NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories, Inc.

From /usr/src/UPDATING on FreeBSD 7-STABLE:

 Every once in awhile, while whisking away at a new batch of code, the best of your wit fails you and you plant the seed for what would be an epic, head-ache inducing bug by not following a good common practice you really ought to know better about.

Taken from http://www.boost.org/doc/html/program_options/tutorial.html, here's my “omigod why haven't I thought of this before” moment of the week:

// Declare the supported options.
po::options_description desc("Allowed options");
desc.add_options()
    ("help", "produce help message")
    ("compression", po::value(), "set compression level")
;

All I can say is: -_-)=b

Google announced today his Mobile Phone platform... NTT DoCoMo is working with them,  BTW. Details in here:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/wheres-my-gphone.html 

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/180103075/

The base for this new "OS" is Linux. 

As much as python treats functions as first order objects analogous in most ways to any other new-style object, it is important to observe the fine differences between methods and functions, and in the process hopefully avoid a few edge case pitfalls.

Some fun facts to keep in mind:

More details here:

 http://www.openmoko.com/

http://openmoko.org/

Some blog talking about it:

http://troubledramblings.com/2007/10/06/the-open-source-iphone-alternative-openmoko-for-consumers/