I was going to comment on the terrorism futures market, but instead I’ll just point you to Scott Rosenberg’s comments. Every time I read an article about this idea, I can’t help but think of Enron.
Entries from July 2003
The terrorism futures market
July 29th, 2003 · Comments Off
Firebird and Thunderbird
July 29th, 2003 · Comments Off
The Mozilla Foundation has released Firebird 0.6.1 and Thunderbird 0.1. I’ve been using Firebird 0.6 and some random Thunderbird un-numbered milestone release for my browsing and email needs for weeks and have no significant complaints.
Idle thought
July 28th, 2003 · Comments Off
The nice thing about the last of your friends at work being laid off is that you finally get a chance to reintroduce yourself to online music broadcasting services.
The good doctor
July 28th, 2003 · Comments Off
It’s times like these for which Hunter S Thompson is prescribed.
A general recommendation: Phil Carter
July 28th, 2003 · Comments Off
I’ve linked to Phil Carter’s weblog, Intel Dump, a couple of times, but I want to go ahead and recommend it in a general sense. Carter is a law student at UCLA and prior to that was an Army officer. His observations on the military are always illuminating, and he does a great job of [...]
Amen to that
July 28th, 2003 · Comments Off
Tim Bray on the Web:
In my life’s experience, the Web has constituted one of the really important steps forward, a blow against the forces of entropy and stupidity.
You knew it all along
July 28th, 2003 · Comments Off
I already knew this (via Whump). By the way, this link is provided specifically to goad my weekend guest. You know who you are.
Developing on my game box
July 28th, 2003 · Comments Off
At home I have a desktop computer that I use mainly for games. Well, one specific game anyway. For everything else, I use my laptop at home (a Pentium III 850 with 256 megs of RAM) or my laptop from work (a Pentium III 900 with 512 megs of RAM). The game PC has 512 [...]
Unit testing web apps
July 28th, 2003 · Comments Off
Dave Johnson has post today on unit testing for web apps. That’s the next step for me. I’ve been heavily into JUnit for testing APIs lately, and I want to branch into writing tests for the web front ends as well on my next project.
Free advertising
July 28th, 2003 · Comments Off
Joe Gregorio has started his own company, conveniently called BitWorking, Inc. He’d like you to know that they specialize in custom system development.