Joyeux Noel everyone

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Closures for Java: The Straw Man

From Mark Reinhold’s Blog

Closures: we've got them

Mark Reinhold on Closures, and Colebourne's entry on the same subject

Société Générale tells clients how to prepare for potential 'global collapse'

From the Telegraph

Ca va casser de"main"

Supplice

La France a son ticket en "main"

France qualified for the world cup

What a shame. Henry.. man. The first hand might have not been on purpose, but the second one clearly controls the ball...
I am sorry for all the Irish. A victory not-deserved, but still a trip to SA.

That's it - no more Mac

Today, my Mac failed to back up via Time Machine. I thought the issue was with my external hard-drive... but it was not. My Mac does not recognize firewire or usb external devices anymore...
I have had enough, 2 batteries, one screen, no usb/firewire, a new screen that flickers...

I have backed up my 16 gig photos (since 2000) via Wifi.. to my old PC running Vista... this task took 3 h over wifi!

That and the fact that one need to upgrade to a 64bits Mac to have Java 6... no way.

Next laptop: a cheap one, running Ubuntu, plus Picassa.. and that's it - NO ITUNES. I'll wait for a music service from Google, OS-independent.

That's Apple, you've lost me as a customer.