Anil Gangolli

UN scandal

If you ask me, (or even if you don’t), a UN scandal like the current one involving the Oil for Food program sure seems to be a good way to call into question the legitimacy of the UN and to counter the mounting pressure on the United States, both domestic and international, to conform to international legal standards.

When the corruption is rooted out however, the legitimacy of the principles behind the UN concept will stand.

Related (via Google): UN Oil For Food Scandal

Posted at 08:27PM Feb 04, 2005 in dogma  |  Permalink  |  Comments[2]

Will this kill more than illegal file-sharing in California?

A viewpoint opinion I heard today on my local public radio station (KQED ) expressed the fear that the scope of the recent anti-file-sharing bill (California State Senate Bill 96 ) was not sufficiently limited, and that it might cover much more than is apparently intended.

RSS and other aggregation-like software might be at risk. Perhaps blog software. Could e-mail forwarding be considered file-sharing?

Related (via Google): California File Sharing Bill

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Posted at 06:08PM Feb 04, 2005 in tech  |  Permalink

Why Java?

A friend of mine, (one who knew me in my days as a C/Unix hacker and then later as a C++ hacker), seems to have been surprised to hear me say that I prefer to develop as much as possible in Java these days. He pointed me to this recent ACM article on writing good code in any language .

After all, what’s this language favoritism anyway? Language features are overrated. You can write good code in any language.

I agree with most of the points of that article in the abstract, but I still hold a strong conviction that language does matter, and here’s why I like Java

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Posted at 11:47AM Feb 04, 2005 in dev  |  Permalink  |  Comments[1]