My friends who went to Stanford are all sorely disappointed at the early 2nd round exit of their #1 seed men's basketball team at the NCAA tournament. However they can take solace in the fact star Josh Childress was a repeat on ESPN's 2004 All-Hair team.

I went to a meeting of the UM Alumni Club of Silicon Valley. And I met some cool people. There's also a lot of interesting activities that they plan that I forgot about.

Sun has an interesting demo of Project Looking Glass. It's basically a regular windowing system but with a 3D layering system, so you can rotate and move windows in 3 dimensions, you can view them from the back and things like that. I really don't think it's useful at all, but it's neat to look at some of the things a lot of extra cpu cycles can do for you.

People have been making a big deal about getting Sun to open source Java. Note that Java source is already available to people who just accept the Sun license and won't redistribute it, but some developers want to be able to make changes to the code and redistribute it. Sun declined to completely open source Java and I think it's the right choice. Opening up Java is correct if all application developers are writing only for Java and developers are most loyal to the Java platform. Unfortunately, Java developers are forced to write to the Java virtual machine of a specific platform. The big danger is that Microsoft takes the Java specification then makes a similar but slightly incompatible version and bundles it with Windows. This forces developers to write to code that chooses between Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms. And developers usually choose Microsoft because that what their customers use. The resulting fracture of the Java platform would be a huge win for Microsoft. I also have no problems at all with the way that Sun has handled Java so far. Although it does feel like the standards process is a bit slower than it could be.