Okay, so I got behind on the FOSS OTD postings. Catching up: 10/19: PHP is a wonderful, fast, and flexible OSS scripting language for web programming and stand-alone applications. 10/20: FileZilla is a free FTP client. There is also a great FileZilla Server application. 10/21: PuTTY is a free telnet/SSH client. Very dependable and flexible. [...]

This is just really, really sad.

Whatever happened to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame?” Why are the World Series games featuring “God Bless America?” That’s a fine sentiment – though not a very good piece of music, in my opinion – but a seventh-inning stretch without “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” is an outrage. In fact, it’s unpatriotic, even [...]

Defined as a “Windows GUI grep utility,” AstroGrep is a search tool, similar to the “grep” tool in Linux, but with a Graphical User Interface (GUI, i.e. a window, not a command line). It’s faster and more reliable, in my experience, than the built-in Windows file search features. It can show search results in context [...]

Okay, it could have been much worse, but this was a rough day. I smacked into the curb, pulling out of the garage, this morning. No damage to the car, so far as I can tell. I bollixed up my understanding of a set of cases in Contracts. I made a fool of myself in [...]

Today’s FOSS OTD is WordPress, Free Blog Tool and Weblog Platform. WordPress makes it amazingly easy to set up and maintain a blog, with tons of plugins and easy theme creation. It’s the software that powers this blog, and I give it my hearty endorsement.

I’ll settle for breaking .200, this year… Details here.

So, the White Sox are going to the World Series, and the Astros are probably going to join them. I am a happy man.

The Weather Channel makes their forecasts, weather alerts, live traffic info, and other information available on your desktop with Desktop Weather. It’s free (not open source), but there is a paid version with a few more features. The free version is adware – it shows ads within the application, itself, but does not show them [...]

Today’s FOSS OTD is Google Desktop. Google Desktop is not open source, but it is free, and it is very, very useful. I use it all the time to locate e-mails I can’t seem to find on my own, or to figure out what webpage it was that had some useful piece of information, or [...]