Having just re-read The Pragmatic Programmer, I checked out what new books the guys at The Pragmatic Programmers have released recently.  Andy Hunt’s latest Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your “Wetware” really caught my attention.  I read the Chapter excerpt that discusses the Dreyfus Model.  I must pick up this book.  I constantly struggle with my progression through the 5 stages of the Dreyfus Model in acpects of my career.  I feel like I’m constantly stuck in Advanced Beginner stage.  More on this later….

Here’s an interesting article.  I suggest that anyone blaming the current administration for all of the current credit mess read Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.

I was originally really impressed with the Genuis playlist feature.  I picked a song that I wanted to listen to and I created a playlist of 100 songs that were great matches.  However, this morning I wanted a new playlist, so I picked a different song from a different artist and out of the 100 songs in the created playlist only 15 were different.  I had hoped for a little more variety,  of course that could just mean that I need to buy more music, but I thought I had a big enough collection to get more that just 15 different songs.  I’ll try again tomorrow and see what happens.