I was tagged by Joe Gregorio. A very long time ago. At the time my motive was to stop the viral madness. But, in sweeping out my drafts folder, I figured why not post the five things without ‘tagging’ anyone else:

I lived in Durban, South Africa from 1997 to 1999 serving a mission for my [...]

Especially when we are trying to welcome peoplto the participatory age, folks…

There are several criticisms about Web 2.0 going around lately on various blogs, including the Register…
I disagree. Kathy Sierra put it nicely in her post on Why Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword. The criticisms are from intelligent people. This is not just the Web 2.0 hatemongering in days, months, year past. These are [...]

There are many sides to Java. Java EE, SE, ME and the hundreds of JSRs that “fit” somewhere else. Vendor collaboration has seen to that. The good news for Javists is that the powers that be seem primed and ready to open their minds to other languages.
Microsoft came out of the gate running with the [...]

There is no silver bullet.
There is no such thing as a single Enterprise wide tool for any company of reasonable complexity and its plain silly to believe that the next technology wave will be any different from previous ones in terms of delivering on the promise of the “one ring to bind them” vision of [...]