Well, I'm heading to NYC for a one week trip to explain the New and Improved MSJVM Gospel.  If you see a disheveled, 6'1 guy in a rumpled suit and a war-torn look on his face: that's me (come to think of it, that could be any guy in the financial section of Manhattan at 4pm).  Speaking of the MSJVM, I gotta give credit to Sun, they're doing a pretty decent job of trying to help people move from the MSJVM to the Sun JRE.  They even have an "upgrade site" aimed at helping people move from the MSJVM to the Sun JRE.  Of course, many of the remaining MSJVM-dependent applications use Microsoft-specific libraries, which won't run inside Sun's (or BEA's, or IBM's) JRE.  Sun is promising an upgrade tool that will detect (but apparently not automatically correct) dependencies on Microsoft-specific libraries.  Microsoft already has a tool that will convert many of the dependencies, the Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA).  Of course, die-hard Java advocates will point out that the JLCA only converts to C#, but if you're already wanting to take advantage of Microsoft-specific libraries, and you want to avoid the performance and development problems of Swing, the JLCA is the best way to go.

Doug Purdy introduced me to The Gospel of Supply-Side Jesus.  I'm looking forward to reading Al Franken's book on the flight to NY.  I should be writing my own book, but it's tough to write a book when you're packed into the middle seat in the coach section.  Speaking of my book, the Amazon link to it is now down.  I think they put it up too early (and considering the delays I'm having because of work-related trips like this to NYC, maybe that was the right thing to do :-( ).  For a while, I've been worried that I've been so buried in my book writing that I would miss out on some major, incredible peice of news.  Then I heard that the Cubs really were NOT going to to the world series, so I guess everything is normal.

Time to sign off, I gotta go buy a vacuum cleaner.  The one I have sucks.  Well, technically, that's what it's NOT doing