iVoyeur: Monitoring Design Patterns

Plutarch tells a great story about Hannibal, in the time of the reign of Dictator Fabius. Hannibal, a barbarian from the south, was roaming about the countryside making trouble as barbarians do, when through either some subtlety on the part of Fabius or just seriously abominable direction-giving on the part of a few sheep farmers (reports differ), Hannibal managed to get himself trapped and surrounded in a valley.