For a moment, I thought they were being funny by billing their customers in Japanese Yen (in which case the meal is a steal). In the end, we just decided they wanted to drown us in steamed eggs... all 513 servings.

Apparently, even their own staff is shocked enough to start scribbling on the receipt.

Intrepidette got me a new digicam (thanks a mil again, hon), and I've been happily testing it out around the house. Some shots (reduced to 25% of original resolution):

The neatest part of my room. Dark patches on the wall are the reminders of my embarassing youth (ER diagrams on the wall?? Total geekdom.).

With 6x optical zoom. No graininess. Excellent anti-shake as well!

Macro mode... gets all the dust motes as well. Shouldn't have used flash here, but it was on auto.

Night mode on a tripod. Can't tell without a more vibrant night scene, but looks great as well.

Vivid mode. Nice contrast and balance.

I so need to get some outdoor shots.

The mother of all cliches: uni students jumping as if they were Super Mario incarnates.

Guess someone wanted to show SMU that they don't have market dominance in jumping graduates.

This may come across as conceited, but convocation feels a bit anticlimatic. In self-defense, I don't think anyone out there cares much about the degree we get. Not going to help you meet your milestones, get that last spot on that damn bus, find that elusive bug or smite dead the annoying people you meet. Pretty insignficant in the larger scheme of things, all in all.

The only part I'm excited about is meeting old friends and having a drawn out ranting session regarding the sweetness of working life. Of course, taking 1 day off from work (during the midweek drag, no less) doesn't exactly hurt too.

If:

a) You are using Apache Struts and Tiles

b) You have multiple Struts configuration scripts like so:

...
<init-param>
   <param-name>config</param-name>
   <param-value>/WEB-INF/conf/struts-default.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
   <param-name>config/module1</param-name>
   <param-value>/WEB-INF/conf/struts-module1.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
   <param-name>config/module2</param-name>
   <param-value>/WEB-INF/conf/struts-module2.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
...

3) You use

<html:form action="/someAction">
...
</html:form>

4) And you get a "javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve mapping for action '/someAction' at [insert a massive stack trace] " error

Then:

5a) Check your web.xml file to see if the configuration resources in (2) are declared properly

5b) Check your struts-config-xx.xml file to see if you've mapped "/someAction" correctly

5c) Check your tiles-def-xx.xml to see if you've defined the tiles and the put values correctly

5d) Replace:

<html:form>

with the basic:

<form action="/module1/someAction.do">

to confirm that the action is working

6) As a last resort, remove the moduled implementation of the configuration scripts like so:

...
<init-param>
   <param-name>config</param-name>
   <param-value>/WEB-INF/conf/struts-default.xml</param-value>,
   <param-value>/WEB-INF/conf/struts-module1.xml</param-value>,
   <param-value>/WEB-INF/conf/struts-module2.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
...

7) Check to see if this solves the error in (4). If it does, remove all context references (module1, module2 etc) from your actions.

This took me the better part of two working days to figure out, so maybe this will help some frustrated soul out there. If you know a better solution, bully for you. I shall stick to my comma-delimited lists, thank you very much.