A Transmitter? We Should Be So Lucky!

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

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IronPython Wiki

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

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Life dream...

About an hour ago I was sitting at my dining room table, working on a piece of fiction and the setting sun got in my eyes. And I realized that I was sitting in my house in Hawaii, writing fiction, and watching the sun set over the Pacific. Which is …

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IronPython and Dynamic Languages in my latest column

My most recent SD Times column, Dynamic Do-Over, is now online. I argue that what makes “dynamic” languages compelling is not implicit vs. explicit typing, but an interactive console. I also drop some quotes from my talk with Microsoft's Jim Hugunin on the future of IronPython.

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A Math/Physics Word Problem

If you are walking from point A to point B in the rain, do you get more or less wet depending on how fast you walk? [Via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} http://www.actsofvolition.com/archives/2004/october/amathphysics 

Pondering this question was the great intellectual challenge of my youth. I …

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"JPEG of Death" spotted -- Patch NOW!

Bad guys have apparently begun exploiting the security hole that can take over a Windows machine simply by displaying an image. This vulnerability requires patching both the OS and Microsoft Office.

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Casting Blame On The Air-Control Outage

Several news sites are beginning to parrot the meme that the root cause of last week's outage of air-control in the Southwest US is Windows Server 2000's “design” to shut down every 49.7 days “to prevent a data overload.“ This isn't true. This is almost certainly referring to the …

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This V1aKr.A Isn't Doing It For Me

Half the Viagra sold over the Internet is fake, according to British scientists. In other news, the budget department of the University of London is very gullible when it comes to funding requests. I'm expecting money for my “Correlation of loneliness to sexual desire in Internet-using housewives,” study any …

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FlexWiki: Another MS Project Goes Common Public License

FlexWiki, a Wiki project by Microsoft Program Manager David Ornstein, has moved from GotDotNet to Sourceforge and changed to a Common Public License. This is the third project after WiX and WTL that MS has placed on SourceForge. Clearly, Microsoft lawyers have worked their way through the CPL and found …

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