I was fiddling with the Dreamcast last night….I had been experimenting in the past with Linux on the DC with the goal of running something like MAME, or a SNES or NES emulator on it…..but recently I discovered that people have ported emulators directly to the DC. I had also recently been given a [...]

One day someone will write the perfect Java database access layer. By perfect, I mean “Does everything _I_ want, and doesn’t make me do anything I don’t want to do, and doesn’t require XML configuration files either”. I’ve been investigating a few of them, and none of them really quite cut it….though simpleorm is [...]

Well, I’ve been back at work for nearly a week now…and as always, it never really feels like you’ve been away. The suprising thing though, was cleaning up my inbox (323 spam during my absense), and _not_ finding anything to annoy me or cause me extra work…..which was nice, and let me get straight back [...]

Well, it did dry up enough for me yesterday, so I did go out on a longer walk. I set out up through Flynn, and Fraser, and up to the top of Mount Rogers. Or maybe it should be called “Rogers Hill”….or “That slight rise in the land over there that we’ve named after some [...]