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 [...]