I'm at Cruft Force 3 going on 4, but then I have a fairly new PC.

Via iamcal.

William Gates? He's my age. He's a gentleman of my generation. We're a few months apart in age. I've never met him. I hate to pick on him. Really. He's obviously a very smart man. And he's a nicer guy, as a human being, than a lot of his competitors. But I have to pick on Bill, instead of Bill's competitors. Because Bill physically killed and ate all his competitors.

Now deny World War II.

Reference Objects and Garbage Collection By Monica Pawlan.

See also O'Reilly on the WeakHashMap class, and an implementation of SoftHashMap, which is missing from the Sun library.

Weak references exist in Python, but unfortunately soft references do not. Which is a shame, 'cos they are very useful for eliminating memory leaks from data caches.

Missing 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were spotted "in good spirits" on a main road the morning after they left their homes, police believe.

This is every parent's nightmare. It's at times like this that I wish I was a theist, so that I could prey for them.