the occasional occurrence

I’ve really been enjoying working with Python iterators lately. They make working with iterative tasks so flexible. Lately I’ve been working on adding progress tracking to an application so that we can give our users some feedback on where the application is at in various long-running tasks.
Since the long-running tasks in question are [...]

There was some good discussion last Sunday in my Sunday-School class. As is normal, I forgot my Bible, and had to slyly peek over at the one belonging to the person next to me. That didn’t work out so well and I wound up - get this - mostly just listening to what [...]

In the spirit of sharing knowledge that will save someone from the sort of tedious pain I went through the past couple days, here are a few Safari (2.0.4) bugs that I had to work around:
1. No Global Javascript eval()
That’s right. You can’t eval() in the global (window) context. Safari doesn’t allow it. [...]

In case any of you weren’t sure of my stance on this, I hereby declare MySpace the armpit of the Internet.
cw

My brother-in-law is picking up Democratic presidential-hopeful John Edwards from the airport tonight. Anyone have any questions that you’d like him to ask while he has him captive?
UPDATE (8/4/2007): Ok, so he isn’t picking him up until later this afternoon. Feel free to get your last minute questions in.
cw

I think that this is one of those universal truths that doesn’t get enough airtime.
cw

So I was just reading this techie blog, and when I was mousing over a link about to click on it, all of a sudden this “mini-preview” of the page I was about to click appeared. It didn’t really do anything beneficial - just showed this little thumbnail of the page that I was [...]

Here are a couple questions that Curtis (our 3-and-a-half year old) has asked me in the past 24 hours:
Dad, did God make microbes?
I think I stumbled through ok on this one. Something like:
Well Curtis, there are many good microbes, and even microbes that would be bad to get in our bodies have their place [...]

Sarah, on why she snatched Eli (our 19 mo. old) from me last night at 3am when he woke up crying:
It was my zombie-mom nurture mode.
I was happy to return to “zombie-dad sleeping mode”.
cw

So an article about user interfaces on Coding Horror prompted me to say a short piece about Ion*.
When doing serious work on the computer, I always find myself tiling my windows. Overlapping windows are so annoying. And tiling them in an organized manner is even more annoying.
From the article:
Manipulating windows is pure excise– [...]