Anyone Can Blog; Not All Are Journalists

Around this time last year, New York University professor Jay Rosen declared the "bloggers vs. journalists" debate closed. He cited New York Times writer John Schwartz' own admission that "for vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs."

Java Strings

Handling character strings in Java is supported through two final classes: String and StringBuffer.

Rounding Time

It was a long, hard day. Up early to clean a room of furniture so that new carpet can be put in later this week, off to a real estate refinancing closing after that, back to rake leaves and then the usual computer type work.