Well, to all the spammers that tried to sell me all their junk through trackbacks:
Shop is closed, no more Trackbacks
You wanted to annoy me and you succeeded. Even though no spammer's trackback were ever allowed to show up on my blog you still kept on trying it. Finally I had enough and pulled the plug.
Have fun now - Andy
Posted by at 11:14 PM in Annoying
And I am not at home, grrrrr. I had to happen that when Halo 3 is shipped that I am sitting in Salt Lake City and has to wait another 3 days until I can get my hands on it. How frustrating is that. But what can I do. I just have to wait until Friday afternoon when I am back home, go to the play room and close the door. From then on my wife has to drag me out of that room, I guess, otherwise I will be there the entire weekend.
Have fun - Andy
Posted by at 9:44 AM in Madplanet.com Inc.
Today I got a check for an invoice that was sent 7 days ago from somewhere in Michigan. I cracked me up when I saw that the post stamp mentioned First-Class. Maybe the US Postal Service should call it Snail-Class or just Snail-Mail instead. Even a bulky package transported by UPS or FedEx does not take that long.
Have fun - Andy
Posted by at 5:01 PM in Annoying
No, not outside but inside on my Mac. I had the chance to look into Alfresco to see how its works and how a web site can be created using Alfresco's Web Content Management System. I already had some experience with Magnolia CMS system and so I was looking forward to check out another system like this and to compare these two. Even though Alfresco's website announces proudly that installing and running Alfresco is dead simple setting up the WCMS system needs some advanced guessing and command line copy and past (at le keep on reading here
Posted by at 8:16 PM in Madplanet.com Inc.
I just stumbled over a nice little Mac OS X tool called Skim that lets me annotate a PDF file on the computer rather than having to print it out and then using markers and pencils. In addition I can export my annotated PDF together with the annotations so that any other PDF reader can see my notes, highlights and circles even though the document cannot be annotated anymore outside of the application. Here is a screenshot of the application:
Posted by at 1:46 PM in Mac
Many of my readers maybe know that I don't like Spring that much and so I didn't delve into it up to now. For all the companies I had an interview with in which they squeezed me on Spring please remember that no technology is completely new and that it is more important to be able to solve a problem than to sound fancy with it.
In a demo using ServiceMix (JBI Container) we wanted to create a little Bean based service unit that could deal with a DB using JDBC. So we started to use Spring to configure the DataSource that Jencks is subsequently using so that we can get a JDBC conne keep on reading here
Posted by at 9:49 AM in Java
Last Monday I was on my first flight with JetBlue to Salt Lake City. Long Beach is like an airport on a little tropic island compared to LAX and even Irvine and one has to enter the plane using a ramp rather than a skybridge. When I entered the airplane I felt somewhat lost and felt the urge to shoot for an echo. The legroom was very generous and because of the exit seat rows it was sitting in there was even more. I had no problems to work on my new 17-inch MacBook Pro which I could fully open. The service was great and friendly and the live TV was refreshing compared to the other airline keep on reading here
Posted by at 10:57 PM in Personal
Last Friday I went down to San Diego to go Kite Surfing trying to get onto the board. Last time during my vacation I realized that when I try to get on board and subsequently trying to get onto the board that my kite is slowly going to one side of the wind window where it finally stalls and falls into the water. This time I was determined to prevent this and to make sure that I have enough time to hook my feet into the board's footstraps to have a chance to start riding.
The weather or the wind was strong even though not very consistent. So I could launch the kite fairly easily, pi keep on reading here
Posted by at 10:42 PM in Kite Surfing
As said in a previous blog entry about setting up a new MythTV environment I wanted to lay a long ethernet cable through the house to avoid having the troubles with my wireless MythTV network. That said I started setting up the new box last Saturday and when I was finished I could not test it until I had the ethernet cable. I installed the 64-bit OpenSuSE because I did not need the wireless USB adapter anymore which required a 32-bit OS (Netgear does not want to create 64-bit drivers). But t keep on reading here
Posted by at 9:35 AM in MythTV
