From the Desk of the Disgruntled Web Professional

I hate Java, I really do, well, I should clarify that the concept is great but the implentation of it sucks. Here's the deal, back in a day when they first made java there was this huge hoopla about the programming language of the future and how it's gonna get embeded into anything from ur toster to ur nike shoes and it's platform independent and this and that until we saw it in action, slow and clunky! Later it got even crappier when Sun and MS got into the "proper java VM" battle with Sun revoking MS's license for breach of contract so MS stopped shipping its java VM altogether with their XP, so then if you the consumer wanted to say play a game on yahoo you couldn't, unless you installed the Sun VM, which of course is a huge pile of crap and the main reason behind this post. If you happen to visit a god-forsaken page that has some retarded java applet on it (in my case tonight it was a freakin java clock on a page, like I don't have a clock anywhere in my home) and all of a sudden the computer crawls for 30 seconds while the java VM loads. What's even funnier to me is that some companies back then (like Corel for instance) were planing to port all of their products to java so it could be "platform independent" and i wonder if they're still pretty thrilled about it. In conclusion I'd like to wish for both MS and Sun to go to hell.