Anyone using JDOM on a real live project? I bought the Brett McLaughlin’s book Java and XML, and note that he devotes quite a bit of space to this new API. I checked out the JDOM site today and see that they still haven’t released an official 1.0 version. Is it like [...]
Entries from February 2001
February 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
February 23rd, 2001 · Comments Off
Who says Dubya is a uniter and not a divider? Clearly, Bill Clinton has done a better job of bringing conservatives and liberals together than Dubya ever will through his abuse of the pardon. It’s amazing to me that a man who is supposedly obsessed with his legacy would use what many consider [...]
February 23rd, 2001 · Comments Off
The American Journalism Review has a long article on Salon magazine and its prospects for survival. The most interesting statistic in the article is that prior to the last three months of 2000, 50 Salon advertisers were online stores, in the last quarter of 2000, that number dropped to one. Ouch. I [...]
February 22nd, 2001 · Comments Off
I just wanted to express my amazement that Oscar de la Hoya was nominated for a Grammy award last night. That was just about the stupidest thing I ever heard.
February 22nd, 2001 · Comments Off
Ars Technica has a reasonable editorial theorizing on why record labels aren’t going for the Napster settlement offer. Of course, Occam’s Razor dictates that we simply assume that the RIAA isn’t going for it because they either don’t believe that Napster isn’t good for the money, or that they know a billion dollars over [...]
February 22nd, 2001 · Comments Off
Tog has real problems with the Dock in Mac OS X. It’s pretty amazing how far the state of UI design at Apple has fallen. (And what’s up with those new, crazy looking iMacs?)
February 21st, 2001 · Comments Off
Danger, rant ahead: The continued bitching about Google’s purchase of the Deja archive frankly amazes me. I don’t know whether any of the whiners have noticed, but deja.com is gone. So it looks like the site was going to be taken over by Google or by nobody. There’s no question that Google’s [...]
February 21st, 2001 · Comments Off
How much trouble is Amazon.com in? It seems nobody really knows, in part because Amazon really cooks its books. However, the speculation is fun to follow. My own opinion of Amazon.com is split. I think that they have the best site on the Web, period, but at the same time, I [...]
February 21st, 2001 · Comments Off
Over at Slate, Bill Gates Sr. and T.J. Rodgers are debating the repeal of the estate tax. It opens with a reprint of Gates’ Washington Post editorial on why repealing the tax is a bad idea. I look forward to reading both sides of the debate, but I’m extremely biased toward Gates’ position. [...]
February 21st, 2001 · Comments Off
In the ongoing lawsuit between the evil bastards at the MPAA and 2600 magazine, amicus briefs have been filed by an all-star cast of cryptographers and Internet law luminaries. The ongoing assault on the rights of citizens by media companies is truly staggering. These guys are just short of tobacco companies in their willingness [...]