Julian Dunn's Journal … don't call it a "blog" …

… describes perfectly my thoughts about marketing weasels. (D=Dilbert, M=Marketing Weasel)

D: This product would melt the polar ice caps and doom humanity.
M: That’s okay.
D: You’re part of humanity.
M: No, I’m in marketing.
D: I won’t help you destroy the planet.
M: That’s what I said until I saw the free t-shirts.

Aside from having to sell your soul, [...]

SQLite

I haven’t tried this yet, but it looks really cool. It’s basically an almost-SQL92 complete implementation of a database engine without a separate database process required — the databases are stored on disk as files. I’m hazarding a guess that this sprung from the limitations of Berkeley DB as a scalable, lightweight file-based database implementation.

Surprisingly [...]

I decided today that I don’t always want to sound like a crusty old coot in this journal, so I thought I should write a quick journal entry about what I consider to be fantastic pieces of software. So briefly, here are my top five nominations.