Thursday November 11, 2004 Trivial Tidbits
The Erector Set was first unveiled at the 1913 Toy Fair in New York City by its inventor, Alfred Carlton Gilbert. It was originally called the "Mysto Erector Structural Steel Builder".
A.C. Gilbert won the Gold Medal in pole vaulting at the 1908 Olympic Games in London, England.
The Erector Set is often claimed to have been the subject of the first national advertising campaign in America for a toy.
Ads for the toy first ran in 1913 in the Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, and Popular Mechanics.
( Nov 11 2004, 03:14:01 AM PST )
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Veterans Day
Today is Veterans Day. I, for one, am extraordinarily grateful to our veterans for their valor and the sacrifices that they have made to defend our great nation and the divinely granted rights of its populace.
I urge American readers of this blog to join me in signing this open letter in support of our troops. Our troops deserve our support irrespective of our political affiliations or ideologies.
'Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.' - George Patton
( Nov 11 2004, 02:37:41 AM PST )
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Struts 2.x Proposal
The proposal for Struts 2.x (codename 'Shale') has been published by the Apache Struts project. Of particular interest in this proposal is information about how the major new version of Struts will relate to Java Server Faces.
( Nov 11 2004, 12:49:44 AM PST )
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