Humor for Friday - Java-4-ever

I don't want to post funny videos here too much as I think people come here for technical information. However, this is just too good to not share. There is one slightly NSFW (not safe for work) section. Even mentions XML, so its truly great.

Watch the Java 4-Ever Video

Now on YouTube

The wonders of modern hardware

I was at an IBM conference a couple of weeks ago, where some new hardware ideas were being presented. Perhaps it's my engineering background, but there's something very cool about building things you can hold in your hand - and when you combine that with the latest new technological ideas (multicore, etc), it's very impressive. In that light, I'm happy to share a video that I saw recently.



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5125780462773187994

Tim Francis

Coping with the internet crash

Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

We kept telling folks to migrate the internet from those two 386 boxes in the basement in Champaign-Urbana to z/OS on the mainframe, but did they listen? No.