I work at Sun Microsystems.
The opinions expressed here are my own,
and neither Sun nor any other party necessarily
agrees with them.
Drop whatever you’re doing and go check out Life Among The Mammals by the one and only Len Bullard, who has been quoted in this space a few times. The amount of material is still small enough that you can read the whole thing to get caught up, and you’ll probably enjoy doing that. (As I write the top two posts are political, if that’s not your flavor skip ’em to get to the other good stuff.)