My wife was watching a program in the next room about individuals and businesses walking away from “underwater mortgages” (mortgages where more is owed than the current market value of the property). I wasn’t listening carefully, but I did hear someone talking about it as a “business decision”. I disagree.
In a real estate transaction involving [...]

Okay, this is funny. When I configured my GMail account to send mail as my email address at my domain, it sent a confirmation email to the address I’d specified. That email address forwards everything to my GMail account.
After several minutes, the confirmation email hadn’t arrived. So I checked my server logs. Sure enough, it [...]

I watched a presentation by Lawrence Lessig today about why we need campaign finance reform now, and it got me thinking — the ideal of democracy is 1 person, 1 vote. But how much of a vote does each of us have?
First, here’s the presentation:

Each citizen starts off with one vote. But those with the [...]

Wow, what a stormy issue this has become! The following was going to be a follow-up comment over on Andy Beard’s blog, but it got a little too long. Here’s my take on the issue:
I guess I see it a little differently. Let me see if I can explain in a way that at least [...]

If this list were worthy to be on itself, it’d just a be a list. But it takes laziness to be that bad, and I’m just not that lazy. Let me explain.
You’ve seen ‘em: “54 great call to action buttons”, “32 cool jQuery accordion menu scripts”, “79 great header graphics for inspirtion”, “15,327 free eCommerce [...]

I’ll have to explain that headline, won’t I?
I’m about to completely overhaul the way CaRP Evolution, Grouper Evolution, and some of my other products are sold. Instead of giving away a stripped down version of the apps for free, the core application will be free — the full version. Plugins and add-ons (like [...]

I just sent an updated version of Lobster – my RSS feed reader to all CaRP users. This revision adds Twitter support — tweet directly from your feed reader.
Lobster automatically generates tweet text from the title and link from each RSS item. Edit it as desired, select which of your Twitter accounts to post it [...]

Yesterday, I decided it was high time to scratch an old itch, so I built myself an RSS feed reader. It uses CaRP Evolution’s MySQL plugin to store parsed RSS feed items in a database. I think this is the first time I’ve used that plugin for a real project.
My three biggest complaints about Google [...]

What is luck? Does it even exist? It depends on your definition.
Here’s mine: “luck” is a mysterious force that brings good things to people who have it. It doesn’t exist.
What does exist is chance. Chance is random coincidences.
“Lucky” people are really just people who put themselves in a position to benefit from chance.
Nobody ever won [...]

I just posted a comment on Rich Schefren’s blog. That triggered an automated email thanking me for the comment and linking to a few useful resources. The email had backslashes before all the quote marks and apostophes. I sent an email in response pointing out the problem and briefly suggesting possible causes. I got an [...]