Some of you know that I’m kinda a music nut. I have a fairly eclectic music collection and love to hear it all the time. Years ago I converted my albums to FLAC and MP3, bought Cowon audiophile dev...

Just updated the grails plugin for Cassandra to be compatible with Cassandra 0.7. Remember folks, this isn’t a GORM module.

As of now Android is my only smartphone operating system. WebOS is dead to me. Why you ask? Because now you can get Mario running around as a live wallpaper for Android. Unless WebOS starts using T...

A found this review that goes in depth on the differences between the Android Evo and Palm Pre on Sprint. Its long but worth it.

I pointed out in a previous post about my problems with chemically processed food additives like soy isolate. Then I tried to not eat that type of stuff even though I’m a vegetarian. Turns out I ki...

I have grails working to submit jobs to gridgain nodes. The grid tasks execute and send out jobs that run on the grid nodes just fine. The grid jobs are able to make use of a cassandra service (pro...

I started getting into customizing my Evo tonight and I have to say the scenes/widgets concept is pretty good compared to the WebOS ‘cards’. In the palm when you launch an app you have apps divided...

I just got an Evo to upgrade from my Palm pre. I’m most surprised by the Evo in that it is not a pure killer of the WebOS Palm pre.  Here are initial findings. Hardware: Here there is no compariso...

The current direction Facebook has taken is rightfully seen as hostile to individual privacy. But remember that Facebook was was only moderately interested in providing a private space online anywa...

Folks watching the dow today got a unpleasant shock. Dow dropped 10% only to regain some ground reducing the loss. Odds are automatic trading went into effect after some ‘technical limits’ got hit....