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Somewhat ironically a day before my previous post, Dare Obasanjo replied to a blog complaining about MS Architects posting about technologies that aren't ready for production yet.. The irony that I still can't talk about JDK1.5, despite its release date being next year is - if not Shakespearian - at least more than Morissettian.

(Those of you not interested in the hostory of various websites may want to leave now) Incidentally, "Back in the day" I was pretty active on K5, and I remember when Dare joined (which, despite his low uid was quite a long time after I joined - my id was in the 200's and his is over 1800). I thought he was just another punk hacker who thought he was too cool for /. until he started posting a few stories. They always impressed me, and I had pretty high standards. He posted some when he interviewed at Microsoft, and he thought he was going to be working on Data Access stuff, which I found pretty interesting. Unfortunatly he went and did that XML crap instead, so I stopped reading his stuff for a while... ;-)