<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><channel><title>Personal @ epesh.blog-city.com</title><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Personal) </description><copyright>Copyright 2009 epesh.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:29:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><itunes:author></itunes:author><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><language>en-us</language><itunes:summary>(Personal) </itunes:summary><image><title>Personal @ epesh.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/</link></image><itunes:image href="http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif"/><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Homeschoolers win spelling bee ... again... *yawn*</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/homeschoolers_win_spelling_bee__again_yawn.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/homeschoolers_win_spelling_bee__again_yawn.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=homeschoolers%5Fwin%5Fspelling%5Fbee%5F%5Fagain%5Fyawn</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Congrats to Evan O’Dorney, winner of the National Spelling Bee. 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I want a new aggregator, I'm really a bit busy to write one, and I keep thinking that somewhere we (as a community) could write something that ended up not being a ton of crap.]]></description><category>blog</category><category>aggregator</category><category>java</category></item><item><title>Datasynapse Podcast from J1 2007</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/datasynapse_podcast_from_j1_2007.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/datasynapse_podcast_from_j1_2007.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 12:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=datasynapse%5Fpodcast%5Ffrom%5Fj1%5F2007</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While at JavaOne 2007, I recorded a podcast with Gordon Jackson from DataSynapse, an application virtualization vendor. 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I always found Vonnegut's writing to be bitter, liberal, funny, and dishonest in an admirable sort of way.]]></description><category>vonnegut</category></item><item><title>Help Me Test JNDI and JMS in Glassfish</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/help_me_test_jndi_and_jms_in_glassfish.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/help_me_test_jndi_and_jms_in_glassfish.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=help%5Fme%5Ftest%5Fjndi%5Fand%5Fjms%5Fin%5Fglassfish</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Would you be willing to test out instantiation of a namespace in JNDI on Glassfish startup? I can't figure out for the life of me why I can't get JMS resources to survive a restart.]]></description><category>jms</category><category>jndi</category><category>glassfish</category><category>administration</category><category>java</category><category>ee</category></item><item><title>Violence on blogs, the Bileblog, and parochialism</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/violence_on_blogs_the_bileblog_and_parochialism.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/violence_on_blogs_the_bileblog_and_parochialism.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=violence%5Fon%5Fblogs%5Fthe%5Fbileblog%5Fand%5Fparochialism</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kathy Sierra's situation with threats sent to her blog is intolerable, but sometimes the reaction to it - being applied to sites found unpleasant - is wrong too. Let's ALL grow up some.]]></description></item><item><title>A poem I wrote to bid my father farewell</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/a_poem_i_wrote_to_bid_my_father_farewell.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/a_poem_i_wrote_to_bid_my_father_farewell.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fpoem%5Fi%5Fwrote%5Fto%5Fbid%5Fmy%5Ffather%5Ffarewell</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My rabbi - well, okay, my father's rabbi, really, but I'll claim him - asked me to write a poem for my father to use at his funeral. I'm no poet, but I wrote this despite my lack of skill.]]></description></item><item><title>Good-bye, Dad.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/goodbye_dad.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/goodbye_dad.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=goodbye%5Fdad</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Barry Morton Ottinger
1934-2007
Human Being
Rest in Peace.]]></description></item><item><title>Treasure the time you have.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/treasure_the_time_you_have.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/treasure_the_time_you_have.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=treasure%5Fthe%5Ftime%5Fyou%5Fhave</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I'm watching my father surrender rather quickly to a blastoma: treasure the time you have with the people you love. The memories you have, the impact you have on your people... those last forever and are a huge part of what makes you who you are.]]></description><category>father</category><category>family</category><category>cancer</category><category>memory</category></item><item><title>Five Things You Might Not Have Known About The Me-Ness</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/five_things_you_might_not_have_known_about_the_meness.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/five_things_you_might_not_have_known_about_the_meness.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=five%5Fthings%5Fyou%5Fmight%5Fnot%5Fhave%5Fknown%5Fabout%5Fthe%5Fmeness</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Five things you probably didn't know about me because you didn't realise how much you didn't care but you probably do know how much you didn't care now...]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;Two approaches to journalism?&quot; Bullcrap.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/two_approaches_to_journalism_bullcrap.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/two_approaches_to_journalism_bullcrap.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=two%5Fapproaches%5Fto%5Fjournalism%5Fbullcrap</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tim Bray posted "Two Approaches to Journalism" in which he said, among other things:TheServerSide.com ran a story whose title was a lie, without talking to me or anyone, presumably looking for flameage, and they got some.Well, Tim, in all honesty, I]]></description><category>java</category><category>tss</category><category>theserverside</category><category>tim bray</category><category>php</category></item><item><title>Justice is such a big word for this... except when it&apos;s not done.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/justice_is_such_a_big_word_for_this_except_when_its_not_done.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/justice_is_such_a_big_word_for_this_except_when_its_not_done.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=justice%5Fis%5Fsuch%5Fa%5Fbig%5Fword%5Ffor%5Fthis%5Fexcept%5Fwhen%5Fits%5Fnot%5Fdone</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am SOOOOOO MAD. I am so mad I could chew rebar and spit out thumbtacks. I'm hopping mad, furious.

Why, you ask? Well, boy, are you in for it. Pardon my venom; like I said, I'm mad as hell.

So our stupid neighbour ended up suing us over the fe]]></description></item><item><title>Minesweeper to... flowersweeper?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/minesweeper_to_flowersweeper.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/minesweeper_to_flowersweeper.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=minesweeper%5Fto%5Fflowersweeper</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Apparently, with Vista, MS is going to allow people to change Minesweeper's mines to flowers, instead. Let me please add my voice to the chorus: WHAT THE....]]></description><category>ms</category><category>minesweeper</category><category>vista</category><category>stupidity</category></item><item><title>JBoss Clustering installation issues</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/jboss_clustering_installation_issues.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/jboss_clustering_installation_issues.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=jboss%5Fclustering%5Finstallation%5Fissues</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At a recent JUG, Matt Quinlan dropped by to show off JBoss' clustering capabilities. Really neat stuff: just enable the clustering, start the servers, and run. It doesn't install that way in the real world, but golly, it works.]]></description><category>documentation</category><category>jboss</category><category>distributable</category><category>cluster</category></item><item><title>Family 2.0!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/family_20.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/family_20.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=family%5F20</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I thought I'd explain the length of time since I've last blogged to a wondrous thing: Family 2.0! Yes, that's right: a new edition of my family! Congratulations are welcomed, esp. in the form of, well, money.]]></description></item><item><title>If only I was in eighth grade, I&apos;d be a math wiz.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/if_only_i_was_in_eighth_grade_id_be_a_math_wiz.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/if_only_i_was_in_eighth_grade_id_be_a_math_wiz.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 12:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=if%5Fonly%5Fi%5Fwas%5Fin%5Feighth%5Fgrade%5Fid%5Fbe%5Fa%5Fmath%5Fwiz</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If only I was in eighth grade, I'd be a math wiz.]]></description><category>math</category></item><item><title>JRun Beta Program and what&apos;s wrong with it</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/jrun_beta_program_and_whats_wrong_with_it.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/jrun_beta_program_and_whats_wrong_with_it.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 11:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=jrun%5Fbeta%5Fprogram%5Fand%5Fwhats%5Fwrong%5Fwith%5Fit</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Adobe is running a new beta program for JRun. That's newsworthy, right? So why didn't I publish it on TheServerSide? I wanted to, honest... but I couldn't, not without providing a disservice to the readers.]]></description><category>idiots</category><category>macromedia</category><category>adobe</category><category>theserverside</category><category>jrun</category><category>tss</category></item><item><title>Bush needs to go. Now.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/bush_needs_to_go_now.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/bush_needs_to_go_now.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 11:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bush%5Fneeds%5Fto%5Fgo%5Fnow</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm normally one who sees the term limits for Presidents as a good thing - because it means that regardless of how crappy a President is, he'll be out of office soon enough anyway. But I'm wrong. Bush has to go. NOW.]]></description><category>bush</category><category>impeachment</category><category>politics</category></item><item><title>My Personality Profile</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/my_personality_profile.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/my_personality_profile.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Fpersonality%5Fprofile</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Check out my personality profile!

Of course, for all this, I do disagree with certain aspects... I'm an INTJ, according to Jungian thought (and most tests, although I also occasionally score out as INTP) and the biggest disagreement I have is that]]></description><category>jung</category><category>personality profile</category><category>psychology</category><category>intj</category></item><item><title>Sun&apos;s future</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://epesh.blog-city.com/suns_future.htm</guid><link>http://epesh.blog-city.com/suns_future.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://epesh.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=suns%5Ffuture</comments><dc:creator>Joseph Ottinger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I like Sun, I like Scott, I like Jonathan... I'm just a liker, not an arguer, I guess. But I see Jonathan's promotion to CEO as good primarily because I think it makes transition to the man who will save Sun easier.]]></description></item></channel></rss>