Ed Cottrell

  • Thought of the Day

    A classic, but true: If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself – even if you’re the one that botched things up in the first place! I can’t comment on the reason that’s the thought of the day, but it fits.

  • This Weekend

    I spent the weekend (Friday through this morning) visiting my sister and brother-in-law. The weekend was lots of fun. I caught up with my good friends Brooke and Sarah (whom I’ve known probably longer than anyone else my age) and finally met some of my sister’s friends I knew only in name. The most interesting…

  • Mind-blowing alarm clock

    I bought a new alarm clock, a couple days ago – my old one had taken to using unpredictable “snooze” intervals, often as long as an hour, making it very hard to keep a normal schedule (whatever that is). Anyway, if anybody wants a full-featured and very, very loud alarm clock, I highly recommend the…

  • I hate ColdFusion

    ColdFusion has to be the most inefficient web scripting language in the world. Sure, applications can be developed quickly in CFML, but installing and maintaining ColdFusion MX is a nightmare. I have installed it on at least 5 computers, now, including several versions of Windows and Linux, and have never yet seen it install smoothly.…

  • Any ColdFusion or Linux gurus out there?

    If any ColdFusion MX wonks read this, I need help. I have a CFMX 7.0 install on Fedora Core 2 and keep getting errors. I think they’re related to some packet filtering problems, but don’t know how to fix it in FC2. Here’s the summary: I finally got CFMX and Apache connected, properly, but any…