The new Swissie has been named “Susie”. It’s fun having a dog hanging around while your programing.

Well, up to today I always knew of Larry Wall for inventing perl, and saying that Lazyness can become a programmer. Today I read a bit more, and was pretty impressed. He really does have the right ideas on programing languages.

For some reason though, and in spite of it’s many benifits, and my raving friends, I just don’t feel like learning perl. There is something about the syntax that bothers me, and I’ve never taken the trouble to find out what it is. Same thing with Python. Can’t stand either of them, and I know they are great languages.

Now Ruby - Ruby has some real class.

The jury is back. The TouchStream SP stays. Guestures rock, typing is fun, and mousing is okay.

I have been having too much fun playing Pocket Tanks. It’s a little tank artillery dueling game, like the first game I ever played on a computer. The graphics in PocketTanks are lush and fluid, and the gameplay is a blast. It’s a simple, but close to perfect game.

The clicker adds a whole new way of working with your computer. It’s one heck of an incredible idea. Why does my iPod not have bluetooth?

We have a new dog around the house for this week. John brought home “Muff”, one of Buckie’s litter-mates, for a visit which he claims will only last a week. Time will tell. Photos to follow tomorrow.

Okay, these guys define stupid.

bq. Our party-crasher might have been able to guess that he was among law enforcement had he taken time to study the picture of the Framingham SWAT team on the fridge. Or look at the sweatshirt worn by the host. It had the words Burlington Police Academy and a pair of handcuffs stitched on.

bq. One thing led to another, until Garland asked the detective if he wanted to get high.

Well, I survived, found the restaraunt I’ll be going too later today, and induldged in stopping at a book store. I think I did better at driving than I normally do – no back-seat drivers today. Being entirely responsible is good. Much better than only partly responsible.

So at the age of 21.5, I’m headed out in about five minutes to drive the car by myself for the first time. It can be scarery growing up, but God is always in control.

I went through Google today, and found every Touchstream user that has blogged about it. There is Michael McCracken , Alex, andMark Humphrey .