I haven’t been happy with my category structure for a while now. There were to many broad categories with too few posts to populate them. Really I was using some of my categories in the place of tags and this was creating somewhat of a mess of posts. I’ve consolidated my Books, Collections, Music, Movies, [...]

It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it [...]

Earlier this year President Obama told republicans that they need to “quit listening to Rush Limbaugh if you want to get things done.” The remark was picked up by almost every news outlet, some praising the effort to silence a “hate monger”, others expressing concern that the President of the United States would be telling [...]

All the chisels I’ve dulled carving idols of stone
That have crumbled like sand beneath the waves
I recklessly built all my dreams in the sand
Just to watch them all wash away
All the pennies I’ve wasted in my wishing well
I have thrown like stones to the sea
I have cast my lots, dropped my guard, searched endlessly
For a [...]

I don’t understand why ColdFusion insists on making things difficult. I’ve come to understand that it is not possible for ColdFusion to make use of inherent input arrays when one or more input elements is left empty. For some reason ColdFusion always drops the empty values from the array. I can’t think of any possible [...]