Getting Things Done...Finally

Okay, after more time and countless jokes, I have finally completed David Allen's Getting Things Done. It is a great book on getting your life organized, dumping all the things in your head out to avoid the stress, figure out what is the next action to move your tasks along, and finally just plain get motivated and get to it. I highly recommend it to those that are in need if a little organization on their lives.

Grumble...Grumble...

This will teach me to check my site more often. I week or so ago, I checked it and found it was unavailable. I suspect someone has been doing something to the site.

I worked with support of my host service to get access to it.

They set things back up however my "cookie cutter" in work web pages were no longer available.

In the process, it also appears someone has been using the site to store unknown things (in all my years, I do not recall using my site to download car related web sites and other miscellaneous things).

Sometime back I had found my site had been hacked. I suspect this was either left over from then and I didn't notice or was broken into again.

I removed all the content I did not recognized (including some that I did but knew I was never going to do anything with it). I got access back, changed passwords, limited access as much as I could tell. Hopefully this will prevent further troubles. Will see.

Well on a bright side, this is getting me to post again. I have been out of action as far as blogging goes. Maybe that will change.

Mobile Blogging

Not sure if I will do much mobile blogging but you never know when it could come in handy for on the go stuff. I found an app which I'm going to try so we will see if this works.

Thoughts on JCP, JCRs and Many things
With all the troubles in the JCP community((1), (2), (3), and (4)), I thought I would provide some of my thoughts on the JCP, JSRs, RIs, TCKs, etc.

I believe:
(1) RIs and TCKs should be separate from the JSR and the JCP.
(2) JSR Specs (not RI) and Test Specs (not TCKs) should be provided by the JCP.
(3) Control of Java (TM) and Patents directly effecting a JSR should be turned over to the JCP.
(4) Additional patents in an implementation (not spec) would then be part of the RI/TCK and not limited in compliance of the Specs. So then any patent issues would be against the implementors (not the JCP).
(5) Oracle (Sun) should not be given a permanent veto controlling leadership position in the JCP. The leadership role should be elected and voted just like everything else.
(6) JCP (or a Validation WG) can be a validating body if they so chose to take up that role. Implementors can provide their implementation for acceptance against the Test Spec (not TCK).
(7) Commercial interests addressed would be addressed by individual, groups, and companies with their own implementations, independent of the JCP with their own licensing for their own implementation. The public could then identify which implementation they like best in the market.
(8) Oracle/Sun still owns (an open source based) OpenJDK code base implementation.

Reference:

• (1) Is JCP Dead


• (2) ASF Resigns


• (3) JSR for Java 7


• (4) IP in Picture

Video Screencasts

Received a link to a site with many Video Screencasts over at CSS Tricks. This might be worth checking out.

Blogger Move Complete

Okay, after some additional pain, I appear to have successfully moved both A's and my blogger accounts. I still am a little concerned that the files are no longer directly on my site per say, but I suppose in the end, this is like Gmail right. If I am willing for them to keep all my mail, why not my blog. Oh well. As I understand things, my original files are still there now, but have been updated with some tags to point to the new location. So the old files are here but it immediately redirects it to the new blogger hosted site here. There is still the giving of control of the "subdomain" eblog.bresie.com, but once again, this may be a small things in the long run.

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How do I use a custom domain name on my blog? - Blogger Help

Okay...so the blogging capabilities we have been using for some time is about to change. Blogger is requiring changes to FTP publishing with a dedicated blog specifically for this. This is requiring some additional handling of custom domains. How do I use a custom domain name on my blog? - Blogger Help. There is a migration tool to help.