Andrew writes:

The reduction in complexity from having higher-level things in the library was very impressive. In contrast, I find the new language features added in 2.4 unimpressive and not likely to be useful to me.

http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20030115.html

See also: http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20030109.html

I guess this means Zope Corp. needs to shut down, then. ;(

http://lwn.net/Articles/93245/

Bloody stupid patents!

An interesting checklist; I might not agree with all of them, and might add some additional ones, but it makes a good starting point.

http://betterme.org/cleansweep.html

Via http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/06/09/life-assessment

I was laying over in the Nashville airport on my way to Austin this evening, and had the distinct pleasure of listening to three acoustic musicians jamming in the gate lobby. They played (and traded off) guitar, banjo, and mandolin, with a repertoire which stretched from classic blues (Lightnin' Hopkins' "C. C. Rider") to old-timey ("Long Black Veil") to the Grateful Dead ("Friend of the Devil") to some original stuff. Apparently, they were en route to a gig in Austin.

I guess "Music City" is more than just a tourism slogan.

I made a pretty good living for several years as a Delphi guru; if I had to go back to GUI-programming hell, I would want to use Delphi, or something damned close.

Lazarus looks like it might fit the bill (but they need lots of help on their website!) Lazarus is the foundational tool for the newly-released CBTracker, an open-source checkbook manager.

Cringley writes of the mess created by a foolish fixed-price contract between EDS and the Department of the Navy.

Although I have never been involved in anything that huge, I know the pain which a bad fixed-price engagement brings.

Wow! I can imagine lots of uses for this: editing XML-based content, for instance, as well as other "structured" text content.

http://helene.muze.nl/