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Stephen Hawking abandoned his search for The Ultimate Theory of Everything after applying pre-existing and proved mathematical theories to demonstrate that our understanding of the observable universe can never be complete. But his conclusion would have been as valid if he gave up his quest because he simply couldn’t be bothered. The arbitrary act of [...]

Catching up:
- Martin Fowler on the Dependency Injection pattern
- Joel Spolsky’s preface for Coder to Developer
- Dynamic CSS animation
- Identifying noun pairs with Parsers That Count
- Confusing Road Signs
- Installing Linux on a dead badger
- All Swans Are White

Law is perhaps the most hidden of all competitive strategy tools. Many in business fear getting tangled up with lawyers, lobbyists, and bureaucrats, so they keep their distance from legal matters. But it is just this aversion that makes legal knowledge such a rich source of competitive advantage for those who take the [...]

The problem with open source is that the only good customers are the Fortune-500-type companies, and they all have an internal IT department. If you are a dollar cheaper and a day faster than the internal IT department of these various companies you have a potential market in the billions of dollars. If [...]

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious
– Samuel Butler

Later this month, the BBC will launch a pilot project that could lead to all television programmes being made available on the internet. Viewers will be able to scan an online guide and download any show. The plan is to make all television programmes from the previous week available on the internet, using a programme [...]

A man was being tried at the Old Bailey for highway robbery, and a witness swore that he saw his face distinctly, as it was a bright moonlight night. But the highwayman had a smart lawyer on his side, and he was saved by an almanack.
After making the witness swear that the night was [...]

As of this morning there are just under 250 modules on CPAN matching ‘::Simple’. I take a certain amount of blame for this. I’ve released a couple myself, and my kitchen has a credit as the birthplace of Test::Simple.
But I like to think that in those cases the module really does deserve the ’simple’ moniker. [...]