EuropeTravel

Day 2: Amsterdam

This was the second day of our Europe trip and our second day in Amsterdam. We had not realized this when we booked the trip, but April 30 is a very special holiday in the Netherlands called Koninginnedag (Queen's Day in...
EuropeTravel

Day 1: Amsterdam

We finally made a first pass through the 2000+ pictures that we took on our recent trip to the Netherlands, Belgium, Paris, London, and Bath and I uploaded some of the better ones to Flickr. Here's the first installment in a sort...
EuropeTravel

Going to Europe

It's time for a vacation. In a few hours, we'll be hopping on a flight to Amsterdam and we'll be spending the next three weeks in the Netherlands, Belgium, Paris, and London. We're hoping to use the long flight and Nicole's new...
General

Tom Delay on Kosovo

Stumbled across a list of Tom Delay quotes. Assuming they're real, they're amusing. This one in particular caught my eye: I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than...
Programming

ShUnit

http://shunit.sourceforge.net/ Though personally, if I ever found a serious need for this, I would probably rethink the use of Bourne shell for the project in question....
Gadgets

Canon SD800IS

We just got a new Canon SD800IS, right before a trip to Europe (a few cities in the Netherlands and Belgium and Paris, and London). We had a Canon S40 which served us well, but on our last trip while we were in Vancouver we...