Month: July 2010

  • Today’s Report – July 28th

    ZDNet: Oracle rebrands Java, breaks Eclipse. Obviously this is fairly amusing. The reason that Eclipse was checking the rebranded “Company” value was to work around a different Java incompatibility. It’s pretty clear: the Java team at Sun (now at Oracle) has done far more to destroy the concept of “write once, run everywhere” than the…

  • Today’s Report – July 27th

    NY Times: Botanical Gardens Look for New Lures Here’s another article that mentions the recent financial tribulations of the Cleveland Botanical Gardens — although this time the problems are implied rather than the focus of the article. It does put the issue into a broader context though: Many similar organizations are having to scramble for money,…

  • Today’s Report – July 21st

    Man, I just never seem to get around here anymore! Ahh well. A couple of links caught my eye today: Henry Blodgett: My Kids Are Addicted to my iPad I totally believe this story. In fact, it sounds like Henry is probably underestimating the extent of the problem. The Frati do not currently have an iPad.…