this boy, (apparently my son) relentlessly trying to inculcate me his naturally impish smile and youthful ebullience...




a few years back, Kodak Moments (TM) like this would mean making sure you have a bulky film camera loaded with ample battery power for a hit and miss affair with overexposed and underexposed picture kung-fu...

kids today are soooo lucky...

old habbits die hard... been using java for the past few years and am still using System.out.println for debugging (turning it off on production by runing a script that puts "//" on all System.out statements)... lately however due to an increasing addiction to junit i took the plunge and now as heavily addicted as well to log4j... the commons-logging was a welcome addition to the toolset as this somewhat allows you to choose other logging frameworks...

log.debug() is now a focker...

fckeditor... awesome! javascript is increasingly being more and more powerful these days...

Rant City ? Eclipse Java-GNOME Demo... slick!

ubuntu users using the ndiswrapper module with an MSI CB54G wifi card, you need to set RadioState on your /etc/ndiswrapper//*.conf equal to 0 as the default behavior of ndiswrapper -i ms68bm.inf is to set it to 1 which turns off the power this wifi card...

hmmnn... am not yet free from manually editing config files even on uber-user-friendly ubuntu... :(