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We found this in an old family Bible; note that nobody from my family signed it (Click on the image for a larger version)

BeanShell - Lightweight Scripting for Java

BeanShell is a cool thing I found a little while back; it’s a scripting environment for java.  At first I didn’t see the point, but when you bring up the BeanShell Desktop that’s included in the download, it gives you a console where you can test out java stuff.  It even lets you use Swing, or any other java library I suppose.  I use it mostly for testing out regular expressions, or for doing quick sanity checks to make sure my code is going to do what I expect it to do.  Check it out; I’m sure you can find something to use it for.

O.J. Simpson book, TV show canceled - CNN.com

Fox being decent and responsible? Wow.

Update: Newscorp pulled it, not fox. If fox had its way, it would probably still be on.

Ok; back from the movie (Stranger Than Fiction). It was really good by the way; it was original, and Will Farrell did an awesome job in it; and it wasn’t just the normal crazy Will Farrell, it was a fairly serious role. I would highly recommend it. I’m pretty excited about some of the movies that are coming out in the next year or so; I just saw a teaser ad for Spiderman 3, and Tenacious D: Pick of Destiny has the potential of being an awesome movie (it has an equal amount of potential of being a really dumb movie too). There were a few others too that looked good, but I can’t think of them right this moment.

Anyway, one of the things I wanted to blog about was a program that I’ve had for a while; it’s called Pure Text, and it allows you to strip the formatting out of text you paste from your clipboard. I really hate it when I try to copy text from a web page into an email or something only to have it mess up my font and everything. Anyway, it’s free, and you can get it here. Many thanks to lifehacker for that by the way; I check it daily and find all sorts of cool tips.

First off; apparently my blog software decided it doesn’t want to email me when there are comments anymore, so I’m sorry that I haven’t approved comments recently- I need to fix that.  I’m sorry for not posting for a while too- every time I start, I have to do something and I don’t finish… Like now…. Sorry, Calin and I are going to see Stranger than Fiction.  I’ll write more later, I promise