Here are links to some of the latest Longhorn screenshots.  So far, I am not impressed.  Filterable Explorer views, categories to complement folders (I think that is what I saw in the screenshots), desktops as windows, and merged window title and menubar are not exactly worth the upgrade.  Scoble, give us a screenshot that will pop my eyeballs, something that justifies all the hype.  Spill the beans or else!;-p

I played with Roller Weblogger yesterday.  Urgh.  It seems to be using jars from every open source Java projects out there.  WEB-INF/lib contains 50 jars, many of them betas or release candidate versions.  What is the chance of all 50 of them being free of memory leaks?  It also creates a pool of background threads and is memory hungry.  Adding Roller webapp to Tomcat increases memory consumption by 30 meg even before the first request is made.

This is ridiculous considering that JSPWiki adds only 1 meg to total Tomcat footprint which takes up 22 meg with default set of webapps.  SnipSnap which comes with Jetty web server embedded uses only 14 meg total.  Roller Weblogger will become a hallmark example of how not to write a Java web application unless the Roller team isolate non-essential features and options into add-on packages and refactor the remainder.

Notice the odd wind direction?  It's the Santa Ana wind, high deserts' middlefinger to Pacific Ocean.  A simply amazing sight.  I am so glad I don't live in LA.  There must be armies of firefighters down there.  I hope all of them live through this hell.  Did I mention that my older brother is a Fire Chief?

From NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

If the landscape is unfamiliar to you, Mexican border is about at the middle of the picture and Santa Barbara is about one-third down from the top.  You can also see the Monterey Bay near the top.

I was running out of space on my laptop's system drive so I started deleting trash left over by programs long gone.  When I looked inside my user account folder within the idiotically named "Documents and Settings" folder, I was surprised to find several complete copies of JDK and JRE installer files (MSI).  I am not sure why they were there but wiping them out saved me quite a lot of space.  If you installed JDK or JRE on your system, take a look inside:

> %SystemDrive%

    Documents and Settings

      %USERDOMAIN%.%USERNAME%

        Local Settings

          Application Data

Folders containing the copies have OLE GUID names like {ABCD-1234-ABCD-1234}.