ICANN has approved a deal with VeriSign to continue manage the .COM registry. This is a very bad deal for everyone. Well, except VeriSign, of course. They wi…

We get most of our mail to a P.O. box, but there are a few things that we have no choice but to get at home. Our home mailbox is always stuffed with flyers,…

I've implemented a way to view the linkblog's Popular Links. The page and feeds list the most popular links in the last 24 hours. The lists are updated at le…

Have you ever wanted to quickly send a POST request to a HTTP server? It's pretty easy to do using curl. For example to send XML via a POST request, you coul…

I've been playing with TestNG for a few days now. I really like it. It makes me want to write more tests. I was wondering if there was a way to create a test…

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