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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Spurs Sign Finley
According to Mark Stein, Michael Finley has decided to sign with the San Antonio Spurs! This follows the signing of Nick Van Exel earlier this week. Both players decided to play for the defending champs to in order to help them repeat as NBA Champions. It seems that winning it all, but needing seven games...
Monday, August 29, 2005
More on Laura Walker
Searching around to find more information on Laura's death, because obsessively seeking knowledge is how I cope with grief, I found the following article that Laura wrote a few weeks ago about her mission in Afghanistan: The Route to Democracy. Also a tribute post from the Ezine blog after finding out that Laura died.
Sad News: SHAPE Classmate Dies in Afghanistan
Laura Walker, a friend and classmate of mine from the class of 1999 at S.H.A.P.E. American High School, was killed in Afghanistan on August 18th. Laura was a terrific person who I wish I'd gotten to know better. My thoughts are with those whose loss is greatest: her family and all those who loved her....
Friday, August 26, 2005
Comedy Night
Last night Diane and I went out to a comedy club with Jessica Kaizar, a good friend from high school who's been stationed here. It was an amateur comedian contest, and then some pros trying out some new material and getting warmed up for the weekend, so the quality of the material varied quite a...
Thursday, August 25, 2005
My Web Saved Pages Feed
My Web has made more of their pages public. That includes the ability to get RSS feeds! So, here's my feed for my public saved pages. Think of it like a second linkblog, but less focused on timeliness, and more focused on usefulness.
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
SHAPE High School Reunion Pictures
Ryan Spanier has pictures up from his trip to the joint AFCENT/SHAPE reunion that was held in Las Vegas. The only people I recognize are Jared Whitney, Kori Whitney (on the left), and Kristen Martin, who looks prettier when she's smiling :) (Ryan's on the far right).
Pandora: Music Discovery
Want help finding music that you'll like? Pandora is a system for doing that based on musical analysis of songs. You put in an artist or song, and it creates a "station" based on that artist or song, playing similar songs. For now it's free during preview, so sign up to try it out.
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Common Custom Taglib Problem
I just found this bug today in EXO's portlet taglib implementation. I also hit the same problem when developing custom tags for the first time. So, I thought I'd discuss, and hope that people having problems might stumble across this post.The hardest part is recognizing the problem. As a consumer of the taglib, I spent...