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80!

CP: 80 per cent of TV sets tuned in to Canada-U.S. final

EIGHTY percent? Holy shit, that's staggering. As the article suggests, it shows how important that game was to Canadians. Our national pride was on the line, 100%. (Americans: trust me on that.)

U.S. troops detail fierce fighting

CNN.com: U.S. troops detail fierce fighting in Afghan campaign

I'm reminded of the movie, Starship Troopers (official site). They underestimated their enemies, too.

I remember seeing a documentary on PBS about the Soviet-Afghan war (which went on for nearly 20 years)... it's not as if the Soviets were pushovers. They faced the same problem as we do now... fighting warriors who know how to fight in those mountains and caves.

Lovely.

EJB is indeed lame

101 complaints? It might take me as long to read this as the EJB spec itself! (hundreds of pages long)

Bad Managers: EJB's 101 Damnations

Haven't read this yet, but I wanted to point to it before I got all distracted by the fun WebObjects work I'm doing today.

Power for my PowerBook

My AC adaptor is flaky, so sometimes I have to futz with it before it'll actually be providing power. To make things worse, my battery is on it's last legs... (it would tell you it's just a flesh wound) I'm lucky to get 20 minutes battery life on it.

Got into work this morning, and plugged in my PowerBook as usual. Unfortunately, now my AC adaptor is completely screwed. And, my battery was drained. PowerBook is dead. Won't boot.

So unfortunately that means I have to replace them. I was hoping to wait a month before I did it but looks like that won't happen.