Erik's weekly column published in the Javalobby Newsletter.

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…

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…

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…

I was looking for a way to restrict access to the Subversion administrative (.svn) directories in Apache/Tomcat. The instructions I found recommended using a…

Seems like every couple years I find myself blogging about NBC's poor coverage of the Olympics. The commentators haven't improved much, but the coverage sure…

We're watching the Grammy Awards that we PVR'ed earlier in the week. Now, I know why American Idol was on top that night. Mary J. Blige butchering a U2 song…