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Entries from January 2009

Team sports and Ski hill accidents

January 27th, 2009

After being hit and watching other people getting hit on my local ski hill, I’m working on a few theories.  Fundamentally I think there are a few classes of skier (snowboarder) v.s. skier (snowboarder) collisions.  This is just your day-to-day type, since of these end up with bruises not sled off the hill injuries. Loss [...]

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Problem with Tomcat + WAR + ClassPath (help please)?

January 9th, 2009

I’ve got a very simple problem… I’m trying to get a WAR file running under tomcat that references an external JAR file. I thought it would be as simple as having a manifest file with a class-path. That doesn’t work, clearly I either need to set a web.xml context-param or enable tomcat to look at [...]

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moore’s law and silicon valley

January 7th, 2009

Random thought… Silicon Valley had a downturn in 1987, 2001 and 2009. This yeilds a 14, 8 year cycle. Pretty close to Moore’s law (the rate of downturn increases every ten years). I know, it stupid… told you it was random.

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