The time has come to switch my sites over to a virtual private server environment using the relatively new product from Rackspace called Rackspace Cloud which is akin to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud but provides better value in my opinion. Rackspace has great customer support and in general gives you more computing power per penny when compared with Amazon. No, I am not a paid spokesperson, I just...

This recent comic from XKCD illustrates the recognition problems we, as programmers, can all relate to.

While researching for a seminar I delivered on consumer privacy I discovered a lot of interesting tidbits on Facebook. I thought I’d publish some of the research I did just to show why we really should be reading those privacy policies.

I’ve set-up a quick portal page for some of the java applets I’ve written for school. Please check it out: http://family-connect.com/javaApps/ I have a Memory Game and Wordscramble applet up at this time with details/instructions.

I caught this amazing video on DiggReel and thought it deserved a place on my site. Source: playingforchange.com - From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the...

Demetri Martin is a very clever comedian whom I first discovered from his stand-up routine on Comedy Central. Recently he has picked up his own show on Comedy Central entitled Important Things with Demetri Martin. What has really impressed me is this poem he put together that is actually one giant palindrome. A palindrome is a word or phrase which reads the same in both directions. Usually a person...