Wow... weird timing of this post. I spent all day yesterday debugging a daemon written by a consultant in Java 4 years ago. To the few above who asked: Yes, th

Wow... weird timing of this post. I spent all day yesterday debugging a daemon written by a consultant in Java 4 years ago. To the few above who asked: Yes, there is code out there (in production!) that followed the same path. Needless to say, I spent most of yesterday cursing.