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06.12.2003
Los Angeles

After one week staying in Las Vegas we drove to L.A. which was quiet a boring trip; it took us approx. 4,5 hours and we stopped at Calico, a well-known Ghost Town. Now, to be honest, we were really disappointed by Calico as we thought a Ghost Town is a gethering of buildings that have been left years ago, the wind blows through the empty streets etc. (I hope you get the picture) But Calico is an old west town that looks like a usual theme park with shops, restaurants etc. in every building :(

From there we went straight to Anaheim to the Sheraton which is really a very nice and calm hotel. They even have wireless for a ten dollar fee per day and - most important - they have a shuttle to the Disneyland resort! We stayed two days at Disneyland and it was fun, especially the California Screaming rollercoaster is great! But even better is "Soarin' over California" where you are suspended in the air and fly over california. They even add some odors, so you smeall the ocean etc. It's really nice but way too short. We discovered that the californian disneyland is a little bit different from the Orlando DisneyWorld and the Paris Disneyland. It's somehow - very hard to explain - not as much fun staying in California than in the other two theme parks. So, we think - if you can choose between visiting Disney in Anaheim and visiting them in Orlando or Paris, don't choose California.

From Anaheim we went to a hotel in north hollywood and visited the Universal Studios. Really interesting. They showed some "Making ofs", especially a lot about "The cat in the hat". The "Jurassic Park" ride is really cool. You slowly ride a river and than fall down very deep into the water which is really refreshing. Nice. The special about Backdraft where a whole hall is set on fire is impressing as well. And don't miss the studio tour!

Visiting hollywood and L.A. is not as interesting as it might sound. The beaches (Venice, Santa Monica) are nice, it's fun to live in Beverly Hills or somewhere at the coasts - but that's it - I think.

So, the last day - Thanks Giving - we drove to the Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park and that one is really great. Especially at Thanks Giving, when only a few people are attending, you don't have any queue at the attractions. We drove one rollercoaster after the other and our bodies really started to complain because of the intense forces each rollercoaster puts on you. So we decided to not do too much loopings anymore for the rest of the day. Anyways, they have a lot of wired rollercoasters and attractions there and we nearly tried all of them! It's really fine. If you're afraid of loopings then don't go there.

And this ended our way too short two weeks vacation to the states :( We really hope toget back to some of the nice places soon, so if you're located there and are interested in open source or cocoon or... then let me know!


11:12:45 PM    
Forget Eclipse 3.0M5

Immediately after I got back from the states I installed the latest and greatest version of Eclipse, 3.0M5. Then I tried to start my latest version of Dywel and it failed! Also, the classpath was correctly set, some classes were not found. Hmm, I thought and tried an easier project, Cocoon with the same result. Classpath correct, but a class not found exception. I immediately switched back to M4 and everything was fine again and I could contined serious work :)

Now I hear from more and more people that they have the same problems with M5, so I really wonder why this is not covered by the many test cases they do before releasing a milestone. So, as I always say: "Testing is only for people that don't have self-confidence!" It doesn't help you at all :)


10:48:46 PM    






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