Just to stir up emotions, I’ll sometimes suggest that Denmark drop Danish as official language, and instead adopt English. It usually works. People …Read more

Went to the post office the other day to send a large letter to the US. The poor post office worker had to literally fill up the entire envelope wit…Read more

Heard Eric Raymond give a talk today. One interesting point: “People will hold on to their property, as long as the benefit of owning that property …Read more

It’s hard not to see a parallel between the mental shift that September 11 implied, and the mental shift that’s been going on in the computing busin…Read more

Lots of people are busy whining about Microsoft being the big, evil monopolist, and if it wasn’t because they forced their software down our throats…Read more

“Commercial” is often used as an invective, to mean that something’s bad taste, stupid, or wrong. At least in my country. But the people that do tha…Read more

Ask Bjørn Hansen sent me a link to this Entrepreneurial Deathtraps speech. Not bad to be aware of these traps. I’ve definitely seen quite a bit of t…Read more

Why is it that software specifications are always written so horribly? In fact, almost all technical writing is bad: Documentation, RFPs, proposals,…Read more

I’ve added another couple books: Gig, which I finished a couple months ago (and which is a good swimming-pool type book—you dive in every once in a …Read more