Closed on the sale of the ‘old’ house!
On Friday March 28th "we" no longer have two households. It's been a long and arduous journey, involving three separate…
Free Windows Defragmentation Software
Windows, due to it's MS-DOS heritage has a lot of problems due to disk fragmentation. To maintain optimal disk read…
Happy Leap Day
Ah, we have an extra day this year. Each time it reminds me of just how many people assume that…
CSS ‘id’ vs. ‘class’
This is a fairily standard interview question for someone that claims to understand CSS, but you'd be amazed at the…
Immigration Reform?
Last year I witnessed first hand the numerous protests in Chicago for immigration reform. This email from a friend of…
HTTP is deprecated?
I found this several years ago, and 'most' of my websites implement this standard. While "http://" implies IP Port 80,…
Open Source Operating Systems
I've posted a lot of information about the common 'free' open-source software that I routinely use, however... I just realized…
Eclipse ResourceBundle Editor
I typically use the open-source Eclipse IDE for most of my Java and PHP work. For my corporate work, this…
Resume and skills
I'd be doing myself a great dis-service if I didn't take the opportunity to share my resume with readers of…
Old versions of software
There eventually comes a time when you're not satisfied with the "latest" version of some software, often this is due…