'.as I speed along the two-lane blacktop lined with joshua trees, I open my sun roof, crank up a live version of "Take Five" and think that, as far as women are concerned, I finally did "something" right."

Memories of a fair and just childhood, from age eight to 48 and beyond, explain "Why Stevie Can't Date," a collection of puckish tales about good and bad women; trying to cultivate the "Playboy" image at 17 and suddenly meeting a celebrity father who writes for "Penthouse"; and growing up straight while straddling a line between California and Nevada, the Golden State and Hollywood, the...

As an administrator you need a secure, scalable, resilient application infrastructure to support the developers building and managing J2EE applications and Service Oriented Architecture services. WebSphere application server, a product from IBM, is optimized to ease administration and improve runtime performance. It helps you run applications and services in a reliable, secure, and high-performance environment to ensure business opportunities are not lost due to application downtime. It's easy to get started and tame this powerful application server when you've got this book to hand. This...