In Memoriam

November 27, 2010

If you arrived here looking for the Ronald Erwin Wilcox in Memoriam page, where you can leave a comment if you have a memory of him to share, click on over to this page.

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Prism for Firefox

November 25, 2010

I am really having fun with Prism for Firefox.  Fun in the sense of wasting time picking out icons to represent standalone “applications” that I have created using Prism.   So far I’ve created standalone instances for a web calendar I use regularly and a couple of shared mailboxes  that I like to access via their [...]

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Unoriginal Ideas (Please write that book!)

September 30, 2010

I have way, way too many ideas for any one person to attempt to implement. So I take genuine pleasure when someone else implements one of my ideas. First of all it is gratifying to have my (brilliant!) idea validated via independent discovery: someone else had the same idea! And second, it is nice when [...]

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Mung originated in 1958

September 7, 2010

After talking with a client at length about how someone had mishandled some data, she asked me if “munge” is a real word or just something I made up? I was taken aback – I thought it was a real word!  I looked it up in the dictionary and it was not there.  I apologized [...]

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