“All Greek philosophers are zombies, therefore Socrates likes to eat your brains.”

I got my CMU Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Software Architecture Professional Programme (SAPP) certificate today.

It was a two-part course, consisting of “Software Architecture: Principles and Practices”, “Documenting Software Architectures”, “Software Architecture Design and Analysis” and “Software Product Lines”.

During the course I also learnt how to stay frosty.
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Congratulations to Mr. Barack Obama, who became the new President of the USA. He promised change as his message, and sure enough, the robots.txt of Whitehouse.gov underwent major changes already (among other things).

Anecdotical? Perhaps.

Recently I saw this superbly good quote from Mr. Raymond Blanc in a BBC News article called “Food needs ‘fundamental rethink’”:
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What do you think of this?

Recent advances in cooperative technology and classical communication are based entirely on the assumption that the Internet and active networks are not in conflict with object-oriented languages. In fact, few information theorists would disagree with the visualization of DHTs that made refining and possibly simulating 8 bit architectures a reality, which embodies the compelling principles of electrical engineering. In this work we better understand how digital-to-analog converters can be applied to the development of e-commerce.

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My friend from the almighty APMID posse recently started on a path of trying to get $100 k (yes, one hundred thousand US dollars) with Flash games. He’ll be blogging along about his progress, so be sure to follow his journey. He’s currently into part 2 of his series, and so far has sold one game.

It’s a Christmas-themed Flash game called Reindeer Rattle, where you control Santa Claus’ flying reindeer squadron to capture Christmas gift packets. Each gift gets more points and over time your reindeer posse grows longer and longer. It’s quite addictive – have a look!

I could imagine if a parent were to stick their kids in front of this game they could enjoy some good Yuletide and Christmas glögg in peace & harmony.

Well, ’nuff said. I read Wikipedia a lot and here are some interesting pages:
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Quote of the week, about innovation and inventions, by Mr. Nassim Taleb:

If you think that the inventions we see around us came from someone sitting in a cubicle and concocting them according to a timetable, think again: almost everything of the moment is the product of serendipity.

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Not really! But some people think they do.

Anyway, if you work in IT and haven’t already read this classic book “The Mythical Man-Month”, please do so now. It’s a treasure chest of insight.

If you can’t find the book, check out this slideset.

Can you imagine how the world will change, when people can truly walk around with their personal libraries with them, carrying tens if not hundreds of books, without 1. Internet access, 2. hauling a heavy laptop, 3. hauling any device where the battery dies in approximately 4 hours of usage? Reference books, technical manuals, fiction, non-fiction, comics, you name it, anything can be handily carried in your pocket, as if you were carrying a paperback book.
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