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Headius: My Thoughts on Oracle v Google

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Passing along a long and well-written technical analysis of the Oracle v. Google lawsuit from a Java programmer’s point of view:  Headius: My Thoughts on Oracle v Google.

Report: ESPN to air LeBron’s decision Thursday – Yahoo! News

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Report: ESPN to air LeBron’s decision Thursday – Yahoo! News. I sincerely hope the result is leaked before hand, so that this kind of thing doesn’t become precedent.

Next Chapter of Taming Text available

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Finally, a new chapter of Tom and my book is available: Manning: Taming Text.

Health Care Reform: 1/4 of the needed solution

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Is it just me or is focusing solely on the insurance aspect of Health Care Reform a bad idea?  Insurance companies are just 1/4 of the problem.  The other three are: Doctors/Medical Community Drug Companies Consumers For instance, what about tort reform?  What about the billions of dollars drug companies spend on advertising to go [...]

Canada Hockey wins Gold, but the real question is…

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Who picked up Sidney Crosby’s mouthguard after the celebration and how much money will it fetch on eBay.ca?

United Airlines (S)no(w) Fun

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Last week (Feb 4), I flew United Airlines to DC for a meeting with a client.  I was then planning on going up to my sister’s to spend the night and fly back home.  After much deliberation about the impending snowstorm due on Friday, I turned back around from driving to my sister’s and headed [...]