I found the MP3s from the South Park Christmas episode, “Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics.” The songs are hilarious, if you’re not easily offended. They’re apparently ripped from the CD, not the episode, so they’re not bleeped either.
There’s a port of ASP to Apache that uses Perl as the scripting language. I wonder if this is gaining much momentum. I guess if it works well, it would be preferable to PHP for Perl programmers, but how many Web scripting environments do we need?
It’s interesting to look at the software development jobs available at Amazon.com to see how the big boys build their sites. At Amazon.com, they’re looking for C and C++ programmers who write Unix software. None of the lightweight stuff for them. eBay also writes all of the stuff for their site in C++, but as ISAPI modules. They went with IIS because when they first started out, it was cheaper to go with NT than Unix (never mind that Yahoo! was running on FreeBSD at that time).
In Linux Today, ESR ruminates on his instant riches from the record-setting VA Research IPO yesterday in his on inimitable manner.
Salon has a story today on an issue that just can’t be overreported, the squabbles in the Senate over how military pork should be doled out.
Here’s a USA Today story about the guy who patented “windowing,” the patently obvious Y2K fix that guesses the first two digits of a four digit year based on the value of the last two digits. I’m not sure what offends me most, the fact that someone says you can’t “blame him for being a capitalist,” the fact that this guys is arrogant enough to believe that he actually invented this technique, or the fact that companies are going to knuckle under and pay him. We really, really need some programmers in the Patent and Trademark Office.