John Sloan blogs under the pen name Chip Overclock on whatever topics strike his fancy. Below are some of his articles organized very roughly according to topic.

Development

"Pocket Web Service", September 2007

"The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis", September 2007

"Just In Time Learning", August 2007

"What's Old Is New Again", August 2007

"Tool Economics", August 2007

"Reverse Engineering gnireenignE esreveR", June 2007

"Implications of Memory Models (or lack of them) for Java, C and C++ Developers", April 2007

"Escape Analysis for Java Apparently Delayed", February 2007

"Is C++ no longer a superset of C?", January 2007

"Generic Embedded Programming Using Templates", January 2007

"If Java is the new COBOL, is C++ the new assembly?", January 2007

"Fun Facts to Know and Tell: Java Business Integration", January 2007

"Rocket Science as Product Development", December 2006

"Question-Driven Development", November 2006

"Does anybody really know what time it is?", November 2006

"Uncle Chip's Instant Managed Beans", November 2006

Process

"Red, Yellow, Green, Blue", July 2007

"Pair Programming is Bad and You Should Never Do It", January 2007

Business

"Outsourcing Technical Services for Small Businesses", February 2007

Technology

"Asterisk, WiFi, and a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet", July 2007

"Cygwin X Server Under Windows Vista", July 2007

"A Future Without Keyboards", July 2007

"The Secret Life of Chip Overclock Revealed At Last!", February 2007

"Asterisk, WiFi, HomePlug, and an Avaya SIP Phone", February 2007

"Important Safety Tip: Enable Ping with Comcast", January 2007

Architecture

"Small is Beautiful, but Many is Scary II", February 2007

"Small is Beautiful, but Many is Scary", February 2007

"Separate But Equal II", January 2007

"Separate But Equal", January 2007

"Traffic Management and System Scalability", January 2007

"Traffic Contracts", January 2007

"The Generic Cell Rate Algorithm", January 2007

"Rate Control Using Throttles", January 2007

"The Wisdom of Amazon.com", January 2007

"Version Control as a Victim of the Times", January 2007

"Traffic Management", December 2006

"Gene Amdahl and Albert Einstein", October 2006

"It's Not Just About Moore's Law", May 2006

Management

"Do you know where your pension is?", October 2007

"The Return on Investment for People", September 2007

"The Irresistible Force and the Unmoveable Object", July 2007

"Value is Where You Find It", May 2007

"Thirteen Things In Which I Believe", February 2007

"A Breakdown of Some Breakthrough Ideas", February 2007

"Five Myths of Software Developer Behavior", February 2007

"Job Lock and Universal Health Care", January 2007

"Lies, Damn Lies, and Net Present Value", January 2007

"The One Percent Inspiration", January 2007

"Rules of Thumb", December 2006

"In Defense of Misbehavior", July 2006

"People Are Our Most Important Fungible Commodity", June 2006

"The End of Civilization As We Know It", June 2006

"The Total Cost of Code Ownership", May 2006

"The Value Proposition of Large Development Organizations", May 2006

"Extrinsic Motivators and the Subjugation of Humanity", May 2006

Speculation

"Can't win. Can't break even. Can't quit the game.", December 2007

"The End Of Civilization As You Know It", November 2007

"Peak Oil and Finding Good Help", November 2007

"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", November 2007

Musings

"LOLSupervillain", November 2007

"Hail Ming!", September 2007

"Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto", September 2007

"All Things Are Temporary", July 2007

"One Hundred Books", July 2007

"Chip Overclock Simpsonized", July 2007

"Accumulated Wisdom", June 2007

"People are Smart in Different Ways", April 2007

"Lunch-Time Tales", December 2006

"1890: A Tipping Point", September 2006

Housekeeping

"Yokohama", August 2007

"Alternative URL", May 2007