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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Guillermo — Java Tools Community Press Conference.

JSwat Java Debugger 2.19, a JPDA based graphical Java debugger.

Mike — Is Any Bank Not Taking Part In The Google IPO?

Gerald — Scripting Language of the Year 2003 Award - And The Winner Is…

Donkey Kong JR. Flashy.

David — Syndication feed cleanup (GZIP Filter and Conditional GET plugin).

Dave — Scamming Technorati.

Real to launch AAC format music store. Advanced Audio Coding wrapped in Real's own Helix DRM technology, won't work on iPods.

Chuq — Hiring time…

Anthony — SELECT @@IDENTITY.

Aaron — Unspeakable Things.

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Matthew — 7 million and counting and Dave on Fawcette.

Joshua — 2004: the year of the Net-App.

Mark — XML Tutorials.

Mark — IDEA EAP #1071.

Wouter — JBoss Tutorials.

Danny — Smalltalk free books

Review: Windows XP SP2 Beta.

Frank — The quest for the ultimate mobile office.

Matt — We need a mobile-oriented top-level domain.

Matt — My Predictions for MacWorld Announcements.

CodeTek announces VirtualDesktop 3.0.

California eases up on Net phone rules and California Debuts New Online Privacy Laws.

Mike — We Need To Regulate TiVos Now?

iTunes DRM cracked wide open for GNU/Linux. DVD Jon unpicks locked music.

Paul — MTOtherBlog (v 0.25).

TiVo sues EchoStar over DVR patent. "Multimedia time warping system" patent.

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Python UnZipped. Creating, extracting, and adding to Zip archives using the standard zipfile module.

Daniel — Agile Resolutions.

Carlos — Anemic Domain Model and SOA.

Tom — Anonymous confessions weblog.

Kevin — Nick Bradbury on software piracy.

Dion — Article: In pursuit of perfection. New Year Resolutions for Java.

Martin — Fedora and JDK 1.3.1.

Pinocio — On so-called Anemic Domain Model.

Simon — Joss Stone: A 'Norah Jones' moment.

Eric — Big List of Blog Search Engines.

Mike — PocketMac now for MS Smartphones!

Paul — GNU celebrates 20th anniversary.

New 2GB hard drive source for 'Mini iPods'? 2GB Cornice Storage Element.

Linux: 2.4.24 Stable Kernel, fixes a vulnerability in the mremap() syscall which could be used to gain root privileges.

Better search results than Google? and Grokker could be the future of search.

BitTorrent users chuckling over Pew peer-to-peer report. Isn't it possible that more of the trafficking is just moving off the radar? Duh!

Sam — CES: A-Z.

Daniel — XDoclet for Multiple Targets.

Fred — Code Generation in J2ME.

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Anthony — Anemic Domain Model Reactions.

Mark — feedparser 2.7 is out.

Paul — Will Apple's innovations and influence ever translate into market share?.

Simon — JavaScript in Python.

Roxio unveils Toast With Jam 6.

MacWorld SF 2004 Keynote Satellite Coordinates. The satellite coordinates for the MacWorld San Francisco 2004 Keynote speech.

MacWorld SF 2004 Keynote Satellite Coordinates. The satellite coordinates for the MacWorld San Francisco 2004 Keynote speech.

JCE taglib for JSP 1.0RC, an open source JCE (strong encryption) JSP taglib.

Netcraft: Go Daddy, The Planet Continue Strong Growth.

Norway throws in the towel in DVD Jon case. No more appeals.

Dion — Opinion: Object Identity and how JDK 1.2+ removed a core feature.

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XML Validation Structures: DTDs and schemas.

Blitz Project, an open source JavaSpaces implementation designed to ease development and deployment of JavaSpaces technology.

Matt — openMosix Summit 2004.

Tom — Nokia says 3G isn't for video calls - yet and Why operators love SMS.

Frank — Fight credit card fraud with SMS.

Mac site to give live SMS updates of MacWorld. MacTeens.

Songwriters Say Piracy Eats Into Their Pay. Songwriters think of themselves as the unsung victims of Internet music piracy since their incomes can depend on royalties…

Anthony — Server-side AWT.

Russ — Azureus And Sun's Big Mistake.

Charles — Huge Improvements in Java Performance, JavaGrande and Challenging C++ Performance.

Sam — Object Identity and why JDK 1.0.2/1.1 was better than 1.2+ .

Simon — OpenOffice.org file format book downloadable.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Dan — Director Gets JavaScript! Hooray!

Chiara — All these buzz words make me sick.

Keith — Links.

Lars — DocBook NG - first preview.

Cedric — A trip back with father Tiresias.

Roland — Express Yourself — Correctly.

MWSF Keynote QuickTime Stream Announced.

JASA 0.25, a high-performance auction simulation software in Java.

Tutorial: Demystifying the sendmail.mc.

RIAA Crackdown May Be Slowing Music Downloading. The percentage of Americans who download music online has been sliced in half, according to a report released Sunday.

We spent the night at Vicki's sister, dog-sitting while she's out of town.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Matt — Martian Links.

Rael — textamerica Gives Back the Photos and Free Sony Ericsson Ringtones, Themes, etc.

Glenn — Tacoma Civic Network Decides Hotspots a Security Risk.

Simon — Big speed step in NeoOffice/J 0.7.1 for Mac OS X.

Laird — Discipline.

Britney Spears Married in Vegas, Copy of the couple's marriage application and Britney Annuls Vegas Wedding.

Oliver — html scraping.

Mark — testing out blogworkz.

jmon 0.02, a system monitor.

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Alan — Online Persona = Real Persona?

Rui — mySQL Navigation Warning. MySQL 4.1.1-alpha does not install correctly on Mac OS X.

Psi 0.9.1, a cool Jabber client.

Matt — Running AppFuse on Resin.

JAutoCombo 1.0, a reusable auto-complete combo box for JFC/Swing.

Roland — The Top Ten Real Nanotech Products Of 2003.

PC Makers Bet on Consumer Electronics in Vegas. CES.

Bob — Web Services? What has the industry been smoking?

Virtual Dimension 0.93, a virtual desktop manager.

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accept headers are horribly broken. [via dive into mark b-links]

Rui — HOWTO/Enable PHP on Mac OS X and So MIDP is a Standard and Java is portable, huh?

Russ — Avedia.com: Squatted.

Frank — Camera Prohibition and SyncML - hellloooo, anyone there?

Rusty — Thomas Zander has released UICompiler 1.2, an open source rapid prototyping tool for Swing GUIs based on Qt Designer and JDOM.

Keith — joscar activity update.

Patrick — My Book… Biled.

Nick — JPL's Maestro a Java base apps that blows me away!

Ted — RSS Feed cleanups.

Carlos — PicoChickens.

Keith — Links.

Anselm — 2004 Radar Detector Test and Buyer's Guide.

Will Apple Keep the Lead? The New York Post writes about how Apple is the best position its been in for some time with the success of its most recent line of Macs, the iPod…

2004 OpenOffice.Org Status Report. Looks like a lot of progress has been made behind the scenes.

Review: Apache Cookbook.

Joe — Rather depressing re: Javalobby and JDJ.

CD-Rs and MP3s Not Hurting Record Sales. Forget the industry shills' spin - the numbers prove that, for Australia, CD-Rs and MP3s are not hurting record sales in the slightest…

Tom — Cameraphone Prohibition.

Marc — Websphere 5.1, Ant and IntelliJ.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Matthew — High Definition TV in Europe.

Russ — Print To Mobile continued…

David — blojsom 2.07 available.

Karl-Martin — Just links, Programming links and Even more links.

Bob — Drools 2.0-beta-12.

Dan — Spammers May Be Their Own Undoing and Spam Stats Interesting.

Keith — Links.

Ara — DVD Conversion.

Brent — RSS Bandwidth and Gzip compression.

Kellan — Postfix: The Definitive Guide and CardFile.org - syndicated contact info.

Chris — Very sad sig…

Rui — Amid The Midlets and Want to help port KDE stuff to Mac OS X?

JMP3Renamer 1.7.3, a small tool written in Java which renames downloaded MP3 files with the help of CDDB entries.

HOWTO: build your own Flash Player RPM for FC1. In this tutorial you will learn how to build Flash Player RPM package and install it for Fedora Core 1.

Review of Gateway's 20GB MP3 player. PC Magazine review of the DMP-X20 Digital Music Jukebox.

Belgian watchdog sues record biz over copy protection. Anti-piracy protection illegal?

JavaLayerME 0.1.1. MP3 decoder library for J2ME/CDC platform.

3GPP + 3GPP2 + QuickTime: The Future Is Calling.

Darwin Streaming Server. The open source version of the QuickTime Streaming Server is now serving up 3GPP.

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François — A journey into WiFi.

Washington Post's annual "In and Out" list for 2004. Better than most such lists. [via Amy's Robot Link Factory]

Mark — Relative URIs in HTML.

Joi — Judgmental technology.

Kevin — Brazil to Fingerprint US Tourists and Kill that EULA.

Glen — HSQLDB is rather nice.

Robert — IBM developing Google Killer?

Are You A Blogaholic? Apparently I'm a casual weblogger. Say what?

AT&T Wireless Offers Latin Mobile Content. Latin Garage.

You've Got Spam: AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion Spam. That comes to 40 messages a day per user.

Matt — A little EL Lovin' for the DisplayTag.

Tim — Fawcette Doesn't Get It.

PLINK: people link, a FOAF search engine. [via anil dash's daily links]

Ted — Zsh vs bash?

Year in review: Copy protection goes mainstream. Hackers and critics kept up their opposition, but consumers and businesses began accepting digital rights management.

Matthew — Open Source - pure cloning?

ZauRSS 0.2.2, an RSS aggregator for Qtopia.

Guy — Go-faster WiFi - with one short spray!

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Matthew — European domains anyone?

Eric — Running Groovy Scripts From Java Applications.

Mike — Downloading Music Encouraging CD Purchasing and Musicians That Give Away Music.

James — Looking Back, Looking Forward.

Brent — CSS in RSS (yet again).

TM4J 0.9.0 alpha 2, a topic map engine implemented entirely in Java.

MacWorld San Francisco 2004 Rumor Roundup. miniPods, etc.

The first five SPOT watches. Smart Personal Object Technology.

Laurent — Killing COM - The Managed Code Saga.

oh god not again: on piracy. [via dive into mark b-links]

Tim — My Wired News Wishes for 2004.

Sun and IBM to lead 64-bit boom. On AMD's back.

MP3 Winners and Losers for 2003. Richard Menta over at MP3newswire.net just posted his annual winners and losers list in digital music for last year.

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Damn hard quiz. King William's College annual quiz.

Matt — Roundup: Clearing the Buffer.

Rael — Using Merlin GPRS card with a PowerBook.

California bans front seat laptop use.. As of January 1, 2004 the State of California has banned the use of notebook computers used anywhere in the front seat of a moving vehicle.

Emily — Crackdown In Cinemas.

David — Blog The Vote: Fourth Annual Weblog Awards.

Nick — String concatenation using + operator considered bad..

Bruce — Java Toolset.

Prabhu — Accessing Yahoo Using POP3.

Werner — Java Open Source Programming (with Xdoclet,JUnit, WebWork, Hibernate): "a missed opportunity".

Bill — Predictions for 2004.

Norman — Some rare browser innovation.

Cedric — Pico-puzzled.

Scott — PayPal Europe to Launch Soon.

Christoph — CodeBeautifier with UltraEdit Wordfiles for Perl,PHP and MT.

Tristan — 2004 Predictions.

DateChooser 1.1.2. A Calendar input dialog widget for Java.

Mike — Who's Surfing Internet Porn? Might Not Be Who You Would Expect.

Spain Has 2.2 Million Broadband Internet Lines. 4th highest number in the European Union.

Carlos — Pico-challenged.

Rui — MIDP Woes, AppleScript? Goodies.

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Smile, the open source JavaServer Faces implementation.

JACK. Java All Class reference Kit, an API explorer.

Keith — ICQ support coming.

Punit — Tips for Better EJB Performance.

Bruce — Why we use Ant (or: NIH).

Bill — Word to XHTML again.

MacWorld San Francisco 2004 Rumor Roundup.  A summary of the major rumors circulating around the Mac Web.

Review: Unix Shell Programming, Third Edition.

Review of the Roku. PC Magazine review of the Roku HD1000.

US album sales continue to fall. CD sales in the US drop 2.1% in 2003, although there are signs of recovery for the music business.

Frank — On USB stick usability.

Stefan — Victoria's Secret Show 2003.

2004 bloggies are open! The Bloggies are publicly-chosen awards given to weblog writers and those related to weblogs

Preview: Windows XP Service Pack 2.

'Healthcare spam' heads junk mail. Triple-X action, Viagra and diet pills dominated spam e-mails in 2003, according to AOL research.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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No More Leap Second? In a phenomenon that has scientists puzzled, the Earth is right on schedule for a fifth straight year.

Matthew — It took 60 years and A Hobbit wins.

Russ — What's on my Nokia 6600 and New App Idea: Print to Mobile.

Laurent — How serious is Microsoft about killing COM and The Eclipse OSGi runtime explained - Servlets on your PocketPC.

Carlos — Room cleaning and A paper prototyping story.

Ben — How stupid.

Jeremy — I am not mainstream.

Chris — IPython.

Bill — Open Source and Outsourcing.

Paul — Revising english for developers.

Anselm — Syndic8 Reaches 20,000 RSS Feed Milestone.

Robert — Toshiba Tablet Review.

jmaid 0.1 alpha, a file manager written in Java which allows editing of text files.

Hobbits, Fish, Pirates Lead Cast in 2003. Movies in 2003 collected an estimated total of $9.275 billion, compared to the 2002 total of $9.317 billion.

Matt — Wi-Fi Free Spot.

Hani — Open Source Java Programming book review.

Alexander — iPod, Accessories, and The Illusion of Lifestyle Products.

Paul — Feeling lucky?

Chuq — the Dirty Little Secret of Nutritional supplements….

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100 Years of Macintosh. Zero seconds on the Mac OS system clock is January 1, 1904. The Mac OS epoch hits 100 years…

Debashish — The best of Null Pointer - 2003.

Ted — A look back, and 5 predictions for 2004.

Forbes Ventures Bold Predictions For IT, Linux. Everyone's favorite, Daniel Lyons and other Forbes journalists have made some bold predictions about IT in 2004.

Best Albums of 2003, Scientifically or not.

Dave — Happy New Year!

Rusty — 3DChat.org has released Java XTools 1.15.

Matt — Happy New Year = Update your copyright notices.

Adam — I'm a yank.

Top Yahoo serches of 2003. [via Amy's Robot Link Factory]

Aaron — New Zeitgeist.

Aslak — RE: Enough with the Test Driven Development Hype.

Paul — Re: Re: Enough with the Test Driven Development Hype.

Rui — 2003++.

Christoph — Tech Predictions for 2004.

Martin — Bye Bye 2003.

2003: One Step Backward, Two Steps Forward. OfB's latest Year-in-Review article.

CNET Year in review: The sound of Net music.

Business 2.0: Tech predictions for 2004.

Robert — Slashdot worried about American programmer jobs.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

Thanks for reading. See you next year!

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My Year in Review:

• 315 blog days.
• 2.5 million visits.
• 35 million page views.
• 240GB of bandwidth.

Which explains why I started an Exclusive Sponsorship Program.

I also released the Google Tag Library into the OSS world, bought a Zaurus and began writing Erik's Pulse.

We made one addition to the family, and one departed unexpectedly.

FileZilla 2.2.3, a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features.

101 Ways To Save The Internet. 101 ways to save the Internet from spammers, crackers and smothering regulation.

Carlos — 2003 in review - presentations and articles.

Ted — Microsoft buys BEA?

Java FSP Library 1.0rc2. FSP protocol support for Java.

Java Tools Community Effort Back on Track. The plan to build a ecosystem of Java tool frameworks based on open standards appears to be finally gathering steam.

Netcraft: January 2004 Web Server Survey.

Finding MD5 Collisions With Chinese Lottery. Stealing idle CPU time.

Joi — Some 2003 site stats.

Interview: MySQL CEO Mickos Addresses Critics, Looks to Open-Source Growth.

Top Spam For The Year: Viagra, Mortgages And Porn.

Linux Today: Top 10 Stories of 2003.

Bill — Meta Best of 2003.

Mobitopia: Happy New Year!

Ted — My year in review.

Novell Registers Unix Copyrights. Novell has quietly registered for the copyrights on many versions of Unix code that the SCO Group says it owns.

Paul — Enough with the Test Driven Development Hype.

Luke — 2004, here I come.

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Konqueror successfully compiled for OS X. Benjamin Reed has compiled Konqueror for Mac OS X, after recently porting the KUniqueApplication class.

Analyst encourages Microsoft acquisition of BEA. Combined companies would give marketplace more software choices.

David — Happy New Year Blog!

First external USB HDTV tuner. The OnAir USB HDTV from SASEM.

Groups Promote Recycling of Tech Gadgets. Environmental groups are getting ready for a surge of electronic devices that could be recycled or reused.

Hani — WebWork 1.4 Interceptors with Spring.

Vattekkat — Cool tools.

Keith — Links.

Matt — Send a Fax from Java?

Carlos — 2003 in review - all the releases I could link to.

Mark — do not parse html with regexes.

New Products at MacWorld Expo. A short list of new products to be launched.

Macworld review: Digital Performer 4.1.

UMLet 2, a Java tool to rapidly create UML sketches.

Review: Gateway DMP-X20 Digital Music Jukebox.

Mitnick to exploit hackers for $500 a pop. Fame and glory awaits.

Movie ticket prices rising. Loews Cineplex and United Artists, 25 cents.

AP: Wal-Mart Music Download Service Mediocre.

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Frank — Text Messaging For Americans: a european take.

Marc — So long 2003…

Sam — Syndication and CSS.

Daniel — Year end notes.

Review: XMLSPY 2004 from Altova.

Martin — 2003 => 2004.

Matt — Leo Laporte: KFI's Tech Guy and RetroBox: Cool Cheap Old Gear.

Russ — New Year's Stuff.

David — Sony Ericsson P900 vs Nokia 7650 Picture Quality Test.

Apple unlikely to release smaller, cheaper iPods. Aren't rumors fun?

Emily — Phil Kaplan of FuckedCompany.com launches an anonymous moblog.

Alan — Setting up MailScanner on Redhat 9 and Linux Shell Script for testing for disk size.

Dion — Opinion: The End of the Beginning?

Marc — we need Reflection in MIDP.

Michael — JXPath to rescue!

Jack — Responses to last month, and December Java Performance News.

Matt — Jalopy source code formatter no longer free.

Adrian — The long hand of RIAA or simple plain dumbness ?

Eric — Why the FAA worries about your cellphone.

Danny — Raptor 1.1.0 released.

XFree86 core team disbands. XFree86 core team leader David Dawes has sent out a message stating that the core team has voted to disband itself.

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Russ — Received Messages.

Rael — Online Sony Ericsson Phone Configurator.

Daniel — CryptoPhone's limited "open sourceness".

Review: Toshiba e405 / e400.

Jus — Javascript and Form Trickery.

Lowem — How fast can you read?

Shay — The Java persistence poll results are in.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Bill — Reading for 2004.

Mark — My new book 'Java 10 Minute Solutions' is in print.

Bill — Sir Tim.

Charles — Valid HTML Woes.

The Year's Top Tech Movers and Shakers. eWEEK.com editors recognize some of the year's most influential figures in tech.

Wireless Firm Rings Up 'King'-Sized Entertainment. Jamdat Mobile unveiled a collection of products based on "LOTR: The Return of the King."

Quantum Framework for Java. A port of Miro Samek's Quantum Framework. 

JavaAPI View and Search Tool — JawaAPIHelper1.4 released.

JComposer is now OpenSource. JComposer aim to be a complete Java based music composition tool.

Andrew — List of free Java books for download (ver. 0.1).

Werner — Java Development with Ant : "good read".

Rob — Snow in Puget Sound Country. There's currently a little over 1 inch in Bellevue.

UK's 'Most influential' websites named. Google, eBay and Friends Reunited.

Tokyo Edge: New Gadgets for the New Year.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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O'Reilly's ONJava: 2003 in Review.

Developing Custom Tag Libraries as Tag Files. Excerpt from Hans Bergsten's JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition.

Matthew — Sell yourself on eBay.

Russ— More Mobile Media and Text Messaging For Americans.

Laurent — Eclipse for Embedded Development.

Behrang — Programming is like…

David — Playing around with XStream.

Eric — Cool Things: Jodd Utility Library.

R.J. — Using the Ternary Operator.

Simon — First impressions of the Garmin iQue 3600.

jakarta-oro 2.0.8 has been released.

Jeffrey — XML Export from Your eBay Store.

Charles — Java IDE Feature Request: Per-project file templates.

Rob — A Macworld wish list.

Jameleon 1.6.1, an automation testing framework without the problems of automated testing.

Python 2.3.3, a high-level scripting language.

Mike — Judge Tosses AOL Spammer Lawsuit Over Jurisdiction Issue.

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R.J. — Shadow Boxes.

Hani — My hellish journey with axiondb.

GnuPG for OS X 1.2.4 released.

Mac Dev Journal: Add Features Fast w/AppleScript Studio.

Mike — Bill Gates Grabs Patent For Distributing Art and Are People Using Non-Browser Apps To Access The Internet?.

David — IntelliJ Aurora, build 1050 available.

Bluejack City - A new wireless craze is spreading through Europe.

Brent — Brent's Psychic Predictions for 2004.

Government announces ban on ephedra. The government has determined that products containing ephedra "present an unreasonable risk of illness or injury."

Interview with Vignette CEO Thomas Hogan. What are Hogan's ambitions for this J2EE-compliant workflow and collaboration software vendor?

Keith — Links.

Matt — FedEx Buys Kinko's.

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Matthew — Social Software vendors go for the enterprise.

Rusty — BugRoster 1.0.3 and beta of YourKit Memory Profiler 2.0.

Ron — The End of the Beginning?

Christian — JBoss 4 Roadmap.

Joi — Dvorak explains why Americans are behind on cell phone culture.

Paul — Notebooks cheaper than ever … and falling.

Uncle Scoopy's Fun House Top 15 Nude Scenes of 2003.

Christoph — Paris Hilton is the No. 1 fake name.

JFaceDbc 2.2.0, a plugin for Eclipse which allows you to view the structure and the content of any JDBC compliant database, issue SQL commands, etc.

Review: SuSE Linux Pro v9.0.

CNET's Year in review: Web services finds its way.

Todd — BlogPulse.

Daniel — This may be a stupid question, but.

The Algebra of RSS Feeds. Splice and dice.

A Look Back at Apple's 2003. Ars Technica has a look back at Apple in 2003.

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How-To: Java Web Start Walkthrough.

Russ — M$ Mobilizes its Minions Again.

Charles — Early Access : J2SE 1.5, Java Studio Creator, JavaServer Faces.

Michael — A simple method call: that is all it takes.

Jobless Count Skips Millions. Actual unemployment rate: 9.7%

Matt — RE: Wake a Sleeping Mac (Remotely).

Ted— Uh, I've discovered MacPython.

Keith — Lython.

Robert — Tantek improves my Weblog's Structure.

eWEEK: The Year's Top 10 Tech Stories.

Todd — OnStar may not be the only ones watching you and 10 Minute HIV Test.

Tips: How to Write, Use, and Test a Singleton Class and Posting Forms Programmatically.

Keith — 4-line Java word wrapping code.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.