While I was away for Easter, Handelsblatt, a leading German business daily, published a twelve-page scathing dismissal of the Pirate Party’s call for reforming copyright law. They back their opinion piece with statements of 100 purported “creatives”, most of which are actually managers and politicians.

I’m back from Catalunya — beach ultimate and delicious tapas — and a blissful Easter weekend in the hills and forests of Luxemburg. Quite a few interesting things happened during my absence, but see for yourself:

I was too busy last week to post links. There sure was no lack of fantastic links. See for yourself:

These are wonderful times for making software. In a day or two, you can take a project from an idea in your head to the fully functional and deployed product that people anywere can use.

A year ago the company I work for was getting new business cards made. They asked me what to put under my name, perhaps “software development” or my academic degree¹?