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Arrived home. Feels real good.

I went through Amsterdam Intl. Airport. Have not been there for 3 years. Loved the Communications Center at the Lounge 2. I could connect via my wireless connection, wired LAN connection, or get an Internet-enabled terminal. This is very nice! Good job, Dutch!

If you are as misforunate as to be using Windows, this spam-killer should be of interest to you: http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/ It was rated #1 by MSN, PC World and number of others. You can try it for free, for 30 days and own, after that, for a reasonable 4$/month fee.

Integrates into Outlook and Outlook Express.

OH MY GOD!
http://labs.google.com/papers.html

There goes my reading material for the summer (or all the summers for the rest of my life, and then some? )

Will be useful when I have enough time to think about upgrading mod_jk to mod_jk2
http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=UsingMod_jkWithJBoss

Oh, Shit - a chance to void JVM memory limitation?

http://jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=464671

Classes shared between JVMs
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=26627

This can be useful for Digi Kernel once/if standartized.

Ugh, just noticed - TSS has actually published the article
So, my first article on TSS:
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=26555 

Unbelievable!!! UEFA Euro2004 is on in full and what you see on US sports channels? Baseball, Golf, Soccer: US-Grenada, Women Basketball... WTF, dudes? It's the second greatest champtionship in the world after Soccer World Cup. Does not it deserve to be covered at least on one of my f..ing 6 sport channels on cable TV? Nothing even on ESPN. I am so pissed off...

And the "technology" is sooooooo far behind its time. I searched around the whole internet - would pay, no doubt - could not get even a single website, or whatever to watch matches online. NOT A SINGLE ONE! Everything is still TV-Set based. What? TV? My grandma was watching TV. What the hell. Which century is it? And they come and tell us about how everything is online. Online my ... :( We are still in the Stone Age.

I spent the last two days with Steve Ebernole (JBoss/Hibernate) going over some caching issues and generally - Digi design aspects. It was one of a kind experience. Wonderful professional, very nice guy too. We had great discussions. A lot of work was done - much more than I would think was possible in two days.

Man, if all the guys in JBoss are this good - I am not surprised their products are so great and of such amazing quality.

"Professional Open-Source" works, and it works better than proprietary crap. Bill Gates, sorry man - your time is in the past :)

These guys rock. http://www.exoplatform.org/
If I had freedom to create the way I wish, it would, probabely, be quite similiar to what they did

Seems like, my idea of implementing flexible view-manager so it can work with Struts or JSF or number of others transparently got into somebody else's head too... with the difference that they actually did it :) Nice work.

Agile development - simply makes sense
CMM-complient processes - just do not make sense.
Period.

Nice interview, by the way:
http://www.theserverside.com/talks/videos/ScottAmbler/dsl/interview.html

Example: XML

For people who have watched his presidency from outside the US, like me, this man is associated, primarily, with the end of the Cold War. I know it is not exactly the same for my American friends, but that's how it is for the rest of the world.

We live in a very different world now. Once something is in the past, people tend to forget very quickly. There is no two super powers, any more, and Communism, as we knew it - is gone. But is the danger of totalitarian regimes? Who are the prime threats of the Western Culture? North Corea, Iran, China. Russia is loosing even the trace of the little deomcracy that it gained after the fall of the USSR. Mr. Putin has shut down or took over all the independent TV stations. By far there is no free speach and free media in this huge country.

Controversial as it may sound many people beleive that progress of the technology was one of the factors that brought Soviets to the end. The technology was what created Globalization, what brought people so close to each-other that the existance of a doors-closed regime in the middle of the world became just impossible. People were receiving the broadcasts of the Voice of America, Radio Liberty, even a simple thing like listening to Beatles. The Soviet government was not able to cut-off information from its own people, any more, and without it there was no way for the total control.

Now we have Internet - a common, everyday tool for most of the people but a true magic in essence. It is quite remarkable that one of the biggest remaining totalitarian regimes - Chinese government is trying to build a "wall" to filter-out the information they do not want their people to be receiving. It reminds me of the "noise-stations" Soviets were building to cut off western radio broadcasts. This "wall-project" will fail as any attempt to suppress democracy and human freedom should, but there will, probabely, always be attempts of dictatorship and, let's face it, they will, probabely, also learn how to use the technology advancement but in their own favor.

The world is changing but History will always remember the man who set the end to the Soviet regime.