This weekend, in preparation for our upcoming jaunt to the islands of Hawaii and Kauai, I spent this last weekend doing scuba certification with Adventure Sports. Each day was spent in the class room, studying the minutia of diving, as well as time spent in both a swimming pool, for the closed-water dives, and a …
Cal Thomas, "America’s most widely syndicated op-ed columnist", recently wrote an article titled Giving ‘exodus’ a new meaning in which he discusses the debate among Southern Baptists about the overwhelmingly humanistic slant of government-run schools. I have heard a couple other authors and speakers discussing the ineffectiveness of the public school system. I’ve long held …
Microsoft’s .Net is quickly becoming, if it is not already, the dominant development tool, for lack of a better word, for the Windows platform. For the uninitiated, "Microsoft® .NET is a set of software technologies for connecting information, people, systems, and devices. This new generation of technology is based on Web services-small building-block applications that …
Black Thursday has arrived. It’s a day I was expecting, yet hoping could be avoided. Oh, I didn’t know what day of the week it would be — it could just as easily have been Black Wednesday — but I knew it was coming. Management kept dropping hints. Licensing costs, alternative pilots, architectural changes. And, …
I will never understand why people still install Windows. Home users have a little more sympathy from me, but I have zero sympathy for corporations that still use Windows. I don’t want to come across as an anything-but-microsoft guy, because I’m not, necessarily. I am, however, a big believer in the best tool for the …
There are two things that have me excited right now. In ascending order of importance, they are my Zaurus and my son. My Zaurus is a Linux-based personal digital assistant (PDA). I’ve loved it since the day I got it, but, the purchase of memory for it allowed me to change the operating system on …