2 [Alan Kay](http://www.viewpointsresearch.org/alan.html)
3 talk during a visit to HP Labs a week or so ago. Among other things, it
4 motivated me to finally sit down and have a look at
5 [Squeak](http://www.squeakland.org).
7 I'd heard [Ted Kaehler](http://www.squeak.org/us/ted/) and others talk
8 about it. I have fond memories of playing with Smalltalk at various times
9 in the past, starting when I was an undergrad at CMU. I know the
10 folks in Extremadura include Squeak in the systems they deploy in schools,
11 and I even came home from Malaga with a CD containing their packages! But
12 I just hadn't ever gotten around to actually doing anything with Squeak.
14 Now I have... and even better, so have my kids. ;-) In fact, while I
15 think I understand what's actually going on better, my daughter now
16 has spent much more time
17 playing with eToys than I have. I'm really curious to see how far she