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Sorry to make my Blog x-rated, but this picture was just too much š ā A visitor looks at Rasputinās [deleted] displayed at the first Russian museum of erotica in St. Petersburg. The museum was founded by Igor Knyazkin, the chief of the prostate research center of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.(AFP/Interpress/Alexander Drozdov)ā. Via Yahoo News.
I shoulda knownā¦ Thereās cross-platform and then thereās cross-platform. A week later, about 20 testers later, weāve done 2 more sub-releases (up to 0.5.2 now) to shake out various platformy problems. Itās one thing to get it to run and another thing to get it to run right. **[Java WebStart:](...
Read more →Occassionally, I will have either an incredibly positive or negative reaction to a book, play or movie and I will be moved, who knows why, to write a bit about it here. Well, I just saw āThe Day After Tomorrowāand it is totally lame...
Read more →For some reason, it is not possible to get at the Socket object that the URL object uses for its network I/O. And so, on the face of it, you canāt set or change the time-out time. However here are two, semi-kludge properties that Sun has provided us to overcome that deficiency: System.setProperty(āsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeoutā, ā10000ā); System.setProperty(āsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeoutā, ā10000ā);
I know I do! Hereās a very concise summary of the syntax that will jog your memory when it needs to be jogged! Syntax for Log4j Cheat Sheet
Hereās the beta invite email that just went outā¦ Wow, this is exciting! š āThanks again for participating in this first beta of BlogBridge. A few comments before getting going: This is an early beta. There are features missing and there are bugs. Please bear with us! One of our expectations of you...
Read more →We are busy getting BlogBridgeready for beta (send email if you want to participate.) I hope we are only days away. But in doing that, and updating the web site, I thought this might be of interestā¦ Java really works! Here are three screen shots of BlogBridge, on ...
Read more →Another article in the New York Times about RSS: āCalled R.S.S. (the initials are variously said to stand for Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication and more obscure formulations), this increasingly popular online tool turns a morass of disparate information sources into an automatically generated and neatly organized index of the latest articles and postingsā You know we are not yet mainstream when the abbreviation periods are included in the name R.S.S. I mean whenās the last time you saw H.T.M.L. or for that matter I.B.M?
BlogBridgeis getting ready to go into a limited beta test. The purpose is to get some early feedback on the basic User Interface model and the overall product vision. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to email@blogbridge.com. Doing a beta when...
Read more →The beta test is almost ready to go. The plan is that it will start very small, with only a few users, and then based on feedback and results we will expand it as we release revisions and updates. If you are interested in joining up, send me email at beta@blogbridge.com.
Pop!Tech is one of my all time favorite conferences. So favorite that I bought a ticket for this yearās event way in advance. I have hit an insurmountable schedule problem and so I have to miss it this year. So, I have a ticket that I canāt use, they wonāt refund (the X*&!@(#&!@#ās) but I can transfer. And it is substantially cheaper than what they are charging now because of when I bought it. If you are interested please contact me directly by email.
Note to self: The FTP task in Ant relies on the library: commons-net.jar from Apache. Be not confused, this is different from the library: ant-commons-net.jar, which I believe is the Ant interface to commons-net.jar. In other words, you need them both, in ant_homelib. If they are not both there you can a ridiculously cryptic error message. ** p.s. Didnāt I say āGEEKā ?**Dave, thanks for the words of encouragement.
As I continue to make rapid progress on BlogBridge, now with a significant amount of help, I am asking myself some tricky questions about licensing, which I thought Iād try out here. (By the way, BlogBridge is the blog reader that Iāve been working on and which is soon ...
Read more →Struggling with debugging hairy focus and other UI problems in Swing (Java)? Hereās a handy little tip that I just found out about: When running a Java application, type Ctrl-Shift-F1 and the VM will dump the components hierarchy into standard output. p.s. Editorial comment: I question whether I should enter these super-geeky-limited-interest notes here. In the end, as I am using this blog as my personal lab notebook I decided that itās ok even though it might put some people off. My new standard is that I will precede the title with [geek] to give early warning and allow people to skip it.
Yes, I guess some of you have never seen American Idol, so you wouldnāt appreciate this ironic and funny commentary: āFinally, following a sax rendition of āThe Star-Spangled Bannerā by a former idol, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and John Kerry could stand up, holding hands, trembling but beaming encouragement to each other, as Ryan announced our next American president. ā In āAmerican Idolā Democracy, Fantasia Wins
Itās even worse than you thought: āE-mail security firm MessageLabsā filtering statistics for April, which were published on Monday, show that 67.6 percent of all global e-mail traffic is spam.ā See: Spam Now two thirds of email
Scoblebemoans the fact that folks arenāt all using the XML Icon, and he cites Random Bytes.Ā (Lucky Random Bytes for being mentioned by Scoble. As they say in Holleywood, you can say anything you like about me, just as long as you spell my ...
Read more →One of the core goals of BlogBridgeis to give a newbie a quick and delicious taste of the world of blogs. One of the very first steps of course is to decide what feeds to follow. Other blog readers come with an initial set of feeds built in or offer the user to pick fro...
Read more →I donāt know, this seems to be a topic near and dear to my heart! Thanks to Eric Heelsfor pointing to this classic Dilbert: 
This is getting interesting. In the last few weeks weāve added a bunch of new features and we are now in the final stabilization of this release to make it suitable as a beta. While it is still way less featurefull than for example FeedDemon, we do have some very neat wrinkles that others donāt have. Try it!