Java4K is a web site that showcases compact arcade games, all of them written in Java with a maximum (jar file) size of 4KB. My current favorite is jm00 - a boomshine clone.

For the first time since moving to Japan I am spending Christmas at home this year (the last time that came close was the January trip to Vienna in 2004). This is also Kai's first time to meet his great-grandmother, grand-uncle, and uncle (his grandparents and aunt have already visited him in Tokyo). He did not sleep much on the twelve-hour flight, but he did not cry the whole time either, so all in all that went well. He was very popular with the cabin crew and fellow passengers, and the flight was almost empty, so that we had plenty of room, too.

We'll be in Germany until January, 4th.