We were sitting on the screen porch last night watching the storm roll in. In this case the 'we' was the computer science department. There is nothing like watching the lighting show at a distance. Just as the first person was getting ready to leave, the downpour hit. The consensus …

When I moved this blog to Octopress in January, it was inspiring in many ways. There were two things that slightly bugged me.

• Octopress is entirely too ruby based. Rake, and all of that made me feel bad, like I was cheating on Python. Surely there must be a similar …

Wow! May 2nd!  Schools in the area are starting late or canceling.  What a crazy spring.

Why I'm writing this on a 27 in iMac

I'm almost lost as I stare at the screen to write this post. 27 inches is a lot of screen real estate to work with, but boy do I love this new iMac! It is fast, fast, fast. I never thought …