Anthony Eden is giving a presentation on Scripting Java Applications with Jython at the upcoming Python UK Conference 2003. I, for one, am really looking forward to this.

Other people that I'm looking forward to: Marc-André Lemburg, Alex Martelli and Andy Todd.

And, of course, Guido himself. We are not worthy.

Update: I forgot to mention - Anthony has blogged about this before.

BNP takes fifth council seat. What's going on here?

I'm proud to be British, but the Britain that I'm proud to be a part of is a tolerant one. The current furore over asylum seekers sickens me. Britain has historicaly benefited from immigration.

The blog bug is spreading - my chum Stevan Rose has started his own blog - neveratoss. (Can you spot where the name came from?)

He's a Yorkshire lad, and never short of an opinion or two, so it should make interesting reading.

I'll see you for a beer, Steve, after you get back from skiing. Enjoy!

More heat than light, as usual, over at Slashdot.

Still, the Salon editorial, Is there hope for Java? is an interesting read, covering the history of Microsoft's attempts to kill Java off.

TIOBE's Programming Community Index is total rubbish, though. RPG on the way up? I'm a iSeries (a.k.a AS/400) developer, and I know that this is way wrong. Python on the way down? Far from it. Where did they get these figures? What did they google on?

My take on the future of Java is that it's bright, so long as the competition from .NET is taken seriously. A bit of healthy competition never does any harm, and Sun needed a bit of a kick in the arse - Java has been static for too long. C# fas some nice features, and Java needs to steal them.