There has never been an indigenous Anabaptist movement in Britain. The few Anabaptists who crossed the English Channel were forcibly ejected in the late sixteenth century. But in the past few decades Christians from many traditions in Britain (and in many other nations) have rediscovered this movement and have begun to value its legacy.

The Napkin Look & Feel is a pluggable Java look and feel that looks like it was scrawled on a napkin. You can use it to make provisional work actually look provisonal, or just for fun.

A new study shows that eating oily fish such as salmon or trout as little as once a week during pregnancy may help protect your children against developing asthma. On the other hand, eating processed fish sticks may boost your offspring's risk of developing asthma

"Moby Dick" - Careful listening to this song reveals a variety of noises which could range from Bonham moving about on the drum stool to various sqeaking noises, probably drum pedals. There is a particularly odd scraping noise at 1:58.

Clustering is just hard.

With folk so whitewashed, Mr. Dylan led an exodus of the venturesome into
rock -- a move that goes unnoted in the movie. They carried with them
elements of traditional folk that have been a part of popular music ever
since: a devotion to authenticity (or an approximation thereof), an
inclination to leftist politics (or a vague liberalism), and, above all, a
faith in the folk ethic -- the notion that music is a democratic, amateur
art, a mode of vernacular expression available to anyone without formal
training. In the rock era, this idea has been the great leveler, the force
that drove punk, hip-hop and grunge and will likely spark whatever comes
next.

We cannot change the html markup language but it has become flexible enough such that content publishers can now get around the issue of semantic content by applying "class" and "id" attributes to tags. What publishers end up doing is tagging a div with an id such as "sidebar." As far as I'm concerned, this is equivalent to having a <sidebar> tag. Suddenly combining markup with css stylesheets becomes a task more akin to writing content using a specialized markup language such as docbook. The difference of course is that the rules are completely informal; they're invented by the content developer.

Email disclaimers are statements you often find appended to the end of an email. They sometimes have legal character, sometimes they are meant for marketing. What they have in common is that my blood starts boiling at their sight. Well, I started collecting them at some point.

Please be advised that the information contained in this communication may be confidential and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. Any other use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message.

The Pig Mobile consists of three different-sized piggy banks strung together to illustrate just how big a financial disaster the Iraq War has turned out to be.

The largest pig (by far) shows the financial cost ($200 billion) of America's attack on Iraq, including the projected minimum cost of reconstruction. The smaller pig illustrates how much the federal government spends on K-12 education ($34 billion). And the third pig, which is a wee little pig, shows America's dedication to lessening world hunger and poverty ($10 billion).

Once the initial part of faking my death was over, it was very easy to just "disappear." Plenty of people do this and are reported by their families as missing, only to show up weeks or months later. The trick was staying away for so long. For the stunt to be successful, I had to go away for a very, very long time. I figured twenty years was a good, round number that was long enough and would be totally legendary. I've been keeping a low profile, traveling the world, working odd jobs and practicing transcendental meditation.

Only 25 percent of all PC users fully utilize their computer’s energy saving features. The LBL hypothesizes that these high levels of disabling are caused, in part, by the varied and confusing office equipment power control interfaces. The LBL proposes that by making power management controls more intuitive and consistent across all office equipment, people will enable energy saving features more fully and thereby reduce overall energy consumption. An international standard for the symbols does exist (IEC 60417 and ISO 7000); however, those few manufacturers that adhere to the standard often implement it in different ways.

The first steps to understanding Columbine, they say, are to forget the popular narrative about the jocks, Goths, and Trenchcoat Mafia—click here to read more about Columbine's myths—and to abandon the core idea that Columbine was simply a school shooting. We can't understand why they did it until we understand what they were doing.

"What was the song used in that television commercial?" Now you can find the answer at Adtunes.com - the weblog of information on music from TV ads, film trailers, and more.

Communist radicals got a bad rap in the 20th century because they wanted to take over the world and brainwash everybody. More efficient, they said. More humane, they claimed. A better way to run things, so they thought.

These days, the rebel youth aren’t so busy admiring Marx as they are giving each other tutorials on how to use XHTML Strict. Bravely battling JavaScript menus and eradicating layout tables, admonishing us to “please think of the children” and design our pages so they’re compatible with the handhelds of next century. Same conformist thinking, same lousy outcome.

It has been difficult to recognize this problem because for almost a century in the West, democracy has meant liberal democracy -- a political system marked not only by free and fair elections, but also by the rule of law, a separation of powers, and the protection of basic liberties of speech, assembly, religion, and property. In fact, this latter bundle of freedoms -- what might be termed constitutional liberalism -- is theoretically different and historically distinct from democracy. As the political scientist Philippe Schmitter has pointed out, "Liberalism, either as a conception of political liberty, or as a doctrine about economic policy, may have coincided with the rise of democracy. But it has never been immutably or unambiguously linked to its practice." Today the two strands of liberal democracy, interwoven in the Western political fabric, are coming apart in the rest of the world. Democracy is flourishing; constitutional liberalism is not.

1. Install DB2 if it is not already installed.
2. On the database server, create a database to use for the session data. I assume you need one database for each server group, I haven't tried doing it any other way.
3. Install the DB2 Admin Client on the app server box box. (Skip this step if this is the same machine where you installed the DB2 database)
4. Run Start->Programs->IBM DB2->Client Configuration Assistant on the app server.
5. Choose "add".
6. Choose "Manually configure a connection to a database".
7. Protocol: TCP/IP
8. Hostname: (whatever DB server is being used)
9. Port: 50000
10. Database and database alias: (whatever name you created)
11. Take the defaults for everything else .
12. Finish.
13. Test the connection.
14. Assuming that the binaries for the admin client installed in c:\program files\sqllib, go into c:\program files\sqllib\java12 and execute these commands in this order. This is absolutely neccessary in order for WebSphere to be able to use the db2 libraries.
    • jdbc20.exe
    • usejdbc2.bat
15. In websphere, set up a JDBC provider for DB2. The jar file for the classpath is c:\program files\sqllib\java\db2jdbc.zip. Note that is a ZIP file, not a JAR.
16. Configure a datasource under this provider. In single-server edition, there are places to enter the "databaseName". Use the same one that you've used in all the other steps. In advanced, you have to add this as a custom property.
17. In the properties of the server group, go to "Services" tab. Highlight the "Session Manager Service" and hit "Edit Properties".
18. On the "Persistence" tab, check "enable persistent sessions".
19. Choose the "Low (optimize for session failover)" performance option.
20. On the database tab, configure the same datasource you set up in step 16.
21. If you get errors about "unsatisfied link" or something about DLL files not being in JAVA_LIBARARY_PATH, try restarting the admin server or as a last resort the physical machine.

Eavesdroppers can decipher what is typed by simply listening to the sound of a keystroke, according to a scientist at this week's IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy in Oakland, Calif.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="normal.css" />
<!-- [if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="iewin.css" />
<![endif]-->

This is an attempt to make Microsoft Internet Explorer more compliant when it comes to web standards.

IE7 represents an amalgamation of disparate solutions to Explorer's rendering problems. The solutions it provides can be summarised as follows:

* CSS2/3 selectors
* box-model (including min/max-width/height)
* PNG transparency
* Broken XHTML tags

The tenets for this development are (where possible):

* IE7 will not alter the document structure
* IE7 will not pollute the global (JavaScript) namespace
* IE7 will subvert proprietary Microsoft properties/methods to imitate W3C standards

And one additional consideration:

* IE7 will sacrifice performance in favour of standards

versions 5 and earlier have a bug that results in url variables declared
multiple times to only result in a single value rather than a list of
values. this has been fixed in cfmx. for example:

?foo=bar&foo=far&foo=boo

url.foo should equal bar,far,boo. in cfmx it is. in cf5 it will equal the
last value of the last variable it encounters boo.