Setting Low Prices

I am in no way an expert on the tricky art of pricing, but I do have an interesting thought about the pricing of very cheap things. [More...]

Election Guide – May 2011

Here is my election guide for the primary elections in May of 2011. [More...]

Wrong SAAJ Version – a Spring bug

A few notes on a bug I had so next time I won’t make the same mistake. [More...]

How Wierd Is That!

On reddit, I recently answered a question which I thought was rather interesting. [More...]

Set Default Address Book in Outlook 2010

So, I got a new PC at work, and I moved to Outlook 2010. A great annoyance was that whenever I tried sending email, the entire global corporate address book popped up. After some time searching, I figured out how to change this setting, and thought I should record my steps. [More...]

An Important Victory for the US Military

Today I would like to celebrate a victory. A small victory, and one which was decades overdue, but an important victory nevertheless. A few hours ago, the Senate voted for closure (time to stop debating) on the repeal of 10 U.S.C §654, the law that prohibits gays from serving in the US military. This law was unfair to those who wished to serve and it harmed the US armed forces, both by depriving them of the services of some highly-skilled servicemembers and by encouraging servicemembers to lie and keep secrets. President Clinton’s policy of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” only slightly mitigated these ills. This kind of policy made us a laughingstock throughout the world.

I am delighted to be able to say that we have taken this small but important step forward toward rights for everyone in my country. I hope it is only the first of many.

Election Guide, Nov 2010

Here is a description of all items that will be on my local ballot for this upcoming election, along with my own thoughts on the candidates. [More...]

Eric Lippert Tree Challenge

In his blog, Eric Lippert issued an interesting programming challenge. (Follow the link for details of the requirements.) Here is my solution. [More...]

Error message was ’3′.

Just a brief entry so the NEXT time this happens I can search and find the solution. [More...]

Viewing a dependency tree in Maven

To find out what dependencies you are getting and from where, execute “mvn dependency:tree”. Send it to a file using “mvn dependency:tree -Doutput=file”.