The Secret World of Exception Handling Frameworks (at Manageability) mentions that ceperez is working on an exception handling framework, which may be available eventually at www.jexception.com. The post also links to his post entitled The Exception Debate: Why Gosling and Hejlsberg are Both In Error
“ATHENS, GA—Captivated by her adorability and off-the-charts hipness, the U.S. populace sheepishly admitted a deep infatuation with 22-year-old Danielle Metzler, that amazing girl with the multi-colored hair who works at Slipped Discs in Athens.” - The Onion
also a couple of funny moments in this one.
Windows-to-Linux roadmap - A roadmap for developers making the transition to Linux, at developerworks. A simple intro.
iRATE radio is a collaborative filtering client/server mp3 player/downloader. via “done with GNU Java Compiler” showcase, via Erik’s Weblog.
Clare says: “there is a cool restaurant in clapham where you can get a pizza made for a whole table of people. it stretches the whole length of the table — it’s excellent - each bit can be different if you want.
“it’s a proper italian with really nice deserts too! lively place!”
A quick search on the remembered chowhound good eating places site told me Clare probably means Pizza Metro, 64 Battersea Rise, nr Clapham Junction. (map).
Sounds suitable for the lads tomorrow 
Anyway, looking at chowhound again, there are no places listed in Maputo - Cameron must fix this, I know he’s blogged a few.
Chowhound has some search results for Mozambique:
“I had great Mozambique prawns and my friend had crocodile.”
BURKS Resource CDs are up to edition 6, which is 2GB of useful stuff, though a lot of it might be dated now. I remember using I think the 3rd edn (often distributed free to uk students) and loving it, but that was before broadband. Very useful to people studying at home with no broadband, or no net conn at all. (I’m reminded of the wired article on the diversity of students benefitting from MIT’s OpenCourseWare material).
Anyway, going to order the DVD now. I think Thinking in Java, Dive into Python, The Art of Unix Programming, scripts from Unix Power Tools are not on there… I don’t know what’s with that. I guess legal? Same with Bill Venners’ design techniques articles - outstanding resource for beginners. What a shame I can’t link Martin Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, too.
“NTT DoCoMo has created a wristwatch phone that uses its owner’s finger as an earpiece.” - bbc article.
learning how my camera actually works…
How Stuff Works: auto-focus digital cameras in general.
A set of very nicely done css tutorials. Click through the goto step n links on this liquid 3 column layout tutorial, for example, to see how the tutorial builds up always visible results step by step.
via antenna, via noisebetweenstations.
Not that I’ve been looking at html/css recently (it’s too much trickery). I was just skimming antenna and it struck me as an excellent tutorial.