Today, I've seen a number of my pro-Obama friends linking to statistics and reports that Obama has the election in the bag.  This is dangerous and foolish.  Lawrence Lessig explains more:

"We Democrats have trouble closing the deal. We have trouble continuing the push to the very last moment. We have repeatedly been blindsided by the fact that the other side votes regardless of the expected result, while we’re more contingent — making the effort if it seems necessary, relaxing when it doesn’t."

A journalist's output is journalism.  A critic's output is criticism.  A programmer's output should be programs. I am a programmer who writes.  When I write, particularly when I write critically of technology, I should have programmatic solutions to offer along with my words.  If I don't have code to back up what I have to say, I haven't thought through the problem at hand thoroughly enough. There's no shortage of questions, but answers are scarce.