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I’m going to be away for a few days. Posting should return to its regular schedule next Wednesday.

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The Economist has a 50,000 foot view article on the SCO versus Linux battle royale. Darl McBride makes me think ugly thoughts.

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Looks like some major changes are on the way for XDoclet. If you’re a Java developer and you haven’t looked at XDoclet, you really should. It’s a code generator that enables you to generate supplementary source (and mapping) files required by various frameworks using Ant and some pseudo-JavaDoc comments in your code. The best thing [...]

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If you’re interested in the history of World War I, check out firstworldwar.com. It’s an amazing resource written and created by volunteers. I thought for sure that it had to have been produced by the History Channel or some museum.

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One of the most insightful things I’ve read lately is that the internal structure of large corporations is functionally equivalent to a miniature version of a Communist state. The more I think about it, the more true I realize it is. (Note that the person wasn’t talking about the idealized small-c communist state, but rather [...]

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File this under “news that will only surprise people who still believe the President.” Looks like next year’s deficit is going to be bigger, not smaller. Here’s the crux of the matter:

Administration officials quickly dismissed the Congressional projections as too speculative to take seriously, noting that long-term budget projections have been notoriously inaccurate.

But the new [...]

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Generally when I talk about intellectual property here, I discuss its abuses, but the ability to exert rights over the things you create is a cornerstone of our economy and society. I think it’s stupid for BMW to tell Web sites not to use any variation of “Mini Cooper” in their name. They may be [...]

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Here’s a web page you don’t want to see when you’re looking at taking two trips by plane within the next week or so: hail damaged 737 (via Boing Boing).

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People suck.

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One of the reasons why I never post those “I feel your pain” posts about the email worms and viruses that seem to blow up the Internet periodically is that for whatever reason, I seem to be unaffected by them. I didn’t get hundreds of copies of the Sobig virus. In fact, to my knowledge, [...]

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