So I've been working on a bunch of interesting things lately. And here's a few things I've learned. Java's builtin compression tools are really nice. HTTP cookies suck to implement and no one implements the standard. It's annoyingly hard to get a process to address more than 2GB of memory on a 32 bit linux box. It's totally impossible to get a java process to address more than 2GB of memory on a 32 bit architecture. RAIDs aren't all they are cracked up to be if they aren't configured right.

In other news, the Olympics are pretty interesting. I hate how they have to cover the USA basketball team so much. I can see those players any time. But watching olympic kayaking or table tennis, now that's a treat. You know those players play for the love of the game because a lot of them can't make money and they have to have full time jobs.