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- Sometimes I read something and only later bookmark and save that essay. Richard P. Gabriel's essay Worse Is Better is one of those. A very important read. |
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- As I'm sure you'll see everywhere, Segway is here! The device that Dean Kamen has been so coy about for the last year was unveiled today on Good Morning America. (I got up to see it!) |
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- Whether you call it "bug", "problem" or "request" tracking, every organization should work at listening to their customers. here's the best one I've seen, commercial or open source. Take a Look! |
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- The Economist Magazine's online presence, Economist.com, is running an article that describes the effect of the internet on the evolution of Programming Languages. Among other conclusions, they say that OO scripting and AI languages will inevitably rise to the top (python and lisp). :) |
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- Wired is running an article titled Why Liberty Suffers in War Time that lists this latin phrase: Inter arma silent leges In time of war the laws are silent |
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- I just read a great review of Python 2.2's features. Cameron Laird goes into great detail about some things, like iterators and generators, that give python some completely new capabilities. |
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- A Zope developer named David Shaw has contributed a really great document to the Zope world. Zope Advanced Site Setup with ZEO presents some really great ideas about a production development zope environment. After you read through that, take a look at his Zope for OS/X, which includes an OS X GUI control for Zope (and look at the screenshots). Well worth the experimentation. |
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- The Economist is running a piece recounting the fact that it was the U.S., in the hope of stirring up anti-Soviet feeling in the Islamic world, that revived the concept of Jihad. Oh, if we could rethink that choice. |
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- This is far off topic for this weblog, but the events of this last week make some topics germane to everyone. One of my own biggest fears is that the general decency and kindness in America will be forgotten, in the anger over Bin Laden's act of evil and terrorist hate. Here's a poster, that warns us not be unjust when looking at those of middle eastern heritage. Even those who practice Islam and might wear a headdress, like the one worn by Osama Bin Laden. Some muslim's are being harassed, even as they line up at the Red Cross to give blood. |
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- Slashdot is running Cmdr Taco's discussion of how they handled the load on Tuesday even when CNN, MSNBC and others weren't able to. Good tech read, even in the space of what it was like living through that day still trying to be a helpful source of news. |
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