I read this post today on Scripting News, and found it a bit irksome, because in essence it accuses me (and plenty of other people) of joining a mob. Let’s pull some quotes:
It was the world vs Erin Clerico. There were so many people savaging him, I didn’t see anyone looking for a way [...]
Here’s why people make fun of liberals: an animal rights organization (that focuses on poultry) issued an action alert urging people to contact AFLAC about their ads featuring a duck because they’re degrading to ducks. This was probably blogged all over the place months ago, but it’s new to me.
I found myself much in agreement with Ted Neward’s weblog piece on the downside of EJB. As an application developer, I have a strong negative reaction to anything that wants me to dump SQL and use some alternate layer. Perhaps for people who aren’t used to working with SQL, these abstraction layers are a [...]
The other day, I linked to a NYRB article that discussed the lack of a coherent foreign policy vision from the Bush administration. Coincidentally, today the Bush administration released its national security plan, which establishes America’s foreign policy stance, at least until President Bush comes up with a new one. I need to think about [...]
I don’t know whether you watched Survivor last night, but the producer, Mark Jacobs, did something really interesting. They always pick some older people as part of the cast, and they often get voted out near the beginning (with a few notable exceptions). Anyway, as a sociological experiment, Survivor is fairly interesting. Usually, the behavior [...]
The brief but tawdry saga of Weblogger.com versus Roller Weblogger has come to a peaceful end. I don’t take back any of the mean things I said about Weblogger.com because I feel that it’s assinine to threaten people with a lawsuit right off the bat. I expect that kind of boorish behavior from law firms [...]
The folks at weblogger.com are getting tough on Dave Johnson. They responded to him with a threatening email. It is my personal goal to make sure that their unwarranted aggression toward a guy who happened to pick an appropriate domain name for a harmless side project is rewarded with as much bad will as [...]
Sometimes it’s worthwhile to perpetuate a good thing.
A reader sent me a useful site called U.S. Bombing Watch that keeps track of all of the US (and allied forces) bombing attacks on Iraq. It’s commonly forgotten that we bomb Iraq on a pretty regular basis, and have been since the end of the Gulf War. This is another reason why the [...]
Nice guy Dave Johnson is getting railroaded by some halfwits from weblogger.com about the fact that his open source blogging tool happens to be called Roller Weblogger. They sent him the old cease and desist, despite the fact that they have no claim whatsoever on the term “weblogger.” Shove off, losers. By the way, [...]