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We went to see Die Another Day earlier on today, which we both quite enjoyed.

I was a little disappointed with the opening sequence which was not as spectacular as usual. The car duel made up for it though.

Halle Berry won't win any Oscars for her performance, but she's pleasing on the eyes.

I really liked the way they paid homage to earlier Bond movies here and there.

Madonna's role, albeit very short, was actually pretty funny. Her song, which is not a bad song, seemed a little bit out of place in the opening credits.

A jolly good time overall.

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jKiska 0.20 A set of helpful Java utility classes.

Lunar Eclipse 1.3.0, an open source RMI Plugin for Eclipse.

The second Release Candidates of Turbine 2.2 and Torque 3.0 are available for download.

GCC 3.2.1 Released.

Anthony — Technique for Protecting JavaScript Code.

Web Sites Told to Remove Sales Info.

Intel's Celerons Cruise Past 2 GHz.

RIM ordered to pay $23 million for patent infringement.

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ImageJ Plugins, an open source imaging tool implemented in Java.

Canada PM: Bush not ‘a moron’. <pindrop>

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SPEC Releases New Application Server Benchmark.

Who Will Buy COMDEX?

Insignia's Java-Enabling Technology Integrated With Latest Sharp Zaurus SL-5600 PDA.

Parasoft Launches New Automated Database Testing Tool to Validate Application-Database Interaction.

Free SpiritWave Integration Kit for Tibco Rendezvous. If you got to pay $7200 for a support plan, it ain't free.

Visual Thesaurus: Applet of the Week.

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Jarsync, an open source Java rsync implementation.

Proxool, an open source Proxy JDBC Connection Pool.

Oracle's Larry Ellison buys 70,000 Apple shares.

Laptop Burns Penis. Ouch!

Pentagon backs off on Net ID tags.

WorldCom fine may add up to nothing. Why am I not surprised?

Apple security update addresses BIND issue.

IDC Says 2002 Has Been Worst-Ever Year For IT. Duh!

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FrontierSuite for J2EE 3.0 Released.

Jim: Java Blogs.

IndyJ, an open source suite of beans and API for client and server development of popular internet protocols.

jEdit 4.1pre6, one of the best (if not the best) Java-based text/source editor out there.

City hosts internet free-for-all.

UnitedLinux will include Java.

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Dominic — Flock demo. Way cool!

Bill Venners — Evolutionary Design.

Sun warns of Java zlib vulnerability.

Anthill Build Management Server v1.5.5 released.

Secure and fast JSP hosting is easy!

Jikes 1.18. Yippee!

JGimp, an open source architecture to create plug-ins and extensions for GIMP in Java.

CrushFTP 3.0b29, a Java-based FTP client.

AOL offers prepaid cards to lift sales.

Fred — Java Samples II.

Google, Amazon take lead in Web services.

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DataBrowser 3.0.10, a cross-database, cross-platform data access tool.

Pine 4.50, now with threading support. No RedHat RPMs yet.

MacExpo 2002 Best of Show winners announced.

EJB best practices: The dynamic delegate.

Install and configure the Xerces2 Java parser.

Developer's introduction to JAX-RPC.

Debug XSLT on the fly.

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The Missing Mitnick Chapter.

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Yamaha & NEC back Linux start-up.

BT adds Java web services deal. Based on both J2EE and Microsoft's .Net standards.

James Gosling: “J2EE has it all over .NET…”

Microsoft Just Says No to .Doc Replacement Panel.

Diego — the cellphone OS wars.

David — Dragon Tales.

Chris — HOWTO keep your job forever.

Darren — What's up with Roller and Radio? It's not just you. Quite annoying when you monitor over 200 feeds like I do.

JavaGeek — Java Meetup.

JJEdit offers Java development tool for novices.

Wozniak to step onto the Mac stage.

Six More IE Holes Patched.

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JGraphpad 1.2, a diagram editor.

JFaceDbc 1.0.1, an open source JDBC client application (and Eclipse Plug-in) written in Java.

SDToolkit v0.4.4, an open source Software Documentation Toolkit.

Microsoft Spills Customer Data.

A Holiday Buying Guide to Technology.

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Russ — JavaBlogs Portal.

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We got back from the concert a few hours ago. I took 50 pictures or so, until some security guy got on my case for using a digital camera.

I must have been doing something wrong with the zoom/focus as most of the pictures turned out very blurry. I've already placed the best ones in a new scrapbook.

At least we both enjoyed the concert.

Book review: Professional Apache Tomcat.

Java Community Process final election results.

CodeCompanion 1.2, a tool that analyzes your Java source code. I've used it in the past, not bad.

JAVAOCR 1.0 is released.

Ted Neward — Patterns, Hype, and Snobbery.

Configuring Tomcat and Apache With JK 1.2.

Ugo — Great ApacheCon coverage.

Dominic — TSS interviews itself.

JSPBLOG v2, a personal blog written in JSP.

J-Phone claims 1m video messaging subs. [from Russ via IM]

J2EE guide for Mac OS X now available.

Java Parser/Parser Generator 2.0, a Java-based parser and parser generator package/utility.

Gadgets galore at US tech trade show.

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Do-it-all phone, fashion-minded MP3 player, and more.

China Unicom and Sun sign mobile Java MoU.

IBM to support Sharp's Linux PDA in middleware.

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Markus just informed me of version 0.8 of his JDK 1.4 Class Diagrams, which now contains 221 class diagrams and will be the last release for this JDK.

JDebugTool 2.4, a graphical Java debugger.

COMDEX: Microsoft Delivers Final Visual Studio .NET 2003 Beta

Neil — PersonalBlog Facelift. Looks really bad right now. Neil must still be working on it.

Dominic — Java Coding Standards (cont…)

David — There is no clear winner. Very interesting Servlet Container Performance Report.

Ugo — Beam me up, Scotty. COMDEX sucks and Apple rocks…

Send Files to Browser Clients the Right Way.

MacExpo 2002.

PC prices slashed to new lows.

University NOC Destroyed.

Mobile phone alliance marches ahead.

Gateway Introduces Small-Footprint Options That Shrink PCs.

DMCA reopens for public comment.

How Homeland Security affects tech.

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Russ — This is it. Cool phone!

Jmol 5, a Java/Swing-based molecular dynamics viewer.

Java SMPP API 0.3.1, an open source Java implementation of the SMPP API.

PCs and gadgets battle to be king of the living room.

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We're going to see the Idols Live at the KeyArena tonight. It should be an interesting show, although sitting amongst thousands of screaming teenage fans might not be.

Dealing with Timeouts on Socket Connections.

In McNealy's Cosomons, the Sun is Still Going to be Shining Bright for the Next Decade.

Creating Non-Blocking Sockets.

Nokia Battles Microsoft over Phone OS.

Stabilize Your Code With Assertions

Make JavaScript Perfect.

Govern your images with JSP code.

Eclipse 2.1 M3 - New and noteworthy.

IBM jump-starts services.

UVC 1.2 Final released.

Effectively handle long-running Java tasks.

BEA Publishes Scathing Criticism of Websphere 5 and IBM.

Dominic — Java Coding standards.

Jason — Sun's marketing SUCKS.

Keith — Dell discount on Axim.

Kev — Sun to release an XSL processor.

Neil — MyWay is better than Yahoo's way.

Russ — Tanker Sinks.

JIT Jabber ICQ Transport, an open source ICQ transport for Jabber instant-messaging systems.

Microsoft to simplify security alerts.

New Pocket PCs: Don't let Dell make you look stupid. Yeah, the rebate thing is kinda ridiculous. I like Costco's way too.

Liberty Alliance Updates Specs.

Holy Cancellation! Bye-bye Birdies. Damn, I started to like that show.

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Russ — France and Me.

Anthony — France and Me. My mom lives in Montpellier. Small world.

Mac gurus continue to share Jaguar tips.

Zenith's New HT Products.

The lasting impact of 007's gadgets.

Tech slump hits Comdex.

This Is Your Computer on Brains.

JPEG EXIF meta-data extraction in Java.

Arnie: “I did smoke a joint and I did inhale.”

Cedric — J2EE / .Net Smackdown.

OpenEJB, an open source pre-built, self-contained, portable EJB container.

XServe RAID Delayed until early 2003.

Apple Store coming to Bellevue, WA. It sure won't make the local CompuUSA happy, especially since Best Buy just opened a store too. I wonder where it'll be located.

Comdex: Dell and HP PDAs slug it out amid sea of gadgets.

XLNT Utils, a freeware set of utilities which some added native functionality such as creating/reading symbolic and displaying system-tray icons.

JHelp, a shareware Java Help Content API.

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Lopica - Java Web Start Encyclopedia Launched.

Jeff — Of all the stupid ideas… Microsoft Clock!

David — Hagar v. Roth.

Joi — Just pre-ordered my Ginger.

Keith — $100 for a keyboard!

Russ — Palm is Doooomed.

Scott — New York Times: Credit Cards Seek New Fees on Web's Demimonde.

Wang quits Computer Associates.

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Matt — Chimera Gets Faster.

Simon — ieSpell.

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We had my B-day dinner at the Café de Paris in Edmonds. Bar none, the best French food I've ever had in the US.

I share the same birth day as the Rebel.

HP will bundle a basic edition of Oracle's J2EE application server with systems running its HP-UX operating system.

Java come, Java go.

Sun boosts enterprise Java.

Java and .Net both a disaster: research

Dominic — XE.com currency converter. Looking for a free web based currency converter?

Matt — Use Labels in your Forms. Cool!

Fred — More Java Class Samples.

jGnash 1.1, an open source personal finance application.

First release of the Java 3D Game SDK.

Jaxor 3.0 Beta, an open source java code generation engine for creating an object to relational mapping layer based upon XML metadata.

JGraph 1.06, an open source graph component.

Active JMS, a freely available, non-proprietary, open source ActiveX JMS client API.

Joi — A comic strip about "What is a blog?"

JetriX 0.1.0, a fast, scalable, and extensible TetriNET server in Java.

JMP 0.22, a runtime profiler of the JVM, with object and method statistics.

Kernel 2.4.18-18 for Red Hat 8.0.

This is America. P.O.D and Santana. Live in La Casa. How cool is that?

Thanx. I'll try…