REALITY BASED TELEVISION The New York Times (Feb 24) provides coverage of the new round of reality based TV shows the big four broadcast networks have slated for this summer. With titles such as "Love For Sale", "Wife Swap", and "Around The World In 80 Dates" one wonders how much lower we can sink in our pursuit for entertainment. Stephen King predicted our fate 20 years ago with his classic " The Running Man ": ...where people work in dangerous jobs for low wages, but employment is still extremely hard to get. Ben Richards knows that the only way his wife and daughter can get out of the low class lifestyle is for him to try to win money on one of the many gameshows on television.... These are no ordinary gameshows, because they make you suffer, or even die, and Richards has been chosen for the top show of all - The Running Man. The rules are fairly straightforward. $100 for every hour that you stay alive, and if you manage to stay alive fo...
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Business Week Coverage (March 2003). Want to know what's really interesting about what I do at work (and at home for that matter?). Be sure to check out the March 3 cover story in Business Week. You can also click here to see an advance copy of the article that includes interviews from my staff. The cover doesn't look to shabby either! Be sure to read the rest of the issue for the special report on Linux and Open Source Development (OSD) in general.
My group actually saved closer to $1.5M (yes million!) by going open source in the few areas we could get approval to use it. I'm sure 2003 will be a different story as the corporate environment begins to embrace the open source philosophy in general. We've already made extensive use of CVS and Sun One Studio for our integrated java/web development. For production web systems we also tools from the Apache Software Foundation , including the apache webserver, mod_perl, mod_ssl, and several tools from the ...
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Worth Thinking About: "You must have chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Nietzsche). Nietzsche may be more famous for his oft' misquoted phases such as "God is Dead" or "Will to Power" than for the philosophic battles he chose to fight. What creative impulse defines a man who has exhausted the alternatives available to him? Does he remain a man, a simple animal with relative needs and desires, or does he become a superman, something approaching our concept of God? What Nietzsche really represents is the epic philosophical battle of the moderns against the ancients - Freud vs. Socrates- which can be characterized as the desire to rationalize ones actions versus the desire to know ones self, no matter the cost (Freud was heralded as champion of the repressed ego while Socrates was eventually put to death for "impiety and corruption of the youth" ).
Nietzsche morns the loss of a badly needed father and a...
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Chris White's Weblog Roundup :
Alien Barbeque April Gem is quirky and funny. Reading her posts definitely offers something different. ComputerUser: The art of the blog The original Mike Finley article (November 2002) that piqued my interest in blogging by asking, "Anyone can create a weblog, but how many are any good?" The Cathedral and the Bazaar ESR has plenty to keep himself busy, and unfortunately his websites are not updated fequently enough. Doc Searls Interesting perspectives from the senior editor of Linux Journal . Geek Press Technology News... shaken, not stirred! NewsForge Old Reliable... the gateway for information on OSD (open source development). Open Source Developer's Network Enough Said!. SlashDot News for Nerds and Stuff That Matters. TechDirt All the news that is fit to read . Webmonkey Weblog Roundup All you need to know about weblogging software and hosting services. Weblog Industry Report Truely the final Final wo...