Provenance: Unknown has a very good and suitably short web style guide. More people need a style guide when writing online. It would be nice if they would be consistent with themselves, let alone a well though out guide like PU's.

It's a mnemonic:

T: Types
C: Control
O: Objects
M: Modifiers
E: Exceptions

These are the major classes of keywords in Java. Types is things like byte and char, control is if and do, objects is class and implements, modifiers is public and final and exceptions is try and catch and the rest.

I found an excellent set of study notes for the SCJP exam. They are very comprehensive. Every Java programmer should read them really, it helps to know everything about the language you're coding in, it may be able to do some things that will really help your code.

The nice thing about this set of notes is that each section has a couple of tips and traps to watch out for, here's the full set.

I've just been playing Metroid Prime for the last couple of hours. I was playing the section where you get the thermal visor. Suddenly everything goes black, so you switch on the visor. This is not much better.

Before I bought Metroid, I read a Eurogamer review where the guy said the feeling he got while playing it was the feeling he got when playing Doom. I wasn't sure before, but reading that made me buy it. It really is like playing Doom.

When I first got Doom (one HD, one DD, of course) I played it through. It shat me up. It has a very similar bit, which I'll never forget, where it's just pitch black and you're just letting off rounds and it's basically a maze and there's all kinds of nastiness in there and then you get the light amp and it's all OK. I just remember hearing the sounds of demons off in the distance whilst playing Doom late at night and being really scared. I was about 14. Now I'm 25 and the sounds of Space Pirates patrolling somewhere where I can't see them in a huge dark room scares me almost as much. Ain't life grand.

Remember when I said I'd used a hack for the first time? That same stylesheet now has four different versions of one property, each using a different hack to single out IE 5 PC, IE 5 Mac, IE 6 PC and compliant browsers like Moz and Safari! There are some others where two values are used, one for IE 5 and one for the rest. The document is still fully valid CSS though.

My copy of the Design of Sites arrived today as well.

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