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Monday Monday, what was I going to do with you? Well as it turns out, a lot; managed to plow through all my status / email / reporting stuff and make it to some real work: coding! I have a technical project which just has to be done this week, and although I have This is fantastic: Sarah Palin and William Shatner do dueling dramatic readings... of each others' autobiographies. Rarely in something like this do you end up liking them both better, but in this case, you do. It worked. Powerline, not usually a fan of either, observes resistance is futile. Rainstorm wallups Southern California. No kidding. You try cycling in that stuff, it's not easy! An obituary for obituaries? "You probably didn’t read the story – because what red-blooded American reads a newspaper anymore? – but apparently the nation’s newspapers, having already lost their editorial dominance to cable news and the Web, their sports coverage to fan sites, their classifieds to Craigslist, and their editorial pages to the blogosphere, are now under heavy assault on their last profitable redoubt: the obituary page." So be it. (BTW the "rainstorm" link above is to the LATimes website, but via Drudge's RSS feed. That's the future, right there...)
Related: Michael Arrington bemoans the end of hand-crafted content. Oh I don't know about that... seems like blogs and Facebook and Twitter all facilitate hand-crafted content. No machine can crank out this stuff!
I'm shocked: Microsoft's top developers prefer old school coding methods. "'Graphical programming environments are usable when they are useless, but unusable when they would be useful," said Jeffrey Snover, a Microsoft distinguished engineer... While visual programming can be easier to learn and can help make developers more productive, it's also 'easier to delude yourself,' said Butler Lampson, a technical fellow at Microsoft. For instance, 'no one can ever tell you what a UML diagram means.'" This makes me so happy; I knew that UML emperor wasn't wearing any clothes... A valuable reference: text messaging smileys. Bookmarked! o-)
Some people don't care about Z, but not me: I love my new notebook and like Win7, but over time I've noticed a galling problem; it messes up Z-order. This is the sequence of windows from front-to-back. Alt-tab does not always do what you expect, and that's annoying. Seems like this would have been easy to find and fix during beta testing, too. PS yeah I know about Window-Tab, and yeah I think it's cool too, but it doesn't solve this problem; the Z-order is wrong.
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Actually what I think is that newspapers aren't dead, they're just fading away into irrelevance. Same with news magazines. Print media will continue to exist, but they'll just evolve. I just got the latest issue of Wired - one of my favorite magazines, and it is about 1/8" thick, about half what it used to be. On the cover, in 72pt. type, is the word Fail. 
