Thanks to Dave for reminding me about my blog anniversary.

Don Park's weblog is one year old today. Here's his hello world post. Thanks Don, it's been a very interesting year.

Yes, it has been a very interesting years.  In a way, it was like mining.  Just walk up to a mountain (blogosphere) and start digging, discovering and following new ore veins every day, encountering a few rocks and toxic gas occasionally, running into and befriending an army of fellow miners.

I enjoyed it so much that I think blogging is in my blood stream now.

Bloggers are Mutants!

Hmm.  Dave is either experimenting with invisible permalinks or got a bug somewhere.

Sun released JDK 1.4.2_1 today.  Aside from the usual bug fixes, JavaUpdate is enabled again by default.  You can turn it off from the Update section of Java Plug-In Control Panel.  Note that you might not be able to turn it off if you don't have administrator rights.  At least that restriction was among the list of bug fixes.

Most blogs have a calendar for navigation but not for much else.  I was thinking how nice it would be to enrich it automatically with other information like birthdays of people on blogroll, anniversaries, schedule of conferences I am planning to attend, etc.

Size of the calendar will have to get a little bigger, but mouse-over sensitive date specific details can be displayed in an area immediately below the calendar.  FOAF and iCal/vCal formats can be useful here.  Calendars are also amazing yet under-utilized advertising medium IMHO.