Yes, I like puns.

• Another old song of mine: What Have You Done?
  "What Have You Done?" is my attempt at a Jeremiad. It was one of the first songs in recent memory where I did not play the bass - a pattern I've repeated since then, since I was happy with this one. The mix is a little bass-heavy, and I ... sing... in ...
• FAQ on my music
  It's not like I get a ton of questions regarding the recordings I put online, but I get a few... and here're some answers to, well, potential questions.Read more...Tags : distance music time
• New song online: Clarity
  Like I've hinted before, I'm working on a new release. Due to the impact it has on everything lately, the release is called "Time" -- here's the first track I've completed on the thing.Read more...Tags : music time
• An obvious request from an e-Book
  DO NOT MAKE ILLEGAL COPIES OF THIS BOOK That's the first line in a book from Heaton Research. I own it, but the opening line is hilarious.Read more...Tags : book neuralnetwork pdf
• Song: Winter
  "Winter" is a song I recorded shortly before my father died. He heard it before he died - I played this version for him. He'd never heard anything I'd recorded, and it remains special to me if only for that reason.Read more...Tags : music
• I don't want to fade away...
  As I sit here listening to Derek and the Dominoes' "Bell Bottom Blues," it occurs to me how much I miss my friends, whether I've pushed them away or not. Tags : blues
• I'm still alive.
  It's been... September since I last blogged. That's a long time, even though I've had other periods where I've been rather underground - but then I had an excuse: my job was in the public eye, more or less, and I had to write on a daily basis. While what ...
• What I sort of look like
  Just in case you ever want to scratch your eyes out: here's sort of what I look like when I look in the mirror.Read more...Tags : ghost image mirror sucks
• My advice on how to vote
  I don't normally tell people how to vote in the US - just to vote - but by gum, I'm as mad as I can be. I'm not going to tell you for whom to vote, nor can I tell you who I'll vote for, but I'll tell you this: my vote is for sale to any politician who'll ...
• Spring changes its license structure
  The reason SpringSource's license change bothers me so much is not the specific change. It bothers me because Spring has done a good job embedding itself in successful projects, and now they've shown that they're willing to change the license, and I have ...
• I have seeeeeeen the light, brothers and sisters!
  I spent a lot of time on a specific architectural piece on an application I'm writing, only to run up against some thorny concurrency issues. I've always said that you should measure before optimizing; I didn't follow my own advice. Here's what I found ...
• Is Spring better than EJB?
  It's like boxing: is Boxer A better than Boxer B? Well... sure, as long as Boxer A makes sure he beats the crap out of Boxer B when they fight, and that's all up to Boxer A.Read more...Tags : ejb j2ee spring

• Re: What I sort of look like
  Joe....you need to contact me....We are related!!!!
• Re: What I sort of look like
  You look a lot like your DAD.....I do remember him.....
• Re: What I sort of look like
  You look like yet another satisfied JBoss user Joe!
• Re: What I sort of look like
  LOL absolutely wonderful - you have axe-murderer written all over your face there! sorry man.
• Re: Spring changes its license structure
  Actually, yes. And what Spring changed is not the license under which the Spring Framework exists; what they changed was the support and release strategy. There'll be a Q&A with Rod Johnson available soon that goes into some more detail.
• Re: Spring changes its license structure
  Did you even bother to read the announcement?! It says nothing about a change of the license. Well at least this blog post is consistent with the rest in this blog.
• Re: Spring changes its license structure
  How is this a licensing change? SpringSource has not changed the licensing of anything. The core Spring Framework and all the projects that were Apache Licensed are still Apache Licensed and will remain Apache licenses. All fixes going into Spring are ...
• Re: I have seeeeeeen the light, brothers and sisters!
  Thank goodness! :)
• Re: I have seeeeeeen the light, brothers and sisters!
  If it's any consolation, despite the apparent revelation recorded here, I'll always think of you as dumb.
• Re: Is Spring better than EJB?
  what happened to the crawl Hall of Fame? it directed me here.
• Re: Is Spring better than EJB?
  Joe, I enjoyed talking to you about DomainProxy, but here you're totally off base. Completely. 100%. Off base. You said in your last post " if you were silly enough to do everything on the same physical box".... But that's the right way to do ...
• Re: Is Spring better than EJB?
  My main "concern" is that Spring is able to use this sort of self-serving sledgehammer to change the industry... and that they'll do it again. Perhaps they will. However, if SpringSource does it poorly, they don't have the clout with clients to push ...