- Jack tells us: "Robert Gaskins, inventor of PowerPoint, has a Viewpoint article in the December 2007 Communications of the ACM in which he describes the starting point for PowerPoint 20 years ago: PowerPoint at 20: Back to Basics"
- Prof Richard Wiseman tells us, in the UK Telegraph, that "New Year's resolutions different for the sexes."
- Crosstalk, the journal of defence software engineering, offers some suggestions on how to make software inspections less painful.
- Matt, the telegraph cartoonist, sums up Christmas for grumpy-old-me with the canoe cartoon (at right). Here's his best of 2007 (pdf) - they'll make more sense if you are familiar with the British news.
- According to my favourite christmas present - The QI book of Animal Ignorance - the acid in a snake's stomach is sooooo powerful that it would explode if given an Alka Seltza. Be sure to take a pack with you when you next head into the snake infested jungle.
