Well, I avoided political content on this blog for 3 years and just let myself go in the past two weeks, but since I'm actually getting polite discourse, what the heck:

“Libertarian“ asks: .... The people have spoken. The majority of voting Americans sent a message: how out of touch the …

Microsoft is now showing prototypes of tablets with auxiliary displays. The idea is that there's some stuff (at the very least, “your next appointment”) that you want to see all the time. The exact definition of what this stuff might be is extremely fuzzy -- for instance, I've heard people say …

A commentor has accused me of engaging in "sour grapes." However, sour grapes would be if I said "Well, the Kerry Administration would have sucked, too."

What I'm doing is "crying over spilt milk"

But as far as software development goes, Microsoft is developing a new SDK to promote the …

”if you are a senior majoring in computer science and are seriously thinking of leaving the country due to the election results, you might be interested in my international English-language Masters program in parallel and distributed computer systems...”

-- Andrew Tanenbaum, the “votemaster” at www.electoral-vote.com makes the best of …

The roughest thing about this election is that, let's face it, this was the Democrats' best shot. Four years ago, you could blame Gore for running away from the Clinton record. Two years ago, you could look at the spineless Republican-Lite strategy of the DNC. But yesterday it came down …

Wonderful. Just f'in wonderful. This happened in Santa Clara, CA. I'm off to vote here on my idyllic tropical isle. Guess I'll bring my digital camera, just in case zany hi-jinx ensue.

It's inexcusable not to make a decision.

Oh, by the way, you should vote for these guys:

After last week, you'd think that Saturday Night Live would avoid lip synching for, I dunno', a week or two anyway, but Eminem not only was clearly lip synching, he did a terrible job!

James Snell is angry that his vote for Bush won't count, because he lives in California. (I mean, it will count, but California is considered a lock for Kerry.) If I still lived in California I'd be angry because my vote for Kerry wouldn't count (I mean, it would, but …

Dave Jaquay is leaving the .NET world and returning to Java. He sees C# and Java as comparable languages (giving the edge to C#) but is excited about switching Visual Studio for Eclipse. It's an interesting read. I'm doing some Java work now and using Eclipse. A few things I …