NASA at ... its most awesome , and at its least awesome ...  Too bad there's so much more of the latter than the former...

Paradise ponders: artichokes, kits, better indexes, and electricity edition...   Yesterday Debbie made a new dish – a casserole of chicken...

Paradise ponders: Debbie's “graduation”, filling station milestone, steam train, and tax cuts...   This morning Debbie went in to see he...

Binary to decimal conversion performance...   Now here's an obscure topic that I've worked on a great many times over my career.  Th...

Paradise ponders: rain, and strange coincidences edition...   It is pouring on us right now (see the radar snapshot at right).  I'm u...

A step taken...   This morning I registered a new domain: decinum.org.  I was a bit surprised that it hadn't already been taken – my usu...

Paradise ponders, 8' lumber, oven removal, and scallops edition...   Tomorrow we're supposed to get our new oven installed.  You may...

Jaw-dropping innumeracy test...   I ran across this online somewhere (can't find it now), read their results and suspected shenanigans. ...

Paradise ponders, brief “I’m busy!” edition...   Yesterday none of our workers showed up, and no progress was made on any project.  I hate d...

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...