The familiar coffee cup icon appeared in my Windows task bar. I clicked it, and there it was again, the perennial off-white #Java installer wizard that was going to lead me through the installation of yet another new version of the popular runtime framework.

The wizard started by prompting me about removing out-of-date Java versions from my computer, which I obliged. It could be a security risk, the wizard said. And then surely it would install the new version? But no, the wizard just completed after having confirmed there was no remaining out-of-date version of Java installed on my system.

Man, these times are weird.