Its amazing how little you can have to say at times. I certainly went through a spell there. Almost two months without a post. I wish I could say I was too busy, but that's not the case. Well what has finnaly broken my blogger block? Not sure. Although I really liked the question posed on Artima on 'How Would you Redesign java.awt.Component'. The text of the question breaks down the problem well. The most interesting thing about it though is that after 5 days it has no responses.
The Reading Life
I still like to read but I've not had good luck finding new books that scratch the itch. There's been a few I really enjoyed.: "The Passenger" by my favorite author, Cormac McCarthy and "The Library at Mount Char" by Scott Hawkins. And I, recently, enjoyed "The Mountain in the Sea" by Ray Nayler. It's about intelligent Cephalopods and I do love my Mollusca. But the list of books I put down after a few pages is far taller. A couple fall into the category of ones I know I'll read someday, but I just wasn't in the right mood. For example, "Anathem" and "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", Others fall into the "what was I thinking" category. I wont name these. I just did not like the writing. I do have to mention the premise of one of the did-not-finish books as it still makes me chuckle: man-eating mer-people. I even gave that one two tries. I heard about it from YouTube, where someon...
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