The magic of hypertext was the ability to suddenly make a glorious, if somewhat unstructured, whole from a mountain of disconnected data. And so we end up with the web, and the ability to lose hours bouncing in to Wikipedia and ending up God knows where. This is a much nicer approach than the old [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Bork bork bork!
About the only thing I did this weekend was attend my brother-in-law’s birthday party. His boyfriend is Swedish, and so we were introduced to something new, exciting and Swedish: Smörgåstårta. Yes, sandwich cake. It’s really rather delicious. Given the Swedish had already won a place in my heart for a chocolate bar that shares the [...]
Classpaths are the work of the devil
The last two days have been spent on one problem. A web service deployed on Axis 2 as an AAR module worked fine with Weblogic. It broke horribly on JBoss. The solution turned out to be sticking the JAXB2, Activation and JMS libraries in the JBoss endorsed library directory. This is really, really bad. It’s [...]
Time’s a wasting
I’m playing World of Warcraft again. I thought I had broken this rather nasty habit, until they released a ten day trial for the Burning Crusade, and I found that the two new starting areas are leagues ahead of the original ones. Also, with the high-level migration to the Outland my old server, Nordrassil, is [...]
