Daylight savings time begins March 8th, followed by the Spring Equinox on March 20th. It is the perfect time to say yes to embracing life to its fullest, as everything is doable during this time. The incredible power of this new vibration enables us to release the past where everything was hard to f...

For the past couple of weeks, I've been developing a web application that deploys into an OSGi container (Equinox) and uses Spring DM's Spring MVC support. The first thing I discovered was that Spring MVC's annotations weren't supported in the M1 release. This was apparently caused by a bug in Sprin...

Filed under: Green, GM When automakers reach out to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) community, there's always a risk involved. Just ask Ford, which had to deal with the American Family Association's boycott just for advertising in gay-centric publications. General Motors apparently...

Filed under: Animation, Comedy, After Image I hardly have to explain why I'd go fetch this one from the vaults, since it's the only known anecdote for 10,000 BC . Roland Emmerich certainly hasn't lost his delicate touch, has he? I feel the pain of people who had ten year old sons and thus were dragg...

Petroleum dependence. Air pollution. Resource depletion. Global warming. These are not problems that have snuck up and hit us all of a sudden. We've been warned about this for decades, and Californians have been so concerned about these issues over the years that our state environmental standards ar...

Or, is March really a mad month? By Patience Pantperhog, a jovial journalist and casual collector of missing socks whose best friend, Tarantula Tulip suggested that she get a life instead of inventing one for readers with way too much time to waste In a nutshell, (if one enjoys consuming one's daily...

First off, happy Autumn to all of you out there.  Here's hoping that this next season will find us all happy and sharing our wealth with loved ones.  Secondly, for all of you riding out hurricane Rita, I pray that you all will stay safe and well.  In all my years (not that I'm all that old) that ...