Wednesday, 14 August 2002

Flowers. Colourful ones My wife has been on bed-rest for the past month. Today we found that she has to check into the hospital so they can monitor the fetus. I don't know what to do. [The Peanut Gallery] Hang in there, and be there for her. She needs your company more than anything else. Oh, and maybe some flowers. 6:55:23 PM

Ugh Sun scholarships? Someone's been under the sun too long.... Sun to fund open-source Java efforts. Sounds great right? Not so. Call me an Aussie cynic, but if Sun were really serious about this wouldn't they give the scholarships in cash? Under the new scholarship program, non-profit groups, universities and qualified individuals can apply for scholarships to help defray the costs of Sun's technical support services while undergoing the Java compatibility tests. So you get free Sun technical support (which - given you have to be implementing a JSR - are probably far worse than your own technical abilities) to pass the Java compatability tests? That's freakin' ridiculous.  [rebelutionary] Ahhh. I have seen this trick before. It's called phoney-baloney accounting. Feh. 6:47:47 PM

Fwoooaar CORSAIR has identified Osama's worst nightmare. [InstaPundit] If serious lookin babes with bad ass guns don't scare 'em, nothin will. 6:20:47 PM

Palm coding for fun and err.... But to be only a user with a stick is damn boring, so the first thing I did was downloading the MIDP forPalm OS 1.0 (a Java runtime enviroment for Palm hendhelds) and installed it on my new Palm. Then I installed the J2ME Toolkit from Sun on my Thinkpad and last but not least a Palm Emulator. Armed with this tools I wrote my first HelloWorld MIDlet and uploaded it on my new toy. Fun :-). The next days I will discover what can be done with this API and how powerful it is. Thus anybody has experince with J2ME or comments, opinions, critics, articles about this (Off) Topic? [Gerhard Froehlich] Do me a favour and write up your adventures, it might encourage me to try coding my Palm VII. 6:13:47 PM

IBM not making much sense IBM cutting 15,000 jobs. Big Blue is eliminating 15,600 jobs, primarily in the services division and microelectronics division, the company revealed in an SEC filing. [CNET News.com] So let me get this straight, IBM just spent a shitload buying Monday: and now they are going to spend a shit load more to eliminate a whole load of people in the services division? Why did they buy Monday: then? To get the clients? Hmmmm. 5:42:56 PM

ThinRSS == Cool ThinRSS is here!. It's amazing how confluences happen at certain times. Yesterday I was chatting to Rickard about how there are no nice RSS viewers, and we decided an RSS viewer should be written that works via Java Web Start. Web Start is something I've always wanted to mess around with but never had an application for. Today, via Bob, I ran across Thinlet - a very lightweight GUI layer for creating applets and Java GUI clients. I had an hour free, so I combined them and would you believe it, ThinRSS appeared! Try it out - it's 30k and code is included for your browsing pleasure. [rebelutionary] I'm addicted. Hooo hah. 4:35:42 PM

Confusing goings on a Sun Sun pays for open-source scholarships. Sun to fund open-source Java efforts. The computing giant announces a $3 million scholarship program to help software developers build open-source implementations of Java standards. [CNET News.com] After listening to McNealy recently, this seems very strange. [Steve's Radio Weblog] Don't be confused. Just understand that there are people at Sun who have an idea just how much Java relies on open source java projects. They can't give McNealy the biff to the head he deserves for being so stupid, but they can do the right thing. It's actually quite heartening. And, maybe, just maybe, Scott might get a clue pill before he is unleashed into the media shark tank next time. 4:34:04 PM

Insulated old worlders still can't see the future The media titans still don't get it. Corporate America lost billions on the Net. That doesn't mean the medium has no value -- but the moguls remain clueless about where it lies. [Salon.com] It is sad to realise, as a determined bleeding edger, that there are masses of unkempt trailing edgers out there still. I first used a web browser a decade ago, and to think people still don't understand that the 'net is about people connecting to other people is infuriating. But not so much so that I can't spend an hour enjoying mucking around with mike's rss reader. :) I just noticed that JNLP will offer to stick a shortcut on the desktop if you use an app twice. How cool is that? 4:20:36 PM

Pie Crazy aussies and their pies. What's all this about  pistols, Harry's, dunkin' the rebel and {@link javax.food.Pie#compareTo}? Did I get off the boat in Woolloomooloo last, or are other people confused? [rebelutionary] Just an excuse to get out of the house and eat pie. Mmmmm. Pie. I love pie. Piepiepiepie. (Ten points to the person who guesses which flash animation i am making reference to here ... ;) 3:13:53 PM

TogetherSoft TogetherSoft takes over Visual Cafe. Internet.COM is reporting that local Raleigh software developer TogetherSoft is buying WebGain Studio and Visual Cafe from Webgain. Visual Cafe is in good hands. [Blogging Roller] Huh? Last time I looked TogetherSoft's UI was a PITA to use, and very expensive. They may well have been much better off adopting either Eclipse or NetBeans. They'd get cross platform toolkit, if nothing else. 11:32:51 AM

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