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 …

My latest article on programming the TabletPC is up on DevX.

Boston, you're my home

Oh, how I wish I had an Audiovox SMT5600. I think it's what I want: an MP3 player and digital voice recorder that I can to use to occasionally make phone calls. Seriously. Hey, Scoble, you said that it was good as a phone-first, data-device second -- what about my scenario …

The new Photo Story 3, which is really pretty good, is freely available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx