My good friend Anil Somayaji from UNM has started [a blog!

The ](http://somaspace.net/ei/)first post up is about why software is bad:

So, even knowing the benchmark, we have failed to give computers the qualities that we want. In earlier days we could say that computers aren’t big or fast enough; we no longer have that excuse. We can produce software that runs on hundreds of thousands of computers, that processes petabytes of information in mere seconds - in a real sense, they do things that are humanly incomprehensible. But we still can’t make software that is “human” in any meaningful sense.

Anil’s a CS professor at Carleton and a very bright guy. I expect that this will be an interesting blog to read.