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Don't Drive and Call

I don't know you about you, but I find people driving while cellularing extremely annoying. If someone really needs to be on the phone while in their car, they should be required to use a hands-free ear-piece or speakerphone.

Apparently a 1997 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that car accidents are four times more likely to happen when a driver is using a cell phone. Considering the number of drivers I regularly see do crazy stunts while on the phone, I'm sure the ratio is even higher nowadays.

A few cities now have laws banning the use of cell phones in cars:

Counties/Cities		Fines
Conshohocken, PA		(up to) $1000
Carteret, NJ		(up to) $250
Marlboro, NJ		(up to) $250
Suffolk County, NY		$150
West Conshohocken, PA		$75
Brooklyn, OH		$3*

^*For the first offence, up to $100 afterwards.

Don't forget folks, we are licensed to drive, not licensed to be stupid.

MRJ 2.2.4

Apple has not yet updated the download page, yet. You can get the new version directly from here or through the Software Update control panel.

I Love Java II

Simson Garfinkel has issued a response to his original I hate Java article.

I'd like to remind Simson that when C++ first started to become popular, most Pascal and C programmers complained about the language drawbacks, including how it often generated slower and bloated binaries.

Most of us don't like change, especially when change doesn't always mean better, but it happens whether we like it or not.

Java Editor

I've been using a combination of BBEdit, TextPad and VIM for a few years now. My heroic trio does not really excel with Java code, but I've yet to find a more suitable replacement.

I just recently stumbled on a sexy^* Java-based editor, jEdit. It is too early to tell how it'll ultimately fair in the long run, but I have to admit such features as code completion, BeanShell and JavaDoc API lookup are quite appealing.

Linux Ramen Worm

I was glad to find out I already had patched RPC.statd and wu-FTPd.

Dubya Countdown

Think Different: Worse by the Headline

Apple loses $195 million in fiscal first-quarter.
Apple loses 73 cents per share.
Apple loss: $247 million.

^*Circa Geert Clemmensen.

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