Food

Image via Wikipedia http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cover14-2008sep14,0,1979735.story

"I don't have a green thumb. When little plants misbehave, their parents threaten to send them to my yard. But with supermarket prices for produce on the rise, it seemed a good time to try, yet again, to grow a vegetable garden. And I wouldn't be alone. According to the National Garden Assn., hard times seed more gardens."

With a shocking portion of the nation eager to continue all the current policies that have brought us to the current state of affairs, there might not be much choice about home gardening.

Cuban

Image via Wikipedia http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/10/mark-cuban-on-file-sharin_n_125292.html

"You can't stop it. There isn't really a solution," he said, speaking at a keynote event at TechCrunch50. "At different stages of our lives we have more time than money . . . I don't think [the people who download movies] were going to buy much anyway."

-- Mark Cuban on "file sharing"

One Way to Convert java.sql.Date to XMLGregorianCalendar

PreparedStatement pstmt = con.prepareStatement("SELECT getDate()");
ResultSet rs = pstmt.executeQuery();
while (rs.next()) {
java.sql.Date d = rs.getDate(4);      
GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
cal.setTime(d);
XMLGregorianCalendar gc =
DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(cal);
}

Here's an example of going the other direction; getting a java.sql.Data from an XMLGregorianCalendar.

XMLGregorianCalendar gc /* = something */;
GregorianCalendar c = gc.toGregorianCalendar();
java.util.Date d = c.getTime();
java.sql.Data sqlDate = new java.sql.Date(d.getTime());

Complaining

Image via Wikipedia Moving to the inner city and then complaining because you live in the inner city.... Gee I wonder why this never happened before people that could pay half a million for an appartment smaller than one floor of my house (with no yard) moved in?

http://www.neighborhoodnotes.com/nw/pearl_district/news/2008/09/railroad_quiet_zone/

"The City of Portland, the Portland Development Commission, the Pearl District Neighborhood Association, along with other property owners in the area support the establishment of a Quiet Zone at the roadway-railroad crossings located at NW 9th, NW 15th and NW 17th Avenues."

Hard to Tell

What is it about Bigfoot that makes it so hard to get a good picture? On the other hand, maybe it's just a racoon in my backyard this morning... I'm not an expert, you be the judge.

Floatation Devices

Image via Wikipedia http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/08/28/airline.vests.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

"An official with Air Canada's regional carrier Jazz says the airline is removing life vests from all its planes to save weight and fuel."

Next thing to go - the seats.

8 Tracks

Image via Wikipedia This is funny... Muxtape, a site that helped the music industry by promoting new music, was shut down by, er, the music industry... And only a day later we see a new site: 8Tracks. Which is completely different! Unlike Muxtrade, which allowed using to assemble a 12 track mix, 8Tracks
allows users to assemble a mix of 8 tracks!

What'll they think of next!

Less

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1829354,00.html?cnn=yes

"It's a pretty simple concept: if our use of fossil fuels is increasing our reliance on Middle Eastern dictators while destroying the planet, maybe we ought to use less."

Hm, ya think?

Moss's Reblog Reblogged

I found this fascinating quote today:

Tuesday, August 19, 2008Here's my test for Re-blogging!Moss, moss, Aug 2008

You should read the whole article.

Project, Day 109

There's been some progress, but it's not an everyday thing anymore. The past couple of weeks I've been able to get some watch work done instead for the first time since the project began.
The missing sliver of green tile in the bathroom, at the edge of the door frame, is now in place. If I can get a curtain of some sort for the bathroom, I'll call the room done.
In the entryway, the last pieces of trim along the floor are cut, but not installed. That won't take long. These last two sets of corners are in the original finish (old pieces) so as to match the dining room. The new ones, on the opposite side of both the fornt and the closet doors are the darker, redish, finish. The mismatch isn't too bad. I'm not going to replace all the trim in the dining room at this time at any rate.

All this just leaves the hallway. In the hall, the door frame to the living room was removed so there's quite a bit of work to be done yet on the hall side, that doesn't show from the living room. It's going to need some additional woodwork to fill in some trim, more plaster, and textured paint.