The past election’s campaign caused my children to ask why the red and blue signs were all over our neighbourhood. We explained that we were voting for the next government, and the blue sign on our lawn meant we were supporting the Conservatives. After the Conservatives won a minority government on Monday, we told them…

There is always an official way, a prescribed way, or a “proper” way to get something done. But when the resources simply aren’t available to do something the proper way, improvisation is the key, and usually poorer countries are far better at it than the wealthier nations. Have a look at these pictures. Noone in…

I don’t travel too much, but this site (flightcomm) is pretty cool. Most airline sites only tell you whether a flight is delayed or not. This site shows you a map of exactly where the plane is at any given moment, including height and airspeed, all based on FAA radar. Very cool stuff.

I took Mikaela (age 3) for walk a few nights ago, and she noted that the moon, of which only half was visible, was “broken”. She wondered when it would be fixed again? And last night she recited a Franklin book to me, almost word-for-word. I guess Mikaela didn’t inherit my sieve-like memory!

I have another blog out there, over at BEA’s dev2dev site. This blog will be for all WebLogic and Java posts. I haven’t posted too many of those here, but hope to have a few more over there. I’ve run into two seperate forms of writer’s block lately. The first came after I received BEA’s…

I’ve always been a big airplane fan. Like most kids I dreamed of joining the Air Force (American of course, I wanted to fly A-10’s), but my rather limited eyesite made the dream stay just that. But I can still tell you what kind of fighter jet just flew by based on its silhouette. One…

This guy took the time to read the Windows End User License Agreement (that annoying window with all the legalese that pops up when you install any Microsoft product) and found that using any Java code can cause death. I guess all Microsoft products are so stable that they can be used in applications like…