I like to think, to keep my mind engaged.  One excellent way to do this is to share my thoughts with others and start discussing.  I can come up with plenty of ideas that I think are excellent, but I cannot know for sure until I test them.  One way to go about this is discussing them, which is the purpose of my writing this set of web pages.

Note: more up-to-date thoughts are available in TIME, with the tag labreuer-thoughts.

In other words, contact me if you would like to chat about the below or something of your choosing!  E-mail: labreuer+thoughts@gmail.com    AIM: VictorB212    ICQ: 159567929    MSN: labreuer@hotmail.com

• Disclaimer
  in case I mistakenly offend
• Web 2.0
  the truth uncovered!
• Software to Write
  software I want to write, that I'd love comments and/or help on writing
• Learning by Immersion
  the best way to teach based on how people learn
• The Return on Investment Problem
  why certain good ideas rarely get implemented
• Expertise Exchange
  why hasn't this been done already?
• Information Availability
  this could be improved considerably
• Semantic Web
  the Internet of the future
• Selling My Software
  I don't want to, but I do need money
• Programming language type systems
  why "strongly typed" is the best
• Open source
  the good and the bad
• Spam[mers]
  what I think about it and the solution I propose

Content here was written a while ago, so it might be random or incomplete.

• Flexibility
  what does it mean and why is it good?
• Documentation
  why you should document your work for posterity
• Coding Style
  why you should care what your code looks like
• Game Theory
  game theory explains the problem, now we need a solution
• Efficiency
  efficiency is simply awesome
• Quality
  quality is more important than you think
• Laziness
  laziness is not necessarily a bad thing
• Precision of Speech
  related to efficiency, many could do this better
• Semantics
  a necessary evil
• Worldview
  you had better have this
• The Real World
  and you would fool yourself because?