Thoughts of Dan

Below are the Massachusetts semi-finalists for this years James Beard Awards I'm going to try to hit every one this year. I'm especially surprised that there are 2 such great restaurants on Nantucket. I'll come back and edit this post with reviews. CHEF RESTAURANT CITY Ana Sortun Oleana Cambridge Will Gilson Garden at the Cellar Cambridge Maura Kilpatrick Sofra Bakery and Cafe Cambridge Richie Barron Il Capriccio Waltham Dante de Magistris Il Casale Belmont Gabriel Frasca and Amanda Lydon Straight Wharf Restaurant Nantucket Steve Johnson Rendezvous in Central Square Cambridge Michael LaScola American Seasons Nantucket Michael Leviton Lumière West Newton Tony Maws Craigie on Main Cambridge

I read about Joseph Stack and his crashing a plane into an IRS building. I also read his manifesto . We're here. This was a reprehensible act by a coward, striking at people who had nothing to do with his problems. Nothing out of this should be glorified nor used as an example. It's also an amazing trap for the conservative zealots. Just like you can't blame Israel or our Foreign policy for 9/11, you can't blame the government for this. As unfair as taxes are right now, it is not cause for murder. I expect Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh to reveal themselves as the anti-american dirtballs they are by implying that this was justified, and that there will be more. I likewise expect anti-liberty professional politicians to blame this on the "Tea Baggers." They would be equally mistaken. People speaking out against the government is exactly the sort of thing that EASES tensions like this. It doesn't mean however that they won't try to curtail our lib...

Did you ever wonder if you can have 2 servlets.xml files? My new employer uses a machine generated servlets.xml. I'm not sure why someone thought that was a win, but whatever. My new part of the application is being rapidly developed and I didn't want to have to regen the servlets.xml file whever I added something, nor did I want to manually edit a file that says at the top "DO NOT EDIT BY HAND" (even though I did at first). My solution was to add an entity to the web.xml So <!DOCTYPE web-app [     <!ENTITY servlets SYSTEM "servlets.xml"> ]> Became <!DOCTYPE web-app [     <!ENTITY servlets SYSTEM "servlets.xml">     <!ENTITY objectServlets SYSTEM "objectServlets.xml"> ]> And then futher into web.xml &servlets; became &servlets; &objectServlets; And of course I made the objectServlets.xml file...