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I’ve been sick for more than a week but it’s finally almost over. Before I got sick I was working my way through the The Java EE 5 Tutorial which is actually really terrible. It’s supposed to be the official tutorial for Java Enterprise Edition but it’s full of weird jumps and assumptions and useless information. I’ll probably read a couple more chapters and then find some decent docs. Since a couple of weeks I have another big project in mind which might be cool to make with JavaEE. It will also involve Hibernate so even if it won’t be any good it will still be helpful for my colloquium talk (which will be about Hibernate).

I just noticed something weird with SSH and Firefox. I was running Iceweasel (the Debian version of Firefox) on a remote computer over SSH with X forwarding. Then when I started Firefox on my local machine, instead of starting my own Firefox it started a new instance of Iceweasel for some reason. Even explicitly starting /usr/bin/firefox on my local machine gave me Iceweasel (which isn’t even installed on my local machine). Only after I closed all instances of Iceweasel could I run my own Firefox again. I’m not sure if this behavior was intended but apparently the browser shares state even with remote and different versions.

Yesterday when I got home the power was out in my room. When I tried turning it back on again the fuse died. By unplugging all power eating machines and plugging them in again one by one I ended up with my tv. The moment I plugged it in it more or less exploded. It gave a loud bang, sparked and… started to smell. I’m glad I decided to hook up all my stuff to a surge protecter a while ago so luckily nothing else seems to be broken.
After I got online I heard that I’m given an admin position at a webgame I play called Nowhere Else and Beyond. Now that I can’t use my tv anymore to play with my Wii I’ll have more time to do some coding work there =)
Oh and I found somebody who makes Music Mashups: DJ Earworm. He doesn’t just mix one song’s end to the beginning of the next, but actually makes new songs by completely combining them. It’s really cool so go listen to his stuff and let me know if you find some really good songs.