An excellent job opportunity for working in Google at Moon (yes The Moon). Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at our lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007. This unique opportunity is available only to highly-qualified individuals who are willing to relocate for an extended period of time, are in top physical condition and are capable of surviving with limited access to such modern conveniences as soy low-fat lattes, The Sopranos and a steady supply of oxygen.

Yes, you heard me right. I want to be cloned. And not just one clone, several in fact. I have been thinking about the ethics of cloning. The identity of clones, parentage issues and all. And I have decided. I want to be cloned.

We have forked of our coverage of Stem Cell Research news and views in our recently launched The Stem Cell Blog. You will find it much more active than it was under the folds of multi-faceted Simple Thoughts Blog.

Sun Microsystems is looking at providing its Java Enterprise System (J2EE) customers with a database management solution that will either take advantage of existing open-source database management technologies or developed in-house. I think they should leverage from some high quality open source database management solutions rather than re-inventing the wheel.

One of the realities of mobility programming today is that developers must cope with a wide variety of devices with widely different capabilities. Whether major or minor, those differences must be handled cleanly. Sometimes the only solution is to prepare different application descriptors for different device models, or even different application versions entirely. You can trust users to select the right version to download and install - or you can spare them the risk they'll get the wrong one. In this tech tip I'll show you how to write a simple servlet that automatically selects the right version of your application and delivers it through the magic of over-the-air (OTA) provisioning.