(Amazon) Half a decade ago, while discussing interesting books on software development, a good friend of mine recommended me the book The Soul of a New Machine. Today I happened to come across my copy of the book and was surprised at how much of a strong impression it made. It only makes it ring [...]

Nowadays we get bombarded with recycling suggestions. Quite a few months ago I was very surprised to find a recycling example very “Web 2.0″: Product logo recycling. Compare the photo from a promo flashlight from the System Management ARTS (SMARTS) company and Adobe AIR. Most likely the SMARTS logo trademark has expired since EMC has [...]

Another useful public service, this time from xkcd.com: Guide to Flowcharts