The Cave

The classic.

Not good enough.

…is what to do with the time that is given to you.” –Gandalf, LOTR:Return of the King

One of the better trailers.

Required for a Dream video.

Latest in the Hi, I’m a Marvel…and I’m a DC parodies. Amusing, though part 2 is better.

Ghost Rider style.

The original trailer, still the best of the bunch IMO. The music, the timing, plays together better than the newer trailers.

Independent comparison of AV software. Independent being the key word. Reasonably trustable. I’ve been happy with NOD ESET32 for the past couple of years. Pretty sharp, and very lightweight. Recommended.

The Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller, the Red Cross, Red Crescent and Red Crystal. Interesting turn of history.

BTW I tried to use Info-Zip’s compression logic for a network stream back in the day, but the code was pretty much the usual Big Fat Hairball you’d expect, and in the end the effort wasn’t worth it – we just licensed PkWare’s library and saved the nastiness. … My 1st task as fixing “XMLCreator”, which was used in conjunction with PkMSConnection (wrapper over ADOConnection behavior) to transform an ADORecordset’s contents into an XML document according to some morphing definitions (letting you do things like filter out some of the data, rename recordset columns from A1, A2, A37, … (as in SELECT AGE AS A1, …)) to FirstName and other ‘nice’ XML element and attribute names).

Latest rumor is 12″ or 13″ with a Sep or Oct announcement.

JSR 292′s Early Draft Review is out . Some comments about its implications (goodness) for Jython.

I concur with the remarks about Generics being fundamentally flawed, and type erasure seems to be a key factor, if not THE problem. … Some complexity of Java generics comes from its attempt to provide variance support; but the incomprehensible parts can be traced directly back to type erasure.

Cute. Nice editing job, though the sound gets a little off near the middle.

Puss in Boots.

Spring is neat – handy and powerful and, sometimes, invaluable – but has its share of flaws .

Sigh .

Nice.

At least, the things I saw while in Atlanta, which coincided with his post-Congressional times, he was often a lucid and interested editorial writer. Of course that doesn’t mean I saw all (or even most) of his writings, let alone a true glimpse into his beliefs and persona.

One just hopes not to be in the headlights when that train wreck happens. In this case, it’s hard to imagine how one couldn’t be affected.

The described architecture is impressive on many levels. SOA done the right way.

Java 1.stinking5, just like it’s J2ME, J2SE and J2EE, not JME, JSE or (the reviled) JEE), and this is just making bad situation so much worse. … Of course, I’ve been using (and impressed by) Python so years so that shouldn’t be a surprised.

Thank you Patrick Logan for this post with a link to a slide show explaining how “Collateralized Debt Obligations” full of bad loans became AAA rated . … This is hysterical and actually a quite lucid explanation why the mortgage industry’s having…difficulties…and done in way anyone can understand.