Though this article from Linux Journal pretty much rehashes “A Technical Summary of the Major Presidential Candidates’ Web sites“, it’s worth checking out for this tidbit: For what it’s worth, the Republican National Committee is running Microsoft IIS on Windows 2000, while the Democratic National Committee is running Apache on Linux. As of this writing, … Continue reading “DNC and RNC Web Sites”
Month: November 2003
Miserable Failure Project
Miserable Failure Here’s a page to keep track of the the status of the Miserable Failure Project. As of 2003-11-01, Miserable Failure has yet to appear in the top 100.
Aaaaaaaaaaah!
Here’s a bit of unpleasantness brought to you via Musings of a Philosophical Scrivener: A Photographic History of Michael Jackson’s Face The Horror, the horror….
Senator Bill Frist’s Web Shenanigans
As if web polls aren’t bogus in general, there’s this poll on Dr. Evil’s Bill Frist‘s web site: It seems Dr. Frist thinks nothing about rigging a poll to give him the desired results no matter how the vote goes.
Miserable Failure Project: Update
Miserable Failure‘s biography is the number 2 result when searching for “miserable failure” with Google. You can also check this page to keep track of the the status of the Miserable Failure Project.
Damn Liberal Media
(from CNN) Ummmm, Bill Janklow is a Republican. Update: Looks like CNN corrected their error (11 November 2003). The Moonie Rag Washington Times, on the other hand, has yet to correct the same error in their initial August 17, 2003 report:
Polygraph: Green River Killer Passed a 1984 Lie Detector Test
(via APS – What’s New by Bob Park – November 7, 2003) DOE will subject all 4,500 employees with top-secret clearance to polygraph tests (WN 5 Sep 03). How likely is it that a polygraph test will uncover a spy, assuming there is one? In 1984, with the Green River body count at 46, Gary … Continue reading “Polygraph: Green River Killer Passed a 1984 Lie Detector Test”
Micro Focus Moves Mainframe Apps to .Net
(from eWeek) … enables developers to easily migrate COBOL applications to Windows and the .Net Framework … Finally we have a technology that gives us the stability of Microsoft combined with the elegance of COBOL.
23.86588% – Geek
Yet another goody from Musings of a Philosophical Scrivener… The Geek Test: Here’s the scale: Geekish Tendencies Geek Total Geek Major Geek Super Geek Extreme Geek Geek God Dysfunctional Geek I guess not learning Klingon and not being a serious gamer hurt my score. I think I should get extra credit for questioning the need … Continue reading “23.86588% – Geek”
US version of _UFO_?
I view the potential return of UFO about the same as the return of Battlestar Galactica. I suppose it won’t be too long before someone tries to bring back Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.