I was looking at my 2006 predictions today, and find that they were mostly correct, but that they lacked audacity. The predictions were:
The mindshare of Ruby on Rails will grow relative to other Web application platforms, in spite of the efforts of devotees of other platforms to come up with their own Rails alternatives. [...]
I was reading about Thrace in an article in National Geographic, and wondered about whether a resource exists that provides a comparative timeline of ancient history for many known civilizations. Or why not all of them? For example, Wikipedia has a timeline of Chinese history. There’s also a timeline of the Persian empire that [...]
There’s another word to describe the “surge” in US troops stationed in Iraq that President Bush seems likely to authorize. That word is “escalation.” I think it’s a much more accurate term. President Bush decides how many soldiers are sent to Iraq. Circumstances dictate when they get to come back.
The idea that this surge is [...]
How do I do at avoiding the blog media cliches catalogued by Gawker? Let’s see:
Best. [ultimate thing or experience.] Ever/Evar. Minor violator. I’m totally clean on “evar” but I can’t say the same for a couple of people who’ve left comments.
FTW, O RLY, lol, FTL, OMG, FWIW, btw, PWND,ROTFL, etc. Totally clean.
[negative experience, situation, [...]
If you develop Web applications, you should definitely check out this presentation from Randy Shoup and Dan Pritchett on how eBay scales, not because you should do things the eBay way, but rather because it is a great illustration of how there’s an exception to every rule. When you deal with the traffic and transaction [...]
Paul Kedrosky picks up an interesting challenge:
Physicist Richard Feynman once said that if all knowledge about physics was about to expire the one sentence he would tell the future is that “Everything is made of atoms”. What one sentence would you tell the future about your own area, whether it’s entrepreneurship, hedge funds, [...]
I finally got around to watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth last night. I hadn’t been in a big hurry to see it, because I already understood how global warming works (thanks to an excellent National Geographic article from awhile back). I even thought I was pretty decent at explaining it to people. Now that [...]
You know what happens when you never empty your trash? You wind up with 211,000 email messages in your trash folder and your mail server freaks out. (Most of the 211,000 are, of course, trashed spam.)
If you have too much mail in your folder, you run into the following:
$ rm * -bash: /bin/rm: Argument list [...]
It’s looking more and more like President Bush is going to order thousands of more troops to go to Iraq to do the same stuff the US troops in Iraq right now are doing. They’ll be patrolling Baghdad, training Iraqi troops, patrolling Anbar province, and so forth. As Josh Marshall notes this morning, neither the [...]
So currently we have President Bush ruminating over the findings of the Iraq Study Group, and waiting for several other reports from within the administration that will probably be more to his taste. In the meantime, most everyone else in Washington, DC is using the ISG report as cover to criticize the handling of the [...]