Number 2 Pencil is alive and well and off blogspot. Dean Esmay’s good works are sure to win him in place in Archive Heaven.
Number 2 Pencil is alive and well and off blogspot.
Dean Esmay’s good works are sure to win him in place in Archive Heaven.
With a cryptic note, the lights are out at Scripting News: The lack of support, even name-calling, from people who think of themselves as my friend, has got me thinking that maybe this isn’t worth it. And the abuse from others, bordering on cruelty, is intolerable. Is this related to the recent flap on RSS … Continue reading “Mid-life crisis?”
With a cryptic note, the lights are out at Scripting News:
The lack of support, even name-calling, from people who think of themselves as my friend, has got me thinking that maybe this isn’t worth it. And the abuse from others, bordering on cruelty, is intolerable.
Is this related to the recent flap on RSS validators? Whatever’s behind it, it’s weird.
Via Misanthropyst.
UPDATE: OK, it’s about RSS, which Dave invented and about which he feels very territorial, and Echo, a proposed new format for blog syndication whose primary benefit is Dave’s lack of control over it.
RSS, for all of its shortcomings, has been widely-adopted, so the transition to Echo, if there is one, is going to be very painful.
Sad-sack Governor Gray Davis hopes he can intimidate the voters into letting him stay in power to further fatten special interest bellies: Sacramento — Opponents of the move to recall Gov. Gray Davis are asking their supporters to intimidate signature gatherers and complain of harassment at stores where recall petitions are circulating, stepping up the … Continue reading “Gestapo tactics in the streets of California”
Sad-sack Governor Gray Davis hopes he can intimidate the voters into letting him stay in power to further fatten special interest bellies:
Sacramento — Opponents of the move to recall Gov. Gray Davis are asking their supporters to intimidate signature gatherers and complain of harassment at stores where recall petitions are circulating, stepping up the political battle taking place in front of Wal-Marts and Home Depots across California.
In an e-mail message and Internet posting titled “How to Advocate Against the Recall,” Davis supporters were told, “It is OK to stand in front of their table or approach potential signers before they do, or otherwise inhibit their activity.” The memo instructs people to say they are “offended by being harassed” and file complaints with managers of stores.
“Remember, the longer you engage them, the fewer signatures they can collect,” said the memo distributed by Taxpayers Against the Governor’s Recall, a union-funded group. The memo also includes a telephone hot line to report the location of recall petition circulators.
There are no limits to the venality of Gray Davis and his buddies in the Prison Guards Union.
Unstrung reports that another WiFi chip company is bucks-up and ready to ship: Bermai’s first round of funding, for $21 million, came in March 2002. “We sized our ‘A’ [round] just about perfectly. We got orders just before we ran out of ‘A’ money,” Sanguinetti says. As the line at the trough gets longer and … Continue reading “The line grows longer”
Unstrung reports that another WiFi chip company is bucks-up and ready to ship:
Bermai’s first round of funding, for $21 million, came in March 2002. “We sized our ‘A’ [round] just about perfectly. We got orders just before we ran out of ‘A’ money,” Sanguinetti says.
As the line at the trough gets longer and more of the spaces are taken by companies like Atheros and Bermai with actual products and customers, we’re wondering why anybody would invest in the chip companies with no chips and no customers at this late date.
Megachipcos Intel and Broadcom have created opportunities for quick-strike, CMOS startups by building crappy parts, but not for the slow, lax, and arrogant.
So the consolidation is starting, according to rumors on the acquisition of Intersil by TI: Wireless LAN chipset vendor Intersil Corp.’s (Nasdaq: ISIL – message board) stock was up today on rumors that the company is going to be acquired by Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN – message board). TI is renown as a great … Continue reading “WiFi consolidation”
So the consolidation is starting, according to rumors on the acquisition of Intersil by TI:
Wireless LAN chipset vendor Intersil Corp.’s (Nasdaq: ISIL – message board) stock was up today on rumors that the company is going to be acquired by Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN – message board).
TI is renown as a great second-source manufacturer, if not a fabled engineer, so this deal would place three fab-owning manufacturers ahead of the pack to deliver WiFi chips, which is not good news for the smaller, fabless contenders whose product strategy is dictated by engineering managers.
John Burton wants to put a band-aid on the California budget mess: Senate President Pro Tem John Burton (D-San Francisco) said passing a spending plan with Band-Aids offers the best hope of freeing up lawmakers to deal with the budget’s structural problems in time to bring proposals before voters. “It is like you have a … Continue reading “Head in the sand”
John Burton wants to put a band-aid on the California budget mess:
Senate President Pro Tem John Burton (D-San Francisco) said passing a spending plan with Band-Aids offers the best hope of freeing up lawmakers to deal with the budget’s structural problems in time to bring proposals before voters.
“It is like you have a patient with double pneumonia, which is this year’s problem, and the patient also has cancer, which is a problem for next year and beyond,” said Burton. “You cannot operate on the long-term cancer problem until you deal with the pneumonia.”
This is nonsense, of course, because this legislature only has two modes of operation: business as usual, which means spending like a drunken sailor to appease the special interests, or crisis mode, to appease angry voters. If we sit back and give the legislature time to reflect, consider, and mull things over, they’ll end up doing nothing. The only opportunities we have for structural reform are those brought about by crises, so we have to act right now to correct the problems that made this crisis happen.
And even John Burton knows that.
Movable Type is putting together a developer’s program and wants your input: Based on the comments and questions raised about offering support services, we’ll be working on creating a Movable Type Developer/Service Provider Network that will rely more on a software/service-provider relationship rather than that of licensor/licensee. We’d love to hear what you think about … Continue reading “Help Ben and Mena get it right”
Movable Type is putting together a developer’s program and wants your input:
Based on the comments and questions raised about offering support services, we’ll be working on creating a Movable Type Developer/Service Provider Network that will rely more on a software/service-provider relationship rather than that of licensor/licensee. We’d love to hear what you think about this sort of a program and if you have any ideas or suggestions of how it would work best for you as a service-provider or developer.
Email your comments to: [email protected]
If it were up to me, there would be no limitations on the ability of third parties to provide support, enhancements, or redistribution of Movable Type, as long as all the end-users of said services are in compliance with the terms of MT’s license, but I would also charge a nominal fee, on the order of $25, for every non-commercial user. Seems to me that the issue is to induce more people to pay MT, not to prevent others from making money off MT. But that’s just me, I didn’t write the code, and there are lots of ways to spin it.
A Dog’s Life is now on MT and master of his own domain.
A Dog’s Life is now on MT and master of his own domain.
Matt Welch won a bunch of ribbons and trophies for his writing at an LA Press Club shindig recently, but they only gave him a red for The Politics of Dead Children. I demand a recount.
Matt Welch won a bunch of ribbons and trophies for his writing at an LA Press Club shindig recently, but they only gave him a red for The Politics of Dead Children. I demand a recount.
Prince of Darkness Bob Novak reports that Calif. Dems urge Davis to resign Prominent California Democrats are pressing to get Gov. Gray Davis to resign rather than face a recall that may replace him with a Republican governor in a special October election. And goes on to get the facts on the recall wrong, as … Continue reading “This ain’t happening”
Prince of Darkness Bob Novak reports that Calif. Dems urge Davis to resign
Prominent California Democrats are pressing to get Gov. Gray Davis to resign rather than face a recall that may replace him with a Republican governor in a special October election.
And goes on to get the facts on the recall wrong, as Dan Weintraub points out.
Don’t get your hopes up, or down, as the case may be, on Novak’s rumor; the last thing Davis is going to do is leave town with his tail between his legs and Cruz Bustamante in the corner office. Like anti-hero Meursault in Camus’ L’ Etranger, Davis dreams of final vindication, and he hates Cruz, so the poor bastard will hold on to the end. The only question in my book is when Sheila Kuehl, his first supporter and primary ruiner of his tenure, will abandon him. My guess is pretty soon, but not before she sees an opportunity to attach herself to the next rump descending on the seat of power.
