Fredrik Lundh tells of a horrible story in his Swedish town. Sad.

Jon Stewart on Crossfire—amazing tv, available from various places.
William Gibson (go read Pattern Recognition) has a blog, because:

Why?

Because the United States currently has, as Jack Womack so succintly puts it, a president who makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln.

And because, as the Spanish philospher Unamuno said, “At times, to be silent is to lie.”

I got hit by comment spam (I guess that makes this a real blog, sigh), and don’t have the time to implement a countermeasure (or the inclination, really), so I’m taking comments off for now. Email me (firstname.lastname@gmail.com) if you want to contribute—it’s not like I was getting a lot of non-spam comments anyway.

I’m at SD Best Practices. First impressions:

Agile development has 90% of the mindshare based on the talk schedule—yet very few people seem to be doing it based on the few conversations I’ve had. It feels like a disconnect between the speakers and the audience. We’ll see if the trend is real or [...]