bedeviled mojo slop

• I've finally decided on a new domain name for my non-blojsom blog. By that I mean, the blog that I'll use to blog about stuff not related to blojsom. Honestly, although I could spend the time to do mod_rewrite madness, I don't want to bother to map the other non-blojsom categories here to the new blog. It's taken me quite a long time, maybe 6 months or so, to decide on "the vision". And by "the vision" I'm referring to the domain name, the blog description, the look and feel, etc. I've bothered people for the past few days with all my "Damn this domain name is taken! Why God ... why?"
• One of the domains I did pass up that some enterprising young soul might want to snap up would be youdontownme.com. My tagline would've been, "I don't see no ring on this finger!" 6 of you out there will get that. Whateva.
• Tomorrow is April 1st. Expect the unexpected.
• "I'm Rick James bitch!" - Dave Chapelle (as Rick James)
• Vacation by Go Gos
• Happy Birthday to Evan Williams. Hey, he does wear some blojsom schwag.
• Dan is getting married at 5 PM on Saturday. Congratulations. Dan was responsible for planting the seed of category and entry "metadata" that exists in blojsom. He still has an @author tag in some of the source files. And it'll stay that way. Unlike other organizations, @author is here to stay
• I got my haircut today. After almost 7 weeks, my hair was getting scraggly and unmanageable. You'll be happy to know it's now under control.

Interest in weblogs and RSS has been piqued after a short discussion I gave yesterday on "Weblogs and RSS" to our group. Go figure

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>some-servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.site</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

"I think one of the reasons why the music business is failing is because there is nothing out there new that is exciting for kids to get into," he adds. "These corporations only put so many bands out, and they play those same 12 bands over and over again on the radio. It kills it."

News flash: You've been playing the same 12 songs over and over again. How do they go again? Boom-dow-chugga-chugga-chugga-dow. Lather, rinse, repeat. That about right?

And maybe 12 is a stretch.

Sincerely,

David Czarnecki

PS- You're a big rich rock band, so please purchase some effects other than a pitch shifter and an octaver.

Russ and I started a project on java.net a week ago. We're still waiting for approval. How long does it take? It's not like they are swarming with activity over there.

Diego was telling me how he dislikes java.net because most of the projects are dead or undocumented. I'm starting to understand why that is.

I should point out that I have no gripes with SourceForge. It works and even if it's been down, it hasn't been down for long. However, in java.net's defense, the fact that projects are either dead or undocumented should be a reflection of the project owners and not the service.

* Use of this software is permitted by anyone ... except for Stan and Kyle ... Screw you guys ... especially you Kyle.

News flash people ... the fact that the show is on the WB means it has had one foot in the grave since the beginning. Furthermore ... it's a spinoff. And finally ... quotes such as "We don't want to lose the one last tie we have to the Joss Whedon universe," really demonstrate that you need to open up your universe because well ... that's just sad.

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML. See the Syntax page for details pertaining to Markdown’s formatting syntax.

We all get a lot of spam. It sucks. But, aside from offers to improve your sexual performance or your net worth, they're also implicitly offering a way for you to improve your vocabulary.

Before you clear your "Deleted Items" folder, pick a random spam message that has the vocabulary spam. You'll see something like:

baseman democracy connote bisect dendrite fir dalton m's walt ix anecdote towhee subjunctive havana auspices 
asuncion lanka altruism bloodstream leeuwenhoek desirous accordion sarasota quasiorder salutation matron badinage newspapermen iii nouveau 

Enough badinage ... back to work!

Dear Jessica Simpson,

Please stop using the phrase, "Oh gawwww.".

Please. Please. Please. Please. I will totally be your best friend.

Sincerely,

David Czarnecki

PS- Please please please please. Thank you.

PPS- I'm not sure if that's the correct spelling for your phrase, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb
Operator: We get signal
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us
Cats: You are on the way to destruction
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time
Cats: HA HA HA HA ....
Captain: Take off every 'zig'
Captain: You know what you doing
Captain: Move 'zig'
Captain: For great justice

Please stop writing and playing music.

Please. Please. Please. Please. I will totally be your best friend.

Sincerely,

David Czarnecki

PS- Please please please please. Thank you.

Why write this open letter? Aside from Axl trying to boycott the release of a GnR greatest hits album, the following quote in the article really got to me in a "You dumbasses" sort of way (my emphasis): "Geffen has paid $13.5 million into the "Chinese Democracy" project, which has been more than seven years in the making, the source said.

Wow ... just ... wow!

• You can now display the full list of categories in your templates instead of what is available in the category hierarchy. All categories are placed under the BLOJSOM_ALL_CATEGORIES key.
• Added ability to submit a list of trackback and ping URLs when adding or updating blog entries from within the administration interface. For the next release, you'll be able to have a default set of ping URLs pre-populate the box.
• Added GroovyDispatcher to the addon core source tree. This dispatcher allows you to write templates using Groovy. This uses the new SimpleTemplateEngine class available in Groovy 1.0b4. Quoting myself, "I'll say it again ... that means you can write blojsom templates using JSP, Velocity, FreeMarker, or Groovy ... and you can mix-and-match dispatchers to handle different flavors ... which further demonstrates why blojsom rocks!"
• Added "cipher" theme courtesy of Kirk Peterson.
• Added ResourceManager interface and implementation ResourceBundleResourceManager class which allows language packs to be developed for blojsom for localization.

To the developers of JRun: Make this easy on your customers who are paying $899 for your software and implement the Servlet/JSP specification correctly. It's been out for awhile and you've had ample time to get it right. Otherwise, do what BEA did with Weblogic and offer the "Prefer WEB-INF classes" option!

Oh, and thanks to the Atlassian folks for the "help"

Light one up and then watch this video. Enjoy

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at localhost.localdomain. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

WebAppDeploy example warpConnection /someURI

IMHO, version 1.0 is your start, not your finish.

In the JIRA Tomcat 4.1 documentation, there is a big warning that you cannot install JIRA under Tomcat 4.1 LE "Light Edition". In my ISP environment, I had to install JIRA under Tomcat 4.1 LE, so I needed to at least test things to see if they would break and how bad. This is a straight "out of the box" installation with some minor modifications to the online JIRA installation instructions noted below.

1. Unpack JIRA

2. Configure JIRA

There seems to be an error with OFBiz using mysql, at least in my configuration. On startup, it would always use the HSQL field definitions. This was causing much confusion as the syntax differs from MySQL. To get around this, I had to copy $JIRA_HOME/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/entitydefs/fieldtype-mysql.xml to $JIRA_HOME/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/entitydefs/fieldtype-hsql.xml. Those two files remain along with the entitygroup.xml and entitymodel.xml files, but I deleted all the other fieldtype-*.xml files.

3. Update Tomcat Libraries before building

Unpack the extra Tomcat JAR files into the $JIRA_HOME/webapp/WEB-INF/lib directory. Also copy the MySQL DB driver JAR file into this directory.

4. Build JIRA

4. Update Tomcat Libraries

5. Configure Tomcat

Copy the jira.xml file from the $JIRA_HOME/dist-tomcat directory to your Tomcat 4.1.30 LE webapps directory. The "url" parameter in the ResourceParams definition looks as follows:

    <parameter>
      <name>url</name>
      <value>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jiradb?autoReconnect=true</value>
    </parameter>

6. Create the JIRA user and database

First, use the mysql program to connect to the server as the MySQL root user:

shell> mysql --user=root mysql

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'jirauser'@'localhost'
    ->     IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass' WITH GRANT OPTION;

mysql> quit

Log back in as the JIRA user and create the database:

shell> mysql --user=jirauser --password=some_pass

mysql> create database jiradb;

7. Start Tomcat

Point your browser to http://localhost:8080/jira. You should now see the setup wizard.

Dear Mother Nature,

Please stop the snow in the Northeast.

Please. Please. Please. Please. I will totally be your best friend.

Sincerely,

David Czarnecki

PS- Please please please please. Thank you.

Mar 08 14:59:11 DEBUG [main] impl.SessionImpl - collection fully initialized: [org.blojsom.blog.database.DatabaseBlogEntry._metaData#8381756bfb2c0eaf00fb2c0eb1760001]
Mar 08 14:59:11 DEBUG [main] impl.SessionImpl - 1 collections initialized
Mar 08 14:59:11 DEBUG [main] impl.SessionImpl - collection initialized
Mar 08 14:59:11 DEBUG [main] servlet.BlojsomServlet - 8381756bfb2c0eaf00fb2c0eb1760001
Mar 08 14:59:11 DEBUG [main] servlet.BlojsomServlet - Loaded id: 8381756bfb2c0eaf00fb2c0eb1760001
Mar 08 14:59:11 DEBUG [main] servlet.BlojsomServlet - Loaded title: Title 1
Mar 08 14:59:11 DEBUG [main] servlet.BlojsomServlet - stuff2=STRING/java.lang.String
Mar 08 14:59:11 DEBUG [main] servlet.BlojsomServlet - stuff1=1/java.lang.Integer
Mar 08 14:59:11 DEBUG [main] servlet.BlojsomServlet - stuff3=Mon Mar 08 14:59:11 EST 2004/java.util.Date

<map name="_metaData" table="BlogEntryMetadata" access="field">
    <key column="BLOG_ENTRY_METADATA_KEY"/>
    <index column="BLOG_ENTRY_METADATA_INDEX" type="serializable"/>
    <element column="BLOG_ENTRY_METADATA_ELEMENT" type="serializable"/>
</map>

Life is good. So, let me leave you with some wisdom.

I know you're out there...I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us, you're afraid of change...I don't know the future...I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end, I came here to tell you how this is going to begin. Now, I'm going to hang up this phone, and I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you...a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world...where anything is possible.

Long John Silver's has purchased an insurance policy to cover the anticipated cost of the free Giant Shrimp redemption, should NASA announce the discovery of conclusive evidence of an ocean on Mars between now and February 29, 2004. In the event NASA makes an official announcement that conclusive evidence of an ocean has been discovered on Mars prior to that date, every person in the U.S. will have an opportunity to obtain one free Giant Shrimp at participating Long John Silver's restaurants in the United States. Redemption will take place on Monday, March 15, 2004, from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. Additional information and offer details will be made available to consumers on the Long John Silver's web site and in press materials, should this event occur.

Mark has some ideas about what we might do as far as a GroovyPlugin in which you might possibly be able to write plugins "on the fly" say through the administration console. That's a scary but intriguing idea. So, it's maybe not something for a production environment, but what if ... what if your blog could also function as a mini IDE? <cold-shivvers-up-the-spine/>

After Ethan and Gwen tied the knot, Theresa decided it was time to let go of the past. To help herself move on, she finally put away the diary she'd been keeping since she was a child...at least for the moment. Now that she's embarking on a new adventure, Theresa decided that she once again wanted a place to write down her thoughts. But leave it to Theresa to always be on the cutting edge. This time around, she's decided to keep a blog! You never know when she's going to add a new entry so be sure to keep checking back!