tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63148662011-04-21T17:23:16.724-04:00joe_cobolOngoing blather on politics, technology, and the occasional book review.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comBlogger1301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-6039683291336774152007-11-11T18:13:00.000-05:002007-11-11T18:17:48.904-05:00Whipping InEric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-79833965959173521962007-11-11T18:09:00.000-05:002007-11-11T18:12:05.081-05:00The Stirrup CupOpening day for the Tanheath Hunt at The Big Apple, Wrentham, Massachusetts.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-60433439010323465192007-11-09T06:34:00.000-05:002007-11-09T06:40:09.601-05:00New England Hunter TrialsThis year's New England Hunter Trials was hosted by the Norfolk Hunt and held in Medfield, Massachusetts.The rider here is Owen Hughes, Joint Master of the Norfolk Hunt.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1159218901826974112006-09-25T17:10:00.000-04:002006-09-25T17:15:01.870-04:00Higher Order JavascriptSean M. Burke has written a Javascipt companion to Mark-Jason Dominus's Higher-Order Perl. HOP was one of the best books I found on doing useful, lispy, things with Perl, which was just what I needed at the time. Higher Order Javascript looks like it may be an excellent addition for those folks working on the web.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1158612135549745182006-09-18T16:41:00.000-04:002006-09-18T16:42:15.566-04:00Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for WindowsLots and lots of programmer utility goodness.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1156979188087486982006-08-30T19:05:00.000-04:002006-08-30T19:06:28.116-04:00Raganwald 2.0Software development blogging goodness.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1137540520209869492006-01-17T18:25:00.000-05:002006-01-17T18:28:40.223-05:00Lisp Is SinSriram Krishnan says that Lisp is sin:Over the last few days, there has been one thought running in my head - 'All roads lead to Lisp'. I've tried to get it out of my head but like a tune from the radio, it has firmly lodged itself into my head and refuses to let go. Why this state? Call it a confluence of several items. Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1136078567222952502005-12-31T20:19:00.000-05:002005-12-31T20:23:09.826-05:00Typographica's Favorite Fonts of 2005Typographica has part one of their favorite fonts of 2005 posted. I'm rather partial to Cezanne Pro.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1136066371967621282005-12-31T16:53:00.000-05:002005-12-31T16:59:31.976-05:00KashmirFor obscure reasons, I went off in search of the name of the "Led Zeppelin" typefaces along with the cool drop quote typeface used for drop quotes in the MOJO Led Zeppelin special issue.Happily the search turned up the rather nice Kashmir font created by Brian Davies as well as this Zeppelin2 font.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1136052873693407132005-12-31T13:13:00.000-05:002005-12-31T13:14:33.710-05:00Battellemedia on RSS and IM MashupsJohn Battelle on mixing RSS and IM.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1135974999197731612005-12-30T15:34:00.000-05:002005-12-30T15:36:39.216-05:00ATL and COMA blast from the past. Don Box on why ATL makes COM a joy. (Hat tip to Chris Sells for the reminder.)Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1135584944840627482005-12-26T03:10:00.000-05:002005-12-26T03:15:44.850-05:00Flight Sim BlogsJason Waskey, of the MS Flight Sim team's got a great blog and a nice pointer to discussions on the future of simulation.I especially liked this pointer to WWI aerial stuff.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1135198920885635242005-12-21T15:56:00.000-05:002005-12-21T16:02:00.896-05:00Ruby ResourcesSome introductory resources on the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails framework for other J2EE refugees:Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 1Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2Ajax on RailsEric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1134857612877213042005-12-17T17:08:00.000-05:002005-12-17T17:13:32.886-05:00Mark Boulton on using grids for web designMark's got five simple steps to designing grid systems.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1134388928214237662005-12-12T06:58:00.000-05:002005-12-12T07:02:09.690-05:00Winter RidingWell, it looks like winter is well and truly here. The cold weather's settled in, which is at least making Prophet more comfortable in his thick winter velour.Even better, the snow has started early which makes for some nice trail riding as long as it doesn't turn to ice.No bugs on the trail, either!Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1133642202052633572005-12-03T15:33:00.000-05:002005-12-03T15:36:42.063-05:00Text Based SchedulerHere's a neat text based meeting scheduler over at 43folders. Definitely worth a check for the Outlook averse, like myself. Ok, it's not that I hate the outlook scheduler, but if you need to ad-hoc schedule meetings with folks across platforms (and worse) organizational domains, it's a bit of a lose.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1119376072150959132005-06-21T13:45:00.000-04:002005-06-21T13:47:52.156-04:00Microsoft Opens Pro Photography SiteYep, Microsoft opens their Professional Photography Home Page. It looks pretty interesting, especially the RAW format tools.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1119003944811294882005-06-17T06:21:00.000-04:002005-06-17T06:26:23.420-04:00The War Against SilenceGlen MacDonald's desert island music selections are just so...right.Missing Persons: Spring Session MThe definitive goofy New Wave trash-pop album. Squeaky and astonishing vocal acrobatics, transparent plastic clothes and kaleidoscope hair, and more musical technique than the rest of MTV's early playlist combined.Maybe not the best taste in the world, but so close to mine Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1118430493837060942005-06-10T15:06:00.000-04:002005-06-10T15:08:13.843-04:00Acrylic BetaMicrosoft's Acrylic graphics app is in beta now. I guess I'll have to download it and report later. Here's the Microsoft blurb:"Acrylic" is the codename for an innovative illustration, painting and graphics tool that provides exciting creative capabilities for designers working in print, web, video, and interactive media.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1117764342773351832005-06-02T22:02:00.000-04:002005-06-02T22:05:42.776-04:00Constraint Programming LanguagesChris Sells has some comments on CPLs in "The Logic of Logic".Constraint Logic Programs (CLPs) break down into constants, variables over ranges and relations of truth, which together make up the constraints in a logic system. In my son's case, the constants are the numbers, e.g. 3, 20, etc, the variables are the number of people of each type and the relations form Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1114710298866144922005-04-28T13:39:00.000-04:002005-04-28T13:45:32.590-04:00Outlining SoftwareJohn Martin discusses his likes and dislikes in outlining software, listing the following requirements:Requirement 1: The outliner must be lightweight, agile and keyboard friendly.Requirement 2: The user interface of the outliner must be adaptable to a range of different use cases.Requirement 3: The outliner must do it's best to speak the language of other Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1114098336119307792005-04-20T11:45:00.000-04:002005-04-21T11:45:36.123-04:00Prophet Turns Twenty!Costa Brassey, aka, Prophet turns twenty years old today. After many years of race track work in New York State, Prophet's settled down to his current job as pleasure horse and photographic assistant. Congratulations!That said, he's still the "World's Oldest Four Year Old." :>Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1113499725205307582005-04-14T13:26:00.000-04:002005-04-14T13:28:45.206-04:00Here's Looking at YouNormally I only get the 'Hey, what are you doing down there?' look after I've gone over the ears. For this one, mare and filly kindy bent over to check the camera I placed near the ground.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1112724618790938462005-04-05T14:05:00.000-04:002005-04-05T14:10:18.790-04:00Unix from ScratchEric Boutilier had a great series up on his blog describing how he's putting together what looks like an open source GNU/Solaris system. Interesting reading.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1112590720688832132005-04-04T00:43:00.000-04:002005-04-04T00:58:40.690-04:00Landscape PhotographyIt's been a rainy weekend here in Massachusetts, but we did have a break in the weather this morning. Sensing a chance to get some nice landscape shots with storm clouds, I grabbed the camera and headed out to a few locations I had picked out earlier.I headed out to Union Street in Norwell, where there are some nice farms and open fields and a bit further down, a boat Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1112589690062681182005-04-04T00:29:00.000-04:002005-04-04T00:41:30.063-04:00Quest for MarketingI'll admit that I look at marketing from an engineer's perspective. Ok, sales isn't too hard to understand. I've seen sales done well and I've seen sales done badly. Once you've worked with really good sales people you get a feel for how it's done. That doesn't mean you can do it, but at least you can understand the motivations and the process. (Personally, I'm just not Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1112330980077909022005-03-31T23:43:00.000-05:002005-04-01T10:48:27.426-05:00GIMPshop for OSXHmm...I'm going to have to give GIMPshop for OSX a try. I'm a pretty confirmed Photoshop user on the PC, but I haven't run it on the Mac seriously since I got a Photoshop accelerated card for my Mac IIci (Thanks again, Bob!)I used GIMP way back when xv was the new thing on X Windows so I'm sure it's better now. Hmm...I see integrating that RAW file code in my future...Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1112325005285226402005-03-31T21:57:00.000-05:002005-03-31T22:10:05.286-05:00Three Photo SitesKen Rockwell has a review of the Nikon D70 that contains plenty of useful usage tips. Lots of useful info here.Camerapedia.org has camera stuff, of course.If you're going to be playing with RAW file types, and you want to roll your own tools, check out Dave Coffin's dcraw page.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1111793662755934892005-03-25T18:31:00.000-05:002005-03-25T18:34:22.756-05:00Ajaxian.comBen and Dion have started up a new blog dedicated to AJAX frameworks. Good job, guys!Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1111445097448746992005-03-21T17:40:00.000-05:002005-03-21T17:44:57.453-05:00USBWareJeremy Wagstaff has a great article on USB drive enabled applications that he's made available on his blog. Some of the more interesting apps (at least to me) are Trillian Anywhere and Essential PIM. Gotta check those out...Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1111109532595483092005-03-17T20:25:00.000-05:002005-03-17T20:32:12.600-05:00St. Patrick's DaySt. Patrick's Day in Boston isn't too big of a big deal, but I usually look at it as the time to start getting hopeful for spring. It is starting to warm up a bit in the daytime, but as you can see, we've still got plenty of snow cover.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1110849781366420702005-03-14T20:18:00.000-05:002005-03-14T20:23:01.370-05:00The Big OakI didn't manage to get many photographs this weekend, but I did rather like this one. Prophet, my trusty assistant and I trudged out to the middle of the show grounds and got this shot of the big oak that dominates the middle of the field there. I rather like the moody clouds and despite appearances to the contrary, this really is a color photo. Things just get a bit gloomy around Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1110842334670361812005-03-14T18:16:00.000-05:002005-03-14T18:19:28.010-05:00ObjectGraph DictionaryObjectGraph dictionary is a cool little web based dictionary that's also a an concise example of programming web apps with XMLHttpRequest.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1110665078069259482005-03-12T16:56:00.000-05:002005-03-12T17:04:38.073-05:00Photo Phame!Ok, maybe not famous, but one of my horse photos was flickrzenned as one of the 'great photos of Flickr'. Cool. This one was taken on 1 March 2005, at the tail end of a rather sizable snowstorm. We were the only two to see the trees like that since we, um, galloped though those branches moments later.As zenera of flickrzenned said, 'Beautiful Narnia!'Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1110564246085642752005-03-11T13:00:00.000-05:002005-03-11T13:04:06.086-05:00Essential ToolsMark Pilgrim gives a list of his essential software tools. Lots of good stuff here and since I'm of the same mind about a few common pics, like Emacs, I think I'll need to check out a few more of his suggestions like Adium for IM and rsync.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1109193959717795242005-02-23T16:24:00.000-05:002005-02-23T16:25:59.716-05:00WeblicationsMore on Google and Gmail and the emergence of high quality web apps.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1109190411402655502005-02-23T15:23:00.000-05:002005-02-23T15:26:51.403-05:00Ajax: A New Approach to Web ApplicationsJesse Garrett talks a bit about gmail time web interfaces which he dubs Ajax for 'Asynchronous JavaScript + XML'. Pointer from Slashdot.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1107985977794821682005-02-09T16:51:00.000-05:002005-02-09T16:52:57.793-05:00Dissecting Google Maps
All you need to know here.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1104203232390683482004-12-27T22:04:00.000-05:002004-12-27T22:07:12.390-05:00Text Processing in Python
David Mertz has put the text for his excellent book, Text Processing in Python available online. This is one of those must have Python books and having it available as an online reference is that much better. Give it a look then go and buy a copy. David deserves the support!Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1103224564661673352004-12-16T14:15:00.000-05:002004-12-16T14:16:04.663-05:00Bruce Sterling Design Talk
Bruce Sterling on Shaping Things to Come.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1103062697375594442004-12-14T17:15:00.000-05:002004-12-14T17:18:17.376-05:00Dynamic HTML and XML
Apple explains how to use the XMLHttpRequest object.
Charles Miller explains why.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1103047748852041072004-12-14T13:07:00.000-05:002004-12-14T13:09:08.853-05:00How to Build a Better Web Browser
Scott Berkun gives his tips.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1102104308446628742004-12-03T15:04:00.000-05:002004-12-03T15:05:08.446-05:00Tempest in a teapot...
...or at least a cool Java Applet.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1101440647467084942004-11-25T22:33:00.000-05:002004-11-25T22:44:07.466-05:00London Booted
For fans of The Clash's "London Calling" and song covers, there's now "London Booted". Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1101434896041224822004-11-25T21:05:00.000-05:002004-11-25T21:09:49.880-05:00Java Creator for the Mac
It looks like Sun's Java Creator is now available for the Macintosh.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1101346346953832262004-11-24T20:31:00.000-05:002004-11-24T20:32:26.953-05:00Nixie Clocks
Have fun with nixie tubes.
Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1100149627112865762004-11-11T01:06:00.000-05:002004-11-11T00:07:07.113-05:00Visual Studio Tools for Office
Tool of the day, MS Visual Studio Tools for Office.
Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1092812845752511912004-08-18T03:00:00.000-04:002004-08-18T03:07:25.753-04:00Not Another Lisp Kick...
Actually, it looks like that's the case. After spending entirely too long lately playing with Emacs eLisp, I've started hunting up a reasonable free Common Lisp implementation for Mac OS X. Right now the CMU Common Lisp looks good enough to try.
Also handy, is Guy S. Steele's Common Lisp, the Language which is now available online. I've had this one in paperback for Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1091819940804798272004-08-06T15:16:00.000-04:002004-08-06T15:19:00.803-04:00Art of Assembly Language
A handy guide to Intel Assembler programming. Now online.
Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1090841343115748642004-07-26T07:26:00.000-04:002004-07-26T07:29:03.116-04:00Visual Refactoring
Sven Gorts and Philippe T'Seyen outline a visual language for describing refactorings.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1090840771461551202004-07-26T07:17:00.000-04:002004-07-26T07:19:31.460-04:00Mobil Social Software
Elastic Space has a great summary of mobile social software apps. Via Many2Many.
Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1090840447964347032004-07-26T07:07:00.000-04:002004-07-26T07:30:11.036-04:00C# Refactorings
Jaybaz has some useful previews of refactoring support in the upcoming Visual Studio 2005 release along with some additional specifics here. Here's what we might expect:
The most obvious difference will be that the Refactoring menu in Visual Studio will be quite a bit shorter than the others. We decided to focus on making a smaller set of higher quality Refactorings.
The Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1087210701191649542004-06-14T06:55:00.000-04:002004-06-14T06:58:32.570-04:00The Rush Thing
Jack over at Ruminate This has the latest Rush Limbaugh news nailed.
...God only knows how it is that a person who in no way represents even the barest minimum Christian values of at least some of his right wing fundamentalist supporters has become the sort of icon that Rush Limbaugh seems to be to some of these people. In itself, the cultural divisiveness and class warfare that Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1087179121618031802004-06-13T22:11:00.000-04:002004-06-13T22:12:01.616-04:00Tea
Because sometimes what you need is a nice, civilized blog.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1085776077856730322004-05-28T16:27:00.000-04:002004-05-28T16:27:57.856-04:00The Day After, Um, What Day Is This?
Sometimes even bad movies spawn good parody.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1083565253202970412004-05-03T02:16:00.000-04:002004-05-03T02:25:12.950-04:00Cross Platform Zeroconf Networking
It seems the folks at Porchdog software have developed an open source, crossplatform implementation of the Zeroconf networking protocols called Howl. Definitely something I'll have to check out more when I get a moment.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1083452402649907092004-05-01T18:58:00.000-04:002004-05-01T19:04:39.716-04:00Smarty Jones
Congratulations to Smarty Jones. It was a nice race and cleanly run.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1083447566861377702004-05-01T17:36:00.000-04:002004-05-01T17:43:46.763-04:00Derby Blogging
I'm taking a quick break from weekend work to check out the Kentucky Derby. It looks like the rain's stopped but, wow, is the ground a mess.
I'm not an expert on racing (If I could consistently identify fast horses, I wouldn't have bought one) but most of the thoroughbred I know just don't like to run on that stuff.
I'd say it could be anybody's race today.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1083082207728396312004-04-27T13:08:00.000-04:002004-10-19T09:46:02.323-04:00Online Guide to JavaScript
On the theory that you can't have too many online language guides, he's a link to Netscape's Core JavaScript Guide 1.5.
UPDATE:
The link has moved and the JavaScript Guide can now be found here.
Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1083063663920058452004-04-27T06:55:00.000-04:002004-04-27T07:05:18.233-04:00Get Your War On
As usual, the folks at Get Your War On hit the nail on the head. Sad but true, I'd say this is one of the better explainations of the president's last "press conference."Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1082211940229084802004-04-17T10:24:00.000-04:002004-04-17T10:29:52.390-04:00JC!
Blaspheme of the day.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1082111768349336552004-04-16T06:35:00.000-04:002004-04-16T06:40:07.170-04:00Custer
Does this strike anyone else as an ill-named firm?Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1082110274739135252004-04-16T06:09:00.000-04:002004-04-16T06:15:13.733-04:00Scratchings
Scratchings A great blog. Tip of the hat to TH.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1081434019937581462004-04-08T10:19:00.000-04:002004-04-08T10:24:08.076-04:00Never Mind the Pollacks!
It's Condi Live!Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1080766725265261612004-03-31T15:56:00.000-05:002004-03-31T16:02:22.233-05:00Grand National
Ok steeplechasing fans, it's Grand National time again.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1080734522373534922004-03-31T07:00:00.000-05:002004-03-31T07:05:39.593-05:00Stations of the Boss
It's stuff like this that make me happy I work for normal people.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1080295332004951302004-03-26T04:59:00.000-05:002004-03-26T05:06:03.250-05:00No More Condi?
As Josh Marshall points out the New York Times seems to be implying that Condi Rice may be leaving at the end of this term.
The White House may have sent a phalanx of top officials to Capitol Hill this week to be grilled by the Sept. 11 panel, but the one official who did not appear publicly has turned out to be the official the panel wanted most: Condoleezza Rice.
As she Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1079819227902587002004-03-20T16:43:00.000-05:002004-03-20T16:50:30.013-05:00Mark Cuban Has a Blog Now...
Yes, that Mark Cuban. Even if you're not a basketball fan, Mark's new blog has lots of good stuff. Sports, tech, whatever. Go visit. Have fun.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1079611969671753592004-03-18T07:09:00.000-05:002004-03-18T11:44:38.843-05:00Fafblog
I'm too ill to do much blogging for now, but these guys are funny. Put me into a nice coughing fit. What an endorsement. And, as Brad Delong says, they're a bit over the top. But sometimes that's what you need.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1079430684950352062004-03-16T04:46:00.000-05:002004-03-16T04:55:14.950-05:00Spanish Elections
Kevin Drum at Calpundit has put together a convincing argument that the Spanish election results are better attributed to the ruling party's cynical manipulation of the bombing than to anything like appeasement:
Randy Paul at Beautiful Horizons has an email today from a Spanish friend that fairly convincingly makes the case that the vote turned against Aznar and the PP not Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1079306902013527792004-03-14T18:25:00.000-05:002004-03-14T18:31:36.233-05:00ACM Queue
Tomorrow's computing, today.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1079290614481805682004-03-14T13:52:00.000-05:002004-03-14T14:00:08.873-05:00Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler, of refactoring fame, has his own site up at martinfowler.com. Lots of good stuff there including articles, development links, and, of course, a blog.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1079244446975368012004-03-14T01:00:00.000-05:002004-03-14T01:10:40.483-05:00Online C++ Guides
Frank B. Brokken has made his C++ Annotations available on the web. It gives good coverage to the basic C++ features and is handy as a beginning tutorial or if you've just got to check that odd bit of syntax.
Bruce Eckel also has a downloadable version of Thinking in C++ available.
Read. Learn. Enjoy.
Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1079216986389280482004-03-13T17:26:00.000-05:002004-03-13T17:32:59.170-05:00BlackMamba Case Study
Ashwin Jayaprakash uses the BlackMamba spam filter as an introduction to using the MVC with Java Swing.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1079092663000334752004-03-12T06:52:00.000-05:002004-03-12T07:01:01.233-05:00At Least They Didn't Lie About Sex
The administration's $100M price bump on the Medicare drug benefit seemed fishy and duplicitous at the time. But according to Tony Pugh over at Knight-Ridder, the books were cooked with threads and intimidation:
WASHINGTON - The government's top expert on Medicare costs was warned that he would be fired if he told key lawmakers about a series of Bush Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1079091121771213272004-03-12T06:27:00.000-05:002004-03-12T06:35:54.890-05:00It's the Other Guy's Fault
Paul Krugman calls the administration on their continuing excuses on the economy:
As job growth continues to elude the U.S. economy, we're hearing two main excuses from the Bush administration and its supporters: that the real situation is much better than you're hearing, and that to the extent employment is lagging, it's the result of factors outside the Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1079002814377170472004-03-11T05:55:00.000-05:002004-03-11T06:04:01.390-05:00Yellowstone Less Likely to Blow Sky High
ATSNN interviews some folks at the USGS and come to the conclusion that Yellowstone is not, in fact, poised to blow up taking the western half of the US with it:
Our job at YVO is to provide adequate warning of volcanic activity at Yellowstone. The USGS Volcano Hazards Program has this responsibility at Yellowstone and at all other US volcanoes, Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1079002051516545242004-03-11T05:44:00.000-05:002004-03-11T05:50:40.653-05:00K Chronicles
Kieth Knight, who's always fun to read, has some good stuff to draw regarding Bush's reelection strategery.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1078449909126230742004-03-04T20:24:00.000-05:002004-03-04T20:28:24.076-05:00Mia Farrow's Atomic Secret
Read it right here.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1078447651436521772004-03-04T19:43:00.000-05:002004-03-04T19:50:59.436-05:00Home Servers, The New Home Computer?
In The End Of The Laptop, Kevin Laws at VentureBlog talks about the next generation of home computers:
Home servers and smartphones will eventually replace notebook computers for most users
First, people had computers at work. Next, they got them at home. Eventually, the work computer became a notebook, or one was added. This allowed mobility, and a scan ofEric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1078438803615701382004-03-04T17:18:00.000-05:002004-03-04T17:23:04.233-05:00XML Diff
Jon Udell has some great pointers to new XML diff tools. If you need that, you know who you are.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1078403331677111142004-03-04T07:25:00.000-05:002004-03-04T07:35:36.560-05:00White House involved With Pilfered Senate Memos?
Well, there's nothing conclusive yet, but as Josh Marshall shows, there are certainly some reasons to be suspicious:
Now, last week I called the Committee for Justice and asked Executive Director Sean Rushton whether he or anyone else at the Committee had known about the accessing of the Democratic staff memos prior to last November when the Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1078114636521856382004-02-29T23:15:00.000-05:002004-02-29T23:21:09.700-05:00Taunting PhDs
Invisible Adjutant on Bart Simpson's PhD taunting ways:
[Marge, Bart, and Lisa go to their local "Bookaccino" superbookstore.]
LISA: I'm going up to the fourth floor, where the books are!
BART: I'm going to taunt the Ph.Ds!
[Bart approaches the three workers at the espresso bar, all of whom wear glasses and bored expressions.]
BART: Hey guys! I heard a new assistant Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1077796265052362952004-02-26T06:48:00.000-05:002004-02-26T06:53:55.733-05:00Refactoring
Lots of good stuff on software refactoring at www.refactoring.com. As Martin Fowler says on their home page:
What is Refactoring?
Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior. Its heart is a series of small behavior preserving transformations. Each transformation (called a 'Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1077795914390549392004-02-26T06:42:00.000-05:002004-02-26T06:48:04.530-05:00National Review
Once again, Brad Delong shows why I long ago stopped reading National Review for anything other than entertainment value. Yeah, it's the political writing equivalent to watching a car wreck.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1077312629085107522004-02-20T16:29:00.000-05:002004-02-20T16:33:11.576-05:00Typographic Site of the Month
BanComicSansEric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1077277103596869192004-02-20T06:31:00.000-05:002004-02-20T06:49:55.983-05:00Another Stunner from the WSJ
The Wall Street Journal editorial page never ceases to amaze.
Daniel Henninger is claiming that:
Many Americans now believe, on the basis of repetition unto brainwashing, that President Bush more or less made up his reasons for going to war in Iraq, that his assertions about the Iraqi threat were fiction. This is why John Edwards, a U.S. senator, is willing to say Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1077159862933501512004-02-18T22:03:00.000-05:002004-02-18T22:07:03.356-05:00Still At It
Some people never learn. Lambert points out that it looks like John Lott's still up to his old tricks.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1076781149380093612004-02-14T12:50:00.000-05:002004-02-14T13:02:26.280-05:00Cover Up?
As Brad DeLong points out, the president's story of how he spent his guard time doesn't seem to be holding up very well.
David Neiwert adds more important details describing how it just doesn't add up.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1076585502224853552004-02-12T06:29:00.000-05:002004-02-12T06:34:13.110-05:00How Sad
The used car hunt continues so I find myself paging through the Ebay listings. Now, I'm never a fan of keeping nice cars locked in the garage, but this poor thing only had 353 miles on the clock. *sigh*Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1076575953942456862004-02-12T03:50:00.000-05:002004-02-12T03:55:04.390-05:00Paradox
David Isenberg and David Weinberger have a nice essay on The Paradox of the Best Network with lots of good, if not terribly novel observations about the internet. Even better are the links to other essays on the page.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1076575496725311662004-02-12T03:41:00.000-05:002004-02-12T03:47:27.263-05:00RSS Not Ready for Prime Time?
Randomize has a nice pointer to Dylan Green's article on problems and issues with RSS.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1076501012610436832004-02-11T07:01:00.000-05:002004-02-11T07:06:48.780-05:00Hackworth Weighs In
David H. Hackworth weighs in on the war and decides that:
Like it or not, Maj. Scott Ritter had it right all along.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1076282243783545122004-02-08T18:16:00.000-05:002004-02-08T18:19:49.996-05:00New Ads
Now this deserves to be on television.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1076067431667529222004-02-06T06:35:00.000-05:002004-02-06T06:39:34.186-05:00Photo Finish
dailyKos points us to a new, non-imminent photo analysis.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1076066830456777762004-02-06T06:23:00.000-05:002004-02-06T06:29:33.200-05:00Files!
It looks like Ron Suskind, author of Paul O'Neill bio The Price of Loyalty will be releasing some of the 19000 documents from Paul O'Neill's tenure at Treasury. This could be some interesting reading.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1075862233397440302004-02-03T21:33:00.000-05:002004-02-03T21:39:32.793-05:00HTML Renders for Java
Joshua Marinacci surveys HTML renderers for Java for those of you out there like me who find such things interesting.
I thought the Steady State CSS2 parser is especially interesting.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1075700785460510132004-02-02T00:38:00.000-05:002004-02-02T00:49:11.466-05:00Pentagon and Global Warming
Some interesting coverage from DailyKos comparing the Pentagon's research into global warming with some fun stuff from the past:
I put myself firmly in the camp that insists on imposing (and enforcing) firm government regulations to smooth the jagged edges off our economic system, particularly in the areas of stock-trading, worker health and safety, and the Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1075608278851478422004-01-31T23:02:00.000-05:002004-01-31T23:08:18.496-05:00Human Factors
Adam Greenfield at v-2 Organisation on human factors for munitions:
I'm a great believer in designers taking inspiration from wherever they can, and while I'm far from the only writer who espouses such a viewpoint, I'm reasonably certain that this is the only time you'll have seen a Vietnam-era United States Army-issue antipersonnel mine cited as an example worth learning from.
Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314866.post-1075606433976834402004-01-31T22:31:00.000-05:002004-01-31T22:36:52.153-05:00MetaBlogging
Since Joe Cobol's in a meta mood tonight, I figured I'd also recommend Kay's "so this is mass communication", a blog about blogs.Eric Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133029294337449352noreply@blogger.com