Changing the landscape rather than following the established path [Fast Takes]

mmm… politics [recursive]
An intresting article mentioned the alliance between some of the left and the right in avoiding cloning techonologies.

Billg tosses coins to India’s poor, touts MS. Just like John D. Rockefeller [The Register]

Joel points out somethng that you discover time and time again when write or use software libraries, The Law of Leaky Abstractions. Basic concept is that programers build abstractions to build more complex software. However all non trivial abstractions are leaky. It is probably the primary reason the software has security issues, and it also starts to define an upper bound in the quality complexity product of software.

Wired: “The key to Plaxo’s success appears to lie in its virus-like nature.” [Scripting News]
Former napster cofounder’s new project in sync’ng personal contact information.

I haven’t seen anyone notice that Movie Maker 2 beta is available now. The internal spam claims that is a pretty good upgrade. I’ve yet to use it since I have next to no movie files to play with, but the ui looks promising.

Pretty quiet weekend, did some cleaning, did some shopping. Tonight I’m going to be trying out a restaraunt called Andaluca because of the 25 for 25 program.

New C# Language Features (someday). Chris Sells: “On November 7th, at the OOPSLA Conference in Seattle, WA, C# creator Anders Hejlsberg unveiled several potential language features for the next major release of Visual C# .NET. The four primary features Anders spoke about were:

-Generics, a form of C++ templates that makes reusing existing code easier
-Iterators, a construct that makes traversing collections of data significantly faster and easier
-Anonymous methods, an easier way to perform simple tasks using delegates
-Partial types, a means for programmers to split code across multiple files” [Sam Ruby]

Here is the powerpoint presentation with some examples.

Handspring.com: Treo 270 vs. T-Mobile Sidekick [lnk.to]

Iraqis attack UN resolution. Key Iraqi parliamentary officials urge Baghdad to reject the tough new United Nations resolution on weapons inspections. [BBC News | WORLD]