I started reading From Beirut to Jerusalem[1] by Thomas Friedman and it so seems like a good book, I've also started writing an ant[2] build file for my J2ME[3] project, I'm constantly amazed at how much software is out there for J2ME, and its all free. I think I now have all the tools I had for J2SE[4] wahoo. Have you noticed there appears to be an inverse correlation between the price of software and how many bugs / features it has ? Free software seems to run fast and bug free and applications you pay for seem to run slow and be riddled with bugs, at work we recently gave up on our F expensive XML Store and have starting using Lucene [5] to index our content and its soooooooo fast, easy to use AND has brilliant support wahoo.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006530702/qid=1022059048/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/202-0275862-4691877
[2] http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/
[3] http://wireless.java.sun.com/
[4] http://java.sun.com/
[5] http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/