Posted by josh
on May 10, 2008
I’ve been stuck recently needing to switch OSs to do some JDK specific work, since the last Java update doesn’t run on my older Macbook Pro, being the 32-bit variety. I must not have much faith in the Open Source movement since I didn’t even bother searching till now.
SoyLatte is a port of BSD Java to MacOS X, whose first goal is:
Support for Java 6 Development on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5
Haven’t really gotten very far with attempting to run the project under OS X yet, but I’m hopeful. Nice that the community can fill the gap that commercial market is unwilling or unable.
Posted by josh
on May 07, 2008
I have limped across the finish line of two marathons, Honolulu and Los Angeles. This weekend I start training for my third; Pasadena. I’ve been a pretty stagnant since the last marathon, so the body is a little rusty. I’ve very excited and a little anxious. I’d like to cross the finish this time without injuring myself.
I’m resolving to try and be more diligent about the cross training, which I neglected the first two times. Not only will it be rewarding in it’s own, it should be a good distraction during some of the more stressful wedding. Let’s see how I feel after the first training run.
Posted by josh
on May 05, 2008
If a blogger posts, and nobody is around to read it, does it matter?
Most blogs have precisely one reader - the blogger themself.
Eric Schmidt via Silicon.com
The answer must lie within. I’ve realized as the years start rolling by too fast, that the biggest hindrance to my consistent blogging is my realization that I am wrong more often then I am right. I usually like to think that I live in a little bit of an ambiguous world, where there are no ‘right’ answers but there are many answers that ‘work’. My definition of ‘right’ and ‘work’ changes as my experience increases and my challenges change.
In this vain - I’m going to use this blog to track my bad ideas and and perhapse same myself sometime in the future when I need to remember what not to do. If it helps someone else, so be it. I can’t be held accountable.
Posted by josh
on May 05, 2008
I would be thought by some to be a liberal, but I’ve been a bad hippie. Sure I have a Prius, I’m a vegetarian (slowly moving away from eggs and milk - but not very fast), and I’d vote Kucinich if he were on the ticket. All this is very good, but I have failed; I haven’t been taking public transportation to work.
Today I bought an EZ Pass and I’ll be taking the Gold Line and Red Line to work. I’m sure it will take a while to get used to being at the whim of the rail a bit, but I think it will be good in the long run. Plus I get back an hour and a half (give or take) back for reading or listening to pod-casts without putting other people in danger.
Raise a (recycled) glass to shrinking my footprint a little more.