I read.  A lot.  I’m currently in the middle of seven different books, ranging from the technical to self-improvement to fiction.  I’ll finish each book in its own time, but part of the reason my progress has been slow is that other pieces of written information continually vie for my attention.  I’ve come across a [...]

If you’re reading this in an RSS reader, then everything looks as it always has.  If you’re reading this in a browser, then there are differences.
Three things have changed:

The text is larger.
The width is no longer fixed.
There are no longer categories listed in the sidebar.

I’m following Joshua Porter’s lead in making the text bigger.  The [...]

The idea for this post was originally going to be about business strategy.  It was going to revolve around this quote, that I found on the Contrast blog:
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
- Michael E. Porter
It’s a good quote, but there’s a better one that cuts more to the heart of [...]

I’m going to venture outside the realm of software and contemplate a different philosophical issue: what makes man unique?
It’s certainly an issue that has fascinated man for a long time.  Not being a philosophy major, I can’t rattle off the major minds who have contemplated this issue.  “I think, therefore I am” comes to mind, [...]