::: {.Section1} There’s an early Simpsons where Mr. Burns somehow comes to believe that Homer is a fellow predatory capitalist. When he asks Homer how to improve the working environment, Homer says that he’d like the fish sticks in the cafeteria to come with more tartar sauce. Burns marvels …

…So here's some homework for the mighty tablet armada: [sell me on the tablet platform]{style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"}…Given all that, convince me. Sell it to me. Design me a suitable demo. Explain to me exactly why I shouldn't go and get some cute little touch-screen sub-notebook, a ThinkPad with …

Seagate 100GB 2.5" IDE for \$194: "Amazon.com offers the Seagate 100GB 2.5-inch IDE 5400 rpm drive for notebook computers, model no. 9W3277-556, for \$193.99 with free shipping, as a reader found. [Via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Tablog PC]

Without an optical drive to boot from, how would …

Julie points out that if it ain't got Intellisense, it ain't a productive programming environment. Now,

• Pynk doesn't even have cut-and-paste yet, so that comes first; and
• It *should * be possible to use reflection to get, not quite Intellisense, but something like a list of properties and methods that might …

James Kendrick nailed it. You can edit the Shark keyboard to use full words:

Making a syntax-directed programming editor that much easier to contemplate.

Tech Blender points to this rumor that Longhorn will require 64-bit hardware. You know, one of the fairly easy lessons to draw from the 16- to 32-bit change is that it happened too late, that there was a great deal of pain because everyone tried to live with side-by-side APIs …

What would you do if you had more programmatic access to the Tablet PC TIP? [Via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Incremental Blogger]

I think the general answer to this is that I want to be able to control the TIP via something awfully close to Backus-Naur Form. Here’s a classic …

Loren noted that what my video of Pynk programming really demonstrates is that it takes me 1:23 to handwrite “eval(io.Ink.Strokes.ToString())”. Too true. I've been thinking a lot about how to evolve Pynk and, although my first priority is making the “just plain text” interactive console …

According to Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates receives 4,000,000 emails per day. (via Alice and Bill)

You know, somehow I think that after the fabulous spam-filtering technology of Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, there might, just might, be human eyes between billg@microsoft.com and the man himself.