From CNN: Kurt Vonnegut is dead at 84. This royally sucks. I always found Vonnegut's writing to be bitter, liberal, funny, and dishonest in an admirable sort of way.

Kathy Sierra's situation with threats sent to her blog is intolerable, but sometimes the reaction to it - being applied to sites found unpleasant - is wrong too. Let's ALL grow up some.

As I'm watching my father surrender rather quickly to a blastoma: treasure the time you have with the people you love. The memories you have, the impact you have on your people... those last forever and are a huge part of what makes you who you are.

Tim Bray posted "Two Approaches to Journalism" in which he said, among other things:TheServerSide.com ran a story whose title was a lie, without talking to me or anyone, presumably looking for flameage, and they got some.Well, Tim, in all honesty, I

I'm normally one who sees the term limits for Presidents as a good thing - because it means that regardless of how crappy a President is, he'll be out of office soon enough anyway. But I'm wrong. Bush has to go. NOW.

I like Sun, I like Scott, I like Jonathan... I'm just a liker, not an arguer, I guess. But I see Jonathan's promotion to CEO as good primarily because I think it makes transition to the man who will save Sun easier.

And now we see if invading Iraq was worth all the blood, sweat, and tears. I'm sort of "for" the Iraq war, with a number of reservations. For one thing, I hate war. I recognize that it's not always avoidable, and I think that once you've commi

I just realised that Apple moving to Intel should mean a huge push for Java, if programmers can manage to think a little bit. I mean, really: Apple suggests fat binaries, with PPC and Intel code? Yeah, right. Let's take a 2.5MB deliverable and cra

Loughran and Smith, in an HP whitepaper called "Rethinking the Java SOAP Stack", discuss a new RPC implementation, called "Alpine." It's an interesting read, sort of a quickly-done 99 theses nailed to JAX-WS' door.However, I think

Yesterday, while reading something that was, well, a bit of a storm in a teacup, it struck me what I like least about the blogosphere, about the whole mediasphere, in fact. It's that we take sides. I do this sort of thing a lot. I'll read somethin

Andy Oliver has written an article on journalistic ethics, with his standard barb at JDJ because they posted a competitor's ad and ignored his POI article. Enough, Andy. It's gotten old. There's no point in continuing to hold a grudge for me becau

People write poorly on the web, everyone knows that. In my job, I'm exposed to surprising amounts of it, including bad writing from vendors - commercial and open source - who have every reason in the world for not writing poorly. Look. If you want

I think it's great when people post news to TheServerSide.com, because it means that there's community involvement, and it also means that readers aren't relying on me alone to determine items of interest. So please, feel free to post news to TSS all

There is no magic bullet. Managers and developers alike have a tendency to look for a simple, one-shot solution to address a series of complicated issues, even while we all acknowledge that there is no philosopher's stone. That fails to stop us, thou