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Back at the end of April I made the decision to get away from the software industry for a bit to invest in myself. Mind, body, and soul. I know how very Californian of me!
The past 6 months have been wonderful. I just finished up traveling throughout Europe for a few months. Logged a ton […]

I have finally moved chadwest.net to a new server. In the process I have decided to also migrate my blog from MoveableType to Wordpress in hopes to have better spam blocking. So far I am happy with the UI and setup wasn’t too difficult. Most of the issues were do to setting up Apache to […]

So I found the behavior of the roll() method inside the java.util.Calendar class a bit odd. The method declaration is:
roll(int field, int amount)

Where the field can be any attribute of the date. I’m interested in the HOUR field since I need a rolling hourly window.
When you pass the field of HOUR and 1 […]

Yahoo! has done it again! There is great competition between them and Google these days. I tend to believe Yahoo! is winning.
Now you are right to think Google is the one pushing the envelope by coming out with fancy services like Google Maps and GMail which top what Yahoo! had in place for years. […]

The other night Christopher and I went over the House of Shields to check out the Web 1.0 Summit. Which was mildly entertaining.
In the process of getting my drink on I ended up misplacing my cell phone. This wasn’t realized until I got home around midnight, which by that time Cingular no […]

When is a programming gig like a party?
When you stick around too long, you will always find yourself stuck cleaning up the mess. In this case ones own!
My rule of thumb, once I find myself yelling, “Who wrote this crap!”, and then ten minutes later mumbling, “Ohh shit, this is my […]

It looks as if Christopher has finally received his new wireless router to replace the old one we have bitching about all winter! You may see only a $60 piece of plastic and silicon, but to me it’s pure gold. No more, “Man would you buy a new router?! This pile of shit […]