(Thanks to the good Samuel Johnson for the title.) Apparently Japan will now teach patriotism in schools. Patriotism is a useful tool in politics: indeed, one would be pressed to think of a better tool. For when you invoke patriotism you invoke tribalism; you invoke the spectre of your enemies; you simplify and view subtleties [...]
Archive for May 18th, 2007
Write once, run once
Slowly, yet surely, J2ME is driving me completely mad. One of the nicer features of Java once write-once, run-anywhere – sure, you often need to arse around with user-interface tweaks (Swing for GTK+ and Mac OS X being prime examples), or with application server differences, but there’s a decent chance your business logic will run [...]
