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I’m a huge fan of Tempur-Pedic beds. You know, the original Swedish sleep system using the Tempur(tm) material developed for NASA.
I’m just wondering how the Swedes infiltrated our space program to steal NASA’s space-age bedding technology, and why we let them get away with it.
The fate of our nation’s rest, and maybe our entire [...]

When we moved from C to C++, we were overjoyed that we no longer had to declare all of our variables at the top of the function.

do_something() {
int num = 0;
int another_num = 0;
num = get_a_num();
another_num = get_a_num();
}
We could instead declare them near the point of use, [...]

There are times that I realize I haven’t directed my own music choices for a while. Maybe I’ve been traveling, spending all day on the phone, or simply driving down the road with the radio inadvertently tuned to KRAP-FM.
And I find my motivation waning, my creativity lacking, and my general happiness in deficit. [...]

Ever learned of something just a fraction too late behind “everyone else”, causing an immediate disregard for that thing?
For me, the incident I remember most was the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind album. I prided myself on knowing cool weird bands, then boom, everyone was listening to Nirvana, and I’d somehow completely missed the boat. [...]

As noted earlier, Rebecca and I flew off to Europe last week for a little holiday, JavaPolis, and a week of JBoss.org team meetings.
With the winds behind us, we managed to make it to Schiphol airport in a record 6.5hrs from Newark. Not bad at all.
Met up with James Cobb, the kick-ass .org brand-manager/designer at [...]

In about 24 hours I’ll be jetting towards Antwerp, Belgium to attend JavaPolis. I’ll also be meeting most of my team for the first time, as the development stars from Poland wing their way westward.
JBoss has a booth, and a bundle of core developers (and management) will either be attending or speaking.