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jEdit won’t start after OS X Java update

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

I noticed that jEdit would no longer start on my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.5.  I’d try to run jEdit via Quicksilver as usual, but it wouldn’t open.  Double-clicking on the jEdit application icon was just as useless.  Nothing happened.  I checked for anything that could be blocking it and restarted my laptop with [...]

Twice as fast. Half the battery life.

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

I’m enjoying my new iPhone 3G, though I haven’t gotten much time on a 3G network with it yet (at the summer cottage this weekend). Had to get a white one to get 16 gig (even though I was about 30th in line, the AT&T store had already sold out of black). It [...]

Welcome to Burkeware.com!

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Burkeware™ brings you Kidometer, a simple grep for Windows®, the Regular Expression Playground, and a long proud history of buggy code that often requires reboots of your computer.