Suppressing Deprecation Warnings in Import Statements
I’ve got an import statement that references a deprecated class. However, it’s old and tested, and I don’t want to change it. For a long time, I annoyed the ...
Phone Phishing Scam from Domain Registry Support
A few minutes ago, I received a phone call, and the number came up as “Unavailable.” I’m not one of those crazy types who screens their phone calls, so I pic...
Smart Car Crash Test
Europeans have a different idea about automobiles than we do. For many years, the price of gasoline across the pond has been higher than even the so-called h...
Email and Old Friends
It started off with an email from an old friend and co-worker Michael Klynstra, to whom I had not spoken since shortly after Geneer went under. He was one of...
Parallel Processing and the User Experience
Have you ever pegged your CPU? It could happen any number of ways. You could be encoding some video, or performing a big compilation. It could be a rouge pro...
Pandora’s Music Box
Have you tried Pandora yet? If not, go there and check it out. It’s pretty self-explanatory, and really freakin’ cool.
Downtime Apology
For those of you who are incessant Dumping Ground followers: I apologize for the downtime this afternoon. I finally took the time to upgrade to MySQL 4.1, an...