While reading tonight I came across two links from Europeans - one for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and the other shows the players in the approaching political season.

In the first Mark Steyn gives thanks for America. It's nice to hear kind words from an outsider's perspective.

The other is the Telegraph's listings of their top 100 liberals and conservatives. If nothing else, it's a who's who for watching the upcoming elections.

I just downloaded Google's early release of the Android development tools. The download came in two pieces; the Android SDK and the Eclipse Plugin.

Setting up a project in Eclipse is a simple matter. First you download and install the SDK. Then you install the plugin via the Eclipse Software Update system. After restarting Eclipse you have to set the location of the SDK to proceed. Go to Window -> Preferences and select the Android plugin. Enter the directory where the SDK is installed.

Having installed the SDK and plugin you can create a project. A project wizard asks for a project name, project package name, and an Activity name (an Android class). The plugin builds the project and you're off and running. I'm up and running with a project in just a few minutes - I'll have more later.

Technology Review is reporting that Wal*Mart is test marketing a $199 computer with gOS installed on it. The gOS operating system is a variant of Ubuntu Linux and is "heavily oriented toward Google's Web sites and online applications". There have been rumors for a long time that Google would create an Ubuntu-based distribution. It looks like someone beat them to the punch - or maybe they're working together on this(?).