So I'm sitting at home because I'm expecting a package from bloody DHL (will you be home tomorrow between 10 and 4? *sigh*) and I'm working at a moderate pace while I absent mindedly open some websites in my bookmarks as 2 brothers on the 4th floor sing about how it makes them "Feel so good" when I glance cross the front page of the Guardian and spot this story about attitudes toward plastic surgery.

The story turns out to be very interesting. No, disturbing is the word I'm looking for.

Do natives of Hamburg know the history of the hamburger? Are they proud that it's more popular than the frankfurter and the wiener?

This is a gray'ish thought I think (hope he doesn't get offended by that comparison)..

You suck. Kafka, Camus, Sartre, I tried all of them. For the most part it's exactly the same. No passion, no conviction, just a bloody boring story about something completely insignificant. Completely useless stories about life that don't say anything. Not to me anyway and believe me I was focused, I tried to read between the lines, there's just nothing there. The last one I couldn't finish, couldn't stomache it. Dull wrapped in a thick coating of boring.

If you want my views on life and existance, I'll tell you without putting you to sleep.

This is actually an observation I had in Oslo two weeks ago, just slipped my mind at the time. Sorta like a file stuck in the cache, not flushed to disk. Anywho, here we go..

So I see these cops on bikes, in shorts and all, Pacific Blue. Two of them. They were accosting a drunk in the park, dude had lots more cans stashed away in a plastic bag, they were interviewing him. The following day I see two bike cops again. No wait, those are the same ones. 3 days in a row, in 3 different places. And that got me thinking, is the Oslo police on a tight budget and couldn't afford more than 2 officers for this roaming service? Is it a trial run? (Even then you would expect more than 2 people for a city of 500.000+ inhabitants, right?) In fact, I never found out. I even suspected it was just a married couple who dressed up in phony cop uniforms and pretended to be cops. Pacific Blue fans probably.

Java may be doom and gloom much of the time, but there are moments when we see the light. One such moment is ant. Where the standard java build system sucks, ant is the light. Ant is elegant, easy and efficient. Shockingly, ant is yet another open source project, to java's commercial patronage.