Oracle removes licensing for Workshop Eclipse Plug-ins

Translates to Workshop for WebLogic 10gR3 is 100% free
Includes free M7 NitroX - NitroX is meant to meet the needs of professional Java™ developers building web applications based on open standards such as JSF, Struts and JSP.
Works with Eclipse 3.3 as of date, 3.4 support expected with Oracle Enterprise Eclipse Pack 1.0
Also, all the features of BEA Workshop Studio are fully integrated into the Workshop 10gR3 product. ORM with Kodo / EJB3 / Hibernate, class mapping editors, entity editors, database tools, query editors, etc. Includes some capability to generate a Spring DAO layer from any mapping as well.
Flex Builder support no longer available
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Sigh, actually tired of toggling between Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4

Down in the dump with thread dumps

Had used samurai nearly a year ago, when we were faced with some stuck thread issues. Was talking to a friend about analyzing thread dumps, and I collected these links.

A summary on tools available
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bhaktimehta/archive/2007/05/obtaining_and_a.html
Analysis
http://weblogic.sys-con.com/node/44027
Tool urls
Samurai - http://yusuke.homeip.net/samurai/?english - Download samurai.jar, set it using jws and get going.
TDA - http://www.jroller.com/dumpster/entry/tda_thread_dump_analyzer_1

Initial Post

What prompted me to start this blog? Well, no altruistic motive, purely selfish reasons :) everytime I need to churn out a piece of code real quick and try to recollect an obscure implementation, or reel out some stats from a forum which I read a month ago, I am lost. I mean, I do bookmark at random on del.icio.us or have it on my list of internal bookmarks, but the essence of what prompted me to bookmark it is lost. There's a neat word for it - clutter brain :)
So here goes. The disclaimer first - its junk for anybody but me - an online journal of knick-knacks.