My wireless connection just dropped out, as it often does at night, and so I went up to the little AirPort applet on the menu bar to find my router’s SSID in the list and re-select it. I can of course see all of my neighbor’s routers’ broadcast SSIDs, like “Happy Gilmore” and “Robs Router”, as well as the ever-popular “default” and “linksys” (yes, they’re both wide open). But tonight, there’s a new one: “pay your taxes to madison“.

Assaf Arkin blogs about how his team finally gave up on Maven and replaced it with Buildr, a build tool written in Ruby and based on Rake. It’s a little unfortunate that they chose a name so close to Jim Weirich’s Builder, but what can you say or do? At any rate, it’s comforting to hear that I’m not the only one who’s looked at Maven and thought to myself that it’s an incredibly overengineered solution for the problem that it’s trying to solve.