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48 hours after the last aborted attempt at reaching JavaOne, we are in SF and have our conference passes. But oh no, it could not be that simple. We get to our hotel by about 4pm, and we need to have the booth ready by 11am tomorrow. And UA lost our fucking Apple Cinema Displays [...]

The plan was to fly out from Sydney to San Francisco today. The plane was fueled, the travelers boarded. The aircraft taxied out to the runway, takeoff speed was reached, and the front wheel may have even left the tarmac. Then some bloody bird flew straight into engine two, the pilots hit the breaks, and [...]

I’m off to San Francisco this weekend, we be at JavaOne again this year. Remember to come say “hi”, especially if you want a peek at Crucible. Unlike last year, we won’t be in the t-shirt hurling competition. Which is a shame considering that the Myth Buster boys will be doing some commentary this year. Last year we managed [...]

Slightly more worrying than the previous moment, here is another quiet moment of project-size zen. [javac] Compiling 666 source files to /home/matt/work/crucible/trunk/output/classes

Posted to the in-case-you-have-this-problem-too department. About 6 months ago, Flash stopped playing sound for me. This was terrible: I watch a lot of Flash animations! This aggravated me to such an extent that I went so far as to re-install OSX (which I needed to do anyway, after a semi-botched upgrade to Tiger). Today, the same thing happened [...]

spud: On Spring: http://crazybob.org/2006/01/i-dont-get-spring.html conor: java development is so faddish spud: as opposed to… ruby? conor: ruby is a java fad

If they manage to get this hyper-space propulsion idea going, it would be like… like… as if millions of sci-fi fans suddenly cried out in joy and then smugly smiled. Link (via Slashdot, digg)