Lessons from My Father

"He said two things matter when you break the law: the skill of your attorney and your control of the media."

Juan Thompson's lesson from his father - Hunter S. Thompson
Article on MSN (via Daring Fireball)

DCist

Living in the metropolitan area of D.C.?
Then DCist is definitely something for you. Events, news, ... basically a summary of what's happening in D.C. (and around it) right now.

TorGeo v1.00

A Perl script that combines the cached router information of Tor and Vidalia's geo-cache to create country-specific exit-nodes.
Another fine mini project

NetBeans and Log4J

Thanks to Beanmill, it is now easy to capture Log4J output easily within NetBeans (tested w/ 6.1).
Here some code to make it more clear:

Main.java

import org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator;
public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    PropertyConfigurator.configure("Logging.properties");
    /* ... */
  }
}

MyClass.java

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
public class MyClass{
  private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(MyClass.class);
  public void doSomething(int number) {
    LOGGER.trace("Entering (" + number + ")");
  }
}

Logging.properties

log4j.appender.socket=org.apache.log4j.net.SocketAppender
log4j.appender.socket.RemoteHost=localhost
log4j.appender.socket.Port=4445
log4j.appender.socket.LocationInfo=false
log4j.rootLogger=ALL, socket

"here in korea" blog

Sandra moved with her family from the U.S. to South Korea. Now she fills her blog with thoughts on Korea, issues they are facing, etc.
Here In Korea

San-Zhr Pod Village

A photo series by Craig Ferguson.
- I really like series about abandon houses. Fascinating.
Can be found at : FILE Magazine

iPhone & Flash

Nice article (RoughlyDrafted) why Apple might have waived Adobe's Flash.
And also Gruber's (Darin Fireball) side glance onto it.

iPhone SDK

So the SDK is out in the wild - that's the good news.
The bad news are the " Technical Requirement: Intel processor-based Mac running Mac OS X Leopard"
So no official iPhone software from me, Patrick, b/c I'm still on 10.4 using my ol' PPC PowerBook (Yeah baby!).
I wonder why, since it is a cross-compiler anyway (ARM)? Maybe the Simulator ... well there is still the unoffical GNU based (GCC, etc.) kit.