I'm currently setting up a new Hibernate project and finally getting around to trying out JPA annotations instead of using any Hibernate configuration or mapping files-- what the hell took me so long!!??! Anyhow, among the many gotchas I came across, one was how to deal with using Interfaces with Hi...

If I get more than 3 days between posts it just snowballs. So here we are. This morning we are going out to look for a used off road vehicle. Not one that is for sale on the side of the road, mind you, but a 4x4 . We have a pretty small budget for the vehicle but we have what the Lord has given us a...

* A very charming science fiction story, "Such is Fate," by Arsen Darnay, read aloud (in a way that is also charming) and discussed. It was the first time I had actually come across it, despite the fact that it seems to be something of a minor classic (published in 1974). A nice thing about the Inte...

So we not only invented the automobile, we invented democracy, too: A veteran politician, Clinton compared the complex European political environment to that of the two-party U.S. system, before adding: "I have never understood multiparty democracy. "It is hard enough with two parties to come to any...

In the first part of this post I discussed why donating to a cancer charity may not be quite the wise investment you first thought. With regards to your health, it’s not my job to tell you what to do, but it is my job to educate you, so you can make an educated choice. I do not necessarily wish fo...

A strange and confused chapter in the history of American medical research ended Monday morning, when President Obama signed an executive order ending a ban on federal funding for embryonic-stem-cell lines that were developed after August 9, 2001. The ban has been roundly denounced as hypocritical a...

Soul Graffiti: Making a Life in the Way of Jesus by Mark Scandrette My review rating: 5 of 5 starsI don't know if you would call Scandrette a "theological artist" or an "artistic theologian," but the merging of the two......

Well I didn't get sick riding in the back seat. I took a Dramamine. Call it cheating. I call it not puking. Because I would have. It actually wasn't too scary. I mean, every rule of driving safety was pointed at and mocked with Nelsonian disdain, but we made it. When I got in the car I couldn't find...

* Boolos's famous Godel's Second Incompleteness Theorem Explained in Words of One Syllable (PDF) * A. C. Grayling has an essay on a book about Hume and Rousseau at the Barnes & Noble Review. It's the fairly typical hatchet job against Rousseau that admirers of Hume often propagate: the Legend of St....

Lent How joyful is this blessing,that the guilty may repentand in sackcloth and ashesmake justice to relent!How splendid is the wonderof this gift from mercy's handthat sinners may have recoursefrom punishment's demand! How Strange that You Think I Love You How strange that you think I love you,when...