Author correctly points out theelephant in the room for sources of unsatisfying endings with unresolvedmysteries: adoptions of ongoing manga series (or any ongoing series,since there are adoptions of light novels too). The honest answer to hisquestion is that I didn't think of it; I was more or less only focusingon things that were within the control of the anime creators.

Having said that, it's still the anime studio's responsibility to solvethe problem. I can only think of two good

One of the things that I've gotten used to as I watch anime is thatmany anime shows have unsatisfying endings. The show will go alongdecently or even great in the regular episodes, building up mysteriesand intriguing events, and then they reach the concluding episodes and,well, people wind up sitting around going 'that's all? that was theirexplanation for everything?'

(This is so common that people have coined terms like 'Sunrise ending'and 'Gonzo ending' to summarize how certain

So, you might wonder why I wrote my own program to measure bulk IOperformance (as mentioned in this entry ). After all, there are quite a lot ofprograms to do this already, many of them very sophisticated andsome of them (like dd ) that are everywhere.

The short answer is that I wanted a program that gave me just theresults that I wanted, directly measuring what I wanted measured, andthat I understand exactly what it was doing and how it was doing it. Idid

This is a true story:

I periodically browse a few people's Twitter pages to look in on theirtweets. Until a few days ago, when Twitter choked on one of its periodicload issues and failed to serve me any of their usual CSS styling, Idid not know that the 'in reply to ' piece of the tweet statusinformation for replies was clickable and went directly to the originaltweet. This discovery was just short of electrifying, because suddenlyconversations on Twitter became several orders of