Bruce Eckel has a good post on Object Design which I commented on.

I'd also really like to see some of the diagrams he came up with.

UML looks to me like it has the curse of all diagramming methods. It loses a sense of time in a way that text somehow doesn't. Maybe because text still has a temporal dimension (or flow down the page) you sense time passing as you read it. Looking at diagrams, your eyes wander backwards and forwards across a static landscape, trying to find the movement.

There is no movement in a static, 2D image.