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Microsoft extends Java VM support. Through September 2004, a nine-month extension.

Matt — Installing Debian on a HP ze4430us.

Russ — Speaking at O'Reilly ETech 2004 and ECMA-262 Edition 4.

Matt — What's the best way to test Tag Libraries?

Simon — How do you test tag libraries?

Alan — Java Desktop Review (MadHatter Preview CD).

Gerald — Kaffe 1.1.2 Now Playing.

Steve — RIAA Member Database/Page.

Haiko — Boys need Toys.

Simon — Unstructured linkage.

PMD 1.2.2, a Java source code analyzer.

Microsoft To Change IE in Wake of Patent Judgment. Most of the changes will be included in new retail versions of IE, no service pack planned.

The Treo 600 arrives. $599.

Anti-RIAA group calls for CD boycott. Halloween Raves to feature only shared songs.

Brent — NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.5.

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If you're a Kalifornia resident, get off your arse and go vote. This way you'll have something to bitch about when your candidate doesn't get elected.

Kazi Abrar emailed me about a list of free Networking Tools and MakeMSI.

Simon — Web applications and date entry.

JAG 2.1, a J2EE Java Application Generator.

Toshiba demos cellphone fuel cell. Make a phone call or light a cigarette, your choice.

jCIFS 0.7.14 , a client implementation of SMB/CIFS in Java.

Sony shows off hybrid PlayStation. Sony's all-in-one gaming and entertainment system, the PSX, goes on sale in Japan later in the year.

Simon — How I obtained my US Visa.

Ewan — developer.symbian.com?

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Matt — Wi-Fi Zone WAP Site: Is it Useful?

Russ — Mobile Email.

Simon — HttpClient - another great Jakarta Commons component.

Opera for Windows without Java 7.21 Release Candidate 1 Released.

Day the music died at MP3.com. The domain remains the same.

MSN Drops LookSmart. LookSmart's distribution and licensing deal with Microsoft for search listings will end in January.

Court overturns cable-modem rules. Competition is good.

Mike — Spin Java Petition - what a waste of time.

Vinny  — My Griffin iTrip finally ships.

Leslie — Quick links.

First look at the Pocket LOOX 610. Will Fujitsu release it outside Japan?

Napster 2.0 Launches this Week with Napster MP3 Player YP-910.

Matt — Exploring the syntax in the JDK1.5 early access compiler.

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Java Developer's Journal:

• One IDE to Rule Them All
• From Within the Java Community Process Program
• Multiple Inheritance in Java
• The Location API
• Java & Stream Ciphers
• Java Games Development
• I Love Logging!
• Zip Objects, Zap Wait Time
• Easing the Pain of Enterprise Application Deployment

Matt — Upgrading to Rawdog 1.3.

Rusty — Frederic Lavigne posted version 1.2.5 of his Skin Look And Feel for Java.

Mark — Should Sun Spin Off Java.

Dion — JOnAS 3.3 Released.

Luke — IDEA#.NET.

Matt — Java Infested Week.

Hani — Javadoc horrors.

Erik — JDwA on your Resume!

Seyed — BlogAds and Google AdSense.

Cedric — Bill Joy on the future.

7-Zip 3.11 released.

Java Vision Toolkit 2.3.0, an advanced imaging toolkit.

World's largest plasma TV. South Korean manufacturer LG Electronics.

UK teenager accused of 'electronic sabotage' against US port . Houston, we have a problem.

Nokia to sell 'several million' N-Gages in 2004. Launches midnight tonight.

Motorola to spin off chip unit. PowerPC: Go your own way.

Jim — Taco time.

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Informa, a RSS library.

Elemenope, a messaging framework.

Janne— Technorati hits 1 million mark.

Carsten — Hackathon Update.

Jim — Prepare to N-Gage - we have!

Kevin — Bloggercon roundup.

Review of new Moto M$ phone. MPx200/

SlideServlet 2.8, a Java servlet that allows you to share documents.

Matt — Chilly Roundup.

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Interview with Bill Joy. What's next? 

Rusty — FProfiler 0.6.1 and GNU Source-highlight 1.8.

Bill — Loading resources from the classpath.

Brian — Do-It-Yourself MIDP on Mac OS X.

Stefan — 9 VC-backed IPOs in Q3 /2003.

Charles — NetNewsWire Diff Feature.

Pierre — AdNonSense. My Google Tales in French.

Picking a TiVo. Raffi Krikorian, author of TiVo Hacks.

New Palms reviews roundup. Tungsten T3, Tungsten E and Zire 21.

Why Handspring came home to Palm. Family reunion at Treo 600 launch.

'Blogosphere' to reach 10 million, almost all dead - report. Teenage kicks.

Adrian — Ant goodies : extracting info from Eclipse .classpath.

Andreas — Downloads for Sony Ericsson P800.

Jeremy — RSS-Data and Feed Notifcation.

MacOS X Hacks: An Open Call. Have you found something cool that everyone should know about?

Tiger mauls Siegfried and Roy illusionist. Yeah, duh… Tigers are wild animals, not house pets.

Jude, a new tool which supports object-oriented software designing in Java and UML.

J2SE 1.4.2 Performance, a whitepaper.

JPluck X. Converts web sites & RSS feeds for offline reading on handhelds.

Matt — Lost in Translation.

Anthony — Donate to Sourceforge.

Dave — Blojsom vs. Roller.

Rusty— Mark Hale has posted version 0.91 of JSci, a class library containing many useful mathematical and scientific functions such as complex arithmetic.

David — Re: blojsom vs. Roller.

Luke — On Object/Relational Mapping Tools.

Matt — Dynamic Queries with Hibernate.

Chris — Immutable beans.

Fred — Cashing IN-J2ME.

Hani — Mock obsession.

Keith — Perl is awesome.

DbUnit 1.5.6, a JUnit extension targeted for database-driven projects.

Jarpend 0.8 beta, a tool to create jar-files containing all Java classes required by a given set of classes.

Putting the G5 through its paces. ComputerWorld puts the new dual-processor Apple G5 desktop through its paces.

Google Testing Frequent Searcher Program. Ever wonder just how often you use Google in a day?

Intel CEO admits: jobs aren't coming back to US. Barrett's offshore confession.

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Carlos — Is JetBrains Selling Arms to the Enemy?

Simon — Mac OS X 10.2.8 available.

Sean — Programmer Indicted on Charges of Shady Code Accounting.

Gordon — A quick primer on SOAP.

Pankaj — Cool site on SSH.

Rogers — Singing the praises of JSP taglibs.

Dave — JRoller.com.

Brian — He Should Call It 3650 Hints.

With all that Google NonSense I forgot to post last month's stats: 3854460 page views and 115910 unique visitors.

Beware the dangers of generic Exceptions. Catching and throwing generic Exceptions can get you into trouble quickly and quietly.

Discover new dimensions of scripted Java. BeanShell scripts become real Java classes.

What's your time zone? Get a handle on Java date and time classes.

Zohar — The Repetitive Test Injury Pattern.

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Hani — Really, really bad code.

Microsoft faces fresh lawsuit. Windows represents a "global security risk".

ICANN Gives VeriSign 36 Hours to Pull Sitefinder and VeriSign Freezes Search Service.

New Psion NetBook runs Windows CE. Psion Teklogix's NetBook Pro.

Mers Kutt — the Canadian who invented the microcomputer. It was introduced a year before the MITS Altair 8800.

Bharanidharan — Classloader and Application Classloading.

Python 2.3.2 (final).

Jim — One step forwards, one step back….

Anil — Firmware upgrades?

Matt — Time to hook up the Senior J2EE Developers in Denver.

Guillermo — Should we sign the Spin Java Petition?

Resin 3.0, JSP 1.2 and Servlet 2.3 engine.

USB Gadgets May Not Work Fast As Claims. Differences between "full-speed" and "hi-speed" USB 2.0.

Bruce — UML Tool Survey.

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Julian — WiFi news sources.

Dave — Holy grail of Java web development?

David — What if I was blogger-in-chief for the NYTimes?

Matt — Simple "workaround" for exporting with the displaytag using Tiles.

Alan — The first brave souls sign the Spin Java Petition. Didn't even notice I was the first one to sign.

Julian — Testing Avant Browser. I like MyIE better.

Erik — Hubba Hubba.

JavaDICT 1.4, a server for the DICT protocol.

Use method overloading in Java. Overloading is the ability to have a class that has multiple methods with the same name that are differentiated by the number and type of arguments passed into the method.

Violet, a UML editor.

Matt — Linkdump Roundup.

Kev — Why didn't I think of that.

Bernard — Webwork - NoCacheInterceptor.

Rusty — Cocoon 2.1.2 and Saxon 7.7.

Aaron — How to increase heap size in eclipse (java.lang.OutOfMemoryError).

Joshua — Swing Hack 4: The universal right click.

Fred — New J2ME News Site and HowTO: Getting Windows J2ME sdks onto Linux/Unix.

Simon — Introduction to the J2EE Connector Architecture (and accessing flat files).

Alan — Tips for Java Guerrilla Warfare #3.

Jeremy — An RSS-Data / Namespace Experiment.

Niel — Beware of J2ME Email Clients.

Cedric— Objects that should budge.

Interview: SCO sets out its defense. PC Pro interviews SCO PR director Blake Stowell.

Opera for Windows 7.21 Preview 1 Released (w/ Java).

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Frank — MobileMT.

Henri — Commons-Lang: Justify your existence.

Dominic — Xen and the Art of Virtualization.

Joshua — I have seen the light.

Matt — Packaging Velocity.

Ross — My Eclipse Wish List.

Eugene — Back to work. Future projects.

JavaBot TNG 0.3, a Java IRC bot.

New Microsoft Smartphone on October 8th. Samsung's i600?

Allaire on Lookout for Hot Technologies . Jeremy talks about what he feels are the industry's hot trends.

Sculley: Still looking for the 'wow'. From where he sits, John Sculley enjoys a panoramic view of the IT landscape.

Jim — P900 On The Launch Pad.

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Andrew Orlowski at The Register has written an article recounting my Google AdSense tales.

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Create Web services using Apache Axis and Castor. How to integrate Axis and Castor in a Document-style Web service client and server.

Build and implement a single sign-on solution. Integrate an open source, Java-based authentication component into a Web portal.

Embedding the HSQLDB database server into Eclipse, Part 1. How to write a plug-in that integrates the HSQLDB database server into the Eclipse Workbench.

JOnAS 3.3, an Open Source implementation of the J2EE specification.

Flux 5.1 Job Scheduler, a full-featured job scheduler with completely open Java, J2EE, XML, and web services APIs.

OpenCms, an Open Source Website Content Management System.

SCO to Yank SGI's Unix License. In line to become the next target.

Matt — The Laptop Has Landed and The Xen Virtual Machine Monitor.

Russ — Sun is Hiring and Google Tightens The Screws.

Fred — Updated WME toolkit.

Patrick — Where there is Smoke, there's usually fire (Maven releases).

Hani — More maven bashing.

Prabhu — Get a List of IP Addresses assigned to an interface card and PackageForTheWeb from installshield.

Brent — Stuffit Expander 8 Bug.

Niel — Simple and Practical J2ME Applications and MIDP 1.0 is Still Relevant.

Exchanger XML Browser 1.1, an XML browser framework written in Java.

Eclipse (12 million downloads) shows big progress. Typical download day: 30K kits.

ZoneCheck 2.0.0b8, a DNS zone checking tool.

James Bond cigarette lighter camera. JB1.

Apple seeks Wi-Fi hotspot promoter. Wants to show wireless doesn't end with Centrino.

Mobility Resources. Resources for Wireless Java Technology Developers.

Alan — Please sign new Spin Java Petition.

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Dion — Maven bashing.

Dominic — LonghornBlogs is live.

Leslie — Quick links.

Jeremy — Sweet Google Justice and Injustice.

Keith — Angel. Good start.

Norman — Java Virtual Machine != Java Language.

Todd — Ring Ring "Hello" this is the RIAA calling!

HP's next Tablet PC. TC1100.

Alan — Wake me up when the JVM actually ships with Palm.

Diego — breaking news: email is broken and more on rss-data.

Russ — RSS-Data: Pull Based Method Calls for Client Apps.

Guy — Official: hackers have broken into GPRS billing.

Hybrids Can Be Cheap to Make, Toyota Says.

Markus — SearchAssist is pretty cool.

European web hosting company launches in US. 1&1 Internet.

On October 2, 1959 — “The Twilight Zone” debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.

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Documentation Enhancer for Java. Updated for new JDKs, ant task, etc.

Tech Talk with Gavin King on Hibernate.

Marc — Google unusable right now!

Jeffrey — O'Reilly "eBay Hacks" Book is out.

Oracle Previews J2EE 1.4 Container. Oracle 10g Preview, etc.

OpenOffice.org Hits 1.1, after 5 release candidates…

Keith — Smallville and Angel. I'll be there!

Bill — Junit 4.

SquirrelMail 1.4.2 released.

Napster Marks Comeback with Oct. 9 Test Debut. Looks to me that the only thing coming back is the name.

Christoph — Best Practices for Software Development Projects.

No Charges for the Wi-Fi ZONE . The Wi-Fi Alliance has certified 6000 public-access venues in about 47 countries.

Vinny — O'Reilly Releases 'J2EE Design Patterns'.

New U.S. Sales Tax Regime For Internet Sellers? Here we go again. 

Matt — Netflix Subscriber Rate Up 74%.

Jeremy — News: Wanna Get Rich? Sell Porn.

Rogers — Telemarketing execs used do-not-call list.

args4j 1.0-RC, a Java command line option parsing library.

SearchAssist: A Portable Search Engine in Java.

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I asked Google for more information on the so-called invalid clicks. Following is the response I just received:

Hello Erik,

As you know, Google treats instances of invalid click activity very seriously. Due to the proprietary nature of our algorithm, we cannot disclose any details about how our monitoring technology works or what specifics we found on your account. However, we can assure you that we have again reviewed your situation thoroughly and accurately, and could re-confirm that your account violated our program's Terms and Conditions.

You could view AdSense Terms and Conditions at:
https://www.google.com/adsense/terms
https://www.google.com/adsense/faq

Sincerely,

The Google Team

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Don't Panic: Hitchhiker's Guide to a Bug Fix. A plea not to panic the next time a bug fix or security alert hits the newsgroups.

Jim — Mamon strikes again.

Dave — JavaLobby bloggers..

Darren — IntelliJ 3.0.5 Release.

Patrick — Half Baked Beans.

Prabhu — XString.js a String class with Utility methods.

Leslie — Mailbucket syndication feeds.

Stefan — Mobile Comparison Shopping.

More Than 929,000 Subscribe to XM Satellite. Added 237,000 subscribers in the third quarter.

Gava SE 1.0, a Java IDE for international Java code.

Martin — 3 Content Does Not Make Me … Content.

Russ — Is Google Playing Games?

Chris — IDEA EAP Build 944 released.

Cedric — Objects that won't budge.

AOL launches new services in Spanish. AOL Latino.

Report: Global music sales slide 11 percent in first half.

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Matt — Struts tip o' the day ~ using bean:size.

Python modules for Mac OS X. userdefaults, plistservices, and CFPython.

Daniel — Tool time.

Apache Ant 1.6beta1 Released.

Henri — Xxx.class = a hack.

Brian — Half-Bean Questions and Answers.

Fred — J2ME Accessory Libraries.

Lee — Open Source Goodies For Quality Code Addicts.

Brian — Clustering Tomcat is Easier than People Think.

Leslie — Quick links.

Jeremy — Linkdump.

Capital One Credit Card. Thank you for another pen.

Reviews: Palm Tungsten T3, Palm Tungsten E and Palm Zire 21.

Toshiba, HP unveil Media Center 2004 notebooks. Satellite P20 and zd7000 series.

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I received the following yesterday night:

Hello Erik,

It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on the ads on your web pages. We have therefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Please understand that this step was taken in an effort to protect the interest of the AdWords advertisers.

A publisher's site may not have invalid clicks on any ad(s), including but not limited to the use of robots, automated clicking tools, or other deceptive software. Also, a publisher may not click on the ads on his own website, or encourage others to do so.

Practices such as these are in violation of the Google AdSense Terms and Conditions, which can be viewed at: https://www.google.com/adsense/terms .

Sincerely,

The Google Team

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Group Asks Gov't to Crack Down on Product Placement. Infomercial at 10.

Carlos — Open Source Workflow Engines written in Java.

Leigh — FOAF-a-Matic Mark 2 beta-2.

Report: Dell & MS More Innovative that Apple?

Web security exec accused of hacking. It is not a good idea to give classified documents to the press for publicity.

Kazaa: Serve Consumers, Not Subpoenas. P2P exec tells senators the entertainment industry wants control of online distribution for its own profit.

Citigroup closes online payment service. Can't compete with PayPal.

Google buys search engine - PageRank RIP? Got bots?

Prabhu — Read Text From A JAR file and Console View When Typing Password.

Kevin — NewsMonster is Hiring.

Alan — Verizon Wireless.

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Keith — joscar 0.9.3 released.

Jay — Jabber-Yahoo transport updated and working.

Prabhu — Perl: How pull lines between two patterns in different lines.

MusicMatch selling song downloads. 99¢ a song, albums start at $9.99, download on up to 3 PCs, etc.

Brent — In case of danger.

SCO slams IBM's GPL Linux defence. "GPL… is a shaky foundation on which to build a legal case."

Lindows: Microsoft settlement site stays. "It is hypocritical for Microsoft to endorse digital transactions to bolster your business but resist them whenever it may negatively impact your bottom line."

Matt — Bluetooth Headsets.

Sun Stock Drops Nearly 14 Percent. Disappointing first quarter results and a massive charge.

dnsjava 1.4.2, an implementation of the DNS protocol in Java.

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JavaPerformanceTuning: September newsletter.

Yahoo Restored in Some IM Clients. Trillian and Gaim.

Russ — BuzzTalk: VoIP for your S60 Phone and Tech Update from Spain.

Review: P900 (in French).

Musicmatch download service, not Dell. Dell Inc not Dell Computer Corp.

Jason — A villiage idiot responds….

Cameron — .NET WebLogs.

Cedric — The problem with "Half Beans".

The Guy Responsible For Ctrl-Alt-Del. Three finger salute to David Bradley.

We watched the second episode of Las Vegas yesterday. I'm starting to really enjoy the pace of that show.

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WAP simulator in Java for i-Mode. New version of the Wapaka Web micro browser.

Python 2.3.2 (rc1), another bug fix release.

Russ — Nokia 3660: Round Keypad BEGONE!

Bharanidharan — MIT for free!

Rusty — MRJ Adapter 1.0.4 and XSLT stylesheets for DocBook 1.62.4.

Kumar — J2ME: Get Weather Forecasts Free.

Matt — Pro JSP has arrived!

Fred — J2ME sdks-Blackberry RIM.

Simon — TagUnit 1.0 beta 3 available.

Leslie — Quick links.

Darren — Reading material.

Nicola — Jars compressed 8-9 times!

Wi-Fi certifications grow rapidly. 900 products certified.

Opera Announces Strategic Licensing Agreement with Adobe. Adobe to include Opera's rendering engine in future products.

Aaron — More on Google Size Limit.

Stefan — Link Feed launched.

Tom Dyson emailed me about a new Email->RSS gateway that launched today.

On September 30, 1846 — Ether, an experimental anesthetic at the time, was used for the first time by Dr. William Morton at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Few Takers For RIAA's "Clean Slate". 838 takers.

Matt — Kses: A PHP HTML/XHTML Filter.

Stuart — The last defense in computer security. The oldest trick in the book; people rarely question someone wearing a uniform.

JTLT 0.3, a templating system for Java.

Gaim 0.70, implements Yahoo's new authentication mechanism.

Jeremy — Buzz2Talk.

Adam — Java Macros with Jatha.

Amazon.com $50 Off All New PDAs Over $250. Just in time for Xmas.

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Java Opportunities and Challenges in a 64-bit World: Solutions with the Intel Itanium Processor Family and BEA WebLogic JRockit .

Andreas — Maven 1.0 RC1 released.

Prabhu — Simple Java Port Scanner.

Paul — SCSL source for JDK 1.4.2 available.

Another Sharp Zaurus SL-C760 review. InfoSync World.

Bush signs no-call bill; FCC says it will enforce it. Starts on Wed.

Matt — Is My 3650 Obsolete? (or Here Comes the 3660?)

Enhydra 5.1: Open Source Java/XML application server.

52 of 261 Song Download Suits Are Settled. Payments ranged from $2,500 to $7,500 each, with at least one settlement for as much as $10,000.

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Matt — Broadband Bandwidth Limitations.

Kevin — JQuery Eclipse source code browser.

A San Juan — Java Desktop the Soap Opera.

Java Specialists' Newsletter: MemoryCounter for Java 1.4.

Russ — 160 Characters, Lotus Workspace: The Beginning of the End for Lotus and Symbian needs a Runtime!.

Jeremy — Another Online Music Store.

Scott — Ten technologies that deserve to die.

Marc — iWebCal.

Rogers — Calling real police for virtual crimes.

JZlib 1.0.3, zlib written in Java.

Microsoft Sends Lindows.com Takedown Notice for MSfreePC.com. Deceptive?

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Jodd: a generic purpose Java library and a jsp mvc2 framework.

JXP 1.3.1, a fast XPath API.

jSNMP Enterprise 3.2.2, the Java SNMP API.

FastParser 1.6.2, a fast XML parser.

Matt — Cracking Roundup Gromit! and My New Laptop: HP ze4330us.

Matthew — Mobile navigation.

Brian — Functional Style in Java, Part 2: Half-Beans.

Rusty — Norm Walsh has posted the third beta of DocBook 4.3.

Eddy — Understanding Orion class loading.

David — blojsom 2.02 available.

Marc — swt-designer finally out.

Paul — Some Thoughts on StAX.

Mike — Interesting XP article about WTC and Got Java skills? Want an awesome job? :)

A San Juan — Java Secures World's Citizens.

Hani — A new village idiot award.

Vinny — New books from Addison-Wesley.

Mohd — Doing a String cast or a .toString()?

Mitch — Chandler 0.2.

Erik — Smartcast.

Charles — Not So Let Down Any More.

Sharp to plot worldwide Linux PDA plan. Hot clamshell Zaurus may yet ship outside Japan.

We went to see The Rundown over the weekend. It made it to number one at the box office.

On September 29, 1994 — The U.S. House voted to end the practice of lobbyist buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress.