joel's thoughts

[Background] Two weeks ago, my family and I made a visit to our local Family Christian Store. I was there primarily to pick up the Casting Crowns CD [Snapshot review: tracks 2-4 are absolutely fabulous, the rest ranges from ‘good-thoughts’ to ‘eh’; overall musically solid but unremarkable, the strength is in the lyrics; really, tracks […]

Spolsky gives the pitch. Basically remote-screen-access customer support, super-easy, through any firewall, over any connection. Sounds pretty slick. I know I have family I might use this with, and I can think of several scenarios at work where this might come in handy.

This was just too funny. I was reading this article about some redesign of the Freedom Tower in NY when I happened to scroll down and notice the following product ad: If you like, you can view the firefox screen grab I cut that from (~100k). When I clicked on the link, the actual product […]

Lately I’ve been casually following Project Aardvark, the summer-intern-project brainchild of Joel Spolsky. It’s to be open source (GPL, I believe), but they haven’t yet said what exactly it is they’re building, and there’s been all kinds of speculation on that particular point. The last few posts on PA’s site really have me wondering…there’s mention […]

A-post-a-month is just wrong, and I apologize. So much I want to say about random things, as always, and/but life is too crazy, as always, so for now I’ll just drop this random note and hopefully follow up on other stuff later. Came across this writeup by Bob Cringely on Apple’s recently announced plan to […]

This probably won’t mean much to most folks who stop by here on a regular basis, but I put it up mostly in the hopes that it might be useful to someone out there trying to figiure out what their code is doing. We use ColdFusion in one of our projects at work, and we’re […]

Everytime Andi and the girls go out of town to visit grandparents or something, I always end up staying up later than I intend to, tinkering around with one thing or another. This time it was trying once again to put a cap on the firehose that is comment spam. I found James Seng’s plugin […]

I can’t get this out of my head. I came across a news item this morning on MSNBC about a UN-commissioned public service spot on stopping landmines that’s hardly getting any airtime. Turns out I’m a bit behind the curve on this one, as news of this hit the blogs over a month ago: The […]

Craig offers a link to a Christian doctor’s thoughts on end-of-life decisions, and I thought it was simply too good not to share it here. Very insightful and clarifying. Enjoy.

Interesting article over at Newsweek on the history of the resurrection of Jesus, and the theology of the early church. It’s a fairly even-to-positive portrayal of the subject matter, and makes for worthwhile reading. Thanks to chambrook for the tip.