Weekend Report

Things that went on during the weekend:

Several students of my high school figured in a car accident; one has died. IIRC, most of them were SRCC (student council officers, with the lone death being the treasurer.
Accompanied my sister in shopping for a party dress. Not exactly interesting, but at least now I know I have some sense of fashion.
The wayward old 486 (also known as Ye Olde Dirty Bastard) lives! I thought I had fried bastard's video card, but apparently I was wrong— the card works fine, and the only thing wrong with it now is the apparent lack of a decent hard drive. The 1 GB drive I've been using on it seems marginal now for some strange reason, though, and I think I have to nuke it and reinstall Slackware. You win some, you lose some.
I am definitely not doing Avalon. Avalon is too heavy, IMHO— good concept, but too heavy for my tastes. I'm looking at the Spring Framework and PicoContainer instead.
I have a pretty decent idea of why a lot of Java folks ~~hate~~ ~~detest~~ dislike EJBs. They're really heavyweight.