Get Rich Slow by Tama McAleese opens with the following preface, attributed to an unknown author.
A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in the nest of a backyard hen. The eagle hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the backyard chickens did, [...]

Such questions of human curiosity (and a muffled personal guffaw given the career choice of one of my close family members) are addressed in the book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.
Frankly, this is one book I wish everyone would read. In a quick and [...]

The result of many months of development, Adium 1.0 has finally been released. Adium represents the pinnacle of Instant Messaging software on Mac OS X, and the newest version is no exception. I’ve been using the betas for a long time and have had the pleasure of watching the feature set and stability steadily increase.
Congratulations [...]

Two days ago I spent a few hours walking around my neighbourhood taking photos. If you haven’t tried this before, I highly suggest you do as you might be surprised by the things you find. Looking at the world through a lens tends to force you off autopilot and open your eyes to both the [...]

It is important to be secure enough in yourself to admit to your mistakes and accept the consequences. As of writing I am finishing off a considerable development project with a client. Nearing the end of the project, it became clear that a few questionable choices were made as a result of ‘decisions by committee’ [...]

As maturity beckons we go through dramatic changes. In almost all cases, commercialism steps in with promises of giving us what we cannot have: blemish free skin for the adolescent, wrinkle free for the middle and wart free for the truly mature. What is far less publicised however, no doubt due to a failure of [...]