O'Reilly's new JSP book, JavaServer Pages, has finally been released.

Last nite's final installment of the Dunes miniseries wasn't any better. The pace picked up a bit but I still came close to falling asleep on more than one occasion.

Yesterday afternoon, while making copies at the Bellevue Library, we had our caricatures drawn by Tom Huff, the fastest pen in the world. Contrary to the girl who did the one for our wedding in Vegas, this guy is really fast (2/3 mins per) and works without any templates. I am portrayed cooking, Vicki's reading.

If you're in needs of a remote hut custom alarm system, check out www.AlarmsPro.com. Alarms Pro is the tool my friend Frank Knapp has been working on for years, it simply rocks.

Apple announce Q1 earnings substantially below expectations. Watch the stock take another nosedive. The Wall Street suits are clueless when it comes to computer manufacturers and the Internet. Pretty pathetic. I haven't been doing much with my portfolio as of late, I should start buying low.

Apple should merge with 3Com, says Sculley. What has John been up to lately anyway? Investing in Broadband and giving "armchair advice", apparently.

No Oscars for Billy. Can't say I'll miss him.

FCC weighs 10-digit dialing for all calls. Do I care one way or the other? Nope.

Kawa 5.0 it out. I guess I'm going to have to give the release version a try.

Computer companies specialize in giving consumers lousy products. I couldn't agree more. I would even go one step further and blame it on The Evil Empire. But then again if we keep on knowingly buy defective software, who's really to blame?

KDE 2.01 is out. And I just got 2.0 fully installed… Here is the list of changes between 2.0 and 2.0.1.

The future according to Dennis Ritchie. Everything you ever wanted to know about the future of C, the C99 standard, Plan 9 and more.

I've written a short guide to help with Installing Tomcat under Red Hat Linux.

Blue World Communications (I used to be their Director of Technology) has released version 3.6.6.2 of the Lasso Web Data Engine. I guess someone thought the version number had to be Microsoft-stylized. :-)

Connectix introduced Virtual PC 4.0. Some much needed improvements (better performance, auto-expandable disk images, multi-OSs support, etc.) We might upgrade. No mention of OS X though.

Indecision 2000 - Florida's "voter cleansing" program.

The second installment of the Dunes miniseries moved a little quicker. Vicki rightfully pointed out that William Hurt had a very small role after all. Still a yawner, IMAO.

The Ozone hole will heal, say British scientists.

Apache Group unveils Java-based SVG viewer & toolkit.

Sun will introduce Forte for Java Release 2, Internet Edition next week. I use Forte for Java CE, once in a while; it's pretty nice. The JSP plug-in does sound interesting. I've yet to find a decent JSP IDE, and I've tried them all (UltraDev, VisualAge, JBuilder, etc.)

Bette Midler's TV hubby walks out. I kinda liked the guy.

Yet another McAfee VirusScan definition update.

Sun announces XML for Java interface specs.

The Top 100 Products of 2000. Amazingly enough, I have no interests in any of them whatsoever.

Windows Media Player 7 Bonus Pack.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I'll be there on December 15.

A little slapping around, a little hacking -- a lot of fun.

Indecision 2000 - David Boies at his best, courtesy of Adam Curry.

GraphicConverter 4.01 is out.

The first installment of the Dunes miniseries was a little slow for my taste. Hopefully it will pick up some pace tonite. Vicki thought it was a lot closer to the book than the 1994 movie was. The scenery, decors and wide camera angles reminded me of the first Star Wars.

A puzzling article on Interfacing with Java from PHP.

SGI buys into SuSE Linux. One of these days I'll find time to play with SuSE. I hear it is pretty good and works great on PowerPCs.

Anne, Dolly, Ricky… who knows which way they really swing? And really… Who cares?

Porn a Thorn for Indian Portal. Where's Larry Flint when you need him?

Why U2's Bono Gets an $80 Tip? Sounds just like Paul Hewson (aka. Bono) to keep it all for himself. ;)

Wanna buy Mitnick's prison ID?

pam and tcsh updates for RedHat 6.2.

I've already installed most of KDE 2.0 using the source rpms when it was first released. The RedHat 6.2 rpms are now available. Hopefully I'll be able to do a full install this time around.

Visual Builder has a small piece of Java code which demonstrates how to read a properties file. You might also want to check the GeekTools Whois Java Client source code for another example.

You should read User Interface Design for Programmers by Joel Spolsky if you haven't done so already.

E-mail virus shocks Linux.

Motorola's wireless phones will play Sega's Java games.

Don't buy my CD!

To Wap or Not to Wap.

Dune miniseries starts on Sci-Fi tonite.

I've moved most of the content from my old home page to my weblog. Took a little longer than I expected, but I think it looks pretty nice.

The cube has a cool form factor, but what about upgradability?

Indecision 2000 - Al Gore: "Don't let the sunshine go down on me!"

Office 10 Screenshots.

The world's 14 remaining Netscape users.

Why do Linux lovers jilt Java?

My weblog was ranked 27 among the most highly read weblogs sites yesterday.

Watched about 30 minutes of the Britney Spears Special on FOX last nite. I have to admit I am quite impressed with how smoothly they are able to mix live singing with lip-syncing. Milli Vanilly could have made good use of her sound engineers.

Red Hat drops Sparc support with new version 7 of Linux.

Do not get me the AOL two-way pager for Christmas!

My interest in E-Books was starting to peak until I read this article. Can you say DIVX?

Salon has an interesting article on free wireless Ethernet network (802.11b, Airport, etc.)

The Nokia 9210 handset packs Personal Java.

Go to the Opera for free.

My weblog was ranked 31 among the most highly read weblogs sites yesterday.