I thought I'd better write this while the book is still fresh in my mind.  This is the second of Joel's books I've read, the first being "Joel on Software...".  I have quite an affinity for Joel and his writing.  Perhaps it's because I share many, if not most, of his ideas on hiring, developing, business, and software in general.  Naturally, I have a joelonsoftware.com feed in my rss reader, and I actually bought Aardvark'd and I'm not ashamed.  So, I've read the books and now I've seen the movie. I received The Best Software Writing I as a Christmas gift.