…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.

If you've never tried dictation, you can get a sense of how it works by watching a ~~video~~ screencast I made shortly after I installed Version 8 of NaturallySpeaking. The out-of-the-box experience was dramatically better than before [via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Jon's Radio]

Not long ago I had a chat …