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.