The Iowa Electronic Markets are a real-money trading system that is used to attempt to predict political outcomes. Right now, a \$1.00 pay-off on the Presidency will cost \$.58 for Bush. In other words, Bush is favored. There's a strong case to be made that “real money” is a …

Umm... I know you'll think I'm kidding, but Has Been is really good. I mean, really, seriously good. Not ironic good. Like, good good. I mean, Shatner works as essentially a spoken-word poet over the tunes and he's got his distinctive cadence, but, y'know, that's how the majority of hip-hop …

EverNote, a note-taking app that supports the TabletPC, has entered public beta. I'm very excited about this app, as it has a couple great things that I've been dreaming about in a note-taking app: a timeline view, the ability to add custom categories, and templates for to-do and shopping lists …

Software Development has published their annual salary survey. Essentially, slow growth. The most interesting graphic to me is the one that shows trends to the question “If you're seeking a new job, what is the reason?” which shows a marked shift from passionate reasons (join a startup, new challenges) to …

My latest column for SD Times discusses Borland's recently announced initiatives...

My latest on programming the TabletPC is up on DevX. This one talks about putting ink on the World Wide Web.

DevX is paying me to write a couple of articles about “Pynk”: my Python interactive environment with ink-editing. That means I can spend time on it during the week in a guilt-free manner. Excellent!

Helping numb the sting of having predicted at this time last year that “Whidbey” would ship by the last day of 2004, the C# team today announced that C# will support “Edit & Continue” in Visual Studio 2005. Not having been a major VB guy, I can't say that I've missed …

Clearly, Bush's “hump“ is not placed specifically for the debate:

Compare and contrast:

I'm hosting a Wiki for IronPython, probably until something more official happens.