Check out this excerpt from the pretty good report “TORA BORA REVISITED: HOW WE FAILED TO GET BIN LADEN AND WHY IT MATTERS TODAY”: Afghan villagers who were providing food and other supplies for the Al Qaeda fighters at Tora Bora also confirmed bin Laden’s presence. Fury said some of the villagers were paid by the CIA for information about precise locations of clusters of fighters that could be targeted for bombing runs.

Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior by Suzanne Robertson My rating: 3 of 5 stars As with most pattern books, this is one you flip through in an hour and then save it to refer back to. The strength of software management and development pattern books is describing problems that commonly occur, not really telling you how to fix them. Thus, hey tend to be frustrating because you’re left thinking, “how am I going to get this to work in my organization?

Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior by Suzanne Robertson My rating: 3 of 5 stars As with most pattern books, this is one you flip through in an hour and then save it to refer back to. The strength of software management and development pattern books is describing problems that commonly occur, not really telling you how to fix them. Thus, hey tend to be frustrating because you’re left thinking, “how am I going to get this to work in my organization?

Having finished up The Caryatids and the spime-tastic (unintentional) playbook for IBM's "Smart Planet" Shaping Things, I've now read all (I'm pretty sure...except for the Difference Engine, co-authored with William Gibson) of Bruce Sterling's books. There's a passel of them, but I'm a pretty big fan of his fiction and non-fiction. The list above is incomplete, of course, but it's the things I thought of as reoccurring several times through-out the short stories, fiction, and non-fiction.