The Big News: Found some interesting blogs in the embedded space. Not independent blogs as they are from EDN, but very interesting: Go here for the entire list.
Of personal interest are:

Brian’s Brain by Brian Dipert. He blogs about everyday implications of technology (and whatever else strikes his fancy). Just fascinating!

Embedded Processing by Robert Cravotta. It all about the processors baby!

Finally, my trifecta includes Embedded Webblog by Warren Webb. Embedded hardware, development tools and software. What more can a guy want?

Time is short, so here is a sampling for each of them:

Robert Cravotta addresses head on the often heard “Let’s start over from scratch, the current (deployed) design is putrid“. Bottom line (in most cases): Are you nuts? Why throw away man years of effort involved in a deployed system?

Brian Dipert has concern that AT&T is turning back into Ma Bell…and the implication it has for (the lack of) customer services. He regales us with a tale of ordering DSL service from them. While placing the order was reminiscent of the 80s, he is actually pleasantly surprised.

Mr. Webb points out that Eclipse is now a de facto standard embedded development environment. He also points out that PC/104 still has a bright future.

In other news, I’m so jealous of Mike Deliman…He actually works on Space Exploration projects! Let’s face it, Star Trek is the reason lots of us became engineers! He has an entry about the water found on Mars.