Wednesday, May 07, 2003

Why do we always start chanting "USA! USA!" these days when we flip over cars in a drunken frenzy?    It happened at the U of M a few weeks ago and on Sunday it happened in Cincinnatti.  Quote:  "When there's a helicopter flying overhead, that's no longer a party.  That's a riot."   A good rule of thumb for the days ahead. 4:56:39 PM    comment []

Article on O'Reilly's onJava on generating richer hyperlinks with custom tags.  Good reading for someone who has the basics of JSP and wants a good exercise to take them to the next level... 11:02:00 AM    comment []

I got home late last night and by the glow of the motion activated back door light, I spied a plastic box of chocolate muffins and sat down in the dark dining room to devour them.  Midway through the second one, I detected movement.  I positioned the muffin to catch the rays of passing headlights and ... OH NO!  ANTS!  I let out a muffin muffled moan, spit out a spray of ants and crumbs, raced to the sink to rinse out my mouth.  I turned the light on and saw that there were enough ants to carry away the truck that delivered the muffins.  I suddenly had all kinds of energy for cleaning.  I threw away all the crap that was out on the counter and got out the 409 bottle to hose down the ants.  I got out the vacuum cleaner and vacuumed up all the crumbs in the kitchen.  I examined the counter and discovered ants entering the counter space through little holes in the caulking that sealed the counter. After lots of 409 and dish soap, the ants figured they should call it an evening and stopped crawling across the counter.  This morning they returned and the children adopted several as pets. 10:15:27 AM    comment []