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I’ve posted an account of a recent visit I made to the Paulinskill Viaduct, a crumbling concrete edifice that was once an integral part of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad’s “Lackawanna Cut-off” route across hilly northwestern New Jersey. Like the Pequest Fill, also a part of the same route, it is a monument both [...]

Almost exactly a year ago I posted a piece here about hiking out onto the Pequest Fill, perhaps the greatest mound of dirt and rock ever pushed up in one place by the hand of man. The so-called “Lackawanna Cut-off” that rode the top of that long dike provided the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad [...]

It’s probably a common scenario: you’ve got some process that, in the course of doing whatever it does, creates a directory and later deletes that same directory. If you’re working in .NET using C# you might be making a call like this: While debugging the program you naturally open up Windows explorer and look at [...]

I was on my way home from a day kayaking in the Pine Barrens with a few friends when my daughter called on the cel phone. Would I be home soon? I told her I would be there in about an hour, and asked why she wanted to know. She told me she had to [...]

We ran into something interesting the other day when one of our services crashed. The problem turned out to be an unhandled exception that was allowed to propagate up the call stack of a thread created by a third-party unmanaged DLL, but that wasn’t the interesting part. What got our attention was the source of [...]