I ran into the problem of needing to load a BufferedImage on the serverside of a Java web application. I’m manipulating images dynamically in code that are then served to the web browser. Java loads images asynchronously by default, and you can track progress using the ImageObserver interface, but it might not be as easy as you think.
This article quotes Steve Ballmer as saying:
There are two people who probably are the number one spam recipients in the world. Bill Gates [is number one] because he is Bill Gates. Bill literally receives four million pieces of email per day, most of it spam. Literally, there’s a whole department, almost, that takes care of it.
Four million e-mail messages per day? For once, the spammers have done some good for the world. But that’s 46 emails per second! Can MS Exchange even handle that kind of load? Or maybe they are running Postfix.
A whole department to handle spam? Does that mean they pay interns to filter through it, or do they have software do it? Why not release this wonderful spam filtering software to the world? Oh… a whole department, “almost”. By that, maybe he means they are running Spam Assassin. If not, he could save some money by getting a Gmail account.
According to Flamesplash on Slashdot, internal Microsoft employees can e-mail Bill directly without going through filtering. Flamespash was an intern at Microsoft, and his journal has some interesting stories where he’s come across Bill at work.
By the way, you can e-mail Bill at billg@microsoft.com.
Rob Sable has a great post called Button Madness where he demystifies those cute little buttons everyone seems to have on their web pages. Of course I immediately used Button Maker to create my own “eBlog” button. 
The buttons use a short, skinny font called Silkscreen that was created by Jason Kottke and given away as a free TrueType font. It turns out this font is used everywhere, which I realized only after I saw it and started noticing it. As I type this into Moveable Type, I can see the font is used on the menu buttons.
People are bidding on Ebay for a grilled cheese sandwich that has the Virgin Mary toasted onto one side. The seller claims to have noticed the resemblance after taking a bite, and the sandwich hasn’t molded 10 years since. They claim to have won money gambling during the ownership of this sandwhich, and now they wish to sell it.
It looks a little like Marilyn Monroe to me. At this point, the bidding looks to be around $70,000. Boy, I need to start paying more attention to my food before I eat it.
Have you seen one of the K-fee television ads yet? K-fee is an energy drink from Germany, and their ads are unique. Their slogan is “the natural boost,” which they incorporate into the ad itself. Watch one and you’ll see what I mean. Here’s one with an automobile, but there are six other ads you can find on their website.