A quick essay on why the Jakarta Commons Logging API instead of plain ol' Log4J is a bad idea. I'm not sure I buy this completely, but it is the way I've been trending over the past half-dozen web-apps I've delivered.

Ummm ... can you say "conflict of interest" boys and girls? I sure can.

In my long-running quest to completely exhaust my meager savings and earnings by acquiring scads of nearly-worthless electronic junk .... I present the home laser cutting/etching tools. They even come in colors! CNC machining tools in my own goddamned basement!

Yet more consumer crap that I must now buy. I'm going to have to get a better-paying job if I plan to continue affording all this electronic junk, aren't I?

An easy one-page guide to properly using apostrophes in your writing.

Holy crap!!! I may have to revise my mental picture of what arbitrary and capricious means. Not only is the law (apparently) written far too broadly here, but it also suggests that a digital camera has an unforseen advantage over film: it doesn't allow the local busybodies-masquerading-as-retailers a chance to poke their noses into your business. Christ on a stick, I've got pictures of both of my daughters naked (in the bath, getting a diaper, running down the hall, etc) ... does that mean that I'd be considered a child pornographer in Texas?

My wife also says "we never talk", when in fact our household is filled with talking from the instant the girls wake up until they go to bed. Rather a lot like this, in fact.