I love this guys comment:

"It was a cold Friday and I was looking forward to working on a streaming MP3 jukebox server I'd been building with Flash and Java. I had no idea what was going to happen that day."

He goes on to say that he was laid off (I think, it was tough to discern). Dude, if you were going to work and working on a Java and Flash MP3 server, you were gonna get laid off.