A house of cards... or boxes rather.

This is what happens when you stay inside too long and have access to tape.

FedexFurniture.Com

A first look at Apple's Intel Mac

So this will be very interesting to see the OS landscape changes when Apple machines can run Windows.

See Windows on a Mac

50 GFlops

So I've been MIA for a while, and don't have much time but this is really cool. Check it out.

Clearspeed PCI Card

Struts Error Messages

Ok. So after looking all over God's green earth to find documentation on how to print out an icon next to the field that fails validation, I've finally come up with something. This seems so common it should be flashing in red from the Struts home page. None the less, I will post my solution here so that others can avoid the anguish I went through trying to find this documented. I'm sure there are other ways, if so please share so we can all learn, but this is what I came up with. I added a new "td" to the table and gave it a width="17", and either print out the icon or a non-breaking space, this keeps the fields from moving around when errors are found.

I'll cut right to the chase assuming you have properly configured the struts validator and ApplicationResource.properties file and have the errors printing where ever you put your "html:errors" tag.

explanation: this tag is pretty straight forward. The property corresponds to the name of the property which you want to print out your error indicator. The content can be whatever you want to print out when that field fails validation. We choose to print out an icon.

<html:messages id="error" property="insertPropertyName"><img src="images/error.gif" alt="We've encountered an Error" align="middle" height="17" width="17"></html:messages>

Hopefully this will help many people out there who are having the same issue, and based on my Google searches, there were many looking for this and no one seemed to know how to do it.

Doctor's Office Etiquette

This is a great little story... enjoy.

An 86 year old man walked into a crowded doctor's office. As
he approached the desk, the receptionist said, "Yes sir, what
are you seeing the doctor for today?"

"There's something wrong with my dick," he replied.

The receptionist became irritated and said, "You shouldn't come into
a crowded office and say things like that."

"Why not? You asked me what was wrong and I told you," he said.

The receptionist replied, "You've obviously caused some
embarrassment in this room full of people. You should have said there is
something wrong with your ear or something and then discussed the
problem further with the doctor in private."

The man replied, "You shouldn't ask people things in a room
full of others, if the answer could embarrass anyone."

The man walked out, waited several minutes and then
reentered. The receptionist smiled smugly and asked, "Yes?"

"There's something wrong with my ear," he stated. The
receptionist nodded approvingly and smiled, knowing he had taken her
advice.

"And what is wrong with your ear, Sir?"

"I can't piss out of it," the man replied.

The doctor's office erupted in uncontrollable laughter.

Cold Fusion

This article does a great job of describing nuclear fusion and why it's cool. It seems some scientists in LA figured out how to make fusion happen at room temperature. Good read, check it out.

Cold Fusion Article

Cell Phone Plan Shopping Made Easy

If you are in the market for a new cell phone, carrier or plan check this site out, it will save you time and the headache.

Wirefly

Nano-Clusters

Now what would I do with 40TB of storage? I think I'd have to get pretty creative to justify that amount of space.

Nano Clusters Story