A sudden change in biochemistry that results in the recognition of the perfect moment is magical.

I desperately wanted to blog tonight about my frustration with the farce that is the media and politics in America today... but PBS saved me the trouble.

I love my new iPhone... I really do... but... I do have a couple complaints more...

Would God care about some of the things we are often told He/She cares about? more...

I have a bash script that calls a java application. Originally this script and java app were only run on a linux machine. Then for a couple good reasons I needed to run it in windows under cygwin. I already had java installed under windows, so I needed to get the bash [...]

A project I’m currently working on has me repeatedly looking at csv text files.  When the columns line up well I can simply cat or less the data on a linux command line.  But when the data does not line up I have to eyeball it and try and figure out what value goes to [...]

My new music collection maintenance recommendation is GimmeSomeTune .  For what it does it works very well.  GimmeSomeTune runs in the background and monitors the music currently playing in iTunes.  When a new track is played it can check to if the track has lyrics and/or artwork associated to it in iTunes.  If it does [...]

Here’s a simple example that uses the for command in bash to echo a list of strings for a in 1 2 3; do echo $a;  done ; Note that the semicolons can be carriage returns instead.  In fact it seems that everything prior to the first semi-colon can appear on the same line, and do can [...]