I was thinking about the near-future day when the guy in front of me on the plane not only lowers his seat into my lap five minutes into the flight but does so while beginning a six-hour conversation on his cell phone or VOIP connection. Are small but potent electromagnetic …

My latest column, on interviewing at Microsoft and laziness, is up at SD Times.

According to David Intersimone, Delphi 1.0 launched 10 years ago today at the Software Development conference. We're currently evaluating Delphi 2005 for this year's Jolt Award for "Languages and Development Environments." Other finalists are: CodeRush, Eclipse, IDEA, JBoss AOP, Python, RealBasic, and Sun Java Enterprise Studio.>

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[A] group of art-hackers in Vienna's Museumsquartier [has built] a functional Turing machine out of model railway tracks [via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Boing Boing]

Wow. That is just insanely cool. :::

For me, the highlight of MWA was insinuating myself into the Arcs of Fire project. I'm not 100% sure that I can start talking about what I'll be doing, but I expect to get some clarification on that soon.

In insanely great coolness, the Arcs of Fire Website contains ink-based …

In a previous post, I mentioned Indigo's "A-B-C" programming mantra as one of the technology's greatest strengths. "A-B-C" stands for "Addressing, Binding, Contract" and is Microsoft's way of teaching the concerns of connected systems:

• Addressing: Where can I find the service?
• Binding: How is the service expressed across the wire …

In general, I'm quite impressed with Indigo. I like all sorts of things about it. But I have some doubts...

Indigo presents a programming model that is quite different from that of the CLR. The CLR's programming model is what you might call “classic OOP.” Object's become instantiated with a …

Jonathan Edwards gives a demo of subtextual (17 minute stream), a programming language that is very close to the type of graph-structured language that I've been imagining for the Tablet PC. The main difference is that he's figured out how to cleanly allow his language to have cycles, which stymied …

John Montgomery muses “Every day members of the press get to write about their interactions with Microsoft -- often interactions with me. What would happen if I blogged about my interactions with them?”

Naturally, as a potential target for his evaluations, I’m against it.

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My second article on Pynk (my ink-based Python interactive console) is now available on DevX.