This is pretty wild….the number 2 appears in the eye of Hurricane Wilma. They insist that the image and video were not altered….in fact you can barely see it at this NOAA link as well: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/radar/archive/Tue/kamx/241002.gif.
NBC2 News Online - The mystery of the eye

The Ruby on Rails hype continues - Bruce Tate considers the possibility that it may be “the next big thing,” as well as letting us know that “It’s time to start paying attention again. It’s time to look at the horizon, beyond Java.” I’ve been thinking about this issue a lot lately - I [...]

Spurgeon’s evening devotional for today packs a punch. I can’t get over the last few sentences:
O professor, too little separated from sinners, you know not what you lose by your conformity to the world. It cuts the tendons of your strength, and makes you creep where you ought to run. Then, for your own [...]

Bill O’Reilly slams the ACLU for being what it is - not a defender of Constitutional rights, but a militant organization fighting for its own radical, secular, progressive agenda. BO states:
“The ACLU simply wants a different country, a nation where conduct it approves of, public sexual displays, child molestation literature is allowed. But the ACLU [...]

What Is Ruby on Rails by Curt Hibbs — Ruby on Rails is an impressive web development framework that will soon reach version 1.0. While there’s a lot of buzz, it can sometimes be difficult to discern the steak beneath the sizzle. Curt Hibbs walks through the features and pieces of Ruby on Rails to [...]

One technology that I picked up on in the last session of the Java In Action conference was Apache iBATIS. It is a really cool framework that maps SQL queries to Java objects. It provides the capability to do really AWESOME things with dynamic SQL, and eliminates the N+1 query problem. I’ve been playing with [...]

I am about halfway through reading an interview with Ravi Zacharias in the Fall 2005 issue of Just Thinking from Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. The interview was conducted by Major John Carter of the Salvation Army, and concerned Leadership and Calling. I was extremely taken by a quote by RZ in the interview which I’ll [...]

I’ve spent quite a bit of time playing with this Ruby on Rails thing. It’s amazing that I was able to build such a nice basic CRUD app w/ only 57 lines of code. Now, I know this app didn’t do much - just manage an Online Cookbook (i.e. the OnLAMP.com Rolling on [...]

This is my first post to this blog. I’ve just returned to work after spending the last week at TheServerSide.com’s Java in Action conference in Orlando, FL. Got to take the family with me and spend a day at Magic Kingdom. A good trip, and learned a lot of new technologies.