ThoughtsOnThinking

Gradual (but increasing) eBay Seller Exodus

This post, from someone who was an insider for five years, says a lot.  Makes me wonder how Yahoo Auctions would be doing right now, if they hadn't packed it in last year.

Creativity & Completion

A thought that's been mulling around in my head for quite a few months now:

        Creative people think of more ideas than they can start, and start more ideas than they can finish.

eBay Tremors

Lots going on at eBay these days.  Long term, it doesn't all sound good, IMHO: Click, click, click, click, click...

Good Ideas Last A Long Time

Great quote:

"If you feel compelled to clean house on your bookshelf every five years, trust me on this, you’re buying the wrong programming books."  - Jeff Atwood

Quoted here by Nick Hodges, as part of an interesting post on the programming books business.

(...and Ray Konopka, I second the motion on calling your agent.  Your Developing Delphi Components Book is WAY too good to be so low profile these days.  It's just about all I've been reading this week.  Get it out there! : )  )

CodeGear -> Embarcadero

I took a few days off this week, was offline for two of those, and wasn't far from the home of CodeGear at one point.  Had I known the big news, I could have driven on up there and brought them some champagne! -- CodeGear is engaged to a new owner: Embarcadero Technologies.

The hands-on insiders seem very pleased w/the merger, which bodes well IMHO.  More here, and a good post from Marco here.

The Entire Point of Thinking Tools

...in a two-word word-picture: