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Went out for a Venti(tm) dirty chai tea latte, and decided to scope out the Cingular/AT&T store that will be carrying iPhones tomorrow. Asheville is not a very large town, so we don’t expect many phones to come in.
But these two guys will definitely get one.

The lucky First Guy In Line is Greg Mayer […]

To be honest, I’m not that much of a Smashing Pumpkins fan, but I think it’s cool that they’re breaking out of the normal box, and doing a rather odd tour this year. They’ve picked 2 cities to have a “residency” at. One of them is my town, Asheville, North Carolina.
9 shows between […]

Mark Proctor has posted an interview he did with Terence Parr of ANTLR fame. Ter is one of the nicest and smartest guys I know.
Back in the day, teaching myself how to program in C++, I decided to write my own scripting language. I’d tried (f)lex/yacc/bison, and they were either not friendly to […]

It’s with some humor I watch the outrage around the London 2012 Olympics logo. Back in the mid-nineties, I lived in Atlanta. They were ramping up for the Olympics they were hosting. And they came up with a “awesome” mascot which was announced with great fanfare.

Yeah, that’s inspiring, patriotic, and definitely a […]

I’ve finished putting together the first podcast since I’ve joined JBoss.org. Mark Newton and James Cobb helped with this interview of Tom Baeyens, the project lead for jBPM. In it, Tom discusses some of the fundamentals of jBPM, including his ideas around the Process Virtual Machine (PVM).
YouTube | MPEG-4 (Video) | MP3 (Audio […]

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This evening, sitting around with my wife and our friend Jeff, he mentioned seeing a crapload of emo kids outside a local music venue. I immediately asked what an emo kid looked like. My wife suggested the kids from The OC. Jeff described what sounded to me like followers of The […]