<whoooohoooo>it’s hard to believe that a whole year has passed since i started the empire. happy birthday to me.</whooohooo>
thanks to the fine folks at blogger it doesn’t look like blogvoices is going south after all.
kudos to the blogger
folks for doing something which, on the face of it, would appear to reduce the number of users who would be willing to upgrade to blogger pro. they are either really nice or really crazy. or both.
i can’t get java working on the latest mozilla nightlies. everything is there – i just can’t get mozilla to register the dang plugin. it doesn’t look like i’m alone. interesting that the poster is running the exact same distribution as myself. hmmm.
if you got a surprise today when you visited the vast empire it was because mydomain decided to ‘upgrade’ their system. in the process they changed where the subdomain www.snowdeal.org pointed. snowdeal.org was there the whole time.
minor emergency in the grand scheme of things, but it did quickly reinforce that i should be more, um, regular about backing up the site.
nicholas petreley presents an interesting thesis on how the economic “downturn” can help the open source community:
“In the first place, open source is about to get a very big boost because the dot-com economy is tanking. I know that sounds counterintuitive, but open source guru Bruce Perens was right when he recently observed that a slow economy presents the best opportunities for open source. (Please see Resources for more information.) Free software is where you turn when you no longer have money to burn. That’s exactly the position the dot-coms find themselves in right now. The dot-coms aren’t floundering because the opportunities aren’t there. They’re floundering because they got spoiled on the irrational exuberance of investors and didn’t learn how to spend their money wisely. Open source is in a perfect position to benefit from the lessons in frugality that these companies will now have to learn.”
i think ibm is taking notes.
well, yes – as a matter of fact – i can understand how this could happen:
“The six-month-old collie-Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross is recovering from major surgery to remove a 15-inch serrated knife from his stomach.
He was only 18 inches long and 18 inches tall when the knife was taken out.
while i was at the register i noticed a bit on doctors forced to use hotmail for confidential medical records. scaaaaaaaary.