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Almost as interesting: major rumors about
forthcoming Palm handhelds and OS 5.

This is a true gem. From MSDN:
Visual
Studio .NET: Managed Extensions Bring .NET CLR Support to C++

Excerpt: (emphasis mine)

Where Are We?
Unfortunately, as powerful and flexible as managed C++ is, it’s not the native
language of .NET, which means that books, articles, courses, code samples,
and so on, are not going to be written in managed C++-they’re going to be
written in C#. But this should come as no surprise. C++ has never been the
native language of any popular platform. Unix and Win32 have C. The Mac
has Pascal. NeXT had Objective C (of all things). COM has Visual Basic. Only the BeOS has C++ as its
native language, and when was the last time you wrote any BeOS code?
The fact that .NET favors C# merely means that another language will be
translated into the C++ equivalent, as has been done since 1983.

Heh. Looks like Dave is finally
starting to share my pain.

new dsandler.org feature: randomized links (see
pale-yellow-colored menu above).

erin (8:25 AM):
Armand made
this REALLY sad noise while I was finishing up getting ready, so I went
to snuggle him a little, and he said they hadn’t eaten in days. I went
over to look at their bowls, and Albert chimed in in
agreement.

dan (8:25 AM):
Is that what he told you? They hadn’t eaten since yesterday.

erin (8:26 AM):
They said days. But yeah, I opened the new food and got out a measuring
cup to dispense it, because I knew I’d never be able to lift it. They
were literally pushing each other out of the way while I was opening the
bag. I had to move the trash can to get at the door, and when I poured
the food: Albert rubbed his head on my hand so hard that I spilled
quite a bit of it and then stood right where the trash can goes to clean
up what I’d spilled. I asked him to move and nudged him with the trash
can, but he just would NOT move. He was still eating when I left.
Mando ate enough and then went under the table again.