(Warning: non-specific spoilers.)

I'll begin by saying that RideBack is one of those interesting animesthat I think is good but that I'm not sure is enjoyable.

RideBack starts out as a goofy but promising sports anime with someimplausible things lurking in the background, such as the conquest ofJapan by some new trans-national military organization. But after acouple of episodes it becomes evident that its real focus is not thesports plot (that was just to introduce us to the characters

I've been mulling over this for long enough, so it's time to actuallywrite something (warning, some spoilers):

Ultimately, I think Toradora! is a good series overallbut not an exceptional one. In hindsight (and after Author spurred me into rewatching the first two episodes), I feel that it hada strong beginning, a good but relatively ordinary middle, and endedvery strong with a powerful ending, partly because it was willing tohave its characters grow and change and partly because

In my first entry on 'sender stores message'schemes for email, I asserted that spammers would have no problem makingsure that their servers are not crushed under the load of everyonetrying to read the spam email from them, yet in SenderStorageProblems Isaid that real mail senders would have such problems.The difference is that the two groups have very different problems, andthe spammers can cheat. Let's look at what the two look like.

Real mail servers of any significant size will be dealing with tensof