Monthly Archives: April 2008

Release Day

April 30, 2008 – 6:13 pm

I can finally share what I’ve been working on since I joined SpringSource. I won’t try to explain it in detail, because half of you will glaze over immediately, but basically it’s an application platform that allows convenient deployment of OSGi Java apps using Spring software. See, I told you. For those of you who’ve [...]

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1 Wikipedia, 2 Wikipedias…

April 28, 2008 – 8:48 am

I’ve seen this linked a few times, and finally got time to read it. What an awesome article – there’s nothing in there that I couldn’t have thought up, but I didn’t and this guy did: I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking [...]

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Google Calendar

April 25, 2008 – 8:36 pm

This might be well-known, but it was new to me when I stumbled on it. If you click on a date in the calendar on the left of the page and drag to the left or right the main display adjusts to show the number of days you’ve highlighted. Similarly moving up or down shows [...]

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Post-Ironic History

April 22, 2008 – 8:45 pm

Here’s a funny sign that’s shown up on a few right-wing sites. I don’t doubt that the protester was unaware of the 1936 Olympics, but they do unwittingly make a good point. Yes, we did allow Nazi Germany to host the Olympics, and didn’t that turn out well? We’re told that trading and talking with [...]

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Painting Elephants

April 17, 2008 – 8:39 pm

This looks like a fake. But then you watch it carefully, and it looks real. And then you realize that it’s been confirmed by Snopes, so far as they can tell anyway. And then you think, wow.

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