Ducks, Sun Creator, Commanders Robot & Global, Olmecs, Bolton

Todays shipping news: six tiny ducklings in the harbour outside office, another oiltanker in & out
Yesterdays shipping news: an inflatable with 10 guys in camo crouched low came by, all waving red (?) machine guns
no insignia, no flags, maybe they were terra-ists
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Tech notes:
Sun Java Studio Creator (SJC) - an IDE for web-based apps only $100 but...
I am condemned to attempting to get Suns web-based IDE to work.
It does work with pointbase, but that database is cruddy, only because they have a naff registration system before they will part with docs or software.
- Way to discourage customers pointbase! And to think 18 months ago they were quoting me in their happy customer remarks...
...
So I tries mySQL , my favourite lite database (no transactions, but who needs them?)
sadly SJC wont update mySQL - there may be a way but Sun forums are now ignoring me, too many questions...
..
so I try postgreSQL, which is rather neat... Only 17Meg and true transactions..
I get SJC updating Rowsets, then the SunAppServer8 blows up, cant be dealt with
re-install, and now nothing works...

Far Far better to cough up 2 grand and get Borland or IBM... Sun seems to have lost the plot
Sadly I cant justify 2 grand to the boss, even tho I've wasted much more than that in the weeks I've been plagued with Sun
best I remain quiet, here by the bay, and tinker forever with no result in sight...
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Commander Robot & Commander Global killed in Camp Diwa
15Mar2005 ..Philippine police shot dead 22 prisoners as they stormed a Manila jail [Camp Diwa prison]
on Tuesday. ..Alhamser Limbong, alias "Kosovo," Ghalib Andang, alias "Commander Robot," and Najdmi Sabdula, alias "Commander Global," were among the Abu Sayyaf leaders killed on Tuesday.
..the uprising appeared to have been led by Limbong, who was accused of beheading an American hostage..from a Philippine beach resort in 2001.
..Limbong was also charged with carrying out an Abu Sayyaf bomb attack on a ferry near Manila last year that killed at least 116 people.
The one-legged Andang and Sabdula were accused of leading the kidnapping of 21 people from Malaysia's Sipadan island in 2000.

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Did the Olmecs start it all?
map: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/03/14/science/0315-sci-subOLMECch.jpg

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to rude to miss rudepundit
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and more:
http://www.oriononline.org/images/oo/gallery/Colbert/ENL/Image11_ENL.jpg
http://www.oriononline.org/images/oo/gallery/Colbert/ENL/Image09_ENL.jpg

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another chap we would cheerfully see chopped into pieces