Ted Roche’s weblog

“Programmers should be tool builders. If you're not building tools to make your life easier, you're wasting time. ”
– Phil Windley

Bill Sconce announces:
The monthly meeting of PySIG, the New Hampshire Python Special Interest Group, happens on the fourth Thursday of the month, starting at 7:00 PM. Beginners' session starts at 6:30 PM. Bring a Python question!
At this meeting we'll begin the often-requested “Python development
series”, with the specific topics of source-code differencing (using
meld - [...]

David Isenberg does a great job of reviewing the Bill Moyer's show, “The Net@Risk”. The show brought out a lot of the problems with mass-ownership of media, the “duopoly” of cable and telephony vendors slowing the US's broadband capabilities (we've slipped below tenth in the world) and how an unbalanced Congress is handing Big Media [...]

Over at Microsoft Watch, Jason Brooks opines on the efforts Microsoft has spent to bring “Windows Genuine Advantage” to its corporate customers:
“What's worse, it appears that Microsoft has been expending significant development resources to make these expanded controls a reality. It seems to me that there's been a rather important and rather delayed product [...]

Over at All about Microsoft, Mary Jo Foley reports Allchin: Vista won’t RTM next week. “Vista is not on track to be released to manufacturing on October 25, after all, according to Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's platforms and services division.”
Whadyaknow. The CD-printing facilities that have to generate the bajillions of CDs and DVDs must [...]