A slightly subtle issue with binary representations of money...   This is an issue that I ran into a few times on a stock trading applicatio...

Paradise ponders, less controlled chaos edition...   Well, yesterday our furnace guys were here and worked all day long on fixing our furnac...

Monetary values in computer programs...   Many programmers who first encounter the problem of representing a monetary value in a program don...

Paradise ponders, barely controlled chaos edition...   Yesterday was another crazy day around here, mainly because of the contractors.  It...

An old mortgage...   I found this on eBay a few weeks ago, and picked it up for a few bucks.  What caught my eye was the name “Dilatush” i...

Paradise ponders, chaos edition...  Man, what a day!   Four workers from Leading Edge (the company we use for our heating and air conditioni...

Paradise ponders, wifely hardware removal, impossible niceness, the return of the Internet, and great big smiles edition...   Today Debbie h...

Paradise ponders, leaping Sandhill cranes, snowy machines, and acrylic finish edition...   Yesterday afternoon was beautiful: patchy cloud...

Paradise ponders, cold snowy morning and polyurethane edition...   Well, dang it!  We got freezing rain and snow last night, with our low ...

A real-life variable-length encoding challenge...   I've been poking around the idea of building a “money” class for Java.  This would b...

Paradise ponders, slippery mud, wet wood, and sushi edition...   I was able to spend most of day yesterday (and some this morning, too!) wor...

Apple dribbles out some hope...   I've held off buying any Apple desktop product for over four years now.  Two separate problems have st...

Paradise ponders, boring meeting, giant valve, and blackened wood edition...  Last night was the annual shareholders' meeting of the Pa...

Paradise ponders, playful puppies, gray foxes, and holey yards edition...   Yesterday afternoon I took little Cabo for a mile-and-a-half wal...

Paradise ponders: monetary disappointment, another hole-digger and glue on the stairs edition...   The fellow at right (Dave) is standing ...

Your morning smile...

A favorite branch...   This is from Botany Photo of the Day, by Daniel Mosquin.  Beautiful, it is.  You can sign up for this free email here...

Paradise ponders, despondent border collie edition...   It's a beautiful morning here in Paradise: scattered clouds in a blue, blue sk...

Paradise ponders, spring walk, oxide, and oven edition...   I took Race and Miki (right) for our usual non-winter two mile walk this morni...

A great day for a bonfire...   It was cloudy and drizzly, exactly as forecast.  From a safety perspective, that's perfect weather for a ...