I am actually looking at saying good bye to browser (html / css / js and all the madness) and hello to apps that connect to dropbox or s3 or some such cheep server.

Why is the idiom of offering it for free (100% that is) and then look out for supporting the development? How can you honestly do both? Instead, place it for 14 day trial, offer the entire thing cheaper by 99% (leave 1% fan club away), and support both the causes sufficiently.

My take on Windows 8: http://www.thinkezy.com/blog/?p=131

So you don't like tablet-oriented user interfaces, so your solution is to switch to Unity or Gnome3?

WE WANT TEXTMATE FOR WINDOWS ABSOLUTELY

I used Python as a scripting engine and it is fabulous. I see a similar role for node.js.