My adventure on this planet is proving to be rather dull of late. Still, dull is better than drama-filled, especially in a pandemic. I'm starting to see the appeal of the shotgun, porch and rocking chair, as a pass-time, more and more these days. What…

When all around is dark and cold, wind-whipped, stormy-grey. Biting rain lashing down, boiling cloud obscuring day. Storm's chaos rages all around, our world is rent apart. It's difficult to see our way, to maintain strength of heart. Yet sun still shines above the cloud,…

I have re-imagined and re-created my website as a blog of sorts. I decided to take down a bunch of the old content that is getting a bit dated and out of use. Instead I'm focusing on a place I can share my thoughts and…

A couple of years ago I wrote an open source library called cruddy that I used to provide a simple data access layer. It's mission was to painlessly to convert objects into database records and back. You use it like this... public int update(SomeObject obj)…

Why value one kind life more than another? Is a cow more or less worthy than a pig? Is a tree? A blade of grass? A virus? How should we live upon this world? When we pluck a grape from the vine and eat it,…