Because I’m a big geek, I find the results of the hardware survey performed by the Steam service to be absolutely fascinating. Seven people who responded to the survey play games with 8 processors/cores. 93.96% have DVD-ROM drives. I only wish that last statistic were true of the customers for the products that I work [...]

The Weather Channel has some really cool new interactive maps that overlay current weather information (including animation) on top of Microsoft Virtual Earth maps. Being able to dynamically change the map while the live radar and/or satellite information is being displayed is possibly one of the best uses I have seen yet for the new [...]

You know a unit test that you’ve been trying to pass for a couple of hours is not going well when the desktop of your test rig ends up strewn with files named things like “bad.install.log”, “worse.install.log”, and “what.was.I.thinking.install.log”. No tag for this post.

Does anyone have any thoughts about GuruLib, Shelfari, and LibraryThing? So far I think GuruLib has both the best feature (list books borrowed from a library using information pulled directly from the library’s database) and the absolute worst interface. OMG does it suck. Shelfari OTOH has a really beautiful and, more importantly, functional interface but [...]

I know what I will be doing on the afternoon of March 3rd: East Lake Library Grand Opening I am really happy that the building is finally completed and am looking forward to using the facility. What I am not looking forward to as much is how the current financial troubles in the Minneapolis Public [...]

I’m not going to say much about “A Dirty Job” by Christopher Moore. People who like Christopher Moore will like “A Dirty Job”. People who don’t like Christopher Moore will not. If you don’t know if you like Christopher Moore be warned that Mr Moore takes his whimsy very seriously and as long as you [...]

I finished “Dark Cities Underground” by Lisa Goldstein yesterday, and I’m still having some trouble figuring out exactly what to say about it, but I think I need to say something. To begin with, I really adored the idea behind this book. While it isn’t entirely original, it is a very nice twist on several [...]