Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow?

I was sitting having quiet dinner with friends, listening to a live band play some Joe Jobim last night when all of a sudden some random little kid ran up and, making a noise similar to a lawn mower, ran his hands through my hair shouting "cero, cero". It's strange how the world has ways of telling you things (like when I wanted to type "strange" and my fingers typed "string"... oddly enough it just happened again, but when i tried to type "string", I misspelt it... twice. Yes, that's nerdy stuff :)).

So after blogging this I'm off to get it off. A number 2 to ease in and get a little colour on my cranium. It's almost like a symbolic act (admittedly cheap symbolism, but if you skwint your eyes...) since tonight is the last night with Danny and Nic as tomorrow I head up to Salvador again before Belém and the next leg of my trip, the Amazonian adventure :)

Speaking of nerdy stuff, if you're so inclined you should check out the D Programming Language and Java 7. Both look fun. It'll be interesting to see how the desktop integration in Java 7 goes. They're basically putting native calls under Swing and AWT so Java doesn't look and perform like crap for client apps. Yes, I know you can get Swing to perform well if you design your app right and know all the tricks in Swing, but you really shouldn't have to try that hard. There was also talk of versioned JARs a while back, but I'm not sure if that's in the latest plans.