Java 1.4.0_01 is out.

Yesterday night we attended the SVJO season finale concert.

Amanda, Vicki's niece, played the Viola.

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Tinsel Town Club: Stop Disney and the entertainment industry from trampling your rights!

Quote of the Day

Apple has made the noises of being the 'Java Platform', but has yet to deliver. But as Steve stated,in their defense, they're trying.

That many applications can't be delivered on the Mac OS, is no failing on the developers part. I have been delivering applications to thousands of users ( Win, Linux, Solaris, Mac), but it's been a battle to maintain the Apple implementation. The applications always work 100% uniformly across Win, Linux, and Solaris in JRE 1.3.1 (same bugs and functionality), but 80% of the problems are always in the Mac implimentation.

Since the Mac Java delivery has ALWAYS been 8 months to a year behind the rest of the Java community, our deliveries have gone from 60% Mac to 12% Mac. The 12% have been retained through significant professional risk and detriment. Most converts to the Linux/Win side have been a result of 'enough is a enough' and the desire to stop wasting money and resources.

--Peter Zaharkiv on the java-dev mailing list, Sat, 25 May 2002

World Cup 2002

One billion people and a blog.

France 0 : 1 Senegal

What do you do when there's nothing on TV? Watch the last hour of the Miss Universe 2002 pageant. Oxana Fedorova of Russia won, although she wasn't my favorite by a long shot. Out of the last 15 contestants I would have voted for Miss Cyprus.

Attack of the Clowns

We went to see Episode II yesterday. We both hated it.

I though the plot was poorly piecemealed together. The acting was about as bad as I've seen, with the exception of Natalie Portman. Whomever had the brilliant idea to cast Samuel Jackson, aka Jedi Shaft from the Bronx, should be shot on sight.

We didn't expect much from the movie to start with, but hoped the CGI scenes would be worth the trip. They truly weren't. If this is to be the future of computer animations, please go back to the old ways.

It really didn't help that Christopher Lee's big fight scene was comical, at best.

Hibachi

We bought a little Hibachi grill at Fred Meyer's on Sunday. We got rid of our big smoker last summer as it was badly rusted.

We cooked a couple big Costco steaks on it. They turned out perfect. Definitely the best $9.99 we've ever spent.

Diet

Vicki and I are doing a modified version of the Atkins induction diet for the next 14 days. We also started to go workout together, 3 times a week.