spent time over the last several days setting up a free amazon web services account, and manged to deploy a simple openId helper se...

One of the many things I constantly struggle with is how to better communicate the current state of the littleware dev machine. What is li...

I just patched a littleware bug , and I wondered whether Google code had some SCM integration with its issue tracker, so that I could updat...

We watched the penultimate episode of The Wire season 3 last night (on Netflix DVD). Omar and Brother Mazon doin' what they do. I l...

I was just listening to Barton Seaver's TED Talk , and he mentioned Monterey Bay Aquarium's seafood pocket guide , so I checked ...

I got the brain wave today to add a Facebook Like button to the bLog, and spent a couple hours banging my head against the dev docs befo...

C is for cookie - the peoples dessert; anyone can make it. The hardest part of making a cookie is creaming the butter, and that just requi...

When I setup a new server virtual machine it's not unusual for me to install something in one place, then decide later that I don'...

Last week I updated the littleware project site with a fresh binary code drop - including the first little distro zip bundle download....

It's a rainy day in Auburn. The dogs and I were drenched on our morning walk, and it felt like a good day to cook some breakfast when ...

I love pesto, but, frickjack that I am, I always assumed pesto was made with basil, and it's hard to get my hands on a big pile of basi...

At the one and (thankfully) only systems department meeting I attended at the library over a month ago there was a short conversation about...

It's always annoying when something outside my control changes, and breaks my code. I received an e-mail the other day from my former c...

I'm a big fan of Google Code where I host the littleware project. I've been playing around with gcode's issue tracker trying...

I think I finally have the blogger podcast thing working. To recap - I started by hosting my .mp3 media file with Google docs , and that w...

Ugh! I was pretty happy when I was able to setup a blogger based podcast with mp3 files served from Microsoft's sky drive , so I we...

If you're a frickjack like me, then you might believe that a JScrollPane only works with widgets like JTextArea that are specially ...

  What to do with 1/2 pound butter, 5/3 cups sugar, 2 cups flour, ... Good old Fannie Farmer !   I also accidentally uploaded thi...

I often enjoy listening to podcasts while I'm playing around with the computer. The java posse , TED , Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders...