WS-Goldylocks & The Seven Layers

I’d like to comment on Steve’s post on the WS-* standards process, specifically on how the standards have been produced. A “real” standards process may or ma...

Why I Like Open Office

Slashdot is running this article about the fourth birthday of OpenOffice. Not unexpectedly, there are only two comments under the story: Either “I hate this ...

Keep The Hot Side Hot

By official proclamation of the Royal Institute of the Ardvaark: Today is no longer Columbus Day.

Sold the Car

I sold my car on Friday, and we sold Hedda’s car back in July. It feels really good to have one less thing to worry about. No more insurance payments. No mor...

My CPU Fan Really Sucked

I was digging around inside of Samus the other day. Mostly I was trying to hook up an IDE disk so I could reset the root password on the drive, but I happene...