MS Fonts in Google Documents on Ubuntu

A major reason why I love google documents is that I can access all the files from any computer regardless of the operating system. In principle this works great for me but unfortunately changing the text font (e.g. to Courier New) doesn't work on ubuntu. Although I still hope there is something goggle can do, the intermediate solution is using the 'Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts':

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

P.S. Don't forget to restart you browser afterwards.

The Java Memory Model & Concurrency

I just watched the presentation Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: The Java Memory Model given by Jeremy Manson (Google Tech Talks March 21, 2007). Although I was familiar with most, I really enjoyed watching the complete video (I rarely do this for those longer than 15min). If didn't see it already: