July 01, 2002
Berkoff deported from US

Berkoff deported from US, because he overstayed his visa by one day five years ago.

Jesus. Talk about a jobsworth.

Well, just so long as we keep John Malkovich out of the UK until he stops issuing death threats.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 04:35 PM
Euro entry and the five tests

According to The Indy, an academic study contends that Britain has passed the Chancellor's five tests.

So, when's the referendum? Bring it on!

Posted by Simon Brunning at 04:19 PM
Connection Pooling with Tomcat

Connection Pooling with Tomcat is just what I have been looking for - I've been trying to work this out for hours!

Dive into connection pooling with J2EE is a good follow-up read, but it doesn't have a simple step-by-step guide to getting started.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 02:21 PM
Palladium update

I've mentioned Palladium before, but the storm keeps on brewing.

Bob Cringely told us so. The Observer calls it World Domination, Release 4.0. Lots of stuff at WatchingMicrosoftLikeAHawk.com.

Clearly, Bill has been reading the Evil Overlord, 'cos he has a backup plan - to get root on eveyone's PCs.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 01:35 PM
A new candidate for the nerdiest web page of all time?

Mathematical Lego Sculptures may take over from Var'aq (the Klingon programming language) as the nerdiest web page yet.

(Via SubAverage)

Update 03 July: Slashdot caught up eventually. ;-)

Posted by Simon Brunning at 01:16 PM
Eclipse 2.0 final released

Get it here.

(It's a bit slashdotted, so be patient.)

See also the Slashdot coverage.

Nothing to report myself as yet - I'm still downloading!

Update: Downloaded & installed. I can't see anything different, but that's only to be expected, since I've been running a release candidate for a while.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 09:46 AM