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[Monday] Apache releases Axis and net commons, Internet addiction, A gay uk day, Christmas Candle Facts #22, #21, #20
Apache Foundation have made a couple of announcements over the last couple of days. Apache Commons Net was released on Saturday which is just a minor release to fix some 1.4 problems they had. Apache Axis2 v0.93 was released on Sunday, with new support for Java 1.5, better class loading and improved security.
Addicted to the Internet? Maybe you are part of the "10 percent of the approximately 189 million Internet users in this country have a dependency that can be as destructive as alcoholism and drug addiction"? The NewYork Times has a piece about this new trend. Get yourself up to Redmond and see Dr Hilarie Cash for some help. Apparently this becoming a serious problem with more and more people coming in for help. "Hello my name is Alan, and I love the internet". :)
Come the 21st December the UK takes a major step forward by offering civil-partnership weddings, in order words, opening up the flood gates for gay weddings. Registrar's are booked up for the two weeks after the 21st with a registrar in the south of England with over 500 weddings, while in the north of Scotland, they have only 5 bookings. I am sure there is a pun in there about sheep.
Countdown to Christmas Facts #22, #21, #20:
Getting closer to Christmas, and today we have 3 facts on candles. Lighting candles started way back when people worshiped the sun, they were a symbolic gesture to try and ignore the weak sun. The church not too keen on this particular practice, changed the meaning to symbolise divine light that to illuminate the world. Finally, back in the dark irish history, there was a time the catholic religion was banned. So families would light a candle in the window to alert the priest that it was safe to come around and celebrate mass. This then lead to the candle being the international welcoming symbol for all faiths.
Courtesy of http://www.santas.net/candles.htm
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