Finally found the answer to what I looking for: How to figure out what the heck Jersey was doing when matching resources.  This answers it nicely:   Jersey now supports the same feature implemented in 1.1.5-ea-SNAPSHOT. Adding the following servlet/filter initialization parameter enables tracing: <init-param>     <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.feature.Trace</param-name>     <param-value>true</param-value> </init-param>   Easy Peasy: http://blogs.oracle.com/sandoz/entry/tracing_in_jersey Permalink […]

I’ve posted about this in the past, but this type of photograph is my favorite.  Juno, the recently launched probe to Jupiter, recently captured a single frame in which the Earth and the Moon were both visible. I love this because it gives you a radically different perpective on the moon when you look up […]

Loved this slideshow from Serious Eats depicting a swedish supermarket.  Featured: lots of things in tubes.   Permalink | Leave a comment  »

As parents, we often look to certain growth milestones with longing.  Asking ourselves “When will my son start walking?” or thinking out load “Boy, it would be nice if my daughter could talk” — unknowing to the fact that once a child starts talking they never, ever, ever stop. It’s this latest milestone that my […]

A DC-8 at KYIP, and my little C-152.

(First a note: for anyone not familiar a cross-country flight is anything where the straight line distance between the landing point and the point of departure is 50 nautical miles or more) I had been trying to find good enough weather to fly to Marshall (KRMY) for some time — it had been a very […]

Great interview with Ira Glass (from This American Life) regarding storytelling, but more generally…creating. Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make […]