Tom Lachecki

A two-year old wild black bear has been sadly shot after it wondered into Minnesota with a plastic jar on its head.

Aside from this blog I maintain a handful of other publications with feeds, and for convenience I have them aggregated in Mozilla Thunderbird v2.0.0.16 alongside all my mail. It's not a completely solid piece of software but it does the job. However, I managed to find one its foibles just the other day.

Someone came into #C++ this evening with what turned out to be a very simple compiler error.

CNN reports that Anna Patterson — the brain behind Google's 2004 search engine upgrade — has banded together with her friends to create a new service that she feels will supercede the beast with all its shortcomings. The project, named "Cuil", is backed by $33m in venture capital and opened for business this morning. Ms […]

I bought this router to replace my faithful old Netgear DG834G that our ADSL ISP suspected was contributing to some ridiculous loss of sync issues. It was direct off-the-shelf and I hadn't read any reviews, but knowing to stay away from Linksys and being careful not to go with the same brand that might have […]

In my current job as an assistant to a web developer, I enjoy frequent debates about how best to style PHP code. All arguments that PHP is impossible to style aside, the last few weeks have gotten me thinking a lot about the many different ways PHP offers to perform the most simple of tasks. […]

So a Swedish school kid invited everyone bar two classmates to his birthday party, and the parents of the omitted children complained to the national parliament, citing "discrimination".

The BBC has published a few striking images of people with the oft-mentioned disease known as leprosy.

I briefly discuss the music video for the third single released off of Toy-Box's debut album "FanTastic".

According to Diane Kochilas, "offering a sip of something that is sanctioned culturally, religiously and even scientifically in the Mediterranean is hardly akin to setting a child on the path to alcoholism." In this article I briefly consider why that may be.