Author Archives: dachaeon

The Federal Government Never Shrinks!

The current debate (and significant wailing) about the budget proposal rolled out recently by Chairman Ryan got me thinking about whether these ‘massive cuts’ we are talking about are historically significant. I noticed that all of the charts talk about … Continue reading

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Mobile VOIP Part 2

It has been a month now without AT&T 3G service on my iPhone 4, and I have not missed it even a little bit. The few times I have been out and about and needed to make a call the … Continue reading

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Pushing the Envelope on Mobile VOIP

I just took the plunge – and took my family with me – into the wild west of mobile voice. We just abandoned our iPhone cellular plan in favor of turning these wonderful devices into fat iPod Touches, and it … Continue reading

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Research and Writings

This will be an evolving post providing summary info about software development topics of interest to me. I will include links to papers written by me, but most of the others are IEEE or ACM journal articles that cannot be … Continue reading

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A Brief History of Mytoons

Since Mytoons.com has been offline for some time now, I think it would be nice to archive some of the key features of the site and its related applications here. Way back in the summer of 2006 the founders of Bauhaus … Continue reading

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The old Resolute

I was digging through some old World of Warcraft screenshots today and thought I would post them since the old guild sites are gone or are going away. Ugs, Saura, Rhino, Velan, Nisha, Glad, Smia, Griff, Leo, Benjji, Achilles, and … Continue reading

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Getting the songs back online

Back in the good old days when I seemed to have more spare time for that sort of thing I played with selling some mp3 and CD recordings of multi-track hymns I recorded. Well, crocketthopper.com has been defunct for a couple … Continue reading

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The Curse of Object-Relational Mapping

I had a professor in my software engineering program at UT who said that “Code is the desiccated relic of a long intellectual process.” I have never heard it put better. I am a big believer in the “Say it … Continue reading

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The Crisis of History

In Witness, Whittaker Chambers notes that feeling men of all stripes cannot help but be moved by the plight of their fellow man as they stuggle through the world – daily facing the curse of the world and struggling with … Continue reading

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About the blog

Greetings friends, family, cohorts, peers, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera! I expect the focus of this blog will evolve over time – but for the moment I plan for this public diary to span personal, political, and professional topics ranging from Software Engineering … Continue reading

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