Today on Whedoneque, a pointer to an article in the Daytona Beach News-Journal. I think the byline says it best, so I'll just quote it here:

New on DVD: Whatever show you didn't watch last year.: "The Inside, Firefly, Greg The Bunny, Tru Calling, Wonderfalls and more. Fox's genius programming analysed in the wonderful tone of sarcasm!"

Excellent article. Sadly, we have to wait until September to find out how really wrong Fox was.

Andrew Pontious over at Helpful Tiger has some good things to say about Python and Objective-C

I've got one word for you, Andrew: PyObjC. Your Cocoa development will speed up by at least a factor of 2, trust me.

Today I read the first blog entry (that I've seen, anyway), on Apple's Pages/iWork application. In a way I want to try this thing out... on the other hand, I really like As Readable As Possible plain text documents (which LaTeX or Docbook give me).

Why do i want my stuff in a plain text-like format? So I can open it in 20 or 30 years without having to find a machine that can boot OS X 10.3 and hence run Pages (or whatever). I'm sure Old-school C64 people have tons of documents in C64 word processors that they might want, but the documents are locked in binary form (on C64 floppy disks, no less), and I don't want that happening to me.

Assuming anything I wrote now will even be useful in 20-30 years...

Anyway, relevant blurb from the article:

Should Pages be used for really large projects like books? Um, definitely not. Maybe. I wouldn't. But in terms of the actual layout and editing of documents, to me it is far ahead of Microsoft Word for Mac OS X, and I'll never switch back. Goodbye Word and OmniGraffle, hello Pages!

(Via Phark.)