Erik's weekly column published in the Javalobby Newsletter.

It snowed overnight, on Valentine's Day. I think that's a first for me. We were just looking at my blog to see what we did last year for Valentine's Day, whi...

This almost sounds like a joke. Our IKEA MALM bed frame fell apart, again. This is the third time an IKEA bed broke on us, in less than a year. I know we cou...

Once in a while I have to use Subversion on a Linux box. Not a big deal, except for diffs. The standard svn diff output is not the most readable. Vim, or mor...