| Archive for: February, 2008
Open Source Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Do open source developers deserve a premium? Posted in: General Development management content values Today we have another one of those reports that tend to drive me crazy. It's from the Bluewolf Group of New York, located just off Madison Square Park, which calls itself "the world's leading provider of professional services for on-demand software applications." But it's not about Software as a Service. Instead it's a statement pulled from a survey of IT salaries that open source developers make more money. This has Matt Asay happier than Tom Cruise on a couch (above), but it's his bosses at Alfresco who are going to have to spread this extra green, and it begs the question, why? Is developing on an open source platform really different from developing on a closed source platform? Are the skills needed to develop for one any different from those needed to develop for the other? It reminds me of a complaint my lovely bride of 30 years often has, when the skill sets at her employer change.
Got Vino? Try the Village's Gottino!
Semi-locavores will thrill to the mellow and mouth-meltingly soft Grayson cheese, made at Meadow Creek Dairy in Galax, Virginia. Drenched in honey, Gottino's two-year-old parmigiano reggiano is just as desirable, but the pale and runny gorgonzola lacks punch—pick the robiola instead. Also on the passive side, find a chunky homemade pork pâté wrapped in cawl fat, served with a lonely cornichon and a dab of fig jam. Man, is it good! The active side features crostini, composed salads, meaty mini-entrées, and pickled fish. On this side, the food is mainly Florentine in its outlook, even when chef Jody Williams is at her most creative. In that blessed city and in the Chianti regions to the southwest, peasant cooks are great admirers of fish, though the mountains that separate them from the sea historically prevent them from getting it fresh, making pickled seafood the order of the day.
High Rise Fire in Waikiki Forces Residents to Evacuate
A high rise fire in Waikiki chases dozens of residents into the streets, as fire crews race through a chemical cloud to get to the blaze. It was a chaotic scene Tuesday night on Kuhio Avenue. The Royal Kuhio is a condominium and time share building when the fire alarm went off many people headed for the stairs and evacuated. At first they waiting outside at the lobby but police put up yellow tape and made everyone move across the street because of possible chemical fumes. The fire started around 8:25 p.m. Tuesday on the mauka side of the seventh floor, that's the recreation area. This was a three-alarm fire. Fire crews got the blaze under control 20 minutes later. One firefighter was injured, either with a broken finger or hand and a woman was in an ambulance being treated likely for smoke inhalation.
Huckabee wastes no time politicizing terror plot
Gov. Mike Huckabee doesn't miss an opportunity to politicize a straightforward security incident. Only hours after the airline bombing plot was announced, he's trying to score points in the New Hampshire press. "It should give some pause to the President’s most vocal critics who have said this is unnecessary, to engage in surveillance and to try to really do a thorough job of intelligence gathering. Because clearly, intelligence gathering is exactly what gave the authorities the opportunity to apprehend these people before they were able to carry out their intentions," he said in a phone interview. Huckabee, a Republican considering a possible run for the Presidency, will be in the state through Sunday, speaking at a variety of events. Domestic surveillance may make some people nervous, he said.
TIME TO CHANGE COURSE
Cuba exerts the same effect on American administrations that the full moon has on werewolves," observed Wayne Smith, Washington's former liaison to Havana. The American-Cuban feud dates back to the 1959-1962 period, when Castro, spouting his firebrand anti- Americanism, turned the island into a Communist dictatorship and a launching pad for Soviet nuclear weapons aimed at American cities — the most traumatic episode in the Cold War. But the American mind-set shaped then was formed by a selective historical amnesia ignoring the U.S. role leading to the nuclear showdown. Castro was a genuine Cuban nationalist, committed to liberating his country from the brutal Batista dictatorship and from Washington's political and economic domination. The American barrage of economic and military assaults culminating in Washington's disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 drove the fledgling Cuban regime into the Soviet orbit for sheer survival.
QPR 3-0 Stoke
QPR prevented Stoke from going back to the top of the Championship table with a convincing victory at Loftus Road. Mikele Leigertwood put the hosts ahead with a stunning 25-yard drive and then struck from 12 yards from Rowan Vine's headed knock-down to double the lead. Stoke had captain Andy Griffin harshly dismissed following a challenge for the ball with Hogan Ephraim before Akos Buzsaky's low shot made it 3-0. The Potters hit the woodwork twice and worked hard but without reward. QPR coach Luigi De Canio:"We have beaten the top teams this season. "This shows we need to acquire the mentality when playing teams at the bottom of the table that we show against teams at the top. "Consistency is important, because our position in the table is defined by our performances week in, week out." Stoke manager Tony Pulis on Griffin's dismissal:"I don't think it's a sending off.
Is indecency running rampant in our shopping malls?
Imagine that you're out with your teenage children and suddenly see a young woman walking nearby, completely topless except for one strategically-placed hand. Or some guys and girls run by, and one has clearly had his pants and underwear completely off - he's pulling them up, but you can see most of his backside. Or perhaps a half-dozen good-looking women strut by in nothing but underwear and high heels. Many observers would be irritated or shocked; some might even be angry enough at the young woman to report her for indecent exposure. But while these incidents would violate any local statute for indecency or partial public nudity, most of us would probably shrug them off as a momentary or isolated incidents. So why do we shrug it off when retailers take those same images, blow them up larger than life, and put them in hundreds of malls and teenage clothing stores around the country? The pictures currently in the windows of Abercrombie & Fitch and Victoria's Secret contain the exact images described above, and would violate public indecency standards in person.
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