Tag: ancient
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Finally, someone to vote for
After his tragically failed run for Gov. of California, Our Friend, Lord Humungus is available for the ’04 election: Just give me your vote, and there will be an end to the horror. No one escapes the Humungus, least of all those who insolently pull gas from my desert.
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IBM to make Java database open source
CNET reports that IBM is going to open source Cloudscape, a Java, embedded DB. I have a certain loathing for databases, but over the years I’ve realized that it’s not so much the DB part that I don’t like, but that they’re usually separate systems. Thus, embedded DB’s that are pure Java — like Cloudscape,…
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Finished In Search of Stupidity
I finished reading In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters today during lunch. All in all, it was an excellent book, and I’d recommend it to anyone in the software bid’ness. It’s got: (1.) good history of the software world, and, (2.) a good catalog of stupid mistakes software firms have…
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Matter and Anti-Matter
Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations Do you think if I order those two books, they’ll dukes it out and destroy each other in the box in transit?
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"Rewriting" Calcified Code Without Collapsing the Tower
Someone complains that members of his team are patching code instead of improving it, and therefore Extreme Programming isn’t “scalable”. The fact is, this lesson about the inappropriate use of “patching” is something that needs to be learned even if the team isn’t doing XP. If it is doing XP, they are going to learn…
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Class Loading in Java [Lone Star Software Symposium]
(Stuart Halloway) There was a cool example of writing your own hot-deployment enabled container: you just load the class on demand each time, and destroy the Class Loader that loaded it. Thus, the next time you have to load the class, you have to create a new Class Loader, which re-reads the class, which picks…
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Bloglines.com New Look
In case you didn’t know it, Bloglines.com got a new look. Good old Eric tipped us off this morning to it, before we could all get to our favorite aggregator. While I at first didn’t like Blogger’s new look — and I still don’t — I really like the functionality and ease of use of…
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Downloading Horn "tones"
Schwartz gave a great example of how this may work in practice. At a meeting at an Auto corporation, discussions began around the mobile phone ringtone phenomena, and a younger person at the meeting suggested the possibility of downloading a car horn tone to the car much in the same way. After the immediate laughter…
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Houston's Light Rail
Last year, when Houston finally got a rail line, the culture clash became physical. Since testing began in November, the silvery electric-powered train, which slides north and south along the street on a 7.5-mile route, has collided with more than 40 cars. […]Officials of the transit agency, known as Metro, do not come right out…
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Links: Fast Zombies, Software Cash, Bacon
The Fast Zombie Tipping Point – will Dawn of the Dead transform Zombies from ambling slow-pokes to deadly speed-demons? Software Spending Estimates Adjusted Downwards – “At the end of last year, the top 25 software companies reported an 8 percent increase in sales. But, once currency fluctuations were taken into account, the revenue growth at…
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From the Clown Desk: "Ring of Fire," Ass Problems
The family of late singer Johnny Cash has blocked an attempt by advertisers to use his hit song “Ring of Fire” to promote haemorrhoid-relief products. Article.
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ATOM to RSS Service
For those of you have readers that don’t read ATOM feeds (who don’t want to just switch over to bloglines ;>), it looks like there’s a new service to convert an ATOM feed to RSS. It’s URL based, so you can, of course, use it in an aggregator.
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Curse of Lono Movie Site
I’d just like to say that this guy is sending a lot of traffic my way.
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Cynical Replies to Optimistic Sayings
Some folks have noted that under my jolly, light-hearted outside lurks a derisive, deeply cynical gnome. Indeed, being both at the same time seems like a good and wise sport in these times. Here’s some gnomic replies to happy sayings I was thinking about in the shower this morning: “A rising tide lifts all boats”….except…
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Curse of Lono Movie?
Sean Penn called at halftime to say he was feeling disillusioned about Hollywood and wanted to take a year off to concentrate entirely on becoming an expert surfer on Oahu’s intimidating North Shore. I had planned to study with him out there, but this huge, dirty, 40-pound cast on my left leg won’t work on…
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Evening Links: Women Changing Work, Aspirational Gap
The way women work: Five years ago, I left my own corporate fast-track career to work freelance, sacrificing all chances of traditional success and power. I did it because I could. I liked my work well enough, but I’d grown to hate corporate life with its hierarchies of halfwits, its waste-of-time politics and its thought…
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DIV vs. Table
There’s a fantastic presentation from an Adobe person on transitioning from tables to divs. Also, for all those cross-browser problems, and even for reference and lurnin’, I recently came across QuirksMode.org: chock full of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and quite a bit of interesting commentary and practical howto’s on each. Update: the links now work.
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