Check out this great interview with Brent Simmons, author of NetNewsWire
A dead-on article from Thomas L. Friedman at the NY Times: Ah, Those Principled Europeans. Short and sweet, I love it.
Europeans, out of some romantic rebellion against America and high technology, were shunning U.S.-grown food containing G.M.O.'s -- even though there is no scientific evidence that these are harmful. But practically everywhere we went in Davos, Europeans were smoking cigarettes -- with their meals, coffee or conversation -- even though there is indisputable scientific evidence that smoking can kill you.
So pardon me if I don't take seriously all the Euro-whining about the Bush policies toward Iraq -- for one very simple reason: It strikes me as deeply unserious. It's not that there are no serious arguments to be made against war in Iraq. There are plenty. It's just that so much of what one hears coming from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and French President Jacques Chirac are not serious arguments. They are station identification.
Rather, they are the diplomatic equivalent of smoking cancerous cigarettes while rejecting harmless G.M.O.'s -- an assertion of identity by trying to be whatever the Americans are not, regardless of the real interests or stakes.
And here's the most interesting point:
And where this comes from, alas, is weakness. Being weak after being powerful is a terrible thing. It can make you stupid. It can make you reject U.S. policies simply to differentiate yourself from the world's only superpower.
"Power corrupts, but so does weakness," said Josef Joffe, editor of Germany's Die Zeit newspaper. "And absolute weakness corrupts absolutely. We are now living through the most critical watershed of the postwar period, with enormous moral and strategic issues at stake, and the only answer many Europeans offer is to constrain and contain American power. So by default they end up on the side of Saddam, in an intellectually corrupt position."
Awesome. Not only does this explain the behavior of much of Europe -- I think it explains much of the behavior of the left in this country as well.
Via SvN and LGF
Via webgraphics, check out this ranked list of problems people have run into while implementing commercial CMSes.
There's plenty of criticism of content management systems (CMS). Discovering what bothers us most can help us start to address these problems constructively. We conducted a survey to identify the biggest obstacles to effective content management systems. Below is a summary of the results.
So, if you're building a CMS <raises hand>, these are some of the things you should attack with your code-fu.
Monday, February 3, 2003
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new⇒Trogdor tattoo!!
Oh, so cute, wowoowow....
Kathy Mead: Sep 7, 6:07am