Oh cool, the clock on the microwave is working again. Darn thing has been an hour off for six months. DeWitt Clinton (@dewitt on Twitter), the day after the clocks went forward in Canada and the USA. I am glad I’m not the only one whose microwave clock is wrong by an hour for half [...]

I found two articles this morning that attempt to explain what “microblogging” is: Microblogging Defined (via @rjeffries on identi.ca) Identi.Ca (from @oddbloke on identi.ca) I succumbed to Facebook a while ago, and the thing I like best about it is keeping up with peoples status messages. So I decided to try out Twitter on the [...]

So it looks like Sun aren’t going to do any more work to enhance or improve Swing. It’s kind of sad, but not entirely unexpected. I can’t help feeling that multiplatform GUI libraries are a dead end. Depending on what they are doing, what most people want is either a browser interface, or a fully [...]

Well, here we are, Welcome to the Cheap Seats has found a new home. I took your advice and moved to WordPress.com. I toyed with the idea of getting a new hosting provider and setting it all up myself, but decided against it in the end. WordPress.com has limitations (lack of Markdown for starters), but [...]