Amazon has shipped the Kindle, which I think may very well be the game-changing device the eBook market has been waiting for. Compatibility with PDF, plaintext, HTML, "Kindle format" (structured HTML), plus free EVDO connectivity, plus email-your-document-to-the-Kindle (killer). Books are \$9.99. If O'Reilly puts Safari on this thing, they'll …

Paul Stovell is working on a project he calls "SyncLINQ" which provides databinding over LINQ queries. Although I've not yet tried SyncLINQ, it's clearly a great idea. [via Steve Pietrek Links (11/15/2007)]

Wes Moise's musings on Supercompilation led me to this discussion of the the myth of the sufficiently smart compiler.

The "sufficiently smart compiler" is still trotted out regularly, even though the market has moved away from demanding even moderate attention to performance at the compiler level. Have you timed your …

I realize that the preceding may, in fact, make me appear to be a hot-head. In fact, I may be a hot-head. But I think if there's one thing that we should value, it's our time. I spent an hour trying to "clear the cache" because he uploaded a file …

So we've got a page that allows clients to edit email addresses. Turns out that if there are no email addresses associated, the "Add an email" link doesn't show up. I glance at the page and see that the button is inside the loop that's iterating over the emails (this …

My commenting problem has to do with dasBlog validating the viewstate. There is a helpful debugging suggestion in the logs, but my ISP tells me that it is not appropriate to my situation. Until I can spend some time trying to figure that out, I won't subject people to the …

You've got friends visiting. They're in town for 9 days. One day involves driving 4 hours to go to a botanical garden which you've been to before and flowers aren't really your "thing" anyway. Do you do it, because, you know, they're your friends, you'll enjoy being with them, etc …

As the OLPC launch approaches, I thought I'd take a look at the development environment. Somewhat to my surprise, the \<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_started_programming"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OLPC Development Wiki says that:

• Technically any language is usable
• Python is strongly encouraged, to …

To the naked eye, it doesn't look like much, but through binoculars, 17P/Holmes is incredible. I don't know how dependent that is on seeing it in very dark skies -- we had a really dark night Saturday. This is definitely one to go out of your way to see.

Alan Zeichick struck a nerve by calling BS on the premise that Daylight Savings Time saves money. Personally, I dislike DST because during the Summer (or, at this point, non-Winter) Hawai'i is 3 hours behind the West Coast, while during the Winter we're an hour closer and I can begin …