Character encoding humor

Character encoding malfunctions are topical for me of late. So if I were the kind of geek to publicly express personal world views within the confines of a bumper sticker, you might see my ride decked out with one of these bad boys.
Thanks to Joel on Software for this gem.

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Jobster Blog Makeover

Looks like blog makeovers are all the rage at Jobster. Hot on the heels of my site update, the Jobster Blog just got gussied up, thanks to the scrappiness of Joe Goldberg (one of our webdevs) and Carol Chapman and Matt Dawsey (our graphic designers). The three column look they employed is really sharp, especially [...]

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Kitchen Remodel

Close your eyes and imagine a kitchen there…

Awhile ago I promised a post about our kitchen remodel. Now that I’ve redeisgned the site and setup a Flickr-enabled photo gallery, I finally took the time to set up an album of all of our kitchen remodel photos. They’re not sorted through [...]

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Site update: Custom theme, Photo Gallery

The inspiration for the new theme

I took a little time today to tidy up the site a little bit. Most noticeable, I think, is the new theme. I’ve been meaning to use this image for some time as the thematic inspiration for this site. I took it in Vienna, as [...]

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Lessons in frustration: JavaMail, Hotmail, and IE

Much to my chagrin, a non-trivial amount of my development work involves dealing with the JavaMail API. It’s pretty easily the worst part of my job. As my friend Rich Unger once said

[JavaMail is] a classic example of an API that was designed to make it easy on the API writer instead of the API [...]

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Openwave lays off Seattle mobile apps team

I found out today that Openwave laid off its remaining Seattle-based mobile apps team (and quite possibly many more) yesterday, a year to the day after I started at Jobster. This is the team I left for Jobster, and things were pretty bad then. Since that time, the Seattle office has seen a fairly steady [...]

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A Kinder, Simpler Java

This post is an overview of my overall impression of JavaOne 2005, and is intended to be my last post on the subject. I realize it’s a tad late, but I’ve been meaning to get this post written for a few days now. However, since my arrival back to Seattle last Friday, I’ve been swamped [...]

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