WTC bombing aftermath: It's been about two weeks since I last posted, and that was a number of entries about the WTO bombing and my fears about gung-ho American reprisals. I'm very happy to say that it looks like my early fears were wrong, and the US is taking a long term view, trying to repair relationships with muslim countries, and making sure it has multi-lateral support for its attack on Bin Laden and his peers. I'm very impressed. My opinion of Bush has gone from pretty much nothing to a very good measure of respect. My hopes now stretch to a resolution of the humanitarian horror in Iraq...

GCJ and Java: I'm thinking about a new project, splitting up a graph transformation engine written in Java to a UI part and a server part, allowing the Swing-less server part to be compiled with the new GCJ compiler (part of gcc 3.0; gcc is a really impressive achievement) to native code. I wonder if anyone has experience of similar projects. I wonder also if GCJ makes Java more interesting to open source developers?

Ironic postscript (06-02-2002): I see that Bush does have ideas about `resolving' the crisis in Iraq...