14 Aug 2002
Wed, 14 Aug 2002
Jeff Zapotoczny Blogs the Flood in Prague
My friend Jeff Zapotoczny is blogging the flood situation in Prague, which looks grim. Hope everything is OK in Prague. Having blogs like this is really helpful outside the big news stories.
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Even Less Reason To Work At Sun
News.com reports on Sun's brilliant money-saving office idea:
McNealy said the company will use Linux desktops in its "iWork" program, under which employees don't get an office of their own but instead sit down in the first available empty cubicle they encounter. Sun hopes to reduce real estate costs with iWork by moving from 0.8 employees per office to 1.8 employees per office, he said.
I guess Sun hasn't heard of telecommuting. Where does that leave Bill Joy?
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Thinlet.com: Java Swing Amazon Browser
The fine folks at thinlet.com have gone and done an Amazon browser in java using Swing:
If that isn't enough they've got a technology for specifying Swing GUI in XML. Check it out. [russel beattie]
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Driving Skills Or Lack Thereof
This piece from coldfury.com about cars, trucks, and driving is one of the funniest things I've ever read. [jim mcgee]
If you're driving an SUV, you're driving the land-based equivalent of a garbage barge. Act accordingly. You wouldn't try to run a motocross race on a full-dress Harley, would you? If your answer is yes, please consider hanging yourself immediately so as not to hurt the sensible among us with the consequences of your lack of cognitive ability. Don't shoot yourself - it gives us gun owners a bad time with the legislature and someone has to come along and clean up your mess.
Yep. If I had a dime for every one of these morons that drove half way up my ass on the way to work every morning... well, you know the adage. It always amuses the hell out of me because they generally do this when I'm running along at 5 MPH over the speed limit on a straight stretch of road. What they don't realize is that I have the cruise set and I don't waiver when approaching the next maniacal hairpin. I'm always overjoyed when I look in the rearview mirror to watch the nimrod careening off into the forest since they couldn't possibly get the land yacht to do ESP miracles like this.
The real morons are the ones who pass me on the straight stretch and then decide to take the remainder of whatever brake lining they have left off at the next corner at which point I've driven half way up their ass since the luxo-barge couldn't possibly handle the curve at any reasonable speed. As Mike Blaszczak's fond of saying, "People drive like idiots no matter what I'm driving." No matter what you're driving, if you're curious about high performance all wheel drive systems, this article from Eliot Lim is an interesting read.
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