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I love my new MacBook. Here are the reasons:

- Fast bootup and shutdown time
- Based on Unix
- LED backlit screen
- Fantastic graphics
- Watching Hulu is as good as a DVD
- Not filled with adware/bloatware
- Multi-touch trackpad
- Doesn't lock up or freeze
- Long battery life
- Quiet
- Mag power connector
- Seemless connection with Windows computers
- Coolness factor

I've been in the market for a new laptop. And I've decided to buy a Macbook (MC207LL/A). I'm tired of how Wintel computers are so slow and needs constant rebooting. Even my latest Windows Vista machine regularly just hangs. It's like it just spaces out for a minute or so for no reason whatsoever. I've been bidding some on eBay for both the regular Macbook and the Macbook Pro, but they always go pretty close to full retail price minus $100 or so. Then the other day, I discovered that Micro Center had them on sale for $800. That's $200 off retail. I've never seen it at that price, even on winning eBay bids. I suspected it would be a refurbished laptop. But, turns out they are brand new. The "catch" turns out that they try real hard to sell you a warranty. First the salesman tries to convince you. Then the person at the register tries again. He even said, "75% of people who buy a Macbook buy a warranty." Well, that explained to me how they can sell it for $800. They're expecting to make money on the warranty, not the computer.

For the past many months, I have felt that God has been leading me to start a church. Actually, I've felt this for many years. But, since last summer (2009), it has gotten more serious when we decided to leave our previous church. Right now, it's in the formative stage. And I've recently created a website for it - New Kind Church. I'll be posting more about it on the blog on the church site.

- You want to speak to the pastor, but can only book a time with one of the associate pastors 3 months from now.
- It takes longer to get in and out of the parking lot than how long the service lasts.
- You can barely make out the pastor speaking if it weren't for the 100 ft big screen.
- When overflow rooms A, B, and C are full and you have to watch the sermon on TV in the church hallway.
- It takes longer to serve communion than it took Jesus to feed the 5000.
- When the church forms a worship band just for the kids ages 8-12 group.
- You've been going for years and still don't know anybody there.
- There are more people on staff than most companies have employees.
- When you're a member and someone asks you if you're a visitor.
- Kentucky Fried Chicken asks if they can have a spot next to the Starbucks inside the church.

As we have seen in the past month, the science of global warming is far from settled. In fact, considering the recent e-mails that surfaced from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, it is clear that there has been a well-crafted plot among prominent global warming zealots to tamper with evidence, silence scientific opposition and stifle debate.

In light of all the evidence that the science underpinning the theory of global warming is bogus, submitting to binding targets at Copenhagen will ultimately be seen for what it is: an agreement for an international tax and global governance, not science.

Don't jump off cliff for climate

Coverage
PJTV
ClimateGate For Dummies

Climategate Document Database
Climate-Gate
East Anglia Emails

Wikipedia
CRU Hacking Incident
Global warming controversy

Videos
Daily Show

Blogs/Articles
CRU has apparently been hacked hundreds of files released
Climate Challenges
Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?
'Climate-Gate' Scandal Should Be Wake-Up Call For Press, Politicians
The ClimateGate Virus
Climategate: Anatomy of
a Public Relations Disaster
We've Been Had
Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About 'Climate-gate'
Copenhagen's political science

Facebook
Sarah Palin article

Organizations
IPCC

Burp - Not OSS, but has free version
Grendel Scan - Java based
Pantera - Python based
Paros - Java based
Proxmon - Python based
RatProxy - Ajax testing
WebScarab - Java based

I ran into a problem with Birt 2.5.0 running inside Weblogic 9.2. I could run the report inside Eclipse. But, when I tried to integrate the Report Viewer inside my webapp and run the report, I would get the following error:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: initStandardObjects
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.ReportEngine.setupScriptScope

I finally found a solution here. The bug is reported here.

The problem is that the weblogic.jar conflicts with js.jar from Birt. Weblogic uses an older version of javascript.

So, some possible solutions:
- Drop the js.jar into beajrockit90_150_10jrelibext.
- Explicitly set the classpath in the weblogic startup to find js.jar first.
- Set prefer-web-inf-classes to true.
- Deploy as an ear file.

The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to go higher.

The number of Americans who have been out of work for six months or longer rose to 5.6 million, a record.

October was the 22nd straight month the U.S. economy has shed jobs, the longest on records dating back 70 years.

Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since '83

I'm running Eclipse 3.5.1 in a virtual environment. And occasionally the copy/paste (either through the menu or Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V) stops working. Fortunately, I found a fix. In Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Typing, uncheck "Update imports". Then copy/paste will work.

I found a free program to be able to print to an image file (jpg, png, tiff, bmp) - Image Printer. Seems to work pretty well. And all the other ones I found you had to pay for.