Oh look, a link to a news article!

Ready, the amazing feature of the 'web'...
This is a link to news.
Since blogger is owned by Google and they have struck a deal with 'registered news businesses', does this mean the link is going to cost them? How unmanageable is that. A company has to shell out a price based on what a user can post. Maybe Google only have to pay if the link is clicked? What if no one reads this page?

I find the whole thing offensive. It was so exciting to see Facebook pull the plug on every piece of news in Australia and see the government throw a tantrum. 

Their own report was vague on what the definition of new was!

News and journalistic content are then defined in the CMT report as: 'A diverse range of informative content about matters of import that can be defined by characteristics such as timeliness. ... Deliberately elastic, it extends beyond content produced by journalists'

Official government document on the issue, page 15.

I wrote my local member of parliament. I got a call back the day after the bill was put into place so I don't know how much impact it had.

Holy cow, I’m starting on a website

Heads up. I have no idea when I started writing this and I don't know why it was only a draft instead of being published. I can't even remember what project it was for :( So yesterday and today were spent setting up the structure of a java web application using maven. I had previously used maven at work but focus is on the project rather than the tool (probably as it should be). So I got to bang my head against a fresh script.
And boy, am I not happy.
It shouldn't take 2 days to put together something that just displays a page when deployed. I must admit that it is doing a lot of things that I don’t need yet like running tests, javadocing, test reports, general “what is this project” website etc.
Some of the problem was over naming, cobertura-maven-plugin and maven-cobertura-plugin is just confusing.
I also had a configuration issue with cobertura. Apparently it is really hard to put the generated file into a specific directory (since it is a derived resource, it should exist in the target/ directory). So the work around is to clean the file specifically.
[xml]

maven-clean-plugin

${basedir}

cobertura.ser

The other stuff that has been slowing me down is because it is the kind of configuration that you do at the start of a project and forget.
Like a working log4j.properties file. For some reason I wasn’t able to generate one that just worked, so I had to google around to find a default one and I’ll move from there.

Just need to get automated deploy and web tests happening and I should be able to start coding functionality