The consequences of inaction

John Hawkins has written a great wake up call for those who aren't so sure they want to go into Iraq.

Also see his post on how Anti-Americanism Is Nothing New for a pretty good historical summary.

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OH MY GOD i THINK i JUST BROKE MY TOE

... not really... but holy crap -- OW

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The Tyranny of E-mail

Via Diego, via Dave, The Tyranny of Email.

Email is one of the greatest things the computer revolution has done for personal productivity. Used improperly, it can also hurt your productivity. This article discusses ways to use email effectively. Then it goes beyond that and talks about how to be productive, period.

Haven't read the thing yet, but I bet my old boss Andy would appreciate this article.

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Interview with TCL developers

Via Slashdot, this looks like an interesting interview with the core TCL developers.

Unlike Perl or Python, which are still maintained by their original authors (Larry Wall and Guido van Rossum), Tcl ownership has changed hands - Dr. John Ousterhout, who wrote Tcl while a professor at UC Berkeley, has moved on to other endeavors (although he does keep an eye on his creation), and others have stepped forward to not only maintain Tcl, but work on improving and extending it.

Several of the "core team", including the lead maintainer, Jeff "The Tcl Guy" Hobbs, Andreas Kupries, Donal Fellows and Mark Harrison, were kind enough to take some time to respond to some questions about a variety of topics via email. We start by asking Jeff about how the torch was passed...

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