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time for JavaOne Scoop!

Did you know  "Click and Hack, the type-it brothers"  (aka  Dr. Joshua Bloch and Dr. Neal Gafter)

have two JavaOne sessions. Count 'em. One. Two.

and did you know that i'm in cahoots with those two guys. and that i'm going to debut what we've been up to on Friday.
do you have it on your calendar to check back in with me on Friday, people??

and here's another did-you-know which i found out by reading Calvin and Blogs, which you need to bookmark... our very own Dr. Josh just made DE -- Distinguished Engineer for those of you not in the biz. This is one of the highest honors one can achieve at Sun Microsystems. These guys get to wear the fancy gowns at graduation.

Congrats Dr. Josh!!

we're getting off the JavaOne Scoop train of thought... sorry... let's focus... but before we do that...

can i just ask why you engineers do this when you reply to an email that you agree with: +1

would it really be so hard for you to say: "I agree." or "I'm with you on that one, buddy." or "You got a hallelujah from the amen chorus over here."

that's rhetorical, people. i don't expect you to answer. so back off on the reply buttons, ok?

anyway... back to focusing... JavaOne Scoop...

get ready...here's another

MaryMaryQuiteContary EXCLUSIVE!! (and you can thank Dan Lacher for telling me how to make text blink! thanks Dan!! big kiss!!)

Let's recap here, people. In this space I've already delivered to you the following exclusives:
1. Choo. Choo. (and i'm starting to think you people are dense because you're just not getting it.)
2. You get to cross-pollinate at Moscone.
3. I am soon going to introduce you to Jack and you're going to love him.

here's the latest scoop and nobody knows this other than a few select Sun employees (including James Gosling) and MaryMaryQuiteContrary readers:

4. On Thursday 6/24 java.sun.com will run an exclusive interview with James Gosling.

that's right. you heard it here first. shift, reload.  (ok, maybe that one wasn't quite as hot. you can't expect me to be "on" every day. this isn't as easy as it looks, people)

and that's all for today, folks.

mary

guess what?? zero degrees of separation and i didn't even know it...

Remember Bruce Hopkins, who won Friday Free Stuff??

so i used to write for java.sun.com. and in June, 2000 i wrote a story about J2ME. guess who's mentioned in the story -- none other than  Bruce Hopkins. same guy. he's an author of a java book too... and that makes him a techno-celeb... and he became my personal friend before i discovered he was a techno celeb. so that's definately the platinum-level elite group of techno celebs who are my personal friends. 

quick... hurry... put his book on your amazon wish list for father's day... it's not too late.

...such a small world.

there's so much that we share that it's time we're aware it's a small world after all...

sing it with me, people.

uncovering this little tidbit totally put me in a good mood. sorry for being cranky earlier.

mary

so there's a really interesting article about BioJava on java.sun.com this week. BioJava is an open source project creating a java technology based tookit for all those smart guys and gals figuring out the human genome.

so this is hugely interesting and provocative and all that...

meanwhile, in an article that appeared in Wired recently, Bill Joy says that nanotechnology and genetic engineering are a threat to our humanity.

ok... get ready, people... here's the part where i get controversial on you... i'm going to disagree with Bill Joy -- widely regarded as one of the smartest guys to draw breath from the same atmosphere that sustains me...

well, you know what, Bill: the sun is expanding and someday this lovely planet is going to be toast.

meanwhile, we can't achieve even the simplest of tasks: get the traffic lights to synchronize. our school systems churn out children who can't read and write (much less do math). we've got people with the keys to the store who declare wars on countries that they couldn't find on a physical map of the globe.

i don't think we have a lot to worry about. we're actually not that smart.

how's that for a line in the sand?

mary