Monthly Archives: March 2007

The Jesus Family Tomb: Is It The Family of Jesus the Christ?

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 6, 2007

People have been asking my opinion, so I thought I’d throw it out there in blog format, instead of just strewn about in a bunch of comments across a variety of blogs. For those who managed to avoid it (consider yourselves lucky), the Discovery channel aired something last Sunday called “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” [...]

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An Open Letter to the “Conservatives”

By Brian Hurt | Published: March 5, 2007

Dear sir or madam: I write this in response to this Open Letter to Ann Coulter. My response is: nope. Sorry- too late. Ann Coulter has never been “witty, intelligent, and provactive”. She has always been a shrill purveyor of rank hatred. At the CPAC conference she did not “cross the line”, or at least [...]

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Lots of Positive During Phone Review for Agile 2007

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 3, 2007

I just got off the phone with one of the people from the Experience Report review committee. Things sound REALLY promising for having me present at Agile 2007: my experience report was apparently exactly what they were looking for, it was well-written, and I apparently did just fine presenting myself over the phone. C’mon, baby…daddy [...]

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Skip Lists in Java6

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 1, 2007

Looks like skip lists made it into Java6 — there isn’t a naked version that I can find, but they crop up in java.util.concurrent as a nifty way to bypass some awkward synchronization issues. Edit: Pointed out in comments that it’s just since Java6, not Java5. I didn’t realize Java6 changed the core API!

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