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Thank god… I went out on a limb on this new notebook but it sounds like I should be happy with it. Notebookreview.com has a review on the 27th about the Sager 9750 and gave it outstanding marks…. now if the damn thing would hurry up and get here so I can see for myself.

The bill cites “credible research” that proves children raised in GOP families tend to exhibit “emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, and an alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves and an air of overconfidence to mask their insecurities.”

Andrew Sullivan remarks:

“It’s absurd, of course. But no more absurd than the empirically baseless claims that kids brought up by gay parents are somehow at a disadvantage.”

My tired, old Dell Inspiron 2650 needed an upgrade. It was slow, hot and didn’t have a subwoofer. Since it only had 512 MB of RAM it was only really good for surfing and checking email. Bringing up Jboss and Eclipse at the same time was almost as painful as developing on Visual Age for Java in the early days. This time I decided to go all out and get something that I could actually use for development. Here are the specs of my recent purchase:

17″ WUXGA+ (1920 x 1200) Active Matrix , Glare-Type Display
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (2.2Ghz; L2 Cache: 1MB x 2) Toledo
Artic Silver 5 (AS5) Thermal CPU Paste Compound
256MB GDDR3 nVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX PCI-Express 16x
2048 MB DDR SDRAM (400 MHz, PC-3200, Dual Channel) (2 x 1024 MB)
80 GB Hard Drive (7200 RPM) SATA
HDD RAID Settings – Off
8X DVD±R/RW / 4X+Dual Layer / 5X DVD-RAM / CD-RW Multi Drive (Pioneer DVR-k16)
External USB Floppy Drive
Built in 56k V.90 Modem
Built in 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet / LAN Network Card
Wireless (Wi-Fi) Lan Card 802.11g (54 Mbps)
Add Internal Bluetooth Card (Combo card with Wi-Fi)
Smart Lithium Ion Battery (12 Cells)
Integrated 7-in-1 Card Reader
Integrated Video Camera / Internal Subwoofer Module
Auto-switching AC Adapter (220W; 100-250V)

ahhh snap…

Apparently the USPTO believes that some “no name webshop”¹ has met all the requirements by demonstrating that their invention is non-obvious and unique, and granted a very broad patent over “Rich Media Applications on the Internet.” Kee-frickin-rist! What is next a patent on bathroom towels?

(Source InformationWeek)

(Source Jeffrey Zeldman – zeldman.com)

(Other obscure patents)

¹ This is my protest to all the undeserved advertising this company is getting.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2006/02/seething_midwes.html

Here is a small list of some interesting “keep it in the community” type sites and services.

• http://www.listedlocal.com: Free local classified ads
• http://www.angieslist.com: Angie’s List is a word-of-mouth network for consumers. — A local users consumer reports.
• http://freecycle.org/: Don’t REcycle — FREEcycle — video

I found this paper “Research Project: An Analysis of JBoss Architecture” while trying to figure out the correct way to share a Connection between a CMP and BMP bean in Jboss 4.0.3. I thought I would post it since it is very well done, even though it didn’t solve my problem. I think we are getting the deadlocks and transaction timeouts because we access our Datasource in our BMPs via the InitialContext and a JNDI lookup. I have yet to verify that is actually the problem, but will report back if I find an answer.

The word on the street is that Scott is undefeated in Rock Paper Scissors. I think he should sign up for the World Championships. Otherwise there are weekly Roshambo tourneys at The Nomad Bar on cedar.

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The president claims to have never met Jack Abramoff…. hmmm… that’s strange… If this isn’t him… it sure does look like him.

(via patrickjfitzgerald.blogspot.com)

Yahoo is doing some interesting things which are sometimes overlooked with all the GOOG hype.

Buzz Game – A Tech Fantasy Prediction Game
Mindset: Intent Driven Search
research.yahoo.com

Complete “Human Intelligence Tasks” for money. Amazon’s Mechanical Turks

Attacker seeks out gay bar, injures 3

This dude is pretty funny and has a great newspaper clipping that you have to read.

planetdan

Scientists may have found meat link to colon cancer – Yahoo! News