- Well, there you go again. Ronald Reagan dead at 93, along with his dreams for smaller government. Timmy Ramone’s got some comments on A Sad *Sniff* Day. Mitch Berg’s thoughts For The Gipper are complimentary. Claire Wolfe looks back on Reagan, too, saying
Compared to what we have now, he looks positively libertarian
. In I Don’t Recall, Bill St. Clair has a view of Reagan that’s probably closest to mine. He was a great orator and did some good things, but he never really came through on the smaller government promise and he put some really bad programs into place that still haunt us today. [strib] - It’s also the 60th anniversary of D-Day today, and Kim du Toit has some thoughts.
- Snopes has a page on Draft Fear, saying that it’s pretty much bunk. The bills in Congress have been languishing in committee since January of 2003, and no movement is expected on them. So there it is, then. Thanks again to Marshall for doing the research I should have done on Friday.
- Applying some of the suggestions from this talk on Accelerating PHP Applications let Donncha handle twice as many page views on their server. It feels noticeably faster from here. I may have to look into this more as I continue to piece together the software on the new server I hope to get deployed this summer. [holy schmoly]
- The FTC is looking at changing the way patents are approved in the US as the Technology industry hits out at “patent trolls”. Over 95% of patents are approved in the US, and half of those should not be. Sure sounds to me as though something needs to change. [slashdot]
Yesterday was an odd day for me. I woke up, did Dave’s Picks for the day, and then went back to bed. I ended up sleeping until 2pm. A trip to Target, then back home, and I was ready to call it a day, when Dr. Bob, my roommate from the 717 years called. He was free for the evening, and came over to see the new place and go out for a few beers. After feeling pretty cruddy in the morning, yesterday turned out to be pretty good after all.