• It's good to see that JPOX and JBoss have passed TCKs
• It's amazing to realize that the world is full of open source JMS implementations
• I completely agree with Michael Harmer on single-person teams being dangerous (I've been there a lot lately!)
• There's an exciting agile management book on its way at this Yahoo! group (review chapters available from here)
• It's funny that Ernest mentioned Advanced UNIX Programming just a couple of weeks after I bought a brand new copy of it from a sale. I couldn't let such a classic be left alone in that godforsaken far corner... (It was also kind of scary how I ended up seeing the book in the first place -- my girlfriend was killing time while I was browsing a "geek" shelf in the bookstore and I spotted the treasure only because she was close to that "we'll never sell these anyway so let's dump 'em there" shelf)

I just came back from Switzerland and thought I should share something absolutely hilarious: