de tomKronieken

Last week, I've seen an increasing number of blogs mentioning "Tiger". And I thought: "Those Mac guys seem to be up to something again. <Delete>. There are more interesting blogs (for me) to read".

This morning, I scanned a blog title mentioning "J2SE 1.5". I have seen these too during last week, but I've been seeing them for months now. "Yet another 'it sucks/rocks' about generics" I thought, <Delete>.

And then I noticed yet another one. Thinking that even Erik would eventually get tired of these posts, I wondered why there were 2 on the same day. So I took a look. And lo and behold, I find J2SE 1.5 has a beta release! One week after the fact, or so it seems. I still don't understand how I could possibly miss this.

Am I a victim of the increasing noise/signal ratio on blogs? Do I try to follow too much at once? Or is it just that, with taking care of my job switch, 3 weeks old Tuur in the hospital, 1,5 year old Lowie coming down with something too, supporting Sandra to stay in the hospital with Tuur, getting my bicycle prepared for the shortly daily commute, I have missed a glitch in cyberspace? All those animals that seem to be crawling around in blogland don't help much either in discriminating between them. Or maybe I'm just getting too old for this shit... <sigh> Where is the time you only had to choose between DOS 3.0 and 3.3.

If you're now thinking: "What? 1.5 is out?", please leave a comment saying so. It would make me feel better.