Currently, I have a simple copyright at the bottom of my website.  I want to replace that with something like a Creative Commons license. Read more

I love Java Web Start.  I think it does a very good job of solving many of the Java distribution issues.  It supports automatic updating of apps at the jar level, including dependencies.  It really makes life easy for the end user, and really is pretty easy to implement for the developer.

But, if you are running Ubuntu Linux for AMD64 like I am, it won't work out of the box with the 64 bit JVM.  For whatever reason, Sun hasn't ported it.  Not that I'm complaining.  Now that Sun freed Java, we all have no one to blame but ourselves.Read more

I ran into this over at Joe George's blog, and I thought it pretty funny.  If you can't laugh at yourself...

I think that today, we are a geekier crowd than the other two.  But, I know plenty of trendy people in the Linux community.  I think (or maybe I just hope) the stereotype gets less relevant each year.

I recently ran into this video on Gizmodo.  It was a promo video for an early version of Windows called Windows 386.  The ad is so funny, it's almost hard to believe it's supposed to be serious. Perhaps the advertising is the reason I never heard of Windows 386.  I thought I'd cross post it here so I can always go back to my blog when I want a good laugh.Read more

I'm trying out Flock as my default browser this week. For those that are new to Flock, it is a browser built from Firefox, but focused on adding features for social networking types of activities.  Such as built-in support for editing your blog, or adding photos to services like Flickr.

Overall, I really do like it. I haven't decided whether I'll use it as my primary browser long term. I'm going to give it more time.Read more

Since I often hear from friends and people on the Internet about things they can't do in Linux that they could on Windows, I thought I'd write up a list of things I can do in Linux that I can't do in Windows. Read more

If you are like me, one reason you switched to Linux is for customization.  In the past I ran Gentoo where every bleeding edge package was available to me.  So I was always trying out new and cool GTK engines as they came out.  But on Ubuntu, you don't get that luxury all the time.  So, I will show you how to get two of the latest engines available, Murrine and Candido, on your spiffy Ubuntu machine.Read more

I found Pandora about 2 weeks ago, and I've been loving it ever since.  Pandora is a "personalized music station" service, as I would describe it.  You tell it an artist (or artists for better results) or a song (or songs) that you like, and it will create a "Station" based on that.  You can create multiple stations.  I have several that I play depending on the kind of music I'm in the mood for.  Best of all, it does all of this for free (ad supported, with the option to pay to remove ads).Read more

Last weekend, I switched the website from Plone to Drupal.  I know some people are contemplating this switch, so I thought I'd write about my experience so far.Read more

I recently built an AMD 64-bit dual core machine, and installed Ubuntu Edgy for x86-64 on it.  One thing I found (and had read elsewhere) is that 64-bit Eclipse is buggy.  It hangs and dies usually within 30 minutes, and sometimes on a few minutes.  And I found the performance improvements to be hardly noticable, so not worth the hassle of frequent crashes.

My solution was to switch back to the 32 bit Eclipse.  Not hard, but not dirt simple.  First install the 32-bit JVM ia32-sun-java5-bin.Read more