May, 8, 2002 archives

i wish there was a place with the prices of rackshack that used debian. i'd be happy with freebsd, too. (the popularity of redhat on servers is totally baffling to me.)

paul prescod wrote nine simple rules for “extreme web services” (but you have to wonder what the tenth rule in what was obviously supposed to be a list of ten rules was.) i would extend his rule #5 a bit, to recognize the non-xml and non-http standards that are still important. (particularly mime and smtp.)

(side note: i hate yahoo groups.)

there's been some hand-wringing about the recent car chase in los angeles that got a lot of media coverage. i actually tuned into the last half hour or so, mainly because i had seen the whole mess go by on the hollywood freeway (mainly when the half-dozen helicopters flew by). i hadn't realized it was getting national attention.

good news for the game industry, i guess: electronic arts posts record annual sales. (hmm, e3 is coming up, so i guess we can expect lots of game industry news to hit in the next couple of weeks.)

a nice piece from salon about the use of email in corporate politicking. (here's an observation: you can surmise a lot about how a person reads by how they write.)

san diego tops a recent ranking of the best places to do business, according to forbes and the milken institute. san jose, at the top of the list last year, took a dive to #61. the rankings are based purely on “objective” economic factors, not taking into account things like weather, cultural attractions, or crime.