Erik's weekly column published in the Javalobby Newsletter.

We went to IKEA yesterday to have our bed replaced, which they agreed to do one more time. Fine by me, until I found out they no longer do assembly. No thank…

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…

We just received the following from the Humane Society. February 8, 2006 Dear Erik & Vicki, I am writing to relay some shocking news. The U.S. Department of…

This has to be one of the coolest gadget I bought in years. The IOGEAR GBMHKIT is a Wireless Stereo Headphone/Headset with Bluetooth capabilities. It comes w…

In the last few days, I've been slowly converting from CVS to SVN as my primary repository. Creating the repository was easy. Importing my existing projects,…

Have you ever wanted to quickly send a POST request to a HTTP server? It's pretty easy to do using curl. For example to send XML via a POST request, you coul…