Spent a few hours fighting with the runhprof profiler under Java 1.3 before bondolo reminded me that 1.3 was foobar. Luckily I had a 1.3.1 tarball in CVS and my HotSpot VM Exceptions went away.

Spent some time today writing my schema for geekbooks, as well as playing with Postgres 7.1 on OpenBSD. It's surprisingly fast on a celeron 366, which is the only spare database machine I have laying around after since my first postgres/oracle box died and my second one is holding a production database.

I've been re-reading some chapters from Doug Lea's masterful 'Concurrent Programming in Java' If you've never read it, drop everyhing; sell your house, your kids, your wife and buy this book.

I forgot what a good song 'I am the owl' is. Plastic Surgery Disasters is easily my favorite DK album.