It’s the beginning of the month, which means it’s invoice time for me. I very rarely send out paper invoices. These days most companies are hip enough to have addresses like AccountsPayable@<company>.com. So my low-volume invoicing mechanism involves a Pages templates document, and a little manual copy and paste from my web-based hour-tracking system. One […]

Since moving to the Northeast I’ve been a customer of Verizon for my telephone and internet service. Being a customer of Verizon is basically the same as being a customer of SBC, as I used to be in San Francisco. Things basically work most of the time, but any time you need to change anything, […]

Perhaps my New-Years resolution has been to tie up loose ends in the personal coding projects department. Having recently finished an update to FastScripts, and putting Clarion 2.0 in the “beta cooker” for a little while, I turned my attentions to a little piece of work I use specifically for practicing yoga, but which should […]

One of the aspects of being a professional software developer that is a real grind is the tedious, careful double-checking we must do in order to reduce the odds that our work will lead to some major metropolitan area bursting into flames. Double-checking means diffing. Diffing is hard. Even with somewhat friendly tools at our […]