Books Read
The Black Swan
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
5 stars
The World is Flat
The World is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman
5 stars
Apple going green is nice and all, but Steve Jobs didn’t have to throw Apple’s competitors under the bus.
Eww, the supposedly new and improved ABCNEWS.com is littered with AJAX. I’ll do my best to avoid ABCNEWS.com from now on.
This Microsoft employee should grow some balls and document his experience with Linux on a Windows Live Spaces blog.
Ian’s Secure Shoelace Knot owns. I’ve been using the knot for nearly a week on a pair of new shoes and the knot has yet to come loose once.
For all the Windows and Linux interoperability hoopla over the Microsoft-Novell agreement, Silverlight lacks a port for Linux.
Radu-Cristian Fotescu’s The Sorry State of Open Source Today has very little to do with the state of open source and is nothing more than a GNU/Linux rant.
Johannes Ullrich, on the threat of the Storm worm, points out, “It’s user stupidity, and that’s the thing there is no patch for.”
Don Imus got off easy. If Imus remained on the air with CBS, he’d have to face the punishment of the continued furor and ridicule.
LOL @ the Blogger’s Code of Conduct. A code of conduct won’t change a person’s morals. The despicable will be despicable with or without a code of conduct.
My favorite line from Paul Graham’s Microsoft is dead piece is: “Microsoft’s biggest weakness is that they still don’t realize how much they suck.”