I was a bit shocked to read that the United States is giving $43 million to the Taliban in order to help them fight the drug war on their own soil. The current residents of the White House are the same morons who told us that money is fungible, so no overseas aid can [...]
Entries from May 2001
May 31st, 2001 · Comments Off
May 31st, 2001 · Comments Off
Today in Anthony York’s column, we learn that Fox CEO and chairman Roger Ailes responds to hate mail (last item), just like I do. It’s good to know that he’s in touch with viewers. (In case you’re wondering, yes, I am tempted to send him something vitriolic just to see whether I get [...]
May 31st, 2001 · Comments Off
Today’s experiment has been writing my first taglibs for use with JSP. My initial reaction has been to wonder where they’ve been all my life. The process of creating them is somewhat byzantine, but they’re incredibly useful. I was motivated to write them by the article on Jakarta Taglibs at onjava.com, but [...]
May 31st, 2001 · Comments Off
Since Microsoft announced Hailstorm, I’ve been wondering what the Hell it is. Not wondering to the extent that I actually read the white papers, but, you know, checking out the stories about it that were published at the time. Anyway, Clay Shirky has provided his interpretation of what Hailstorm is all about, and [...]
May 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
Paul Krugman takes a peek at the Dubya tax cut on the New York Times op-ed page today. The bill is chock full of absurdities that lower the budget impact of the tax cut, but at the same time make the legislation a total train wreck. You have to love Congress.
May 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
USA Today has an article on sites programmatically disabling the back button and otherwise trying to hijack their users’ browsers so that they control how their users navigate their site. One possibility that they don’t mention is that some sites use complex, expensive, totally crappy application servers that can get confused when users click [...]
May 29th, 2001 · Comments Off
Even as the major record labels do everything they can to destroy all new forms of music distribution on the Internet, they continue their old, illegal practice of using payola to turn songs into hits by paying off radio stations. It’s really impossible to underestimate how greedy and evil the recording industry is. [...]
May 29th, 2001 · Comments Off
IBM is providing public access to S/390 mainframes through the Linux Community Development System. If you don’t have a mainframe in your garage and you’re curious about whether your version of Klondike will run on big iron, IBM is there for you.
May 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
Blow up the RIAA! Their latest attack was on on Launch.com, my favorite Internet music service, and one that has turned me on to tons of music I never would have listened to otherwise. I was trying to get to my LaunchCast station and was unable to do so, and a bit of [...]
May 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
All the bugs are fixed, all my changes are checked in, and what will hopefully be the golden build is going to be created at lunchtime today. Perhaps life will return to normal now.