09.29.08
Jboss, JMS and UIL2
At work, I’ve been struggling with a thread leak related to JMS and JBoss.
Thanks to Murrays posting I was able to resolve the issue!
Murray’s Blog » Blog Archive » JBoss thread leaking JMS problem
To translate into JEE 5 speak: Close your MessageProducer, your Session and your Connection after sending the message!
09.10.08
iTunes 8 – Hide Genre in browser
I’ve just updated my iTunes to version 8 on both my Vista and Mac. Unfortunately apple has decided to remove the option to hide the genres while browsing.
Luckily I found these pages:
Ocram’s Blog » Blog Archive » iTunes 8 – Hide Genre in browser/iTunes store links on Windows
And:
macosxhints.com – Disable the Genre column in the iTunes 8 Browser
06.30.08
Yet another opinionated post
It seems Illiad has his fair share of opinions: UserFriendly – Most nations has their dark spots in their history.
06.21.08
A trip with my employer
Yesterday, my employer arranged a little trip. We all went to a little town called Mellerup. We went waterskiing, rode a water-scooter and had fun on a segway X2. It was a good trip, but unfortunately the weather was unkind to us. It was windy and with occasional rain.
At about seven p.m. we fired up the grills and had a good meal – much needed, because I was exhausted from playing around in the water. As we sat there, eating, we saw the weather improving tremendously. The wind went away and the raining stopped. Ah, such is life 
Good trip, all in all.
Me in a wet suit:
06.10.08
The 7 Commandments All Video Games Should Obey
A funny read! My take? The points actually have some merit!
05.08.08
Vista SP1 on a Thinkpad T61p
At work, I got a Thinkpad T61p with Vista Ultimate for my computing needs. Unfortunately Service Pack 1 would not appear in Windows Update. No updates were available through Lenovo System Update.
Reading the release notes from Microsoft led me to suspect the fingerprint chips driver was the culprit. A quick visit to Upek (producer of the chip) led me to updated drivers, and presto! after a couple of reboots Service Pack 1 appeared in Windows Update. Nice
