In making yet another small mistake with my feed reader of choice, Ihave come to the realization that there are actually three states thatI want entries to be in, in addition to the basic 'read' one. I want tohave all of unread entries, entries flagged for later attention, andmarked (saved) entries. In fact, I think that this also holds true foremail readers, since they are dealing with the same sort of issues.

In theory, I shouldn't need the '

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