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Stephen Colebourne's blog: Why JSR-310 isn't Joda-Time
http://blog.joda.org/2009/11/why-jsr-310-isn-joda-time_4941.html
Thoughts and Musings on the world of Java and beyond. Friday, 20 November 2009. Why JSR-310 isnt Joda-Time. One question that has been repeatedly asked is why JSR-310. Wasn't simply the same as Joda-Time. I hope to expain some reasons here. At its heart, JSR-310 is an effort to add a quality date and time library to the JDK. So, since most people consider Joda-Time to be a quality library, why not include it directly in the JDK? Well, there is one key reason - Joda-Time has design flaws. Much of the time...
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Kirk's Non-Technical Rants: British Airways Sound Sucks
http://kirkwylie-nontech.blogspot.com/2009/11/british-airways-sound-sucks.html
Kirk's non-technical writings. Techies don't like reading about cats and zoos and Cambodia for some reason. Thursday, 26 November 2009. British Airways Sound Sucks. I'm on my way to visit my family in Chicago on a British Airways flight. Like the impoverished Startup CEO that I am, I'm in the back in cattle class (and let me tell you, trying to find a way to open a 15" MBP in coach isn't pretty). Does nobody actually check on the state of the audio? My In-Ear iPhone Headphones. View my complete profile.
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Kirk's Non-Technical Rants: The Road to Ambatondrazaka
http://kirkwylie-nontech.blogspot.com/2010/01/road-to-ambatondrazaka.html
Kirk's non-technical writings. Techies don't like reading about cats and zoos and Cambodia for some reason. Saturday, 16 January 2010. The Road to Ambatondrazaka. This was originally written and sent as an email on 31 January 2005. Given the flurry of Madagascar-related posts that I'm expecting over the next few days, I wanted to put it up on my blog! It's completely unchanged from that original email, which wasn't intended for such wide distribution, so forgive anything negative I say until the end.).
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Kirk's Non-Technical Rants: January 2010
http://kirkwylie-nontech.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html
Kirk's non-technical writings. Techies don't like reading about cats and zoos and Cambodia for some reason. Saturday, 16 January 2010. The Road to Ambatondrazaka. This was originally written and sent as an email on 31 January 2005. Given the flurry of Madagascar-related posts that I'm expecting over the next few days, I wanted to put it up on my blog! It's completely unchanged from that original email, which wasn't intended for such wide distribution, so forgive anything negative I say until the end.).
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Kirk's Non-Technical Rants: Dollarization and the Cambodian Economy
http://kirkwylie-nontech.blogspot.com/2008/05/dollarization-and-cambodian-economy.html
Kirk's non-technical writings. Techies don't like reading about cats and zoos and Cambodia for some reason. Wednesday, 14 May 2008. Dollarization and the Cambodian Economy. The first thing is the effective and total dollarization of the economy. They use the US dollar for everything, and when I say that, I mean US dollar bills. This is a remnant of the UNTAC. In addition, they're getting hit by the global food shortage. Cambodia is a net importer of food, and they're buying from non-dollar economies&...
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Kirk's Non-Technical Rants: Gaza Zoo Wrecked
http://kirkwylie-nontech.blogspot.com/2009/01/gaza-zoo-wrecked.html
Kirk's non-technical writings. Techies don't like reading about cats and zoos and Cambodia for some reason. Monday, 26 January 2009. This is all unsubstantiated, as I think you'd guess. However, apparently the recent hostilities have virtually destroyed Gaza Zoo. The London Times has a slightly less inflamatory version. And the animals did nothing wrong. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). For my technical ranting, see Kirk's Rants. For cats and zoos and travel, see Kirk's Non-Technical Rants.
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Kirk's Non-Technical Rants: Living With The NHS Rocks
http://kirkwylie-nontech.blogspot.com/2009/03/living-with-nhs-rocks.html
Kirk's non-technical writings. Techies don't like reading about cats and zoos and Cambodia for some reason. Sunday, 1 March 2009. Living With The NHS Rocks. So I was just watching Random TV (meaning US-based drama shows, to which I'm still addicted, 5 years on), and on came an ad (which I had already seen) about identifying the symptoms of a stroke victim to get immediate action so that you minimize the damage that the stroke might do (and as we all know, time means everything. When dealing with a stroke).
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Kirk's Non-Technical Rants: Delivery Guys Carrying Cellular PDUs
http://kirkwylie-nontech.blogspot.com/2009/01/delivery-guys-carrying-cellular-pdus.html
Kirk's non-technical writings. Techies don't like reading about cats and zoos and Cambodia for some reason. Wednesday, 21 January 2009. Delivery Guys Carrying Cellular PDUs. Background: For my USian visitors, all our credit/debit cards have a smart chip, and you have to put in a PIN rather than signing anything; it's quite secure, and giving your number over the phone is the most significant fraud vector for card payments.). So I made a first order from The Good Earth Express. What a great idea!
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Kirk's Non-Technical Rants: BKK Continues the War on Passengers
http://kirkwylie-nontech.blogspot.com/2008/05/bkk-continues-war-on-passengers.html
Kirk's non-technical writings. Techies don't like reading about cats and zoos and Cambodia for some reason. Wednesday, 14 May 2008. BKK Continues the War on Passengers. Cory Doctorow of Boingboing has an ongoing series of articles (for example, writing about the LHR Terminal 5 Preview. Bangkok's new airport, Suvarnabhumi. So essentially they've said that if you're not going to spend money in the shops, stay the heck out of the airport. Terminals to be horrible, horrible places, for a couple of reasons.
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Kirk's Non-Technical Rants: Hilarious Money Doodles - Not always funny
http://kirkwylie-nontech.blogspot.com/2008/05/hilarious-money-doodles-not-always.html
Kirk's non-technical writings. Techies don't like reading about cats and zoos and Cambodia for some reason. Saturday, 10 May 2008. Hilarious Money Doodles - Not always funny. One of the $20 bills that we received when we got change from a $50 bill (which is what the ATMs here give out) had a very humorous Where's George? Notation on the top. Very humorous, no? Wouldn't it be clever to find out when you check that your bill made its way to a petrol service station in Siem Reap, Cambodia? Oh, and US?