I’m still on a diet. I’m still trying to eat more than anyone else. I’m really doing fine.

But how the hell am I going to make dim sum if there’s a cat in the steamer basket? (on second hand…don’t the Chinese put cats in their food anyway?)

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Speeches can be fun. Especially if you have to say something about every person on the team. But then something has to be said about me. The strange person in black, long hair, loving code, being the silent kind of guy.

Seriously, I do weird stuff all the time. Some are so enormous that you can’t go without noticing it such as that thing in India. But of all the things people can think about me and do think about me. Things that I’ve done and what people have read about me…

Why the hell bring up that I travel for hours each day? If that is the only thing you know about me and need to do a speech about me, it pays off reading a bit here and make a joke about my biggest code failures (I remember someone calling me King of the Nested Loops. I’m sure that works) or one of the pictures of me (I remember some dude photoshopping me in to a dress years ago) that tell a tale about stupidities of times past.

But now, I am the very very patient man who spends two and a half hours from work to get home to hug his loving girl. I can tell you this: Up and down that track is 1 battery worth of a GameBoy SP. (Sebe, Ich habe noch immer deine SP! Meinz! )

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I’m really interested about this whole “super mode” of IE8 that’s supposed to do the W3C style correctly. Perhaps I misread the “renders ACID2 correctly”, but the W3C compliant implementation of flash still doesn’t want to render. It does seem to load for ages, but won’t work whatsoever.

I know it’s just a beta, so some functions might be a bit off. I guess I’ll look a bit closer later.

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Sure. An eventHandler for a doubleClick event in JAVA. I’ve seen one, but that was in JUnit in the Swing classes for test purposes. There is no such thing as a doubleClick event. Just a mouseClicked event which is fired from the mouseListener. You can count them, use a timer and throw it through an if.

But I got told on monday as a little challenge to do it without an if. Although I know full well I can use a case as a glorified if, but other than that, there is no reasonable way of doing a doubleClick event.

Read the buglist of Sun. Checked with some people. Just doesn’t happen. So after getting everyone’s minds in check, it’s time to grab that tiger by the tail and HANG ON!

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I went to the fantasy fair today with stepson and fiancee. It was great, aside from the ATM not working there (no, for a change it wasn’t me) which resulted in me walking quite a long way to find the nearest working ATM with a lot of people wearing black.

The fair was “everything you black heart desires”. People were showing off their black clothes. Be it by wearing punk rock clothing, wearing cute gothic clothes or complete outfits. (we even saw an Imperial Stormtrooper, which is quite out-of-place)

Apart from that the people were in great moods and were all dashing about to get their favourite potion, find that special weapon or just to watch what the whole thing was about, there were also some great things like a live band playing and a pageant for gothic clothing lines (Attitude was there. Couldn’t find Large/EMP though).

Of course, there was also a lot of LARP (Life Action RolePlaying) going on and we were able to see a great swordfight going on and even had the chance to shoot a few arrows ourselves.

In the end, we went home with a lot of toys (although the handbinds were too expensive ), knowledge about things we want in our new house later and a few new friends such as a girl who held a board above her head saying “Hug me please” (which I kindly obliged with ) and a woman with a rodent on her shoulder.

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