We did our weekly grocery shopping at Safeway yesterday. They had gold pineapples on special. Next to them was this Vacuvin Pineapple Slicer, which also caug…

Erik's weekly column published in the Javalobby Newsletter.

If you're having problems accessing CVS servers over SSH using IDEA and are running on a Athlon 64 with a Nvidia nforce4 chipset, like I had. You need to dis…

[@900] Yahoo! Contacts Back-up Russ had me play with the new Yahoo! Contacts Back-up on my RAZR: SyncML OTA for Contacts & Datebook. Very, very sleek. Yahoo!…

[@593] JavaSchool Perils Joel has written an interesting article titled The Perils of JavaSchools. While I don't disagree that the state of computer science…

[@714] Simple Sudoku If you like playing Sudoku. Really, who doesn't? I'd recommend giving Simple Sudoku a try: It's good, and free. What more can you ask for?