According to the Master Schedule, Eclipse 2.0 will be online on Friday. GM2 is already up, so they seem to be on schedule.

The GMn drops seem to be pretty much like release candidates.

Python supports 'else' clauses on 'for', 'while' and 'try' blocks, as well as on 'if' blocks. The effbot demonstrates their use.

Web usability is finally improving, according to useit.com. But only by 4%. ;-)

Another 15 years, and all web sites will be 100% usable. Yeah, right.

What improvements there are can only have been spurred on by the likes of Mark Pilgrim.

Why is it that CEOs are never from an IT background?

AWS thinks that it is because IT people are IT centered, rather than people and business centered. This probably used to be true, but I think that it is less true now.

See also this SlashDot thread - Project Management For Programmers?

Tomorrow, I'm going to IBM's Stargate Eclipse - iSeries Development Update event. Should be interesting.

No updates tomorrow. ;-)

So far as I can make out, this guy put some ink in water, and the carbon didn't defuse. So Evolution is impossible. Evolution Is Biologically Impossible. Sheesh.

He's talking bollocks, naturally.