Betrayed about threads

I might be getting a little bit paranoid here... but people have been lying to me a lot recently, all about threads in Java.

Here's the deal: I have this team project, right? I'm writing a thingy that has a GUI and is supposed to check for new messages and display them to the user. It's a huge step for me, but humanity has done it already.

A teammate told me I needed an extra thread to do that. "Because you can't make the main thread check for messages, because the GUI would be irresponsive, because the GUI thread would be busy."

I told that to Boyfriend. He said it was untrue and that by scheduling work for the GUI thread, I could do the thing without a single thread.

Without a single thread. You gotta be kidding me, right? How can any work get done without a single thread?

Mmm, yeah, whatever, don't take that post too seriously, I'm just writing for the fun of writing, and here's the whole deal about threads in java explained if you care.

Webdesign: wavy underlined links

When I first saw the wavy border in CSS3, I was really excited and couldn't wait. But, the same applied to rounded corners. A year later, still not much CSS3 support, and rounded corners are everywhere (even here! though I didn't make these myself). By the time most people will have browsers tha support CSS3, rounded corners will be totally out. So, I decided I wouldn't wait and do wavy underlined links right now.
I used this image as a background for my links and obtained the following effect on embrion.pl:
Today, I ran across LaurenConrad.com and noticed that the same idea has been used:
Very pretty. But I wonder if this effect was intented:
I don't think the images should be underlined. Seems like someone hasn't paid attention to classes. Worse yet, no contact with the webmaster (hello usability!) and the menu uses Flash. I don't approve of Flash at all, and if you're using it for stuff that could easily be done with CSS and JavaScript and only make the site a little less fancy for users with no JS, you're dead.
Anyway, I'm going from one subject to another again, Lauren's site looks good anyway, and I was talking about wavy underlined links and how much I like them and how they were my idea (do you think echomusic copied from me?).
I wonder what the next rounded corners will be.

The banner

As you see, my blog has a beautiful banner with lots of stuff on it. It's time to give credit to the authors of the graphics I used. So, left to right:

• the bow is by me, you can also see it on my website
  
• the diamond is from here, it's by Ryan Thompson
• the Nokia 700 is from here, it's by florisla
• the little black dress is from here, it's by Missie
  
• the lady shoe is from here, it's by Almighty1
• the music notes are from here, they're by Dominique Michel
• the books are from here, they're by Doodledoo
• the "Arabic" banner is from here, it's by AnonMoos
• the lipstick is from here, it's by Jorge Barrios
• the "e to the i pi" formula is from here, it's by Dermeister
  
• Tux is from here, it's by Jan Vansteenkiste

The banner relates to my interests, hoobies, taste,... not perfectly, because I don't read much (the books are math textbooks, okay?), I doubt the musical notes clearly express songwriting, and the diamond is just nice.