I’m taking a trip for the next few days and won’t be back in the saddle here until January 4. Expect to see my exciting 2006 predictions at that time. (I’d have already posted them but I’m having trouble thinking them up.)
In the meantime, happy New Year!
I was a bit surprised to learn that Intel is ditching the Intel inside marketing slogan in favor of the meaningless “Leap ahead.” About 10 years ago, when my anti-Microsoft and anti-Intel feelings were at their height, I thought that “Intel inside” was the most brilliant marketing slogan ever conceived. Given that I thought [...]
The New York Times has an op-ed today on the benefits of self-examination, or lack thereof:
What can we do to improve ourselves and feel happier? Numerous social psychological studies have confirmed Aristotle’s observation that “We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts [...]
Apache committer Brian McCallister is taking over distribution of the FastCGI module for Apache 2, and moving it into the core Apache distribution. Given the ever increasing interest in Rails, I expected that at some point someone would take up this challenge, and I think that having a reliable, non-hackish deployment option for Apache will [...]
When you’re assembling a PC and you’re connecting the power supply to the motherboard, all of the power cables must be connected in order for the PC to power on.
I’ve been wondering if there isn’t some value in making predictions as a form of exercise for the brain. I have hypothesized that making predictions and then going back and revisiting those predictions later should improve your ability to think about the future. I think it’s the post mortem that provides the value, and that’s [...]
I hit a little milestone with the Ruby on Rails application I’m working on today — our team put the first development release up on a live server and sent out the URL. Until now we had it running on our local development machines, now it’s deployed on a Linux box running Apache 2 (using [...]
On the occasion of Bill and Melinda Gates sharing Time Person of the Year honors with Bono, I thought I’d talk a bit about my own attitude toward Microsoft. People who have been reading rc3.org since the beginning know that for a long time one of my major preoccupations was bashing Microsoft for its abuse [...]
Bruce Schneier: The Security Threat of Unchecked Presidential Power. Yet another must read, including this explanation of why this not a partisan issue:
This is not a partisan issue between Democrats and Republicans; it’s a president unilaterally overriding the Fourth Amendment, Congress and the Supreme Court. Unchecked presidential power has nothing to do with [...]
Bruce Schneier has written one post to rule them all of the wiretapping controversy. Quit wasting time here and go read it. (I’ve been reading everything I can find on this topic for the past couple of days and I still learned a lot from it.)
Update: Brendan Nyhan catches President Bush repeatedly asserting that [...]