I just got a letter from We Energies regarding the Energy for Tomorrow Plan. They are reducing the prices on the plan by 30 percent, and are adding solar power and more wind power to the program mix. With that reduction in price, it is almost the same price as getting the electricity [...]
Found this great blog entry. The USPS now delivers more junk mail than regular mail. Actually I’m surprised. I thought junk already far exceeded regular mail. It’s really ridiculous when you think about it. Someone is paying to have garbage delivered to your mailbox. Then you pay someone to [...]
Recently, I was trying to connect to a web service with the Spring Framework JaxRpcPortProxyFactoryBean. The web service and client code were generated with the weblogic servicegen and clientgen ant tasks respectively.
I found this example on the dev2dev site:
http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2005/09/spring_integration_weblogic_server.html?page=3
Unfortunately, it didn’t work for me. I spent almost an entire day trying to get [...]
In Cold Blood is the true story of the murder of the Clutter family in 1959 in Holcomb, Kansas. It was written by Truman Capote, and the writing of this book is the subject of the movie Capote. Although the book is not a mystery, it manages to be extremely suspenseful. We [...]
I was sad to read that Don Knotts passed away today at the age of 81. Although most people liked him best as Barney Fife on the Andy Griffith show, I was a bigger fan of his work in Three’s Company. I never got tired of the same scene where Mr. Furley would [...]
The thesis of Natural Capitalism is that free-market capitalism does not have to destroy our environment, and deplete all of our natural resources. The book gives many examples of companies that have found ways to be environmentally friendly, and be very profitable doing so. Application of advanced technologies that are environmentally sound is [...]
I finally made the jump to Wordpress 2.0.1. It wasn’t really by choice. Some mean hacker found my unpatched version of Wordpress 1.5, and exploited some security holes to send out some spam. Never again will I fail to patch Wordpress . I didn’t have too many problems upgrading. [...]
I received a message from a blog reader about the Sustainable Energy in Motion Bike Tour.
The goal of the bike trips : “to inspire individuals to walk away empowered to make positive changes in the world. Our mission is to inspire, empower, and thus facilitate social change for a better world”. [...]
Original Wisdom is a memoir of the authors experiences with the Sng’oi of Malaysia. The Sng’oi were an indigenous culture that has become extinct since the events happened approximately forty years ago.
Like most aboriginal cultures, the Sng’oi don’t have the problems of modern civilization. Stress and worry don’t exist. People live carefree [...]