Apple – Support – Downloads – Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1
Better late than never, I guess.  As much fun as people make of Ballmer for “Developers, Developers, Developers“, he has it right.  Your computer and Operating System is only going to be as good as the software that 3rd party vendors (i.e. [...]

I’ve had it with logging frameworks.  Damn.  What started out as a good thing (log4j) has turned into this awful nightmare of configuration, classloading, religious wars, etc. all over something as stupid as printing out some stupid statement that most developers don’t even know how to make say something useful.
Seriously, SLF4j, Log4j, Java Util Logging, [...]

Was perusing my files looking for a PPT file to do some testing on and came across the following in Finder:

Notice that the PPT file is 1.8 MB and the Keynote file is 24.6 MB.  I opened the Keynote today and did a fresh export just to make sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks on [...]

Chiefs trade Allen to Vikings – Yahoo! News
I sure hope this trade isn’t reminiscent of the Herschel Walker trade…

So, I got yet another Yellow Pages (YPs) the other day, this time from AT & T.  Thank goodness, I can know look up the same company at least 4 different ways.
At any rate, you’ve seen my rants before at http://grantingersoll.com/category/yellow-pages/, but I got a little more information today.  First, I got a robo-call from [...]

Had an interesting plane ride recently where the chap next to me was from the Czech Republic.  Nice enough guy, I guess, but a bit disturbing in his attitudes towards the US.  Now, I had never met the fellow, and despite earning his living in the US and doing quite all right by it, he [...]