I started playing with JasperReports'/iReport's HQL support today. I defined my hibernate datasource and added the hibernate annotation jars to my classpath. But when I try to define an HQL query in iReport, I get an error about needing an AnnotationConfiguration instance. Has anyone else played with this and figured it out?

I played with upgrading to roller 2.0.1 last night. It went reasonably well in testing so I pushed it up online but things just didn't work so I rolled back to 1.2. Comments weren't working, layout was funky. I edited the templates and nothing changed. Just some real oddities. So I think I'm going to give wordpress a spin and see how that feels. It'll be sad to lose old entries but maybe wordpress will work better for me. Maybe I'll look into other blog systems like Pebble as well.

I finally signed up for an account with skype the other day and I'm pretty excited about the idea. (I know I'm coming late to the party.) But I was reading some random blog and the writer said he preferred gizmoproject over skype. Looking at the two, I'm not sure which is really better. Both offer apps to run on a cell phone to have VOIP goodness wherever you go. Both offer free calls to other service users. I'm not sure which I should spend my time with. Do I just stay with skype since I've already signed up? Do I switch to the gizmoproject? Should I use both? (That seems a little overkill.) Any suggestions?