Today, I'm wishing for a way to do closures in .NET or Java. I have a bunch of SOAP calls and I'd like to save off, parameters and all, and invoke later, without writing any code, or very much. I've been itching to pick up Python again, but all this is sparked by a need to do some testing, and I've got a deadline. I'll probably end up doing this the hard way.

John Munsch is complaining about Intuit's new strategy with TurboTax. I recently installed Quicken 2002 and I can't believe how much crap it throws onto the desktop. I haven't even run it yet, and I'm disgusted enough that I may uninstall it and go back to my old version. Truth be told, the previous version I owned (bought it 1996) was pretty bad about getting in your face, but it seems to be an order of magnitude worse now. You expect this kind of behavior from "free" products, but when I pay $30-$40 for software, I'd like it to get out of my way and do the job I paid it to do.