I mention The Lone Gunmen at the end.
A skeptic's look at C# [via have browser, will travel] A good question brought up by the article: Why have strong typing if the language allows automatic conversions? Hmm...
The desire to influence the direction of Linux and be aggressive against Microsoft FUD is a knife blade's thickness away from ALL OUT FLAME WAR as pointed out in this article at LinuxPlanet. It's basically a response to IBM's recent Linux support ad campaign: "Peace, Love, and Linux."
"But it is not just us: there are millions of potential Linux users out there, standing at the threshold, trying to decide to come in or not. If you think this in-fighting is not keeping them nervous, you're kidding yourself."
In other news: XML vs. JAVA? This Ballmer gentlemen (I believe he is CEO of a software firm) compares apples to oranges in his recent ACM speech. I think given the track record of Microsoft executives speaking in public forums he should probably expound less.
If you watched the first (or any) episode of The Lone Gunmen and you think Chris Carter owes you a personal apology for not catering to your particular representation of geek then get clean by going to Codewhore and nurturing the geek part that was left so badly unsatisfied. Codewhore led me to this great article about legacy coding.
I know I shouldn't do this. (Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad Chris) But a very secret show will happen in Oakland tonight with Bob and Dave from Mr. Show performing music... Ah, to be a Stork on that wall. I mean, fly, of course, fly on that wall...
[Update: Secret show didn't happen. Awww... According to the booker, Bob and cohorts showed up to the club at 3:30pm and were turned away by the bartender for reasons unknown. Wow. I wonder what happened.... ]