Just received the replacement SuperDisk I bought on eBay. A bad floppy killed the old one a few weeks ago. The metal slider got stuck in the drive and damaged it beyond repair.

ONJava.com 2.0 debuts. The Java API map is pretty nifty.

David reviews Eclipse. He seems to like it.

Henri has put together a list of online JUGs.

JCavaj, a java decompiler based on JODE. I often use their Cavaj which is based on Jad.

J2SE 1.4.1 FCS is now available!

I have a life expectancy of 76.1. Which leaves me with around 5548.5 blog posts left to write. Apparently I will likely die in the middle of a post…

My grandmother's twin sister died yesterday. She was 89 years old. My grandma called late last night to give me the news. She sounded pretty down, but said she felt better after talking to me.

IBM pressures Sun to free Java.

Porn outfit bids for Napster.

Lasso 3.x goes bye-bye. Sniff. Lots of blood, sweat and tears went into the original release. Turning a Mac-only product into a viable cross-platform middleware was an interesting experience.

The First Smiley :-)

I've implemented a calendar for the news page. I used jTalk and a slightly modified version of the Coldbeans Calendar tag library.

It's definitely not as elegant as Mike's <webwork:calendar/> design sketch, but then again it only took less than 30 minutes to implement, test and deploy. KISS.

I've also upgraded the server to Tomcat 4.1.10 which seems to provide a significant performance boost. The install wasn't as painless as it could have been. The RPM replaced my server.xml configuration file and forgot to tell me about it.

Fresh. Sexy. Clean. Whatever she's selling, I'm buying.

I just found out I'm a dumbfuck. Why don't they tell me these things? I'm always the last one to find out.

Mike likes Trillian Pro. I gave it a try and liked it so much that I bought a copy too.

I also upgraded to FileBuddy 7.

Rick is looking for an open source calendar tag library. I'd be interested in such a taglib too. I've been thinking about implementing some kind of calendar for this blog for quite a while now.

alphaWorks: Lightweight services for JavaScript & Python. Cool!

Brent has released TigerLaunch 1.0b1. Nifty.

It'd be even cooler if you could drag a document onto one of the application in the menu to open it. Maybe it can be done via a contextual menu or something. That's why I keep a folder with all of my apps in the dock.

You might also want to check Brent's Cocoa XML-RPC Demo.

Apache AXIS 1.0 RC1 is now available. I used one of the early release to build jTalk's Web Services client tags. The feature set was pretty limited. I'll definitely have to revisit it soon.

Kristy Swanson is going to be in the next issue of Playboy. Looks like my subscription is finally going to pay off.

We will never forget…

Macromedia ships ColdFusion MX for Java. Three years ago, everybody assumed I was losing my marbles, when I predicted that CF would ultimately move to Java. Guess who's laughing now?

The world's fastest JVM, which really didn't impress me in previous versions. I'm glad they finally released support for both J2SE 1.3.1 and 1.4.0. I'll definitely have to try it out.

Neil is another jEdit convert. jTalk was pretty much entirely developed using Slava's editor.

iCal is out. Looks nice, but I'll stick to my WebCalendar.

JIRA 1.4 was released yesterday. Way 2 go, Mike.

Osbourne Toys. How long before Swearing Ozzy shows up next to Talking Elmo at Kmart?

I just finished installing Windows XP SP1, so far everything looks good. Knock on wood.

On Saturday nite, I installed 10.2 on my PowerBook and Vicki's iMac.

The PowerBook install was flawless, except for taking close to 5 hours. I have no idea why it took so long.

The iMac install only took a couple hours. Unfortunately, there is a bug with Jaguar and Rev A. iMacs which prevents the screen geometry settings from being saved on restart. Very annoying. Hopefully, Apple will provide some kind of fix soon.

I've installed SpamAssassin on our mail server. Going to give it a try for a bit. We'll see how effective it really is.

Product Snapshot: J#

24 coming to DVD with alternate ending.

Farscape: final journey.

Last chance to vote!

I just finished testing jTalk under Tomcat 4.1. Works like a charm. I'm pleased.