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Dominic — EJB Solutions book resources and Flock 0.5.

Canon to OS X scanner users…here are your drivers.

The Day Napster Died.

David Lee Roth Sues Van Halen.

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BEA to reposition WebLogic software. The Swiss Army knife for business software development.

Need a job? Try Adobe. Profits are up, will hire aggressively this quarter.

Sprint's unlimited data service has a catch. Thanks, Jim.

Validator, Eclipse, and FOP, oh my!

David — blogs.application-servers.com. Tres cool!

Keith — Damnit.

Matt — Setup a Certificate Authority for Java-based Systems.

Russ — Free eBook: Java AI and Observations.

Fred — Java Swing Tutorial Updated for 1.4.

Robert — Apple iPod Update Available.

Maverick. Yet another MVC framework.

Java Simple Aim. SAIM.

OS 9 gets a six-month reprieve.

Spam headaches getting worse. No kidding!

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David — Unicode 4.0.0 Alpha. uC00L

Rickard — Floyd registers his blog at java.blog.

Fred — Lord Palmerston on Programming. Good stuff.

Techno artist Moby attacked in Boston. Bummer.

Xedit for Java. An IBM tool for migrating content editing environment for mainframe (VM/CMS) 3270 terminals to an e-business environment.

JFCUnit 1.03, an open source extension to the JUnit framework that enables you to execute unit tests against code that presents a Swing based interface.

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Carlos — Why I Don't Like JDO.

Matt — What Maven Does. The saga continues.

Damien — Why programmers don't like to write documentation?

Scott — Spam Conference! January, 2003, Boston.

AT&T Wireless fine print irks customers. Read the fine print.

Cardinal Law resigns. Let's break out the champagne.

French up in arms as @ sign sparks fury. Vive le Franglais!

XPath Explorer, an open-source Java GUI application that lets you interactively experiment with XPath.

PureTest, a new free functional and regression testing product.

Bill — Running XSLT batch jobs with Ant.

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Tivo 2 Features On the Horizon. Still no ability to share, like ReplayTV.

Microsoft's top 10 challenges for 2003.

Jim — Prediction software beats human tipsters.

Dave Whiner wants bloggers to support his API.

<rant>
Why should we, Dave? Are there any technical merits? Pretty please is just not going to cut it.

I suspect that what you really want is control, and that is not about to happen. We've been down this road before. We all remember the RSS 2.0 fiasco.

We want to support open standards, not UserLand's half-ass standards.

That's the thing you don't get about standards, Dave, you have to relinquish them to the community at large. If you keep a tight leash, it just becomes proprietary crap that nobody really gives a damn about. We'll support them until something open comes along.

The time is now!

Why don't you stick to blogging about how much you miss smoking, and leave the technical stuff to people that genuinely care and truly understand technology.
</rant>

James — What Does Maven Do?

Jason — Rational XDE…. review complaint!

Japan cleans up its hi-tech act. Japan is taking the lead in developing hi-tech products that protect the planet.

Oracle readies a new round of software. Ready for launch early next year.

On December 13 1913, The Sunday New York World printed a puzzle called a “word-cross.” The puzzle was a success and became a weekly feature. The name eventually evolved into “crossword.”

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Elcomsoft copyright case goes to jury.

David — Anyone need a Bentley?

Charles — What Does Maven Do?

TidBITS unveils this year's GiftBITS.

MIDP 2.0: Wireless Industry Standardizes on Java Technology for Wireless Data Services.

Dynamic Creation of Reports with Apache FOP.

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SuSE, Red Hat in Linux shootout.

Amazon Releases 1-Click Patent Sequel.

Bob — Gilgul **gilgul = 0; How is that pronounced? Giggle? ;-)

Matt — How Hot are your Topics?

Charles — Why Hibernate Rocks.

AOL cuts 300 jobs as strategy shift begins.

‘60 Minutes’ Sued for $6 Billion.

David — Unexpected Christmas gift. Bummer!

Cameron — JVM Byte Code Reference. Nifty!

Rick — Rant Time. <rant/>

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Bill — The XML family of specs. Nasty.

Brent — Spring 1.0. Hmmm…

Implementing Web services with the WSTK: Part 1

Finding your way through Web service standards, Part 3

Demystifying Extreme Programming: How to be an XP customer.

Mobile P2P messaging, Part 1

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Flexible Bluetooth keyboard. Thanks, Jim.

Buried in debt? Try ‘cyberbegging.’ Quite pathetic…

Using the Jakarta Commons Validator with Struts. Thanks, Russ.

BeOS Developer Edition 1.1.

Microsoft Patches Eight Software Holes.

Verizon cuts back on complex wireless. Can you hear me now?

Australian University drops Mac support. Hardware is too expensive.

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Apple sues former contractor over leaks.

Jim — Tiny Encryption Algorithm. There's also a Java version.

Dave — Pattern of Enterprise Application Architecture. Great reference book.

Opera 6.0 finalized, ready for download.

Microsoft warns of Java flaws. Déjà Vu.

Eric — J2EE Missing Feature: Application Customization.

Fred — More Proof of Why Weblogging Conference will Not Work. You tell him, Fred!

Microsoft Unveils First Web Service. MapPoint .NET 3.0.

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Kenneth — Home Page Table-less Layout.

MultiJava 1.0.1, adds open classes and multiple dispatch to Java.

Linux groups plan second Windows refund day.

iSQL-Viewer 2.1.2 Released.

Hibernate 1.2 released.

Tapestry 2.3 released.

Tapestry 2.3 released.

Millstone v3.0.0 released.

UP2GO.NET. A catalog of Java Web Start/JNLP links.

Tim O'Reilly — Piracy is Progressive Taxation.

Evan — Excellent tip for build.properties.

Dominic — EJB Cookbook Review Project.

Tobias — Mavenize your projects.

Matt — The Shuttle XPC and Linux Revolution and JSP Testing.

Danny — XPDL Version 1.

Charles — Don't Store Generated Resources in CVS. We do the same here.

genJBean 0.1, a simple C++ JavaBean generator.

CVS client interface in Java, version 0.4.1 released.

AppleScript manuals.

Microsoft to buy Rational or Borland. Didn't IBM just buy Rational?

Jason — Using public web services. We got our web services listed on XMethods, Allesta, SoapRPC, Flash-db and SalCentral.

Carlos — Why Hibernate Is Better Than OJB, For Now.

Matt — Tomcat 4.1.17 Alpha.

Simon — Google goes shopping. Froogle.

How You Helped Me Catch An eBay Scammer. Mac Addicts to the Rescue.

On December 12 2000, The U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day.

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Javaspot is a repository of Java information.

An Introduction to the Eclipse IDE.

Bill — Processing XML with Java. Not selling very well.

Russ — JiCal is an answer.

XWSF. XML/XSLT Web Services Framework.

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Jeff — Eclipse.org is down!

Ajit — J2EE-based Multi-dimensional Catalog Manager.

InstantJ 1.4. Compile and execute Java code or evaluate expressions written in Java.

U.S. firms moving IT overseas.

Julian — The Europe Outlaws Spam.

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jRevProxy, a lightweight reverse proxy server fully written in Java.

Java Digital Album Infrastructure, JDAI is a Java based infrastructure for digital photo albums. 

IBM's Swainson talks about WebSphere 5 and Business Issues.

Netscape 7.01 released.

EGantt, a lightweight chart rendering component.

Russ — DIY Infrastructures. Phase 1: Get excited about your new job.

Web Services Software Bridges Java, .Net. WASP 4.5.

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A Framework for Smart Proxies and Interceptors in RMI.

Adam — Guitar hero Ingwie Malmstein was recorded on a flight to Tokyo going bonkers…

David — Servlet/JSP application performance tips.

Evan — On my ‘to check out’ list.

Cameron — JSR-666.

Dominic — JavaBoutique Axis tutorial.

David — Internationalization/Localization Plugin (v0.5) for IDEA available.

Sam — Demise of e-mail?

Danny — Java Developer's Journal - Java Rules in J2EE.

AWStats 5.2 has been released. Advanced Web Statistics.

BareBones Supports EFF. Will donate $10 for each boy of BBEdit purchased directly through them.

E-Commerce Racks Up $2 Billion Week.

Bluetooth Gets Wheels. Audi says that it will adopt Bluetooth in some of its models.

AMD Delivers New Athlon Server Chip.

Seagate Discounts IPO to $12 Per Share.

IT users in password hell. A new study shows that a typical IT user now has 21 passwords…

IBM has your IP phone number. Partnering with Cisco Systems and Avaya.

Napster Goods Go On Auction Block. Computers, laptops, and a slew of T-shirts…

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Fake eBay site shuts down.

David — We're supposed to be the good guys.

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MagicDraw UML 6.0 beta. A UML modeling tool for object-oriented software development.

Carlos — Custom Version of Eclipse Done Right.

Scott — Am I Liable for What I Post?.

Corel Soups up XML Platform. XMetaL.

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Developing Eclipse plug-ins.

JavaCC, parse trees, and the XQuery grammar, Part 1.

Brett — Programmers are Speshal. (sic)

Martin — Selling my house. Or should it be “sailing”?

eBay hit by credit card scam.

QuickTime On Your Cell Phone.

Kev — Bless me father for I have sined. (sic)

VeriSign announces Open Source WS-Security Implementation and Integration Toolkit.

Developers stick to manual testing. Nine out of 10 don't bother with automated tools.

Microsoft wants WindowsXP.nu domain from hobbyist. What's your name? Shithead? ;-)

Jason— Java Job Searching.

Porn on your PDA… Thanks, Jim.

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Brent — Movies. Die Another Day and Solaris.

Handspring Commits to Keyboards. Thanks, Russ.

Matt — Blogger API 2.0.

Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle. Trailer.

Matt — Boot Keys. Magical Macintosh Key Sequences.

Jeff — Neat new toy for Eclipse.

One PC, Six Hard Drives, 37 OSes!

Pam Anderson, Lee win sex video suit.

Space Invaders for Java Enabled Wireless Phones.

Marvel Comics to unveil gay gunslinger.

Seyed — New Google Toys.

Intel moves closer to mobile phones with Manitoba.

Compal's Smartphone gets FCC OK.

Viewsonic clarifies PDA memory specification.

Can The $100 Million Man Help The SEC?

FileMaker Pro 6.0v4.

Keith — Star Trek: Nemesis review.

Thib — New open-source project. AnyMarkup, generate XSL stylesheets from annotated documents.

Hollywood sweeps web auction sites for pirate DVDs.

Gadget Grrrl's Intelligent Skis.

Sony Ericsson P800: Photo review & comparison. Russ pointed this out to me while we were IMing last night. Yes, he is alive!

On December 11 1844, Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.

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Java BluePrints Adventure Builder 1.0 Early Access Release.

Fetch FTP client gains Jaguar support.

Limited Edition Madonna iPod available.

Print Documents Easily in Java.

JBrowser: Just Browsing.

Localization Made Easy: XML Resource Bundles.

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Netscape 7.0.1 released.

Neill — Developerworks has a nice quick intro to aspect-oriented programming..

Review of Sitraka PerformaSure, a J2EE Performance Diagnosis Tool.

Is IBM Slowly and Surely Becoming ”Microsoft Two“?

“Rift” in Liberty Alliance? Greatly Exaggerated, say Sun and Liberty.

Java Code Stack: Long-term Persistence.

RIM Introduces New Java-Based Blackberry Wireless Handheld.

Danno — PMD for NetBeans/Forte.

Popularity Index: “Popdex”. A cross between DayPop and blogdex.

Greg — Google's #1 “Java To Go”.

David — Top 10 Signs You're An IntelliJ IDEA Zealot.

Matt — java.mobile.blogs.

Russ — I am a zombie.

Matt — IDEA vs. Eclipse.

JDownload v0.2 Released.

Dynamic JAVA byte code generator, an open source project inspired by java.lang.reflect.Proxy, which can be used by JDO/ODMG or EJB implementations.

Java CLDC - Industrial Protocols.

French put a name to the @ sign. arobase.

58 Priests Demand Boston Cardinal's Resignation.

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Ken — Klip for java.blogs new blogs list.

Patrick — Scott McNealy interview in The Register.

Fred — Ranking of ShareMe on blogging SuperNova. Come on Fred, you're not in the same league as Winer. You can be trusted. ;-)

Peachpit Press and Borders to provide free passes to Macworld Expo.

W3C Proposes XML Encryption, Decryption Specs.

CSDiff 4.0.

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Interview with Tim Perdue. GForge and behind the scenes at SourceForge.

The Jetspeed Team announced the immediate availability of the Jetspeed Portal Server, version 1.4 Beta 2.

One Answer To Spam: Sell Your Interruption Time.

ElcomSoft programmer takes stand.

Dominic — Java WebServices confusion. My answer is here.

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Bluetooth in five minutes or bust.

AMD set to “Hammer” Intel.

META predicts Microsoft will offer Linux.

Coming Soon! Gulf Wars!

Despite the hype, mobile phones with cameras just won't click. Thanks, Jim

[@633]

Vicki's taking the cats to the vet early in the morning, teeth cleaning. We had to stop feeding them around 8pm. As a result I've been dealing with a pair of starving cats all night long.

On a normal night they would have eaten and gotten right back to bed, but take the dishes away, and it's a whole other story.

I've been stalked and given the dirty looks for hours now.

Have you every tried to fix yourself a snack with a couple cats camped out in the middle of the kitchen floor?

Do they really think that staring at me will bring their food back?

I will not be assimilated… Must be strong.

Charles — Why Java will not get Macros.

Jim —MyDomain.com down.

Keith — Windows Batch file information.

Kiwi techies push for .geek.nz domain name.

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Get the inside track on J2EE architect certification.

Tools of the trade: Jtest statically and dynamically analyzes your Java code.

Java Q&A: Mutable or immutable?

James — JSR 201 thoughts and JSE.

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We mailed most of our Christmas Cards yesterday, spawning 3 continents, 4 languages and 5 countries. Vicki still has a few left to send out.

Since I was already in the mood, I figured I'd get an early start on my list of New Year's resolutions. So here it is:

1. Lose 30 pounds in 30 days.
2. Earn a second Ph. D. from home.
3. Massively enlarge my penis.
4. Make $$$ on the Internet.
5. Invent a way to block spam, 100% guaranteed.

Sklyarov testifies in copyright trial.

Dominic — PalmOS for wireless Java development.

100 Celebrities Sign Letter Opposing War in Iraq. Artists United To Win Without War. Sounds corny to me.

Bob — Naming conventions for enterprise applications. Interesting…

Java Development Environment for Emacs 2.3.1, an IDE for Emacs.

Henri — JDJ Vol 7 Issue 12. No fair. I haven't received it yet! ;-)

Java Desktop for XWindow. JD4X is Java desktop for Linux x86 XWindow.

More Ryder Drug Revelations. Drug, Interrupted.

PocketC v5.0.2 has been released.

The jSyncManager Project, an open source Java implementation of a HotSync-compatible protocol stack.

Graham — Electric XML vs. MSXML benchmark. CLR vs. JVM.

Fast MD5 Implementation in Java.

IBM releases XML Parser for Java v4.1.2 performance upgrade for Linux.

Java games to be worth over US$3 billion.

The XP look and feel for Swing.

Seyed — Java Content Repository.

Mike — javablogs.com updates.

On December 10 1901, The first Nobel prizes were awarded.

Fink 0.5.0a Released for Mac OS X 10.2.

Secure Internet Programming with J2SE.

Using the Bitset Class.

No jive—Java set to jolt content market.

Russ — I am alive…

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Carlos — .NET CLR Slower Than Most JVMs. I'm sorry, but when I see the name, I can't avoid thinking about this product.

Variable Highlighter is a plug-in tool for various Java IDEs.

HTTP Request Header Viewer, version 1.0.

ClassFinder, version 1.0.

XML Output Actions , a JSP Tag Library for Generating XML Dynamically.

C2J, translates C-code sources into Java classes.

Kevs Development Toolbox, a small collection of development utilities and code examples.

RTF2FO, converts RTF documents to XML using XSL FO.

Using Apache Axis to build Web Services.

Gateway Joins Tablet PC Fray.

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HP, Microsoft reaffirm .Net ties.

Andres — Web Services Enhancements 1.0 for Microsoft .NET.

Emmanuel — Easy Struts 0.6.2 for Eclipse is out.

Bob — jAdvise performance improvements..

Matt — Random Text Generator.

Fred — Unofficial Java Web Start/JNLP Faq.

Scott — 19+ Hours to Incomplete iPod Synchronization.

Java Modeling Language (JML), an open source behavioral interface specification language for Java modules.

JDebugTool 2.6, a standalone Java debugger.

JMP 0.23, a JVM runtime profiler with object and method statistics.

Microsoft Posts Holiday Fun Packs for Windows XP.

Handspring Treo 180 for $99 after rebate.

Teen hacker denies DVD pirating.

Cool gadgets reviewed. Not as pretty as an iPod, but a great price.

Microsoft Ups IE Flaw to ‘Critical’

Toshiba scores a market ‘first’ with three-in-one notebook. Full processor, 16” TFT. Nice!

TechTV recommends iPod, iMac, iBook.

Who strips? Who won't? Who wishes they hadn't?

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IBM to reveal super-tiny transistor.

Macworld announces 2002 Editors' Choice Awards.

Office 11 gains developer tools.

O/R Tool Hibernate 1.2 Released.

Java components marketplace launched for BEA developers.

Feds raid software company.

Don't Use System.out.println! A quick start to use log4j.

Dominic — Logitech cordless keyboard-mouse giveaway.

Coppola buys vineyard for a ‘shocking’ price. What's next? The Corleone's Winery.

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Interested in the links I'm working on? Check out my scratchpad!

Java Serialization to XML 1.0.7.0, a tool for exporting data from Java to XML in one line of code.

Java 1.5 Generics example.

CanoScan n650u drivers (unofficially) available.

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JXMLEditor 1.5 released.

Don't look now, but there's a tech IPO.

Keith — Programming Languages History.

Alan — Alan Williamson v3.0 released today. Happy release to you.

Magnus — Interview with Jack Greenfield of Rational.

IDC's ‘Windows beats Linux’ claim slammed. Yet another, Microsoft-sponsored paper.

US workers spared junk e-mails. Less than 10 messages a day. I don't believe it.

Danny — JavaIndex.

RealNetworks puts more Helix code online.

Caffeine Machine.

United Airlines files for bankruptcy.

Open Source J2EE 1.4 gets Sun green light.

On December 9 1992, Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation.

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David — Apple Technical Support Conversation.

Fred — Secure-Efficient-Easy C Programming.

jMechanic, an open source Eclipse Java IDE plugin providing Java Profiling tools.

IE bug more dangerous than first disclosed.

Shania holds No. 1 over McGraw, J.Lo.

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QDox 1.1 Released.

Matt — Phoenix Tips and Tricks.

James Bond back on top at U.S. box office.

Java XML Log Analyser, an open source Web analyzer for logs from different formats.

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Fred — Dave Winer and Rob Fahrni get Sun vs MS on Java wrong. Good stuff there, Fred. I wholeheartedly agree, Dave is a blind visionary.

What's the difference between Dave Whiner and Jurassic Park?

One is about a dinosaur roaming around a lost world
— the other is a Spielberg movie.

Erik — blosxomj update.

Fake millionaire to woo TV contestants.

fastUtil 2.1, a fast and compact type-specific utility classes for Java.

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The results are in. Russ will keep his new job for less than…

Dominic — JDK 1.4.1 Garbage Collection article.

Keith's — Awesome 404 page.

Matt — Naples 0.5 Released! Formerly known as Phoenix.

JECC, an open source implementation of public key Elliptic Curve Cryptography written in Java.

Amazon directs shoppers to Borders.

On December 8 1941, The United States entered World War II as it declared war against Japan. The act came one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Britain and Canada also declared war on Japan.

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My friend Jim Flanagan has just finished his first Drive-In iMovie, titled “Run”.

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RMI Plugin for Eclipse, version 1.4.0 beta 1, part of the open source Lunar Eclipse collection.

Viewlet: Debugging Enterprise JavaBeans Components Deployed with the J2EE Reference Implementation.

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. New York. 22-24 January 2003.

Miss Turkey wins Miss World.

Dominic — My first Struts book.

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Yesterday, Dominic asked if I edit my posts by hand. Greg's response got me thinking about ways to streamline the process even further.

Since NewzCrawler implements the Blogger, MetaWeblog and MovableType APIs. I figured I might be able to post directly to my blog, and thus forgo my trusted text editor.

I first looked for the MetaWeblog API, but stop investigating once I discovered that Whiner was behind it. I looked at the Blogger API next, which appeared to be just what I was looking for.

I grabbed a copy of Apache's XML-RPC to handle the remote procedure calls thru a Servlet. And used the jTalk SqlQueryBean and Utility classes to handle all of the database work.

Less than 15 minutes later, I had successfully made my first blog entry via the NewzCrawler Blog Client. Here's a picture of the steps I took to bookmark from NewzCrawler directly to my scratchpad.

Cool beans!

Greg — Blogging Tip From Erik. Actually, thanks to you for making me rethink the whole process.

Farscape to Return? Is Sci-Fi Channel Redeemed?

Jim — Mid voyage blues. Russ in Amsterdam…

Fred — TheOpenCD.org.

Hey, I'm a Loyal Mac User, Too.

SLOCCount, a set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code.

SmartEiffel 1.0, includes an Eiffel to C compiler and an Eiffel to Java bytecode compiler.

JIU - Java Imaging Utilities, an open source Java library for loading, editing, analyzing and saving pixel image files.

Magnus — Sandboss 1.0 beta.