IBM developerWorks reviews JDE, the Java development environment for Emacs. I do nearly all my work using NT Emacs and JDE these days.
Entries from May 2001
May 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
May 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
The Republicans in the Senate crammed through the confirmation of Ted Olson as Solicitor General, despite his history of misdeeds. You can see how the votes went down at the Senate web site. Democrat Zell Miller of Georgia voted yea, as did Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska. Jim Jeffords and John Rockefeller [...]
May 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
The house of cards around Ted Olson seems to be collapsing. He’ll probably be confirmed anyway.
May 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
You can now post to Usenet using Google Groups.
May 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
The beta release of JDK 1.4 is now available from Sun.
May 23rd, 2001 · Comments Off
The big political news story of the day is that Jim Jeffords, the Republican Senator from Vermont, is widely expected to become Jim Jeffords, the Democratic Senator from Vermont. This, of course, would throw the balance of power in the Senate over to the Democrats, giving them a 51-49 advantage. (The Republicans are [...]
May 23rd, 2001 · Comments Off
The Register has posted the winners of its Email Disclaimer Awards.
May 23rd, 2001 · Comments Off
Looks like all those stories about outgoing Clinton staffers vandalizing their offices and stealing things from Air Force One were fiction.
May 22nd, 2001 · Comments Off
I went to see Shrek this weekend, with no expectations whatsoever. I didn’t even check out the reviewer consensus at Rotten Tomatoes before heading out. I thought it was laugh out loud funny in places, and very good overall.
May 22nd, 2001 · Comments Off
Everyone knows about the links between the Dubya White House and the energy industry, but never have I seen the problem laid out so clearly as in Gregory Palast’s column, Smells Like Texas. The thing is, I’ve been to the Exxon refinery in Baytown, Texas that’s mentioned in the column, and it was a [...]