Guido van Rossum published a reply to my article "Python 3K or Python 2.9."

I seem to visit more and more sites where the pages don't render right, to the point of being unreadable and unusable. And they're trying to sell me something! Why is this happening?

I was recently quoted in an article, and need to correct and attribute the idea.

Bruce Eckel blogged about "Python 3K or Python 2.9?". A lively discussion ensued. Here's my response.

My previous post led me to this library, which appears to solve the coarse-grained parallelism problem quite elegantly.

A response to a blog post by Juergen Brendel pleading for the removal of the GIL.

I gave my wife a new phone for her birthday. But it was not recognized by iSync (I guess the phone is too new). I found a hint on an Italian bulletin board which I a am copying now.

I'm glad to see the first beta of the so-called Python 3000. But for a version that's supposed to break all the rules to become better, I'm not seeing what I think is most important.

The first Python 3000 release is out -- Python 3.0a1. Be the first one on your block to download it!

Lesley Hawthorn wrote a brief summary of the activities at the Python Sprint at Google last week.

Much discussion on rich-client user interfaces and Ajax focuses on the client. Yet, the most fundamental design decision for a rich-client application involves the interaction between client and server, with potentially far-reaching impact on an application's overall architecture.

Some people have told me I'm a brilliant marketer. Eventually I realized that I just stumbled into pieces of good luck a couple of times.

In Java Posse #136, the Posse discusses the Google Singleton Detector which automatically discovers singletons in your code and they all agree that singletons are a bad idea.

As Joe Nuxoll of JBuilder and JavaPosse fame will tell you (given the slightest provocation), one place where the Java designers completely dropped the ball is in Java's component model. This becomes especially clear when comparing it with a system like Flex which has full language support for components.

Two gruesome pictures of a Python caught in an electric fence. Warning: not for the faint of heart.