Is it just me or is a passing year sort of depressing. When I look back on 2007 I feel sad it is over. I had a good year. It was a rough year at times, but also a defining year for me. I took a new job, the first time I changed employment in 15 years. I started exercising more. I’m less than a year away from my 10th anniversary. I have a daughter in first grade who is a whiz that constantly amazes me. I have another one who should be in school because she is so smart, but missed the cutoff date.<!—break --> [read more...]

I have been wanting a way to carry my passwords around with me. I purchased a USB card. The next step was to find a way to easily manage the passwords on the disk. After much searching, I found a java application, that has been written to work nicely with Mac OS X. It is called Universal Password Manager.

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Leopard looks really cool. But now I am finally obsolete. I have a dual G4 500 mghz. The requirements are g4, but you need to be above 857 mghz. Well, I guess I can't run an old mac forever. I've found the banter on the web over the issue of Apple not including java 6 interesting.

I think it is important to have java on the mac. Enterprise applications are often written in java. Having the mac be a viable tool to run and edit java code is important. But having said that, I also believe it will only be a matter of time for java 6 to be a standard port on the Mac.

I found the blog post that Ted Leung wrote to be very level headed.