Remember when I mentioned the problems Baseball Reference ran into when their bandwidth usage exceeded the limits posed by their ISP? Salon has picked up the story.

The perfect ending: ArsDigita is suing its founder, according to an incoherent post by an obvious Phil Greenspun sycophant at Slashdot. Following the link to the Greenspun’s discussion group sheds more light on things.

The House Republican leadership has assembled a group of 31 clergymen to assist them in writing “faith-based” legislation. Unfortunately, the advisory committee includes some well known bigots. I’m looking for a full list of the members of the advisory committee, but it seems to be missing in action. I was curious to see whether they invited Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton to participate on the committee along with their other picks. Perhaps Matt Hale would be more to their liking.

Architecture astronauts, I love it.

Am I the only person who’s having trouble using Google lately? It seems like half the time I try to reach Google my request times out.

Today is a banner day at Ethel the Blog. Great items on James Thurber, the drug war, massive international cigarette smuggling by big tobacco, and a jab at Windows NT. I have to go back and read all of the linked articles when I have less to do.

It’s important to accept all of the changes to a Word document before making it publicly available. Or better yet, stick with PDF or HTML.

Larry O’Brien compares C# and Java, and tells you where to get ahold of a command line C# compiler, if you want to try it out.

Bush vs. Bush? The Department of the Interior is planning on auctioning off leases on a big chunk of Gulf of Mexico seabed for oil and gas drilling, much to the consternation of Jeb Bush, the governor of Florida.

Wired News has an article with further evidence of what people who are hiring tell me, which is that the job market for techies is not evaporating. From what I’ve heard, it’s just about as hard to find good programmers and sysadmins now as it was back in the go-go days of dot com hegemony. On the other hand, I know some people who have been looking for jobs for a few months now. Most of those people aren’t programmers, they’re from sales, marketing, or have other non-technical skills.