It’s nice to remember how easy it is to use the StandardMBean technique to register almost any object to be controlled via JMX.

Chris Karakas has written a wonderful post on “How to use Graphviz to generate complex graphs“

It’s wonderful! Explanation, code, and images are all provided.

Final product as a PNG and a SVG are attached….

The site http://pleac.sourceforge.net/ is a great idea. It’s really nice that the groovy examples are 74% complete. Many thanks to aboutGroovy.com and searchGroovy.org for helping me learn about this.

Today I was reminded of the early 1980s. Prime numbers do that for me — primes make me think of palindromic primes and one of the oddest people I’ve ever met. It was very surreal seeing someone with a large stack of densely printed palindromic prime numbers!

Thanks to Ron for the trip down memory lane….

7650384830567 is both palindromic and prime…
34603630643 is both palindromic and prime…
3970174710793 is both palindromic and prime…
7997784877997 is both palindromic and prime…
9341768671439 is both palindromic and prime…
10947274901 is both palindromic and prime…

[Froederick and Igor are exhuming a dead criminal]
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What a filthy job.
Igor: Could be worse.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: How?
Igor: Could be raining.
[it starts to pour]

It’s good to remember my favorite Peter Green song Oh Well:

I cant help about the shape Im in
I cant sing, I aint pretty and my legs are thin
But dont ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to

Oh well

Now, when I talked to God I knew hed understand
He said, stick by my side and Ill be your guiding hand
But dont ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to

Oh well

For years people have been saying that privacy freaks are, well, freaks who are worrying for nothing.

It’s easy to forget that power corrupts. Then you see a story like “HP admits to pre-texting board members” where HP hired “somebody to impersonate a fellow board member in order to get their phone records.”

It’s good to remember two things:

1. This was happening at the top level of management. This is not a rogue middle manager who’s watched too many episodes of La Femme Nikita.
2. From the story “Douglas says what’s unusual about the HP case is that the company got caught.”

COTSE accounts are fairly cheap. Some may say that CALEA is not pure of heart….

I don’t know much about food. So I was pleasantly surprised when I had the mashed sweet potatoes with bananas side dish at Naked Fish in Bedford, MA last night. I’m glad the waitress recommended these with the Pan-Seared Mahi Mahi. Yum!