Ed Cottrell

  • Whatever happened to…

    Whatever happened to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame?” Why are the World Series games featuring “God Bless America?” That’s a fine sentiment – though not a very good piece of music, in my opinion – but a seventh-inning stretch without “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” is an outrage. In fact, it’s unpatriotic, even…

  • FOSS OTD: AstroGrep

    Defined as a “Windows GUI grep utility,” AstroGrep is a search tool, similar to the “grep” tool in Linux, but with a Graphical User Interface (GUI, i.e. a window, not a command line). It’s faster and more reliable, in my experience, than the built-in Windows file search features. It can show search results in context…

  • Rough Day

    Okay, it could have been much worse, but this was a rough day. I smacked into the curb, pulling out of the garage, this morning. No damage to the car, so far as I can tell. I bollixed up my understanding of a set of cases in Contracts. I made a fool of myself in…

  • FOSS OTD: WordPress

    Today’s FOSS OTD is WordPress, Free Blog Tool and Weblog Platform. WordPress makes it amazingly easy to set up and maintain a blog, with tons of plugins and easy theme creation. It’s the software that powers this blog, and I give it my hearty endorsement.

  • Forget breaking .500…

    I’ll settle for breaking .200, this year… Details here.