I always include a picture on the top of each of my blog posts. However Blogger seems to not want to add the pictures when I upload them. Initially I had to always try inserting the pictures twice. Then it got so that I could hardly add any pictures. Epic fail anyone? I run Internet Explorer 7. Perhaps that it part of the problem. I bet there is no problem with the Chrome browser. I did find a work around. If I go into Compose mode, then adding pictures normally works the first time around.

Tales of bounty hunter Train Heartnet. For some reason, Youtube recommends that I watch a bunch of Initial D videos. Saw quite a few good episodes. Most of them were subtitled. Takemi power passes him on a particularly dangerous double curve. Keiuske thinks Takemi is going to bite it. On the downhill, Keiuske leads most of the way. Takemi uses a trick to take th.

I just heard about an old challenge from Donald Knuth. Figure out what your computer is doing during a one second interval. Here is a reference to the challenge. My first thought was how the heck am I going to get access to everything the computer is doing? Maybe I could hook into some low level access point.

I am a long time C programmer. The customer wants to go to the web. Time for me to learn Java. I did a bunch of analysis on my last project. The customer wanted more project management. So another guy on the team had to take over, My boss told me to work on a prototype for some data input screens from a legacy system. H2 is an in memory database. I went over to the JBoss Developer Materials. At work I am starting to spend half my time on a new project. It is an effort to create a web version of our s.

The wide world of govenment contracting. Specifically the practice of the government putting large companies under contract to do software development and maintenance. Customer site parking for contractors is limited. There are limited resouces for contractors there as well. Why go through all the hassle? This is a maintenance contract. We are to keep the lights on in the system.

Then I moved to Moria. Now I stick to playing Angband. It mostly plays Atari 2600 games. However there are some updated games included as well.

The brave new world of Microsoft . There has been a recent push for a return to native coding on the Windows platform. You can see it from the resurgence of the C programming language. Part of this might be due to the latest update to the C language specification. The language was last updated 10 years ago. You can use fault injection to test those hard to reproduce situation. They are the exceptions that only happen once your app has shipped to production.

The use of tools from Redmond to get your software work done. I only do Windows updates periodically. Most of them were security updates. I want the security holes patched on my machine. I still roll with the Windows 7 operating system. The big surprise was that over half of the updates were to the . What is the takeaway from this? Today I went in.