The Golden 80s

The world's smallest deer discovered in the Himalayas, says AP . "I do not like to track metrics like the number of comments as a quality measure. Anything you track is likely to cause some change in behavior," says Richard L. Hamilton, author of Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation, in an interview . He also says that DocBook is used more than DITA. Interesting. What kinds of documents do Agile software development require? Read this blog post by Eelco Gravendeel. Making a strong case to let sci-fi movie classics to remain as classics is the article, Top 10 Sci-fi movies that should never be remade 2.6 million viewers tuned in to the final episode of the most recent series of Ladette to Lady , a TV serial that is related to reviving the debate, Why can't a woman be more like a lady? Interview with Ian Rankin , one of my favourite crime fiction writers. Oxford University faces flak over land use. Oxford University dragged into ...

"By writing books, the individual becomes a universe. And since the principal quality of the universe is its uniquness, the existence of another universe constitutes a threat to its very existence."

As 2007 draws to a close, lists of the best books, both fiction and non-fiction, have started appearing. (This list will be updated in due course.) The 10 Best Books of 2007 by New York Times