I love this one:

There's an excellent article over at The Jerusalem Post about the rise of the Linux desktop and why people switch (or not.)

He makes some good points, but he's missing a key aspect in my opinion.

I've been programming computers since I got my first Commodore Vic-20 so many years ago. I recall the release of the PCJr and I remember when MS-DOS took over the market knocking out TRS-DOS and other competitors. I remember why we started using Windows in the first place. I sold Windows 3.0 (the first actual real version of Windows) when it was released, and later sold 3.11 WFW (Windows for Workgroups) that included basic networking. I even sold OS/2 to a couple of real geeks.The first people to use Windows used it at work. Employers would buy a computer, and then they would buy a copy of Windows to go on it - or the computer reseller would sell the computer, and sell Windows and pre-install it, and provide the retail package of Windows to the purchaser as well, with all the floppy disks.

From the article:

It's not what you think. The media would have you believe that offshore IT work is cheaper. Perhaps there's a shortage of tech labor in the US, or maybe it's just plain greed. I'm here to tell you it's none of the above.

The offshore tech market has something that we in the US don't seem to have. They are filling a serious need. What is it that we lack? It's not tech knowledge. Goodness knows there's enough 15 year old brats who can still break into their school computer systems that the US computer nerd isn't going away.

It's not perfect - there's a bit of fuzz around some of the items like the left monitor (yes, there's 2 monitors.) But all in all was pretty easy and cool to do. Sorry guys - did it in Windows. I haven't seen a good panoramic generator for Linux yet, and am open to suggestions if anyone knows of one.

Click and drag the mouse within the image to spin around.

I should take bets on what the silver thing is to the left of the door... Anybody want to guess?

Or is that a Vista review after a blunt? Nah,

Vermyndax has posted a very nice review of his first impressions of Vista.

It goes along with about 80% of the media reports I'm seeing online - Vista sux big fat donkey...

I wrote my Congressman and Senator about the new royalty rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board that are designed to push Internet radio stations out of business.

Amazingly enough I got a response back from Senator Byrd - who I might go on record has not been my favorite Senator.

Here's the scan:
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No response back from anyone else...

Simply drag it to your desktop and watch the fireworks. Here someone drags a malformed animated cursor file on the desktop, and causes Explorer to crash and restart over and over and over and ...

I've always developed sites designed for less than 20 users - or at least the sites I've launched were for less than 20 simultaneous users - all Intranet based.

Of course with only 20 users in mind, you don't have to worry too much about scaling. Even if we went to 200 users chances are I wouldn't have trouble.

With developing a major Internet application, you really need to take scalability to heart. I learned quite a bit in the past few weeks about scaling PHP and MySQL.

I've published two ads for programmers in Craigslist. Both ads contain the following text:

'This is a full-time employment opportunity, not a solicitation for contract work. Solicitations for contract work may be publicly humiliated ;-) '

Really. I put that in the ad.

I keep getting responses like the following jerk who can't read:

Hello:

This is Jameel from Photon InfoTech - a Software Services and BPO Services firm, based out of India, with offices in Boston, USA and Malaysia.