I’m currently using Thrift at work.  It’s a convenient way to shuttle data across different services and to invoke remote procedure calls.  I like it because of how lightweight it is, so I don’t have to wrestle with code for a kitchen when all I need is a faucet.
The one downside to Thrift at the [...]

I’d like to start out by apologizing for my last post.  My previous post was below my standards.  It was simply a quote with a small blurb that provided no worth while insight.  I did nothing more than add to the echo chamber of the Internet and that isn’t what I’m trying to do.  At [...]

Amazon sells most Kindle books for $9.99 or less. Publishers say that they generally sell electronic books to Amazon for the same price as physical books, or about 45 percent to 50 percent of the cover price. For a hardcover best seller like Scott McClellan’s “What Happened,” the former press secretary’s account of his years [...]

I enjoy Twitter and I think I’m addicted to Google Reader.  It’s become a game for me to make sure that I get the number showing my unread stories down to zero.
Both make it very easy to follow someone, and once you do, if you’re like me, you end up following them forever just because [...]

I opted to join the OpenId crowd.  Do I really have any use for OpenId?  No, not really.  Now that I have it, I’ll see where I can use it and start trying to utilize it.
Here’s the link to my OpenId page, for your perusal:
http://openid.programmersparadox.com/mmzyk
I signed up with myOpenId, but that might not be obvious [...]