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Writing A User Manual (part 1).

TopCoder is fast becoming the major league for programming competitions.

A First Look at JavaServer Faces.

Top ten desktops of 2002. iBuyPower Value XP PC.

Is this the new iPAQ?.

Brent — Top Ten Apps.

Julian — San Francisco bans Segways on sidewalks, bike paths.

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We lost power around 12:30pm. It just came back a few minutes ago, close to 6 hours later. I'll have to check the servers when I get back home. I'm posting remotely as the whole family pretty much ended up at Vicki's brother.

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Book review: Core J2ME Technology & MIDP.

SwingScroller, a stand-alone utility allowing quick-scrolling in Java Swing applications.

Diego — the first human clone?

Erik — Coming Soon.

Andy — GCJ JVM?.

Brent — NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b3.

Scott — java.lang Dependecy Analysis.

Eric — jEdit Plugins Now Categorized: Download 4.1pre7.

Matt — A Java Christmas, Sourceforge News and Creative Commons Weblog.

Russ — Universal Personal Proxy.

Scott — O'Reilly: Interview with David Pogue.

Fred — Funny Referrers-Dave Winer.

JPhotoBrush 2.3, an image editing and enhancement application, making extensive use of Swing and Java's 2D capabilities.

A Peek at History, Piracy-Free. British Pathe has put more than 3,500 hours of its old newsreels online.

Twisted Sister Ready To Rock Again. We're Not Gonna Take It.

New Zaurus Developer Website: Zaurus DevNet.

On December 27 1978, Spain adopted a new constitution and became a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.

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Jeremy — opml2html.pl -- a simple blogroller.

Zoe Intertwingle 0.3.3, a unique email client that works through a Web browser.

AT&T delays 3G, plans limited service by end of 2004.

GNU Christmas Gift: Free Eclipse.

Jaxup 1.0beta2, a Java XML Update engine.

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JTimeTracker, a personal time tracker.

XM Satellite Radio afloat with cash infusion.

Fast 3G service coming to US cell phones.

Sample chapter — J2ME Application Development: MIDP Programming.

Linux PDA Sharp Zaurus SL-C700 now available in US.

Systinet Releases Web App and Services Platform, WASP 4.5.

Roman — Unlimited Internet.

Andy — “Who Cares!??”, or The 12-step program to not replying to your email.

Fred — Collaboration Services-The Real Web Services for 2003.

Lance — Oh My God.

Electric scooter on a tear at Amazon. Segway's Human Transporter.

Sales tax on Internet may help states. Hogwash!

A happy new year for hacker Mitnick. Schmoozing with Kevin Spacey.

‘Smooth’ Ranked As No. 1 Song Of Rock Era. Santana, Toni Braxton and Los del Rio.

EJB Cookbook ‘Transactions’ Chapter Posted for Public Review.

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Apple's Present: iTunes Supports Ogg Files.

Ben — First Annual Half-Past-Midnight-on-Christmas-Day Bookmarks-Emptying.

eBay item 1791801094: Own the entire rustic town of Bridgeville, California.

Digital pens. Wirelessly send emails and faxes.

Scott — JVM for .NET.

Tobias — Reactor-Acceptor-Connector.

Keith — You gotta see this.

Matt — Early & Adopter.

Russ — El Gordo: $1.7 Billion in Cash Prizes.

Fred — Microsoft Monos Friend or Enemy.

Scott Thill — Ten Reasons Why American Culture Didn't Suck in 2002…

Tom — Waste.

Secure FTP Bean 2.0, a Java bean for performing secure FTP transfers.

Eclipse EditorList Plug-in, an editor manager for Eclipse that presents editors in convenient views.

CES 2003 Innovations Award Honoree: Jabra BT200 Wireless Headset.

Who hit the jackpot? Single winner. $314.9 million.

Get more control over Java console.

On December 26 1982, The Man of the Year in TIME magazine was a computer. It was the first time a non-human received the honors.

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We're taking the rest of the day off. We just finished wrapping the last gift and are slowly getting ready to head out for an early dinner at Vicki' sister. Happy Xmas Eve!

Apple Win32 to OS X Porting Guide.

Brian — Objects Aren't Polymorphic!

Chris — Reading blogs.

Matt — Cayenne Java persistence framework.

Confirmation: Entourage X is sold separately from Office v.X.

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Shakeel — Development for Developers.

Dvorak misses the mark. John has been missing the mark for years. Long gone are the rebel days.

JPassGen 1.04, a password generator which can create strong and secure passwords.

Owner-triggered ‘smart guns’ get nod. I just can't believe the technology doesn't exists yet.

Building WML Gadgets: A Calendar.

Moviegoers getting giant look at ‘Hulk’. Apparently Hulk looks good.

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Safeguard your XML-based messages. Create secure Web services with Apache XML Security.

Bob — So-called ‘source code’.

Kieft — Using .NET to spite Java.

Matt — Blogging vs. journalism.

Fred — Suns Two Towers of Microsoft Leverage.

Kenneth— Screen Scraper Java Screen Scraping Tool.

Amazon comes top in poll. Amazon, eBay and DooYoo. Doo Who?

Bring on the Web services war. Stratton Sclavos, VeriSign's CEO.

SanDisk, Micron settle legal spat. The dispute began in October 2001 when SanDisk accused Micron of infringing a patent covering flash memory.

Review: Palm's Tungsten T Handheld. Tungsten T gives Clié a run for your money.

The Top Science Stories of 2002. It's been a productive year for science and technology.

Sony Ships First Terabyte Tape Drives. S-AIT.

On December 24 1865, Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan.

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TinkerTool 2.32, a utility to change hidden Mac OS X settings.

DocletAssistant, a content-assistant for XDoclet and Eclipse.

Kmart: Bankruptcy to end in 2003. Doubtful, analysts say.

jMechanic v0.3.0 Java Profiling Eclipse Plugin.

Naked Objects 1.0 Released.

Andy — Nobody but Nobody does Porn like IBM.

Matt— Monday Linkfest.

Glen— Blogger API. Works as it should for me.

Julian — Percentage of Online Users (by Country).

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New Method benchmark available. Java and C#.

Servlet Best Practices, Part 2.

Your First Micro Java Game.

Java Media Development with QuickTime for Java.

Glen — Intellij Idea Tips.

AppleScript 1.9.1 for Mac OS X.

File Buddy 7.2.6, extensive desktop & file/folder editing & task tool.

Dantz Retrospect 5.0 Driver Update 3.3.

'80s Rockers Return To The Road. Styx, Kansas, and Waite. Scorpions, Whitesnake, and Dokken.

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Alan — So Microsoft have to bundle Java … ITS THE LAW!

Linus Is A Hero. 365 modern saints or heroes. Also includes Tim Berners-Lee and Steve Jobs.

Andres — And the ‘hack of the year’ prize goes to….

Online shopping passes $11 billion. Between the first of November and last week.

CNET's Top 100 of 2002. CNET's list of the 100 best products of the past year.

Kevin — Protest against INS Kidnappings.

Rogers — Writing for O'Reilly Network, Marc Hedlund slams JSP…

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Euro DCMA Fails. European Digital Copyright Law.

Jason — Jawa programmers.

Carlos — Google and Babelfish The Universal Translators.

CodeWarrior for Palm OS 9.0. Now shipping.

Freshmeat Launches Mac OS X Section.

‘Bitter Session States’ Chapter Available for Public Review.

New EJB 2.1 Column: ‘The Enhanced Message-Driven’ Bean.

Diego — type a password, go to jail.

British queen loses out on cyber name. newzealand.com.

SALTYT's Model of the Year. She is cool. She is young. She is sexy as hell. She can't model bras, so she'll just drop the top, thank you very much.

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Jim — Should I Stay Or Should I Go.

Microsoft plots Macromedia coup against Java. Analysts believe Macromedia is ripe for acquisition.

Laid-off techies work for stock options but no paycheck. Techies work for hope, not cash.

Xml Test Suite, an XML-based tool for testing complex Web applications using XML.

Mark — Essential OS X.

Patrick — Oreilly Network prepares to publish three excerpts …

Glen — The JBuilder That Ate Tokyo.

Jason — It's a Java Christmas.

Eric — Generating Javadoc From Ant.

Jeremy — Java, day #3: JDBC, MySQL, and a Rant.

Robert — Eclipse 2.1 M4 -- Get It!.

David — Santa Stopped By US Border Patrol.

SOAP 1.2 spec takes next step. May be completed by March.

Teaching eBay how free software licensing works. GPL, EFF and Richard Stallman.

Joost STX processor, a Java implementation of the Streaming Transformation for XML (STX) language.

Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002. Every year brings new mistakes.

Hi-tech billboards preview future of advertising. Driving spam is coming.

Sendo sues Microsoft over ‘stolen’ secrets. Now, that explains a few things.

What Tablet PCs Get Right — And Wrong. Is it a better PDA? Not really. So is it a laptop replacement? Not really…

Online Apple Reseller Donates iBook To Internet Fraud Victim. Jason Part X.

Yahoo finds Inktomi. For about $235 million.

JForma 1.1, a free JSP tag library designed to speed up development by requiring little Java or SQL programming.

In-Depth Look At Matrix Previews. It's going to be big, maybe even bigger than Spider-man.

Data security in mobile Java applications.

On December 23 1922 The British Broadcasting Corporation began daily news broadcasts.

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Diego — rsd. Really Simple Discoverability.

Alan — P800 major cool feature just discovered …

Ben — Mod_cc final(ish) draft.

Cameron — More on my wish-list.

Erik — Jaguar Here I Come!

Translated into English. Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus C-700.

Keith — How to write better code.

Rick — Signs Your Company Is Failing.

Matt — The LWN 2002 Linux Timeline.

Karl — Time Makes The Right Choice for Person(s) of the Year.

Sam — Validate your RSS with SOAP.

Fred — White House Web Security Plan.

Forbes speculates on Macworld Expo announcements. That's it?

‘American Idol’ Single 2002 Best Seller. Kelly Clarkson.

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Alan — P800 Battery life …

Matt — Flock 0.6 Released.

Scott — Seattle Times: Online banking starts to click.

Fred — Gnutella2.

JBidwatcher 0.9pre5, an eBay tool for bidding, tracking, sniping, and auction management.

Java Outline Editor 1.8.10, an outliner editor and MDI implemented in Swing.

The King Of The MP3 Players. I was saying the same thing a year ago. Even Costco sells them too.

We went to see LOTR: The Two Towers yesterday. I wasn't really taken by it, pretty much exactly like I felt watching the previous one. Vicki, on the other hand, really liked it.

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J2eeBuilder, a library of generic implementations of J2EE patterns.

javancss4eclipse, an Eclipse IDE Plug-in showing code metrics. Based on JavaNCSS. 

Ear damage by MP3? Risks of neuroacoustically datareduced music.

JXMLEditor 1.5, a java component for editing XML document with a royalty free license for registered product.

Cypress, an Open-Source CSS Parser.

Henri — Complex Numbers in Java.

Andy — Apache Wiki.

Brent — NetNewsWire Pro public beta. Way cool!

Matt — JavaBlogs Outage. They are back up now.

Fred — The DRM wars over Patents have started.

P2P: Kazaa looks untouchable. Unlike Napster, Kazaa's Global Nature Defies Legal Attacks.

'Friends' stay together. Why am I not surprised?

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Survey: Is your company planning to migrate to .NET in 2003?

Danny — Jabber FOAF Utilities and FOAF Hackery from Leigh Dodds.

It's au revoir to 35-hour week. 35 heures par semaine.

Is That a TiVo Under the Tree? Still struggling.

Fred — ShareMe Motto.

kernel 2.4.18-19.8.0.i386 for Red Hat 8.0.

Adam — iCrap.

WebSphere Studio Site Developer version 5.0 for Linux. Just released.

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Eric Smith appears on CNN's Connie Chung. eBay scam buster.

Next-Gen Pop-up Ads. Kick through ads.

Alan — Don't believe everything you read … sound advice.

Emmanuel — [Book Review] Struts Kick Start : 9/10.

Cameron — Java 3.

Jim — More FOAF goodies.

Andy — HotJava EOL or Apache HotJava?

Keith — Son of a bitch.

Matt — VPN on Mac OSX.

Matt — Hibernate Workarounds.

Russ — My Christmas Post. Will Russ really keep silent for the next 4 days? The saga continues…

JBoss 3.2.0 Beta3, an Enterprise JavaBeans application server.

Chimera 0.6 browser gets more features.

We're going to see The Two Towers around noon today. It has been exactly 367 days since we saw the first one.

On December 21 1913. The “New York World” Sunday edition included a crossword puzzle as an added feature of the "Fun" supplement. It was the first crossword puzzle to be published.