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Use Java reflection to find classes that implement an interface from a package

2012-01-19T14:41:00.002+11:00

How do you find a set of Classes that implement and interface?You do this (well, I did this).

final List<Class<?>> processorCandidates = ReflectionHelper.findClassesImpmenenting(HostDataProcessor.class, HostDataProcessor.class.getPackage());

And use this helper class:

public class ReflectionHelper {

    public static List<Class<?>> findClassesImpmenenting(final Class<?> interfaceClass, final Package fromPackage) {

        if (interfaceClass == null) {
            Debug.println("Unknown subclass.");
            return null;
        }

        if (fromPackage == null) {
            Debug.println("Unknown package.");
            return null;
        }

        final List<Class<?>> rVal = new ArrayList<Class<?>>();
        try {
            final Class<?>[] targets = getAllClassesFromPackage(fromPackage.getName());
            if (targets != null) {
                for (Class<?> aTarget : targets) {
                    if (aTarget == null) {
                        continue;
                    }
                    else if (aTarget.equals(interfaceClass)) {
                        Debug.println("Found the interface definition.");
                        continue;
                    }
                    else if (!interfaceClass.isAssignableFrom(aTarget)) {
                        Debug.println("Class '" + aTarget.getName() + "' is not a " + interfaceClass.getName());
                        continue;
                    }
                    else {
                        rVal.add(aTarget);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            Debug.println("Error reading package name.");
            Debug.printStackTrace(e, Debug.LOW_LEVEL);
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            Debug.println("Error reading classes in package.");
            Debug.printStackTrace(e, Debug.LOW_LEVEL);
        }

        return rVal;
    }

    /**
     * Load all classes from a package.
     * 
     * @param packageName
     * @return
     * @throws ClassNotFoundException
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static Class[] getAllClassesFromPackage(final String packageName) throws ClassNotFoundException, IOException {
        ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
        assert classLoader != null;
        String path = packageName.replace('.', '/');
        Enumeration<URL> resources = classLoader.getResources(path);
        List<File> dirs = new ArrayList<File>();
        while (resources.hasMoreElements()) {
            URL resource = resources.nextElement();
            dirs.add(new File(resource.getFile()));
        }
        ArrayList<Class> classes = new ArrayList<Class>();
        for (File directory : dirs) {
            classes.addAll(findClasses(directory, packageName));
        }
        return classes.toArray(new Class[classes.size()]);
    }

    /**
     * Find file in package.
     * 
     * @param directory
     * @param packageName
     * @return
     * @throws ClassNotFoundException
     */
    public static List<Class<?>> findClasses(File directory, String packageName) throws ClassNotFoundException {
        List<Class<?>> classes = new ArrayList<Class<?>>();
        if (!directory.exists()) {
            return classes;
        }
        File[] files = directory.listFiles();
        for (File file : files) {
            if (file.isDirectory()) {
                assert !file.getName().contains(".");
                classes.addAll(findClasses(file, packageName + "." + file.getName()));
            }
            else if (file.getName().endsWith(".class")) {
                classes.add(Class.forName(packageName + '.' + file.getName().substring(0, file.getName().length() - 6)));
            }
        }
        return classes;
    }
}

which uses the two methods found here

One for the Hot Shots

2011-12-26T22:27:00.002+11:00

Pop Quiz: A Windows OS security error occurs on a single node in your Oracle cluster, what does the cluster do?

a) Isolate the node by passing load to the rest of the cluster
b) Fail over to the replicated "Fail Over" cluster
c) Lock data transfer in and out of the cluster, lock every client's JDBC connection and cause a back log to form in the radio network which combine to be 6 hour outage requiring 8 hours of continuous phone calls and 12 hours of monitoring; or
d) Shoots the hostage

A little hint, It isn't "d)", but if it were, then you would wish you were the hostage.

Reading from jar file from classpath

2010-10-19T13:26:00.000+11:00

I had a recent issue with "read all the files in folder from within the jar file that is in the class path". The standard solution is generate a resources file (in this case include all the files) and set it to a known location in the jar file. Then access the resource file, read the names and load the files from the stream.

I did it this way:

public class ZipFileUtil {

/**

* Lowercase extension names for zip or zipish files.

private static final String[] zipExtensions = { ".zip", ".jar" };

/**

* Name of system property for java class path.

private static final String CLASS_PATH_PROPERTY_NAME = "java.class.path";

/**

* Search the class path for a file name.

* This is slower if not case sensitive.

* @param fileName the file name

* @param caseSensitive the match for file name will be case sensitive

* @return a File or null if not found or if this isn't a zip (or zipish) file.

public static File getFileFromJar(String fileName, final boolean caseSensitive) {

if (!isJarFile(fileName)) {

return null;

}

fileName = fileName.trim();

File rVal = null;

final String fullPath = System.getProperties().getProperty(CLASS_PATH_PROPERTY_NAME);

final String[] jars = fullPath.split(File.pathSeparator);

if (jars != null) {

for (String jarName : jars) {

jarName = jarName.trim();

if (jarName.endsWith(fileName) || (!caseSensitive && jarName.toLowerCase().endsWith(fileName.toLowerCase()))) {

return new File(jarName);

}

return rVal;

}

/**

* List all the file names contained in a jar/zip file.

* @param jarFile the jar/zip file to search

* @param target pattern to match (no wildcards)

* @return list of strings that are relative filenames that match the target pattern or null if this isn't a zip (or zipish) file.

* @throws IOException if an exception occurs

public static List listMatchingContents(final File jarFile, final String target) throws IOException {

if (!isJarFile(jarFile)) {

return null;

}

final List rVal = new ArrayList();

ZipInputStream zis = new ZipInputStream(new FileInputStream(jarFile));

for (ZipEntry ze = zis.getNextEntry(); ze != null; ze = zis.getNextEntry()) {

if (ze.getName().indexOf(target) > -1) {

rVal.add(ze.getName());

}

return rVal;

}

/**

* List all the file names contained in a jar/zip file.

* @param jarFilename the name of jar/zip file to search

* @param target pattern to match (no wildcards)

* @return list of strings that are relative filenames that match the target pattern or null if this isn't a zip (or zipish) file.

* @throws IOException if an exception occurs

public static List listMatchingContents(final String jarFilename, final String target) throws IOException {

return listMatchingContents(new File(jarFilename), target);

}

/**

* Is this a zip file?.

* @param aFilename a file name

* @return true of false (true for yes it is a zipish file)

public static boolean isJarFile(String aFilename) {

if (aFilename == null || aFilename.trim().length() == 0) {

return false;

}

aFilename = aFilename.trim().toLowerCase();

for (String anExtension : zipExtensions) {

if (aFilename.endsWith(anExtension)) {

return true;

}

return false;

}

/**

* Is this a zip file?.

* @param aFile a file

* @return true of false (true for yes it is a zipish file)

public static boolean isJarFile(final File aFile) {

if (aFile == null) {

return false;

}

return isJarFile(aFile.getName());

}

Too much of a (good?) thing, Be wary of what you ask for, A bird in the hand is just going to shit on you and other BS

2010-08-26T11:18:00.000+10:00

So I now have both a 100Mb/s connection to the house (thanks Kev) and a Wifi enabled phone which has granted me the ability to hold all of the world's information in the palm of my hand.

The issue I have is that after checking my email a few times, looking at the latest election results and spamming facebook and twitter for 3 hours straight I have nothing else to do.

Eventually I found my way to a little know upstart website called YouTube. After watching both the video of a cat jumping out of a cardboard box and the video of the cat trying to climb through a box when it is far too fat the quality of content went down hill and down hill fast.

So after a week of the world at my finger tips I have realised that "the world" is best kept at arm's length.

FFS I am a spoilt little shit, why don't I just shut the hell up and watch some porn.

A DailyWTF Candidate

2010-08-04T11:44:00.000+10:00

This from a build script that isn't far from my reach by a long way from my heart.

<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(A)" replace="a" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(B)" replace="b" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(C)" replace="c" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(D)" replace="d" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(E)" replace="e" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(F)" replace="f" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(G)" replace="g" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(H)" replace="h" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(I)" replace="i" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(J)" replace="j" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(K)" replace="k" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(L)" replace="l" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(M)" replace="m" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(N)" replace="n" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(O)" replace="o" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(P)" replace="p" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(Q)" replace="q" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(R)" replace="r" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(S)" replace="s" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(T)" replace="t" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(U)" replace="u" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(V)" replace="v" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(W)" replace="w" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(X)" replace="x" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(Y)" replace="y" global="true"/>
<propertyregex override="yes" property="dir_name" input="${dir_name}" regexp="(Z)" replace="z" global="true"/>

Datasets - large, fast but not cheap and absolutely not easy

2010-07-12T16:44:00.000+10:00

Todays task: Make the large data set load quickly, render seamlessly and run efficiently.

In the end, there is just only so much you can do.

This excerpt from an email explains the issue that the users were having when "loading the module": (note that it is edited to protect product secrets while context remains)

.... the [largest module source] uses 360MB of RAM to load the [items] (all 465,000 of them at just over 800 bytes each) from the [data source] and render the schematic on the screen. This is on top of the 170MB that the application usually requires.
With the latest changes, 98% of this RAM is either freed and released or reused when a different [module source] is opened but a user still requires 530MB of heap space for this to run .....

My world in summary ...

2010-07-10T19:49:00.000+10:00

http://xkcd.com/763/

Mark went to Google

2010-07-03T12:44:00.001+10:00

We attended the final day of DevFest 2010 at the Sydney office of Google yesterday.

Apart from acting like total tourists (with the photos and the questions and the wandering around) we actually learned some cool new stuff with the V3 Google Maps API.

Here is the result of my code lab http://flickrmap-devfest-2010.appspot.com/

Can't wait for next year !!

Tomcat6 running PHP applicatoins: Can it be done?

2010-06-18T10:36:00.000+10:00

Simply, Yes it can be done.

Download PHP-Java Bridge (http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/), install it and your away.

Also, it doesn't work. It takes all day to set up the configuration and still runs pretty buggy.

By "doesn't work" I mean, to run Tomcat6 (because you already have it installed) on you windowsXP laptop to serve up PHP files straight from you eclipse workspace in order to develop and test a pure PHP app which is intended to run in a vanilla PHP production system, "doesn't work".

Why not? Well it sets the PHP session.save_path to the temp directory that Tomcat is intended to use, which is not a bad thing, except that it leaves in the single quotes. So you end up with a session.save_path of (for example) "'C:\WINDOWS\Temp'\sessions" (including the single quotes).

This then doesn't work.

You can spend half a day screwing with it but it will just end in frustration.

My suggestion.
Spend 2 minutes downloading the Apache2.2.x server MSI and then run it.
Spend another 2 minutes downloading the PHP5.x.x MSI and run it (even if you have PHP installed, rerun the installer) and select to configure with Apache2.2.
Spend 21 seconds changing the Apache Document Root to be your workspace path.
Then restart Apache.

Total for the day:
Screwing with Tomcat6 and PHP-Java Bridge - 5 hours.
Creating a fully functional dev enviroment with Apache2.2.x - 2 minutes, 21 seconds.

Google ads, aren't they great

2010-05-15T13:54:00.000+10:00

This made me laugh.

Look at how well the ad block matches my content.
To be fair the content of the ad is a statement of what the advertiser thinks I might want.

I think today, they will be disapointed

64bit Flash on 64bit Linux as easy as falling off a log

2010-05-15T13:49:00.000+10:00

Have I mentioned how easy this is ?

Go to the adobe download site: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html
Download the tar ball from the link at the bottom of the page.
Untar it and copy the contents (one file) into the "plugins" directory of your lib64 folder.

For me (on Fedora) this is "/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/"

How to do my job : Lesson 1

2010-05-05T09:38:00.000+10:00

Step 1) In the morning when you get to work, have a quick glance at the user manual for the legacy system.

Step 2) Spend 2 hours creating a fancy looking wizard in the new system that uses the same database procedures by a more streamlined entry method but produces the same data structure as the legacy system.

Step 3) Spend 2 hours creating a build and deploying it.

Step 4) Spend 2 hours training your co-worker on how the new system should be used.

Step 5) Spend 2 hours releasing it to the client's production system.

Step 6) Wait by the phone for the day while your said co-worker runs an on site training session for the client.

Step 7) Drink coffee.

The Browser Wars - Google isn't So Goog

2009-12-23T10:25:00.000+11:00

When I notices that Opera had a new beta out I found the urge to yet again run a Browser Race.

After installing the Opera Beta, I fired up the four browsers installed on my machine and let rip on the SunSpider benchmark.

Here are the results:

Opera: 419.81
Chrome: 481.19
IE: 5160.45
Firefox: Didn't actually start up until all the other browsers had finished their tests and then scored a little over 1800.

Not really surprising in a way, I guess it is fair to say some companies are happy to be in an arms race for JS speed and some well, frankly don't give a damn.

The Black V's White list

2009-12-14T13:59:00.001+11:00

It seems that the list of the now vulnerable SSL venders could have been done in a more appropriate order (scroll to the very bottom to see)

Mouse Buttons

2009-10-26T12:10:00.000+11:00

Well, my 'mouse' button broke on my laptop, it is out of warranty but it is just a piece of broken plastic which needs to be replaced.

Surely there exists a part which can just be swapped in.
Surely the process of ordering the part isn't too painful.

Step 1) Check the manufacture's website for details.
Results: Large portions of the site are either blank or don't work. This includes the section which is labelled "Support", the section labelled "Technical Help" and the fabled "Parts" section.

Step 2) Use the "contact us" portal to send a quick question mentioning that the mouse button on my laptop is broken and since it is out of warranty, where to go to buy parts
Results: The following:

Hi,
When you bought your Laptop? Our Laptop come with1 years warranty please Call Center: 1300 NNN NNN
with provide your provide of purchase than we will arrange and repair your monitor under warranty period
otherwise we will send you the quote after check your Laptop.
thanks.

Auto Boxing

2009-09-02T15:28:00.000+10:00

Auto UnBoxing (along with Auto Boxing) of objects into primitives is the biggest step backwards in programming language design since Edsger Dijkstra said "47 6f 54 6f 20 63 6f 6e 73 69 64 65 72 65 64 20 48 61 72 6d 66 75 6c !!!"

No wonder all the DotNet kids laugh at us.

Let them eat cake.

2009-08-17T08:35:00.000+10:00

Late last week it was suggested that when you are placing a new object on our network schematic editor the cursor should change to a thumbnail of the object you are placing.

"This is good" I say, "Let me create an enhancement request and today when I am working on the network schematic editor I will add a code change to produce said cursor enhancement". This is met with great applause and encouragement from all in the team (those of you who work in software development will know exactly what I mean here), and I left to create the enhancement request.

Later that day I created the enhancement request and it was good.

Anyway, after about an hour, I manage to produce code which dynamically processes the thumbnail image from the selection pallet and adds it to a generated image to produce a small thumbnail image surrounded in a dashed red line box and lovely black cursor arrow in the top left.

Now it is important at this stage to understand that this was no ordinary arrow and I don't think that "lovely" quite does it justice. This arrow is and will remain a masterpiece of creativity and engineering.

The process of producing such a perfectly shaped cursor arrow is a long and involved one; taking up far too much time to explain than I have to write. If I was to spend one tenth of the time and energy spent developing the said "lovely arrow" on writing about how to develop it, you would die of old age before you had a chance to read one fifth of what I had written (Well, that may be a slight exaggeration as I don't really understand how fractions work, but you get the idea).

Anyway, within about one second of the product manager seeing the final result, he says "Errr, don't like that arrow, how about you change it back to a crosshair?".

........... a crosshair.

Seriously, a crosshair.

Anyway, so here is the code change:


      customCursorBack = gc.createCompatibleImage(
                              32, 
                              32, 
                              Transparency.TRANSLUCENT);

      Graphics2D g2=(Graphics2D)customCursorBack.getGraphics();
            
      Stroke standardStroke = g2.getStroke();
      g2.setColor(Color.red);
      g2.setStroke(getCustomCursorStroke());
      g2.drawRect(11, 11, 18, 18);
            
      GeneralPath cursorShape = new GeneralPath();
//      // Draw a perfectly lovely Arrow
//      cursorShape.moveTo(0,0);
//      cursorShape.lineTo(11, 11);
//      cursorShape.lineTo(6, 11);
//      cursorShape.lineTo(9, 17);
//      cursorShape.lineTo(7, 18);
//      cursorShape.lineTo(4, 12);
//      cursorShape.lineTo(0, 16);
//      cursorShape.lineTo(0, 0);
            
      // Draw crosshair (seriously, a crosshair)
      cursorShape.moveTo(8, 0);
      cursorShape.lineTo(8, 16);
      cursorShape.moveTo(0, 8);
      cursorShape.lineTo(16, 8);

      g2.setColor(Color.black);
      g2.setStroke(standardStroke);
      g2.draw(cursorShape);

If you are ever looking for the code for a perfectly lovely black arrow cursor here it is, albeit in comments alone.
If you are ever looking for a example of how to break a man's heart and destroy the hope and dreams which he holds for his creation, here too you will find it.

Natively Compiled JavaScript ...

2009-08-16T10:18:00.000+10:00

... it sure makes things run faster.

But, if it is just going to natively compile it, why can't I compile it before I serve it up?

Most JS libraries have a IE, a FF and GC/WK version of thier 'inner workings', so why can't I just pre-compile the whole library and serve it up as the 'FF on XP' version?

I have no doubt that the JSF code that our product websites at work pump out could benefit from it.

Firefox 3.5.2 ..... a tough market to crack

2009-08-15T09:31:00.000+10:00

... but I have been using it now for two minutes and everything that I hated about FF before is gone.

Given that the new version of GC is a bit slow and awkward, the friendly folks over at Moz Central might just have a return customer.

The Anatomy of a chrome skin.

2009-08-12T12:55:00.000+10:00

We chrome has skin and here is how they look on the inside.

A zip file with the extension "crx" which contains a file called "manifest.json" which contains the set of properties describing which images to use and various font colours.

Here is the what the "manifest.json" file for the "Brushed Metal":


{
   "version":"1.0",
   "name":"Brushed",
   "theme":
   {
      "images":
      {
         "theme_frame":"i/agxjaHJvbWV0aGVtZXNyDAsSBEZpbGUYk6wBDA",
         "theme_toolbar":"i/agxjaHJvbWV0aGVtZXNyDAsSBEZpbGUY2bMBDA",
         "theme_ntp_background":"i/agxjaHJvbWV0aGVtZXNyDAsSBEZpbGUYzZwBDA",
         "theme_button_background":"i/agxjaHJvbWV0aGVtZXNyDAsSBEZpbGUY2rMBDA"
      },
      "colors":
      {
         "frame":[117,117,117],
         "toolbar":[117,117,117],
         "tab_text":[0,0,0],
         "tab_background_text":[0,0,0],
         "bookmark_text":[0,0,0],
         "ntp_background":[117,117,117],
         "ntp_text":[0,0,0],
         "ntp_link":[0,0,0],
         "ntp_section":[255,255,255,0.4],
         "ntp_section_text":[0,0,0],
         "ntp_section_link":[0,0,0]
      },
      "properties":
      {
         "ntp_background_alignment":"top left",
         "ntp_background_repeat":"repeat-x",
         "ntp_logo_alternate":1
      },
      "tints":
      {
         "buttons":[0.6,0,0.5]
      }
   }
}

The string (and it's friends)

"i/agxjaHJvbWV0aGVtZXNyDAsSBEZpbGUYk6wBDA"

refer to png image files located in the zip filepath "/i/".

Knowing what you now know, you too can make a fun and cool skin for chrome.

Note: I leave it as a task for the reader to add javascript functions in their json.

Today I read the paper ....

2009-07-16T08:32:00.000+10:00

.... and quickly remembered why I never read the paper.

Have a quick glance over this story:
"Twitter hacked by old technique _ again" by Jordan Robertson - The Age 16/07/09

It is a shameful piece of scaremongering combined with an chance to rag on something which the journalist clears does not understand.

The Age newspaper's "JORDAN ROBERTSON" (if that is actually a real name) just comes off looking like a dickhead who knows absolutely nothing about anything.

The unfortunate bit here is that other people read the paper too and some of them may actually believe this shit. I for one have learned my lesson; that clearly the only use for a newspaper is wrap my fish and chips.

I leave you with the parting words of the one true journalist, "Shame Jordan .. Shame"

$90M lost and a bigger disappointment

2009-07-01T14:24:00.001+10:00

Well the biggest disappointment of not winning the $90M OzLotto last night was discovering the the "Online Quickpick" used a simple JavaScript function to pick my numbers for me.

The feeling of excitement that my quick pick numbers were calculated by some massive VAX basic machine in the depths of the basement at Lotto Central were dashed by the single line of code ((Math.random () * (thisEnd - thisStart + 1)) + thisStart).

Anyway, not to be beaten, I set about finding out what my chances were that this simple script could reproduce this weeks lotto numbers.

I don't know what I was looking for, I guess I will know when I find it, but here are the results so far.

Now there is an obvious error in my program (this is left up to the home viewer to find and comment on) and I only let it run for 8 hours before I started to worry that my laptop may over heat.

Thus I intend to let it run over the weekend at work and we will see how we do next week in the lotto !!!

PS: note that all three browsers were refreshed with the script in quick succession (IE, the FF the GC with less than a second between), which leads the first result of the exercise to be the difference in counts after 8 hours !!

::UPDATE::

I have had this running at work for the last 9 days and still no success.

Elmo - tickles not included

2009-06-22T08:06:00.000+10:00

source: http://www.jonathanmacdonald.com/?p=3519

Who know, google knows

2009-06-09T14:32:00.003+10:00

... ever wanted to know about the internet, google squares will tell you

Quote of the day.

2009-06-09T11:24:00.000+10:00

"I don't understand modern women, they act almost like they are men"

The Coolest !!

2009-06-04T09:08:00.001+10:00

..... could this be the coolest website on the planet ??
http://www.ericssonracingteam.com/

... early preview anyone

2009-06-03T08:50:00.000+10:00

If you have used the horrible website at Hoyts then you already have sat through Anti-pattern Lesson 29:"Use Silverlight and still refresh the whole page for each selection".

What you might not know is that you can book in to movies 3 years in advance, just as long as you are willing to travel to Perth.

Null

2009-05-12T16:06:00.000+10:00

Sometimes it is null.
Sometimes your code is zero.

STLWDM

2009-05-12T13:31:00.000+10:00

..... when the conversation is just that bad.

Also can be abreviated to STLD or even STD when intoxication levels become high.

Have you STLWDM lately? .... MOTHERFUCKER

Prototype JS - a great javascirpt library ... when it works.

2009-05-11T13:57:00.000+10:00

Well I have been using PrototypeJS libraries now for the last 5 months.

It has some awsome features which it brings to your web app, namely event detection, and I highly recomend never using it.

See the issue is that although it has awsome as claimed on their website, it is only awsome for the 86.15% of the time when it detects the events.

Thus you develp this sweet sweet application with event handling only to have the fucking thing fail every now and again because prototype is not garanteed to detect all events.

...... once again let down by such a promising technology. Must I do *everything* myself ??

News Just In ....

2009-04-30T11:10:00.000+10:00

... doing something the right way took a little bit longer up front, but turned out to be more robust and easier to maintain in the long run.

...... who would have thought it possible.

YouTube at work .... some useful advice

2009-04-24T10:25:00.001+10:00

... here's some advice.

When the MD of you company asks you to make some promotional videos accessible to the world, simply create a youtube account under your company name, upload the videos and distribute the links.

You should then supply your manager with the username and password for that account for future use.

.... here's some more advice.

Log out of the account and check that you are logged out before spending the morning looking at the video links you got in your email this morning.

This will prevent the manager seeing a list of "Recently viewed by you" when he confirms the login details that you recently provided to him.

The Anti Safety Razor ... a story of fear and pain

2009-04-14T12:17:00.001+10:00

My new 'safety' razor allows a user, who has just crawled out of bed into a shower then discovered that he needs to shave as it is a work day, to fit the blades to the handle in either of two configurations.

Configuration 1 has 5 blades all angled slightly and pointing down towards the handle, so as to allow the user to pull the shaver across his face and give him the closest shave a man can have. Thus his skin is left soft, smooth and ready for a hard day a the office with plenty of complementing looks from the seemingly endless stream of scantly clad models who adorn his workplace.

Configuration 2 has the same 5 blades, again all angled slightly, only this time they point away from the handle. This configuration is unique in its ability to allow the user, while still in his sleepy state, to draw the razor across his face and remove not just the ends of the hair but also the very flesh that was holding it to his face. This then allows the user to cover his sink with gushing deep red blood and skin (which still holds shape and can clearly be seen to contain the originally offending facial hair) and eventuates in a trip to an emergency department full of old people who smell and small ADHD children who's flu stricken parents no longer hold the urge or ability to restrain, only to be told by a "doctor" who doesn't even shave yet (or speak fluent English) that "only a specialist can reattach skin" and the flap with the hair on it will no longer be usable with all replacement skin to "come from strips off your buttocks"

The ability to operate in both of these configurations with the only noticeable difference being that the there is a green strip on one side and white strip on the other (where the knowledge of which side each colour strip attends clearly alerts the user to which configuration the razor is currently set) makes this the worlds first 5 blade Anti Safety Razor.

They will never make a profit .....

2009-04-02T16:57:00.000+11:00

.....what sort of useless company can't even follow simple written language conventions:

These guys will never make a profit !!

Source control ....

2009-04-02T08:51:00.001+11:00

.... great concept. Hopefully one day someone will produce a product that actually works for a team environment.

.... until then, I guess I will just stick to drinking heavily, beating up my children and using CVS.

Whats the next number ?

2009-03-20T10:59:00.000+11:00

1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, ......

Webdesign in the modern age

2009-03-20T10:22:00.000+11:00

Write your site in JSP with embedded JSF using Richfaces and XHTML Facelets with lots of custom tags interacting with the prototype JavaScript eventing system and an applet drawing complex Java2D data representation.

This combination of layers will provide a steady stream of billable hours.

JavaME, Java2D and Filthy Rich Clients

2009-03-17T09:47:00.000+11:00

For the last few years I have played around with some JME apps.

So far this has consisted of:
1) Think up an idea
2) Download Netbeans
3) Create an application with the basic drag and drop elements which are provided
4) Almost finish it
5) Spend ages thinking up new and elaborate ways to sell it

Well that has all changed, well at least step 3 and 4 have changed, and its all thanks to the Filthy Rich Clients.

These doesn't mean that I have found a group of people willing to pay me Mad Cash to build something for them, I am talking of the book on GUI design (http://filthyrichclients.org/).

Basically, this renewed my interest in building 'cool looking', easy to use apps, via what turns out to be, simple graphics features of J2D.

Those who have seen the pre-pre-alpha version of my latest app will agree that the decision to not use any of the provided components and go it alone with a custom gui is already paying off on the 'cool looking' front.

Those same people will be happy to know that the 'menu system' which was implemented in 20 minutes before work this morning works really well, is super smooth and again meets the standards for 'cool looking' which have now become the theme.

Now it is really down to the trade off of "development time V hours before this weekend" (the self imposed target date for completion), but based on the time to implement so far, I would like to think that it is at least as fast as fumbling through someone else's api and trying to get it to do what I want.

The result is two thumbs up to J2d and the same for the boys down at Filthy Rich Clients HQ (aka Chet Haase and Romain Guy) for renewing my interest in all things 'cool looking' and inspiring me to do something nice for the users.

Good work woolies ......

2009-02-11T12:32:00.000+11:00

..... ya c#%ts.

Adobe and the Poo an a Page theorem

2009-02-10T12:27:00.000+11:00

A long time ago in a galaxy surprisingly close, a work colleague of mine made a comment on the waterfall model of development. Recently I watch a video where a character was quoted with "I would by almost anything if it is shiny and made by Apple".

Well I am here to tell you that after many years developing real software with real tools, my short foray into toy software and toy tools seems to be combining these two.

Enter Adobe CS3, $699USD and the simplest request for a change to a flash component.

The flash "IDE" is a fucking joke (I can squeeze better functionality out of Wordpad) but it sure has a shiny box and great looking splash screen.

If you want my cash Mr Adobe, you are going to have to fight me for it, cause I am not paying for your Poo on a Page.

Why do I hate MS Outlook so much?

2009-02-05T10:49:00.000+11:00

... its the little things

.... like that time that it let you create a full set of mail filters but then refused to use them.

.... like that time it wouldn't let me send an email with a Jar file in it as it "may cause harm to my computer"

.... like that time it wouldn't let me open an email at all because it has an exe attachment.

Visio Sucks

2009-01-28T09:36:00.000+11:00

I hate visio.
Visio totally sucks
How is a program for drawing things so difficult to use to draw things ?

Someone I have forgotten

2009-01-22T10:14:00.000+11:00

This is a screen shot of someone who added themselves as a friend to my MSN account today.

I have no recollection of this person at all.

Either this is a hacker of some kind Or Someone who I have forgotten.

You Decide !?!

Google Currency Conversion API

2009-01-15T12:40:00.000+11:00

Well, the api is pretty straight forward.

I stole it from the Curreny Conversion gadget from IGoogle.

Here is the example:

http://www.google.com/ig/calculator?hl=en&q=100EUR%3D%3FAUD

Here is templage in php:

$amount = "100";

$from_Currency = "EUR";

$to_Currency = "AUD";

$query_URL = "http://www.google.com/ig/calculator?hl=en&q=$amount$to_Currency.%3D%3F$to_Currency";

And the resposnse looks like this:

{lhs: "100 Euros",rhs: "191.745037 Australian dollars",display: "DISPLAY_FULL_PAGE",error: "",icc: true}

That is all I know for now.

A quote for the day ..

2009-01-13T14:44:00.000+11:00

"A change is vastly inferior to a holiday, but still vastly superior to no change at all." - some guy.

Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?

2009-01-05T12:48:00.000+11:00

I guess Pearl Harbor sucked

Just a little bit more than I hate JDeveloper

RemRAM - the smart way to be smart.

2009-01-02T13:43:00.000+11:00

My latest creation on the Imified system is RemRAM.

(click image to expand)

Here's how it works:

You enter text, then you RAM it with some a key word set.

Then at any time in the future you rem it back.

At the moment I am following the KISC design pattern, but am planning to at least add a date range selection and the ability to forget things.

Give it a go and let me know what you think.

Add "remram@bot.im" as friend to your favourite jabber chat client and you are away.

New business plan

2008-12-29T14:22:00.000+11:00

Well, I have decided to bite the bullet and come up with a great idea for a high tech Internet company which will be advantageous to a certain search engine based advertising company with lots of cash (aka not yahoo!).

Only thing is, I don't think it will pay anything until the day of the buy out.

Glad I came in to work early today ....

2008-12-23T11:01:00.000+11:00

.... all going well, I should have my IDE open in the next hour or so.

Three cheers to productivity .....

Unreadable class libraries for Java

2008-12-18T15:24:00.000+11:00

Well I am a little behind in my reading and since I am slow at work today (work isn't slow, I am slow) I actually had time to have a look at some of my bookmarks and catch up on my reading.

This interesting article on encryption and obfuscation and how they relate to distribution of Java classes pretty much just came up Bruce.

That is, anything you do can be undone by a sufficiently knowledgeable, creative and dedicated individual or group.

It turns out that all you can do is slow people down and make them work for their crack.

Interesting stuff.

Thought of the day ....

2008-12-18T12:16:00.000+11:00

Working in IT is just time spent figuring out ways to bill people and then using that money to fund your own projects.

.... social networking website of the future

2008-12-12T09:42:00.001+11:00

.... nuff said

The mind of a man trapped inside the body of ... well .. of a man

2008-11-24T13:32:00.000+11:00

The man on the street tells me that due different physical structure of the interconnections between lobes of the brain for men and women, men can concentrate on a single task much better where women can concentrate on more than one task, but to an effectively lesser extent.

This is why when watching the tele with you GF she can be talking away happily and you wont hear a single word she says right up until your mind grasps the end of the phrase ".... to a single word that I am saying. Are you ?".

(Followed by the inevitable, "Yes I was" and the "Well, what did I just say then?")

So here is my dilemma of the day ......

I have been reading a great book on the train on the way to work. It is a cops V "bad guys" book and I am just up to the bit where the "bad guys" have just been caught and are beginning to be questioned by the cops.

Now I find myself sitting at my desk on a Monday afternoon and all I can think of is reading the fucking book. Not work, not anything else that my GF told me to do today (well, I wouldn't be doing that, since we were watching tele when she told me and only pretended that I had heard), and certainly not anything productive.

Pretty much will have to go home tonight and finish reading the darn thing so that I can continue with the rest of my life.

..... it really makes me ponder, is the written word the most wastefull invention of all time ?

Job 2 Day 1

2008-11-17T12:53:00.000+11:00

... it is after noon and all is still well.
This company is made up of a group of guys (and some girls) who sit in a big room with dividers and smash out code.
I don't feel out of place but my computer is so new that it feels wrong to rip off the keys that I don't like (and slash or use).

Yep ... Nup

2008-11-10T16:20:00.000+11:00

FYI, if you have been thinking of using GWT or more specifically GWT-ExtJS I think you should stop and check yourself before you even have the chance to wreck yourself.

The executive summary is as follows. It looks great, it has some cool looking functionality that looks like it may be good to use.

Unfortunately, it seems to have been implemented but people with a great understanding of graphical design and little understanding of programming as a whole. (Think HTML, they knew what they wanted, just didn't know how to ask for it)

The other great bugbear is that the "Open Source Curse" as I have decided to call it. This being that some guys have implemented some stuff, but only the stuff that they use. If you go outside of that scope, you will find that you are the guy implementing a heap of work, but you are stuck with the shit that everyone else has done too.

My usual experiences with Open software is that I come on board late in the picture, when lots of stuff is already done.

This is not the case with the GWT-ExtJS stuff atm. The frame of what is implemented (and actually works) is not far past the minimum for anything that is usable.

The API is horrible and completely different to other Java bases UIs. (Seriously, how hard would it be to make the API match that of SWT.)

So the final word is don't use it. Don't tell people to use and don't make me use it.

It is not complete enough, and it is not good enough, especially when compared with its contemporaries.

A word a day ....

2008-10-28T12:28:00.000+11:00

My new target is to use "A Word a Day" system to improve my vocabulary.

Only I plan not to use someone's words, but one of my own or at least a new meaning for one.

Here is today's example:

verbalate : To talk to much about nothing of importance.

"... if you are just going to verbalate , then I will leave."

verbalator: A person who is known to verbalate.

"... that guy is a verbalator."

verbalation: the actions of one or more verbalators.

"... today's meeting was just verbalation."

New Beginnings require a new ending

2008-10-21T14:42:00.000+11:00

So I resigned from my job yesterday after 3 years.

Although there has been recent turbulence, that is only work stuff and the job has be nothing short of fantastic.

I think the most nerve racking thing that I have had to do in my time here was resign.

Irony. Is there anything it can't do ??

HowTo: Make Bruce Cry

2008-09-18T13:12:00.000+10:00

While working on a web based "System Critical" application for a major international company which is to be accessed by all known branches and subcontractors; publish something like the following in you daily internal status email:

"Critical Development Path for this week:

...
[list of tasks and names]
...

If we can achieve this then we will be in reasonable shape. It will leave Auditing, Security and reporting as the main development tasks for next [the final] week."

That is all.

Mark Likes Chroming

2008-09-03T06:44:00.000+10:00

Really, the title says it all.

Chrome is great

It is certainly faster than anything else.
It defaults to full screen (well, I think that is all it has)
My number one hate of FireFox is the "instead of starting up I am doing some crap" messages, this has none of that.

The infamous "two minutes in" call is that it is good.

.............. I will let you know in a week.

Any given Sunday

2008-08-17T21:03:00.000+10:00

Spent Sunday working on one of my projects and made the decision that it deserves a fancy pants 2.0 website.

I know exactly what I want it to do, how it should do it, and what content should be present. I also know that I don't want to spend what little time I have for the project on the website.

This of the list of wants and needs:
1) fancy pants look and feel complete with the impression that it is employing some Pirate Ninjutsu
2) consist of 99% static content
3) be reasonably easy to maintain
4) load the 1% non static content from a third party (location tba)
5) not require any setup or server side data storage
6) must take bugger all time for me to meet requirements 1 -> 5

My discovery is that cupboard is pretty bare.

A simple framework with a simple editor that doesn't require the combined resources of the Earth to setup and configure would be worth its weight in gold.

Just what I need, another project in the midst.

Life is but a role playing game.

2008-08-15T14:26:00.000+10:00

**** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 ****
64K RAM SYSTEM  38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
      IT'S FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
      YOU ARE STANDING AT A CROSSROAD.
      
      YOU SEE BEHIND YOU A DRUNKEN FAREWELL LUNCH
      FOR A FRIEND.
      YOUR GOAL FOR TONIGHT IS A DRUNKEN DINNER
      FOLLOWED BY A BIRTHDAY PARTY.
      
      TO YOUR LEFT YOU SEE A LOOMING DEADLINE WITH
      PLENTY OF DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT REQUIRED.
      TO YOUR RIGHT YOU SEE A WAY OF LINKING LUNCH
      TO DINNER.
      
      WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO ?

      |||||||

Return to work ...

2008-08-04T12:02:00.000+10:00

After two weeks off work the guys have "made" me a welcome back present.

Some obvious fans of The Office they have left my keyboard in a less than usable but more than comical state ....

.... I choose to take it as a sign of affection.

(See the rest of the photos on the book)

The Online Access, the Security flaws and the Wardrobe .

2008-07-08T22:19:00.000+10:00

I am forever happening upon people who seem to care about privacy, who are in a position to enforce strict adherence and who certainly have a good deal to lose from it being abused.

Yet recently, it being tax time, I have had to search about tracking all these crazy statements and what not from such wild and crazy organisations as banks, superannuation companies and health insurance companies.

All three offer great online services where you can logon and view all your wonderful tax saving statements, update all your details and cancel any future mail out statements.

What do I hear ?? "That sounds great!", perhaps even a "and whats you point ... MATE ??".

Well here is the point. All three had a simple to ease sign up system where I entered all my secret details (eg, first name, last name, location of my house) and provided them with an email address.

Then they just send out an activation code via email (since they have that now) and when I click on the link that is right there in the email, BAM!! I have all that persons .... cough .... MY ... my details at my finger tips.

Now I can update my address, read all about my income and see where I spend all my money.

So the only real security feature that I can find for these three companies web access is that I have made an account for my own stuff before someone else did.

Seriously, I think I might use their 'contact us' email address and sign them up for the Monthly Bruce newsletter....

..... actually, I will do that now.

Some Days are Diamonds ....

2008-06-18T09:08:00.000+10:00

.....so they tell me.

At the moment it feels like something you might hear from a reverse alcoholic

"Yesterday wasn't, and as best I can tell, today wont be either."

Oils aint oils

2008-06-17T08:16:00.000+10:00

Someone once told me that the best programmers are not only lazy, but are also perfectionists. Thus, they are automate procedures solely because they are to lazy to do it the 'manual' way.

It follows that good software should be of the same model. It should do as much as it possibly can without any user interaction. Procedures such as downloading, installing, paying and updating should be a single user input if not less.

A perfect example of this is MyEclipse. It is not only a breeze to buy, register, install, start and use, but the whole concept of the product is create an 'out of the box' solution, which itself is a set of tools for making ones job easier.

The Yang (based on the assumption that the 'Yang' is the bad bit, perhaps Google could help me out here), the Yang to the MyEclipse Experience is Java Certified Training.

Let me outline the process as I have recently experienced it.

First you have to sign up at one place, pay at another.

Later (at some point) you will receive and email, which is pages and pages of a tiny tiny fixed font containing somewhere an ID number which you must tattoo to on your forearm.

Later again you must attempt to login at a site that is hosted on a 286 running BeOS on a remote island of the coast of Madagascar (complete with the expected reliability) and scan you recently tattooed arm.

From there you must locate the course for which you have already paid (Here's a tip, it is in the list under a different name) and navigate to its page, which looks exactly like all the other.

You will then need to provide every known detail of your life to the third party testing host, who appear to be based in Polland and are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank of Mexica.

After that you come to the time based trap system, you must make it from each stepping stone to the next in under nine seconds while Jack West and Shane Schofield shoot falling boulders made of gold and boiling oil with custom handheld M22 H&K fully auto hydrogen powered maghooks.

Then click OK to continue, and some time in the next month you will be booked in.

For a company that is prides itself of providing the infrastructure of the Internet, perhaps they could start using it.

I have done it now, and will never do it again.

Google Android, ScyNet, the end of the humanity, and all things good ...

2008-06-10T14:36:00.000+10:00

In the light of Apple's G3 IPhones being registered instore, and the possible wait for some kid to get his JailBreak on, I have decided to back the other horse and I started looking into Google's Android.

The first thing I found was that someguy had already not only released the app I was thinking off, but did pretty well out of it.

The second was the seemless download and install of the SDK and Eclipse plugin.

So the bug question is will ScyNet get a mobile host in the form of millions of idle Androids, or will Apple win the game with yet another "rush to market with 99% sex on a stick" machine.

All I know is that two minutes in and all is well.

Off the gear ...

2008-05-28T11:53:00.000+10:00

So I stopped drinking coffee.

It is now 2 days in and the the "List of people that mark has killed today" is still suprisingly bare.

Seriously, I feel great and am sleeping like a baby that has been shaken 'til it stopped crying.

It might be a good move.

Tap Tap Tappy

2008-05-19T11:16:00.000+10:00

Everyone that walks past my desk taps it as the go. Rodgar started it, now every one does it.

I don't know if it pisses me off or not.

New project upon the horizon

2008-05-16T14:29:00.000+10:00

Recently after a spate of "in jokes at the office" and the viewing the Datastorm Video which described it as the product of "an office joke gone to far", I have begun a project that which its self is a "joke gone to far".

I must say that I had some reservations about the possible uses of the end product of this project. So to get some perspective on the pros and cons of such an undertaking I ran my ideas by my old friend Miles Dyson. Upon hearing my concerns, he just looked at me and said, "She'll be right mate, she'll be right".

I am now convinced that the right choice is to continue.

Now it is to early in the life of the project to be revealing details to my audience, but both of you will know more soon. That is a promise ...

To Much, Must Make it stop

2008-04-24T06:58:00.000+10:00

I just reread that last post, and it occurs to me that I have seen far to many episodes of "Sex in the City" lately !!

To "Bash in" or to "Smash out", this is the information that I do not have.

2008-04-24T06:49:00.000+10:00

I was at the little lady's brothers house for tea last night, he mentioned that he knows a guy who owns a company (yeah, it sounds like a Spaceballs joke) who are specialists in taking website designs and "Bashing them into" templated, content managed sites and then hosting them.

So, the "Bash in" code .... hmmm ... Whats all that about ?
See, at my work, the term is "Smash out" code (and we are very good at it).

This has me thinking, do users and clients really want to know that their bundles and bundles of cash is being used to "Bash in" code, or would they rather hear "Smash out" ???

I have a strong feeling that "neither" might be the response.

If only people read this blog, then I could run a pole of some kind.

My run in with China.

2008-04-23T08:39:00.000+10:00

It seems that China are getting a hard run from everyone lately. Mainly from people that are tokin supporters of Tibet and think China shouldn't have the Olympics and then choose to express there opinion by attacking athletes from their own countries who are at the time carrying the Olympic torch.

My issue with China, and more specifically the Chinese Government, is more personal than that. My issue is with the security of my PC at work.

See, this all started a month or so when I bought a cheap MP3 player off the Internet and it came to me in a timely fashion complete with an OEM Trojan.

It is there, I know it is there, and I don't care.

I don't use my work PC to access my Internet banking so there is no worry about anyone transferring money from my account at the Bank of Mexica.

What does give me the shits, is the way that the keylogger lags so badly and that my screen flickers every time a screen dump is taken (since I started this post it has been 4 times).

I mean FFS if you are going to all the trouble of installing an OEM Trojan on a device for export, at least go to some effort and make it a decent one.

Honestly, there are some things that China's Government can learn from the west.

Cool Old Uncle Mark

2008-04-17T21:49:00.000+10:00

So yeah, I'm and uncle.

Tiago is now three days old and is not quite weight for age in kilos.

Annie and Uby are absolutely wrapped however I am still convinced that they don't know what they are in for !!

He sure is a cute little guy.

Fantastic Mr Flex

2008-04-16T19:00:00.000+10:00

With the unsurprising fact that my first commercial project using Adobe Flex is now an official success and the most arrogant opening line for a blog that has ever been typed both under my belt in the same day, I feel that I must share both weeks of my extensive experience in Adobe Flex with both of my beloved readers.

Here is the tutorial:
Step 1) Get a copy of MyEclipse, a download of the Flex development plugin and some kind of data source. (I used Oracle10g. I don't like Oracle10g. The feeling is apparently mutual.)

Step 2) Simply create your database, use MyEclipse to generate your data access layer and then open the fully functional drag-n-drop flex editor and .. well .. drag and drog until you have what you want.

Step 3) Export to Tomcat (which is included in the version of MyEclipse that you downloaded)

Step 4) Point your browser of choice at the Tomcat server and call your geeky mates over for a gander.

Is it really that easy ?? Yeah, it is. So easy in fact that I will not even bother posting examples or links to examples or any actually useful information.

The Adobe Flex is an absolute dream to use. It is a simple XML based UI definition, not dissimilar to XUL or any of the JSF stuff. There is a cool sort of script language which looked like some kind of JavaScript meets backwards Java.

To top it all off some sort auto messaging system which can broadcast messages on your choice of channels with your choice of data. This allowed us to get some "reverse ajax" style updates running on the UI.

Honestly, the proof is in the pudding. Flex is fantastic.

Where are the screenshots ?? There are supposed to be earth shattering screenshots ??
Yeah, sorry, I signed a thing that says people will get angry if I make my work public. And yes, just because it isn't getting read by anyone, it is still public. Besides, if you make it to step 4 in my tutorial, you will have your own screen shots.

Some stuff that is cool

2008-04-14T09:02:00.000+10:00

Managed to have some 'spare time' this weekend and while catching up on some reading I discovered more forward movement on the JavaFX front.

With my renewed interest in this technology, I have started yet another demo project with the eventual intention of a cool and useful application.

JavaFX - Its cool. Check it out.

You know what else is cool, the "Sun Spot" project. Its cool too !!

Transformers is a cool movie

2008-04-12T17:18:00.000+10:00

so as you probably know, Im new to blogging and dont' really know what I want to write here.

Like most bloggers I am not a writer, so unless you want to see heaps of source code posted here, you will just have to deal with my feeble attempts to add simple, interesting and misspelled content.

That said, I watched transformers today on dvd (again) and you know, it is a "cool movie. Nothing less and nothing more.

Also, this editor window is shit. Me thinks I will have to find some other way to enter my ramblings

A Blog

2008-04-11T07:59:00.000+10:00

Look at me, I have a blog.

Now I am a true individual.

Nar, seriously, I need a place to store my random thoughts, lest they be lost.

I don't expect anyone to read this except for me. After all, you are all very busy reading and writing in your own blogs.