Oh I love it … just a followup to my previous post about Microsoft’s FUD … turns out, Ballmer must have misunderstood the facts somewhat massively…
Open source faces no more, if not less, legal risk than proprietary software. The market needs to understand that the study Microsoft is citing actually proves the opposite of what they claim it does.
eWeek – Author of Linux Patent Study Says Ballmer Got It Wrong
<raising glass> Here’s egg on your face, Stevie.
My friend Earle was in a play recently… Susical … which is a musical based on various Dr. Seuss stories.
It was quite entertaining … and Steve & I were conscripted into doing some photos for the troupe. Last week we did a bunch of candids while they were getting made up. Yesterday, in addition to actually seeing the performance, we did the cast photo.
It came out quite well, IMHO … I had to go up on a big elevated platform so I could get a downward looking shot.
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We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it!
The chicken’s habitat on the other side of the road had been polluted by unchecked industrial greed. The chicken did not reach the unspoiled habitat on the other side of the road because it was crushed by the wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV.
I have documents proving the chicken didn’t cross the road and the current
administration is at fault, and I am 100% satisfied that these are authentic
documents.
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
I don’t know why the chicken crossed the road, but I’ll bet it was getting a government grant to cross the road, and I’ll bet that somebody out there is already forming a support group to help chickens with crossing-the-road syndrome. Can you believe this?!? How much more of this can real Americans take? Chickens crossing the road paid for by their tax dollars. And when I say tax dollars, I’m talking about your money, money the government took from you to build a road for chickens to cross.
No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer’s Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I’ve not been told.
To die in the rain. Alone.
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DSLKnowItAll had a hillarious link in his blog to Cartoons inspired by spam contents.
Some of them are … disturbing … but most of them are funny.
Of course, with the recent release of SpamAssassin 3.0, I don’t get as much spam anymore. Even less than I got with the previous version of SpamAssassin.
Ginny and I went out to the Chicago Botanic Gardens today. It was a perfect day for it. Sunny, cool, slight breeze.
Of course we had our cameras … took a bunch of pictures, some came out well, others … well, you know.
http://gallery.fallingrock.net/BotanicGardens-September2004.
Ginny made some rumblings about wanting a better camera … and how much she liked the way my pictures came out with my Canon Digital Rebel.
I’m thinking there might be a rather expesnive holiday present in her future 🙂
We’re taking a long weekend trip to San Francisco on some freebie tickets that Ginny got. As an added bonus, we’re taking Steve along for the ride. He gets to finally take us to The Stinking Rose (which he has been singing the praises of for years.
To add sugar to the treat … we’re flying business class on United. Now I’ve flown First Class a few times … but it was a fluke … and usually because everyone on the plane was going to the same place (COMMON) and everyone ws booked into coach… so I would get bumped up to first class because there wasn’t enough room in the main cabin. Not that I complained … but I always figured that I wasn’t getting the real “First Class” treatment because I didn’t acutally deserve the upgrade.
Anyway, Business Class is very nice … lots of leg room, nice seat amentities, reasonable food.
I need to figure out a way to finagle that kind of upgrade on a regular basis (no, I’m not going to hold my breath on that one).
At work, our ITS support person is going to be transplanting our development system from one set of hardware to another (slightly more powerful).
He sent out an email annoucing that he would be doing a full system backup tonight (always a good idea when doing a major system change). He indicated that he would be running the backup from home.
I responded …
You wimp … back when I was doing upgrades we had to wait hours for the system to prompt us for the next diskette.
Of course, trying to lift a 200mb hard drive would give you a hernia … instead of having to worry having about it getting lost in your pocket change 🙂
That got a laugh.
Today was a somewhat busy day … went to the annual Broadband Reports Chicago / SBC – Ameritech Midwest Cookout held at kcazzie‘s house.
It was enjoyable … lots of yaking about geeky stuff.
When I got home I started working on implementing a requested feature for the mailing list archives so that the number of results / page could be selected and remembered. Took a few hours to code and test, but it appears to be working well.
I also used the change as an opportunity to change the way the list index pages are generated … now I’m using Jamon … which is a nice templating engine for Java. I’m not using nearly all the capabilities of the package, but I’m pleased with the results.
… one giant leap for mankind.
35 years ago today Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.
NASA has a very nice portal with pictures and video.
I was 6 years old at the time … and my parents let me stay up far past my bed time so we could watch the news specials.
To be honest … I strongly suspect that this is what started me on the path to technology.
Hehehe … found a humorous take on the Terror Alert Level system, implemented by the Department of Homeland Security, on Mike Wills blog.
Currently, it’s