Brian Goetz reckons that garbage collection in modern Java Virtual Machines is so good that we Java programmers do best by leaving it alone. I don't buy it.

I like my politicians disinterested.

Here's one approach to better memory allocation for shrink-wrapped desktop Java applications running on Windows

John Hanna's introduction to Unicode and XML, like most good introductions skirts the dirty secret: Unicode gives us exciting new opportunites for corrupting data. Text is broken. Some harm-reduction measures, in particular not allowing the characters of the C1 control range in text formats, would help.

I'm ready for O'Reilly's ETech conference -- are you??