Arrggh. I've just wasted the best part of half a day scratching my head as to why I was unable to iterate through a Java HashMap in a JSP page:

<c:forEach var="entry" items="${model.jvmInfo}" varStatus="status">             <tr>               <td>                 ${entry.key}               </td>               <td>                 ${entry.value}               </td>             </tr>           </c …

I've just finished filling in a dead trees worth of documentation with relation to selling my house. The envelope was so large it didn't even fit in the post box!

The weekend has been a full an entertaining one, involving doing some entertaining as well as being entertained. It started …

I see rms has a piece published on the BBC. You can read it here.

I run three distributions most of the time. My servers all run Debian which despite recent cock-ups is a stable, unsurprising distribution. Exactly what you want from a server OS. My work desktop runs Ubuntu which is regularly updated, runs pretty much the latest Gnome, Firefox etc and is simple …

So despite my obvious desire for the game I haven't mentioned much about it since I got it. Some times it makes sense to comment on things with a little perspective that time can provide.

Well the first thing to note is I'm a fan of the GTA series and …