Editorial and weekend reading

Phew. After two days away from the keyboard with hands battered by a mason’s hammer, a guitar (meaning a shovel), 
 lime, cement and other masonry ingredients, I’m back in the oasis of calm that is my workplace. This visit to the desk is purely social, though. I’ll check and clear out my email,
 look over the bugs since we’re finishing a release, and recover some physical and mental energy. From Monday to Thursday there’s another 
 round of plastering the family house, and I probably won’t have the energy left to blog.

Weekend reading

A few interesting articles surfaced while I was away this week, including an unofficial
 statement from Minister Vladimír Mlynář on software patents.

• (19 May 2004, Michael Nascimento Santos) EJB 3.0 — Is it going to solve our problems?
• (18 May 2004, Root) The Minister of Informatics on software patents
• (17 May 2004, Java.net blog) Root.cz and Mono
• (16 May 2004, René Stein) An analyst’s experience with Ariadne’s thread