It is my great pleasure to introduce my new daughter, Sofia Isabel Ball. She decided to make her grand entrance in the wee hours of the morning on the first day of Spring, March 21st, 2008. Sofia wiggled her way out into the world less than 90 minutes after we arrived at the hospital, thus [...]
Browsing Posts published in March, 2008
I’m nearing my one year blogging anniversary. That is just long enough to know that I enjoy it and want to continue doing it for the long term. It is also long enough to make me start wondering about what comes next. For example, will I find blogging more or less enjoyable a year from [...]
A couple of months ago I wrote a post that dismissed micro-blogging as white noise. I had been only half-heartedly following the twitter page on GeeksWithBlogs and noticed lots of rather dull tweets of the "I’m hungry" and "Just rebooted my computer" variety. I quipped in my post that I might be able to justify [...]
As some of you may have noticed, one of my recent posts, Are .NET Developers the American Tourist of the Software Industry, was the scene of some vigorous debate earlier this week. Since I was a history major in college, I figured that I would summarize it textbook style for those of you who missed [...]
If you think that software developers represent the pinnacle of alpha geekdom, then try taking this simple quiz… Have you ever been asked to calculate the probability that your professor would wake up on Mars the next day? (yes, it can be done) Is the Math that you work with too complicated to be placed [...]
Max from {codesqueeze} tagged me last week with his "What music do you code to?" meme. The timing of his question is perfect because I am just now rediscovering the joy of listening to music while coding. I used to always listen to music while I coded, but I’ve gone nearly cold turkey over the [...]
I’ve noticed that the style of my posts has been pretty eclectic over the last several months. Partly, I just have an over-active sense curiosity that leads me all over the place. Mostly, however, I think it just has to do with the fact that I’ve been blogging for less than a year and probably [...]
