Excellent essays by Scott Berkun.  Be sure to check out #28 - How to Manage Smart People and #43 - How to survive a bad manager.  His book is on my reading to-do list.

The Katrina Data Project.  This is a very cool idea.  I was really surprised when I read this: “we will be bringing in over 50,000 more records from their data sources. We will be helping them capture additional data going forward... their system is currently transporting and storing data via email.”

10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company.  Most of it is common sense, but at least for me, this is relevant to a new gig I scored.

To Convert or Start Over—That’s the Question.  Bill Vaughn talks about VB6 projects and moving them to .NET.

Shock! Horror! Microsoft release usable keyboards!.  Hehehe...funny.  I'm actually using a “Natural Keyboard Pro” that I've had for a few years.  I love it.  There are definite wear patterns on the palm rest and spacebar.  I'll definitely be checking out the new keyboards (although I'm a die-hard Logitech Trackball user, so no mice for me).

Microsoft is getting into another new market.  From Betanews.com.  Hopefully it'll be more usable than Quickbooks.

Keep your best talent.  From Eric Wise.  Ya know...if the management types actually cared about keeping the talent, things would be great. :-)  In my current job, noone seems to care.

Interruptions.  Originally found here.  Quote: “The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state. “