davidgagne.net — The personal weblog of David Vincent Gagne

The Collection

The Collection

The extended text of this entry (click ‘more’) contains a listing of all of Hemingway’s books with links to essays about them. For a chronology of short stories and related essays, visit The Short Story Collection.

Short Stories

Short Stories

The extended text of this entry (click ‘read more’) contains a listing of all of Hemingway’s short stories with links to essays about them.

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

An essay on The Old Man and the Sea by A. Chira.

Systray

Nobody asked me to play (boo hoo) … but I thought I’d jump in on this meme anyway. The contents of my system tray are (left to right): Windows Task Scheduler Volume control InoculateIT – virus protection quicklink to desktop Adaptec DirectCD Diamond InControl Tools AutoText – a little app I wrote that inserts text

South Carolina

South Carolina

A master of mind games, Holtz gushes over Gators ‘If we listen … we’re nothing but fools’ USC must slow Gators Gators can’t overlook Gamecocks No.3 Florida (7-1) at No.15 South Carolina (7-2) Spurrier calling all the shots

USRowing

The USRowing web site is essentially the same as it was five years ago. It’s incredible that this is the organization that basically runs the sport of crew in the United States and they haven’t bothered to make the most simple of upgrades. There must be thousands of rowers who are also computer geeks. Their

Sharks!

The CSShark Frequently Asked Questions page is a useful resource for designers.

Speed

Here’s a workaround for one of Windows 9x’s annoyances. Sometimes when you make a change in a window — for example, when you create a new folder through an open application — you won’t see it until you refresh the window by pressing F5 or until you close and reopen that folder. To have Windows

Uninstall

Are there applications in your Install / Uninstall list (in the Add/Remove Programs dialog box) that you’ve already deleted from your system? Or that, when you select them and click the Add / Remove button, give you a message that the uninstallation can’t proceed? Sure, you could leave them there and forget about them, but

Print Screen

Ever wanted to take a snapshot of your screen? Well, hit the ‘Print Scrn’ key and a bitmap will be placed onto your clipboard. You know the clipboard – it’s that mysterious Microsoft netherworld where things go temporarily when you hit Edit | Copy or Edit | Cut. Open up your favorite image editor, and

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.