Mitch Fincher: The Distracted Programmer

Thankgiving dinner at the Finchers. The rest of us are busy getting the food ready and Rachel surveys the table. In honor of both our Amer...

Ok, Ok, I know you don't believe me and it's heresy to say such things, but please read on. In the US we use two-thirds of our 21...

I just saw a great video about training crows to collect discarded coins. 215 million dollars worth of change is lost in the US each year...

CRT monitors, LCD monitors and LCD cell phones can cause migraine headaches. Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT) monitors are the old fashion kind wi...

I'm very excited about Scott Gutherie's new ModelViewController framework. It's very similiar to RubyOnRails, Grails, and Monor...

I ran into a problem using Watir - it could not find a frame that is really on the page. I got this error: c:/opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge...

To upgrade my daughter's ancient Dell to Ubuntu I wanted add to its 128 Meg memory with some SDRAM PC100 256Meg chips. I bought some at...