It's snowing lightly outside in New York and my radiator is hissing. This radiator is very small. I used to have a huge six-footer, which I replaced with this one that's the size of a large cereal box. It's a crazy way to control the temperature - replace the whole radiator, but steam heat is either on or off. Actually, I've seen radiators in Austria that are adjustable with a dial, but my super says that won't work with these.

My super has a degree in computer science. More and more, I can see why he's a super.

But I love Computer Science. I mean, I think about it so much, I can't imagine stopping. Maybe I could stop to become a video editor or an electrical engineer. Even still, I'd have to fuck with computers.

I've been reading RFCs at the IETF page. It's good to read it from the original source, sometimes. Here's a thought I had: most of the problems in coding that i have come from either not understanding the terminology, or thinking I have to understand something I don't. On the latter, library-based OO programming is the greatest, because it means that if I can find a good library, I can concentrate on the part of the problem that I want to solve - on the new part.

This is why, despite being a dud in so many ways, java is so cool: lots of libraries. I wrote an SMTP client tonight in about 20 minutes in java.

Why isn't there a java compiler from Sun?!

Finally, I posted this to /. but it never got picked up:

Remember when the music industry was convicted of price-fixing? Well, everyone who bought a CD between 1995 and 2000 in the US is eligible for a piece of the settlement -- between $5 and $20. If enough people sign up, the money goes to charities that are working to reform the music industry.

from BoingBoing.net. http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm

This leads to the problem of too little use of the Off-Topic moderation, too much Funny, and no recognition of the huge amount of redundancy.