Despair, Inc., well known for the demotivational posters that should be present on cubicle walls of any self-respecting company, now has video podcasts under the title Corporate Spin.
The latest installment has Dr. E.L.Kersten giving advice on dealing with employee complaints. His method is both result and cost effective, so run over and watch!

God’s Debris, by Scott Adams (free electronic version, buy) is a nice little book about a parcel delivery guy making a delivery that changes his life.
It turns out that the old man at the house is omniscient, and a dialogue about many topics - the universe, evolution, how we think, reality - unfolds. […]

John Hylands reports another milestone on his HUV project, the first autonomous trip of his MicroRover robot.
Using Squeak here makes a lot of sense - the very same environment powers both his mission editor software and the gumstix controlling the robot.
There are not many software development systems that will easily accommodate that range of […]

Just a quick note: ESUG’s 14th International Smalltalk Conference 2006 is in Prague, in the land of Pilsner Urquell and other good stuff .
Time to prepare a Kolibri talk…
Update: Giovanni Corriga pointed out a conference that might even be more interesting

Well, Squeak news keeps coming: Spanish Technology ministry the has published a tender for Squeak-based museum displays.
I haven’t been able to find the tender itself on-line, but the Regional Government of the Extremadura is an avid Open Source supporter, so this would be a great opportunity.
Any Spanish-speaking Squeakers up for setting up a consortium […]

James Savidge just posted an essay about Dabble - Dabble is one of the most exciting Smalltalk packages currently in an extended beta, and James has done his best to give a very balanced opinion on the package based on a real-world example, his database of open Smalltakl positions. Worth a read.

Well, even the NASA can’t do without Squeak these days. They are using Squeak as a testbed for new user interfaces (Andreas Raab adds in the thread that this is Tweak/Croquet-based).
Croquet has a Mars Rover demo, and I figure that stuff like this - a simulated 3D environment of a planet-to-explore where people from […]

Pimp my grave is the title of a campaign of one of my customers and last weekend that site went live.
It’s an interesting site - we managed to completely separate design and coding work with help of lots of CSS and a bit of Javascript (rewriting the DOM tree to replace a title with […]

Last Saturday, we assigned our boy scout troop the task of building cooking fires and cooking a simple meal (err… ok, warming up a can of beans ). A nice challenge in a damp forest, and always a good opportunity to bring them up-to-date with safety practices: after all, they’re playing with axes, knifes, […]

It’s mostly marketing (a sleazy way to get better search engine visibility), but there may be information of use in the new Dutch section of my website for those that read the language. The content tells potential customers what I can do for them. At the moment, it is a voluntary click, but I mean […]