(Thanks to James for the bit-smithery to realize my idea.)

I just realized my childhood friend Mike Datwyler would have been 40 today. (He didn’t make it to 20.)

I still miss you, Mike.

Brian Marick drew my attention to Jason Yip's take on Gilb's Law. I agree that this corollary deserves equal status.

(Yip's comment is also a fabulous demonstration of the power of few words. Compare it to my blog from last year on roughly the same topic. Yip uses less than 20 words to say the same thing, more powerfully, that I said in about 300. *sigh*. Must remember: minimalism.)

That noise you just heard was the earth grinding to a halt on its axis.

After way too many years, I've finally done a substantial overhaul on my website. Among other things, the rework removes some annoyances that were getting in the way of blogging. Hopefully there'll be at least a trickle of new content here, in addition to the new look.