>I almost completely lost interest in this subject and pretty much anything political. I have heard someone say that it is ok to
>be sad and disappointed when you are in your 30ies-40ies meaning you had some faith and ideals and then it all turn out to be
>false. Fair enough; happens to more or less everybody :) When you are almost 50 and still bitterly disappointed then something must be seriously wrong with you... {g}
>In the meanwhile I discovered gardening. Planting flowers and especially trees is about closest I ever got in making this world any better place. :)

The main advantage of gardening, compared to programming, is that you not only see the results of your efforts, but the results are edible and still exist after you turn the machines off. And some of the results are potable. And you save on fitness.

Just this weekend I cut down three dead trees so they wouldn't fall on the nearby live ones. And the few dozen new trees we planted two years ago have started bearing fruit - not all of them yet, not much, but it looks promising. You don't get that with software - there's always more bugs to fix.