I've come to rely on other people rather than RSS feeds to point out the really important stuff to me.

Netflix has been everyone's darling long enough that customer abuse has slowly been creeping into their business model. It's ironic that they were the ones that, through competition, forced Blockbuster to stop abusing customers.

James Ward and I just finished an eSeminar, which was recorded as we gave it. The URL is available here, so you can listen to and view the recording.

Observations from Pycon 2007.

After telling everyone I was going to wait-and-see about Windows Vista, I ran into a problem.

The Java backlash has been building up steam, and we’re starting to see some fundamental shifts because of it.

Once again, the new workshop format produced an easygoing, fun and educational experience.

An indoor water park, in Ohio, in the middle of the winter sounded like a very strange destination. But the conference turned out to be very diverse and stimulating, and I was able to try out version two of my new presentation, "The World is Dynamic."

This edition of my occasionally-published newsletter, which also goes out by email, covers upcoming events and the status of various projects.

Since I was going to be in the area to give the keynote at the CodeMash in Sandusky OH, we decided to hold the TurboGears Jam in Ann Arbor, where the main developers live.

The questions you forget to ask when you are interviewing for a job, but wish you'd asked after taking the job.

I've decided to just bite the bullet, get the pickaxe book, and slowly work through it during morning coffee breaks at Camp4 Coffee (a venerated Crested Butte establishment that is one of the centers of social discourse -- those of you who have come here for workshops know of which I speak).

Setting CLASSPATH for directories and jars driving you crazy? I finally decided to do something about it.

I think I'm really starting to get this "event" thing down. I can tell because, at the end of the "Web Frameworks Jam," half the people were saying "when are we going to do this again?"

I've been doing a lot of web programming lately. Although I've experimented with PHP, I keep migrating back to Python.