The Goldfish Chronicles

Spain are the justified winners, and thanks to the growth of football on US TV I was able to see a little bit. ESPN2 had most of the matches, which I don’t have, but for the knockout rounds things moved to ESPN1 which I do have. So I watched a couple of games on there.

The final however was on ABC. Even in the 7 years I’ve been here, that’s a big jump. Sure it’s a Sunday afternoon, so not really prime time, but to be on one of the main channels is good. Even better… at last…. the commentators were the Sky Sports commentators (Andy Gray and Adrian Healey) and not some weak US equivalent. I doubt the same would happen for a World Cup when the US are playing, too much assumption that the US viewer gives a crap about the human interest stories that commentators love here, but for Euro 2008 we got some great commentating.

Now time to hide on CBC (Canadian main channel) watching the Olympics and hiding from the US TV fascination with gymnastics.

I stopped being an officer at Apache for the first time since I became Jakarta chair:

V.P., Apache Jakarta  Henri Yandell [June 28, 2004 - July 19, 2006]
Director Henri Yandell [June 15, 2006 - June 5, 2008]
V.P., Audit Henri Yandell [ Jul 19, 2006 - June 25, 2008]

Very close to 4 years.

The argument about a permissive rather than copyleft Java continues to go on. The latest is that Geir has proposed a license for allowing permissive Java (or rather any OSI license) - http://people.apache.org/~geirm/PROPOSAL-NFP-OSI-JCK-20080623.pdf based on the existing license for the copyleft version (OpenJDK/IcedTea).

Geir talks about it here: http://markmail.org/message/a2lywh7g22rp5eeh.

End of the day, Sun think the future of Open Source is the GPL-as-a-defense model and not the being open model.

Gianugo’s wife is expecting. Yet more fodder for a future kids.apache.org to fill in the missing ‘K’.

Add the white chocolate drops at the end: http://blog.generationjava.com/roller/bayard/entry/200701241

Today’s daily deal is The Police’s Synchronicity. I think I have this on tape somewhere, but as the car is the only place that plays such things and I don’t drive, time to dig around for $1.99.

Just finished making cocoa oat white chocolate cookies. Still warm and out of the oven - and I’m restricting myself to a mere three. Plus lots of milk to wash them down. So good.

Btw, I’m quite impressed with the Lux game for the Mac. It’s a fair amount of fun and I splashed out the cash… eventually. My old Dell laptop is getting very tired, but I’ve found I’ve been playing Microprose’s Risk on there a lot. Now if only Lux could add the Sametime feature, it’s a much better version of Risk - planning your moves without knowing what your opponent is planning at the same time.

I just upgraded to Firefox 3, very nice so far. a) It’s fast, GMail is now quicker than using Outlook or Thunderbird and b) I love that when it asks to remember a password, it does so in such a way that you can wait to confirm that that is the right password. So as my wife would say, color me happy.

Of course after checking that GMail was nice and quick, I checked the personal sites and then went to Amazon.com. Where I was reminded of the new Daily Deal cheap album bit on the Digital Download site. Friday it was $1.99 for a Coldplay album we have, I didn’t look yesterday but today it was a Barenaked Ladies album that my wife doesn’t have, so for the princely sum of $2.99 I bought my first ever mp3s (amazing I know… up til now I’ve always bought CDs because it hadn’t passed the magic price point for me of having an automatic backup disc.

I’ll be looking tomorrow to see what the next daily deal is