Just heard that Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft. I guess he's achieved every possible goal he had, and it's downhill from here ;-)

I always enjoy reading Roger Sessions work on designing scalable software infrastructure. He's a Java framework expert who has become a .NET advocate. Roger has written a very interesting white paper on A Better Path to Enterprise Architectures. It's a rehash of the KISS principle and small is beautiful, taken from a software designer's perspective.

If that sounds pretty dull to you, read the fighter pilot analogy Roger brings up, where he talks about Mig-15 and F-86 dogfights. Stirring stuff.