Although, I once again did not get to eat at work today (this must be bad for my crohn's to not eat two days in a row) or maybe not - I loved it. For some reason today was great. I think the class I taught today was especially good - it finally tied it all together. Its hard to teach at such a breakneck pace but I think I have managed to really put it together as best as it could be. We wrote an app based on the surebert framework, it actually did something, we talked a lot about OOP and a lot about web security. It integrated with our single sign on and employee database.

It gave me this feeling that everything was finally coming together. Now if the three new linux servers would just get set up. They have been here for a couple weeks now ;(

Okay, I just bought opera mobile 8.5 for my att tilt and I love it. It is such a better browser than pocket IE - which totally sucks. Well they announced a new version 9.5 to be released at the Barcelona 3G mobile convention next week. I cannot wait to use it.

It stole a lot of conventions fro mobile safari. No multi finger stuff but the stylus makes up for it. AJAX, flash, zoom, 3G HSPDA ya!



* Faster speed
* Features support fully loaded browser
* Compelling experience
* Intuitive user interface
* Tabbed browsing
* Improved text wrap
* Page overview, zooming and panning
* Landscape mode
* Save Web page for future offline access
* Call phone number from Web page
* Send link/image as SMS/MMS
* Small Screen Rendering
* Password manager
* Web address input auto-completion

According to the company, "Opera Mobile 9.5 will be available on all major platforms including Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux, as both a standalone browser and as a SDK."

Just like every other year I didn't vote for anyone in the primary. Not being part of one of the two big parties it is kind of a non eventful day in politics for me. I think it is weird to join a party just to vote in the primary and then drop out. It feels liek cheating to me.

Also, reminder to self - go out for Mardi Gras next year - everyone else had so much fun. Last year I went out with (e:mike,38281) There is no reason to do anything else next year.

I just found this blog randomly searching for stuff about the army. You might find it an interesting perspective.

Someone sent me this message today and I thought I would share it with you all.

Wow I couldn't believe this. Last year Christmas 2006 I had to pick my son up in Buffalo. On the way to Lexington Ave. to pick him up I had to go to the Bathroom. I at the time was 58 years old and was really in need of a restroom. I stopped at the Wilson Farms because it was open. They would not let me use their facilities on Christmas and sent me to the BlockBuster across the street. Unfortunately BlockBuster wouldn't let me use their facilities either. Thank God for Brinks. My only regret is that I didn't buy a round of drinks for the good people there that were very welcoming on Christmas.

I think maybe it was in reference to (e:news,29677) from back in 2003 but actually I have no idea.