Paradise ponders, filling stations, muddy dogs, and wet weather ahead edition...   Well, the guys were here on Wednesday working on our fill...

Prehistoric computing...   Ken Shirriff does his usual incredibly nerdy computing archaeology ...

Tough choices...   The algorithmic trading server I worked on a few years ago used three different numeric types to represent quantities of ...

Storing and transmitting monetary values...   Most financial applications these days are not standalone applications, but rather components ...

Paradise ponders, thermostat monitor, borosilicate glass, and excellent beef soup edition...   After all the work we've had done to our ...

Inexact results and monetary calculations...   There are a few things worth pondering about making calculations with money where the results...

Paradise ponders, filling station, fuzzy eyeballs, and giant wrench edition...   Yesterday was another really busy day around the place.  I ...

Things that go wrong with monetary calculations...   As a programmer, it's very easy to forget about the error-producing “edge cases” in...

Paradise ponders, walks and drives edition...   Yesterday afternoon I took Mako (our giant field spaniel puppy) for a walk up my usual route...

Chicken pot pie...   This was our Easter dinner, mostly made by me but with a spicing assist from Debbie.  We've made this recipe sev...

How about scaled integers for monetary amounts?   A friend recently wondered why I wouldn't simply use scaled integers for monetary amou...

Paradise ponders, recoveries, flowers, stairs, and risers edition...   Debbie had a milestone day yesterday for her post-surgery recovery.  ...

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...