Another huge storm rolled through here tonight.  The roads around my house were practically flooded out, and we had a "party" with the boys in our storm closet.  It's been a particularly wicked spring for storms so far, with a couple of tornados touching down in the greater DFW area. 

I really love the storms here in Texas.  Boston would just sort of be a grey drizzle for weeks at a time, but here the storms are really full of sound and fury!

Over my recent business travel I've been reading Dreaming in Code, a book I highly recommend for anyone interested in the process of building software.  It's not a very technical book, but that's fine -- the author, Scott Rosenberg, is a talented writer and it is quite an engaging read.  It asks a lot of fundamental questions that weigh heavily on the mind of anyone who writes code for a living, like "why the heck does it take so long to write software anyways?"

One of the more interesting sections in the book is an overview of attempts to change the basic paradigm of coding.  It's a field I haven't paid much attention to and there were some very interesting fragments of ideas there... definitely food for though and investigation.