Is this thing still on...?

Many, many moons ago, I transferred my hosting and domain names to a new provider.  I also changed my blogger.com configuration to work with the new ISP.

This is a simple test of this configuration...

Test blog on new hosting service

This is at test....

Please, don't take food out of Freddy's baby's mouth

For visitors arriving here from somewhere other than the Stripes Book web site, a little background is in order: read this blog post, then hurry back here. We'll save you a seat.

This is a hot-button topic for me, so I'm dusting off my own blog to defend Freddy and his hungry baby (mostly because I couldn't get the BBCode to give me proper line breaks, resulting in this being a Giant Blob o' Text^TM and gave up trying)

So, I purchased the Stripes Book -- both versions. It's well written, it's funny in places, is eminently useful, quite "pragmatic," and the Father of Stripes shares his wisdom in numerous side-bars. Thank you for the hard work, Freddy -- and Tim and PragProg folks.

In my case, I'm actively building a web app using Stripes, so the book is already dog-eared, written-in and care-worn. It's my first JSP/Servlet/MVC framework app. Luckily, I had the luxury of choosing the app stack. I looked at a bunch of Struts books (easy to find at B-and-N or Borders) and at as many on-line references as I could find for Stripes, Spring MVC, Tapestry (the folks at Apache stay busy, don't they?), JSF, etc.

A Self-Satisfied Spaz -- and the First MoBlog Entry

What we have here is the Spaz-man looking quite smug and quite pleased with himself.

What else we have here is our first mobile blogging (MoBlog) entry.

As with most things tech, I'm a bit of a late adopter. I've seen this before, but never tried it.

Having a Palm Treo 700w makes this less painful, what with the camera and thumb keyboard all together.

So, what do you think?

(posted from a Palm Treo 700w)

Checking up on Diablo

I don't get over to Diablo Cody's blog [not "family friendly," as CNN says] as often as I should, but when I do, there's usually something interesting going on.

A couple of months ago, she published a book, then she was on Letterman plugging it. She's sold a screen play that's currently in casting.

And now she's hit the "Big Time." CNN Entertainment has interviewed her.

The part I liked best about the interview is the part that echoes what I've been saying about Diablo for a couple of years now. This quotation is from the publisher of her book, Lauren Marino, executive editor at Gotham Books:

"It wasn't so much the subject matter that attracted me as it was her voice. She can write about anything and make me want to read it. She's so intelligent and witty. She's funny, she's edgy and she's got a great sensibility."

Exactly.

See? I told you she's funny.

P.S.: If you haven't seen her Letterman interview, check it out. She gets off some pretty decent one-liners. Even Dave seems to enjoy the interview.

Who says being green can't be fun?

Tesla Motors is introducing a new, all-electric roadster. They claim a 250 mile-per-charge range, 0-60 in about 4 seconds, a top speed over 130 MPH and a recharge time of about 3.5 hours.

Is Tesla Motors a subsidiary of GM, Ford, Toyota or Honda? Oh, no. It's the brain child of Martin Eberhard (who, not surprisingly has a blog), a Silicon Valley electronics engineering entrepreneur and start-up veteran. He figured that Detroit didn't know jack about how to efficiently harness a battery. File this under "If you want something done right..." You know the rest.

Here's a search at AutoBlog.com for Telsa-related articles.

Wired.com has written an article.

If I had $80K floating around that I didn't need, I'd be all over this little baby.... except... it looks a bit cramped for the 6-foot-plus crowd...

Fwiw, a sedan is in the works for release in 2008. (yawn)

There are photo layouts at both Tesla Motors and at Wired. Check this out. Very cool.

Mum's Website is Up!

July 14th was the big day. Mum went live with her website. Whoopie!!!