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This past weekend we finally saw “Avatar,” or as I like to call it “Dances with Smurfs.” It was rather light on the story, heavy on the message, and incredibly well done. The eye for detail is what blew me away, especially the visual distortion (presumably due to density) when the two atmospheres mixed. The only thing I thought they might have missed was why so many (presumably) mammals had 6 appendages (4 arms + 2 legs) and breathed through passages near their clavicles, but the Na’vi (sp?) didn’t have/do either. Also, James Cameron just loves to telegraph upcoming events: Riding the big red bird thing has only happened 5 times before – Sully is on the job. The tree is going to download dying Ripley to her avatar body – Sully is going to do that too. I’ve seen worse foreshadowing, but not in a long time. I give it 4 Papa Smurfs out of 5.

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I’m back, now with Windows Live Writer goodness

- by Dave Yasko

I’ve reimaged my home laptop. I’m trying to populate it with as much free goodness as possible to see if the free way is as good as the old pay way. Turns out, I’ve got access to Windows Live Writer. I’m not sure where that came from, maybe with Vista Ultimate. I don’t know. Either way, it makes my blog posting a whole lot easier. So, maybe, just maybe, it will make me more likely to post. We’ll see. Later.

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MSDN Subscription

- by Dave Yasko

My work just started (a couple of months ago actually) allowing us access to our MSDN subscriptions. This is totally cool. I’ve been begging, borrowing, and stealing all these years to have access to Visual Studio and the other tools. Now, I’ve got them all. It is totally cool. What’s even cooler is that I’m going to be installing them (along with a brandy spanky new Windows 7 installation) on a MacBook or MacBookPro in the coming weeks. How’s that for most excellent?

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JDT ASTParser to get the value of a string field

- by Yasko

Is there a way to use jdt ASTParser to get the value of a String field declared in a java file. Actually what I need is to resolve any possible dependencies from other classes e.g. public String str = "somethig"+SomeTherClass.SOMETHING_ELSE.

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