I've been doing the Sacred Bow practice with Leo Babauta. It's a practice I look forward to each year because it gives me a chance to review the year I've had. This year it's taken me a while longer to get through this, in part because I've prioritized other things …

Last night the subject of job searching came up at our weekly Coffee House Coders group. One of our members finally got a new job after several months of searching (hurray!). That brought up a discussion about recruiters and how they handle job searching. This also led to a discussion …

Hope you have a great holiday season and a happy new year!

I wrote this up on an Atari 800XL (emulator) using FastBasic.

Hope you enjoy!

(Click on the image to see an animated version of this using an Atari 800XL emulator)

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Today marks my second chemo round. I'm doing a lot better this time around. The first time I received the side effects for Camptosar, which threw me for a loop. I found out later that JoDee tends to grab the side effects before I can read them. She knows my …

I'm delighted to announce that my book, The Mediocre Programmer is now available with a Spanish Translation by VictorHck. I've long admired the Pepper&Carrot for folks willingness to translate the comic into other languages (which is made possible by the liberal Creative Commons By-Attribution License). Having VictorHck's translation (released …