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Ok, I learned the first whitebelt kwon bup today — the one where I learn the basic movements for my hands and feet and practice basic kicking and punching techniques. I test for my first stripe on Thursday. The more important lesson I learned today was to not skip lunch on days when I practice at the dojang. I didn’t quite have enough energy to make it through the entire practice.

I had my first Tae Soo Do class this evening and jumped right in to learning the basic forms (defensive and offensive stances, simple punching and kicking).

The Abdera 0.2.2 maintenance release is out. Some critical bugs were fixed.

The Apache Abdera community is pleased to announce the 0.2.2-incubating release.

You can download binary and source distributions from:

http://people.apache.org/dist/incubator/abdera/0.2.2-incubating

Builds are available for Java 1.5 and Java 1.4.2.

For further information, visit our web site at: 

http://incubator.apache.org/abdera

Introduction
============

The goal of the Apache Abdera project is to build a
functionally-complete, high-performance implementation of the IETF Atom
Syndication Format (RFC 4287) and Atom Publishing Protocol (in-progress)
specifications.

Abdera is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache Software
Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC. Incubation is
required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates
that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process
have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF
projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the
completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project
has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.

Release Summary
===============

 * Fix the XHTML/XML entry content bug
 * Fix StAX API conformance bugs
 * Update to Apache Axiom 1.2.1
 * Various API Cleanups

Please feel free to send any feedback to our mailing lists:
abdera dash dev at incubator dot apache dot org
abdera dash user at incubator dot apache dot org

Any contribution in the form of coding, testing, improving the
documentation, and reporting bugs is always welcome. For more
information on how to get involved with the development of Abdera, visit
our website at: http://incubator.apache.org/abdera

- Apache Abdera Project

The other day I mentioned that we signed our seven year old up for Tae Soo Do. Yesterday I went ahead and signed myself up as well. I start next Thursday.

IBM just filed a blanket IPR disclosure relating to the activity of the Atompub WG. Before any misinformation starts going around about this I thought it would be a good idea to give y’all a heads up.

As of right now IBM has NO KNOWN patents or applications for patents that read on the Atom specs. However, as is well known, IBM has a massive IPR portfolio and it would take a very long time and cost a lot of money for us to dig through ‘em all to know for certain. Rather than spend the time and energy doing that, IBM has agreed to a blanket commitment to Royalty Free terms for any IPR that reads on the Standards Track specifications produced by the atompub Working Group.

Again, I want to reiterate that there are no patents we are currently aware of nor are there any applications in progress that we are currently aware of.

There are basically two reasons we are doing this:

I must add that I am not a IPR expert by any stretch of the imagination. If you have questions, please direct them to me and I will answer what I can or I will forward them on to our IP Law experts

Update: Coverage here, here, and here