Combover: The Movie

Thanks to Boing Boing for alerting me to the upcoming Combover: The Movie. This looks hilarious! :)

June 7, 2004 · 1 min · 17 words · DigitalHobbit

sell your old cell phones

I came across an interesting link on the wireless weblog: CellForCash. They make it easy for you to sell your old cell phones by sending you a postage-paid box. The few phones that I have checked only sold for slightly above $10, but since they make it so easy, I may very well take advantage of this service to get rid of my old cell phones that are gathering dust in various corners and drawers…

June 7, 2004 · 1 min · 75 words · DigitalHobbit

Bruce Tate on mountain biking and J2EE

Bruce Tate, the author of Bitter Java and the upcoming Better, Faster, Lighter Java, published an interesting blog entry on mountain biking and J2EE. He definitely has some very good points, as J2EE has been getting more and more complex since its inception. Lightening up by using some of the simpler, often open source solutions, sounds like a very good idea to me…

June 4, 2004 · 1 min · 63 words · DigitalHobbit

Amazon Plog

Several blogs have reported that Amazon apparently added a new beta feature called Plog, which they define as a personal blog on their website. It sounds like a plog is mostly a different and slightly more up-to-date way of presenting recommendations to the user. On their website they list a few of the more popular blogs as examples, but to be honest I don’t see what their plog feature has to do with blogs....

June 3, 2004 · 1 min · 144 words · DigitalHobbit

Java-Source.Net

Another useful link: Java-Source.Net is a nice collection of open source Java software. It appears to be very complete.

June 3, 2004 · 1 min · 19 words · DigitalHobbit