Yesterday was another good day. I think I get to knock off half of the bugs remaining on my plate this morning (after verifying the fix) and I think I’m now clueful about the remaining bugs. That’s a lot better than when I woke up yesterday, and gives me hope that I’ll finish off the rest of them before the week is done. Then again, I’ve got a lot of non-work stuff to do today (more on that tomorrow, perhaps), so we’ll see how it turns out.
Last night, at the Saints game, Adam Olow hit his first and second dingers of the season. Add in homers from Scott Samuels and Tim Merritt, and the Saints just squeaked past the Canaries. It was a great game, interrupted briefly by a couple showers that scared away about half the crowd, but I just stayed put in my seat, figuring at least I was keeping the seat dry that way. One of the Fraters (Saint Paul?) was there and stopped by to say hello, too. Hello!
- PapaScott is looking to put his web services into Solitary Confinement. That’s a fine idea, I think, and I hope he documents everything he does so the rest of us can learn from him. [papascott]
- Phil Sen asks, if Communist China were to try to invade Taiwan, Who Would Win the War? Well, it’s complex, but basically he figures that if the US gets enough warning, China would end up losing. It’s an interesting analysis. Let’s hope Taiwan doesn’t push things so it has to be war.
- Here’s an interesting idea. If you want to read an article that’s behind a subscriber-only firewall, and bug me not doesn’t have a password for the site, you can often engage in some Dead Sea Googling to find the full text of the article. Cool idea.
- Infoworld is experiencing RSS growing pains as lots of dumb clients hit their servers all at the top of the hour, whether or not things have changed. I see a bunch of repeat hits on the RSS here, but I don’t really worry about it. If my server can’t keep up with it, I’ll either rewrite the code to be more efficient (some caching would probably help a bit), or finish upgrading my server. Then again, I don’t see anything like Infoworld’s traffic. [slashdot]
- Unsolicited consultants are Changing the Face of Web Surfing by doing guerilla redesigns of corporate websites that suck. I sometimes think that’s the kind of thing we should do once in a while to get a little more publicity, but then I remember that I’m already pretty darned busy. But I’d really like to see some websites out there redone so they actually work. [wired]
- Starting on September 29th, SpaceShipOne and Wild Fire to Go For the Gold with SpaceShipOne’s first launch for the X-Prize from Mojave. There’s more from Wired in SpaceShipOne Countdown Starts. [slashdot and wired]