sometimes quickies are good – no, really, don’t laugh
In looking at this way this log has been running I realized I had sort of
stopped posting so often. Why? Well … that’s a long (short) story.
What you might not know about me is that sometimes I get a little,
compulsive. Not in a "could possibly interfere with a really cool contract
with a great client" kind of way (you never know who might be reading…)
but in a "I really like things to be in the right place" kind of way.
The problem is, I had sort of started putting this log in a "place to
rant" box… and that has made me hold back from just posting tiny stuff.
Of course, there is an answer to the problem. I need to write a piece of weblog
software that actually works the way >I< want it to. This isn’t really a
problem – but I currently am not sitting on the platform I want to use to write
that tool on. Currently this site sits on a Lunix/Apache/PHP
system. While that is a wonderful combination it is not the one I want the
system to ultimately live on so it would be kind of silly for me to write the
whole system here and then be stuck. For those who are curious, I want this
thing to move to a IIS/ASP+ box with a SQL Server backend and it will be a good
chance to get my hands on C#.
Anyway, here are some quickies for you.
-
Sinfest – a
pretty cool comic strip. Sarcastic and witty. -
Terradot –
seems like it has some decent info at times. -
Breast
is Best – Now, in a perfect world all mothers are healthy and well fed.
They get all the right nutrients and they are home with their children often
enough that they can feed them well the ‘natural way’. This is not a perfect
world. In this not so perfect world, especially in the third world nations
we have so many of, the mothers are not well nourished and in a lot of cases
have serious health problems of their own.In those cases – especially when the mothers have AIDS – it makes perfect
sense that formula would be a better option for those children. Formula that
is offered free by the ton each year from large companies eager for a tax
break. Does any fo that get to those starving children we see every day on
TV? Nope. Why? Because of a asinine U.N. regulation that prevents
free or low coast formula from reaching the nations that need it.Politics. The ‘green’ agenda – one steeped in anti-corporate bias has
managed to maintain the fiction that "breast is best" even in the
face of obvious flaws in the logic. Mothers who eat less than a bowl of rice
a day are not providing their children with healthy milk.There are some positive points to the natural feeding in these nations – the
mothers milk tends to pass on needed anti-bodies to the children that will
help them survive. However, it seems to me that that advantage in disease
resistance is lost as soon as the complete lack of nutrition being provided
destroys the strength of the infants immune system.Ah well, do some research – decide for yourself.
- What passes for "journalism" in the Linux world – I like Linux.
I use Linux. When appropriate I recommend Linux to clients. However, the
Linux community is driving me and many, many other technology types away …
and we are taking our clients with us. Another example of this is easily
seen in this article. Some discussion is also here in this Slashdot
thread on the topic.What is so stupid about this article? That’s easy. The author ("Stuart
Zipper") seems to blame Intel because some distributions of Linux can’t
install on the Pentium 4. Even though the flaw is totally within the realm
of the Linux software. They don’t know how to identify the new CPU – so they
just plain lock up. Odd, considering that the P4 will happily run software
built for the P3. You would think that the Linux code would simply ask the
user if we want to default to the "386 generic" mode or if we want
to pretend we are a P3 when it hits an unknown chip.Instead of admitting the flaw, Linux advocates are desperate for anything
they can hang on Intel
– a company they consider almost as evil as Microsoft.
Anyway, that covers it for the moment. I have one more topic to discuss but
that gets a post of it’s own. Enjoy!