And no, the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee is not meeting!
Looks like the rising number of computers in China has lead to a large number of Zombie attacks from this fine nation. [here]
If you have checked your logs lately, this should be as surprising as The Gropenfuhrer taking steroids.
The folks at NYU Secure Computing Services have developed a really cool open-source content distribution network (CDN) called CORAL.
This looks as though it has potential for us low-bandwidth hosters who get blasted when our content gets Scobelized or Slashdotted.
Via Jon Udell.
Dare Obasanjo started singing the praises of RSS Bandit yesterday. [here]
I tried it. I’m hooked. Get it.
Sorry Nick.
Jeremy Wright, one the main dudes in my blogosphere, hits this one out of the park.
Scoble nailed it: Microsoft simply isnÂ’t thrilling me anymore. They used to. IÂ’ll still happily defend Microsoft when the time is right, will evangelize dozens of products to the right people and so forth. But itÂ’s less joyful, and slightly more forced, than it used to be.
Bingo! This is how I feel. Although I have been antagonistic towards Microsoft over my professional career, there was still something cool happening there.
Scoble says that there are cool things and strategic hires still occurring. [here]
But Scoble…how will you thrill us?
Hugh has some comments on this… [here]
TDavid weighs in here.
SOGrady has some comments on the US Banking system. [here]
I have yet to figure out the US Banking system. I have lived in this country for 6 years, and what banks do here seems so 19th century. In Canada, when you use the nationally accepted electronic debit system (InterAC), the money is gone from your account. Now. Like, Right Now. Not sometime within the next 1-30 days.
When I pay my bills online, the money is taken out…sometime.
We gave up on electronic transfers from the US to Canada, relying instead on the Ground Yak method: when we move money home, we send a real cheque to our Canadian bank.
How hard can it be? How can the banking system in the US be so outdated that it is the laughing stock of third-world nations?
Please…I really want to know.
NY Post: DOUBLECLICK DEAL
This is an interesting rumour/bit-o-news. Would be interested to see what happens here, as I have been following DoubleClick for a while.
Via alarm:clock.
C|Net chimes in…a day late and a dollar short.
While I was away, the Republicans have continued their push to create a neo-Victorian America with:
- the anti-entrepreneurial “Indentured Servitude” law
- the “American Aristocracy” tax reduction
- and a crackdown on moral turpitude in the media
Of course, Victorianization wouldn’t be complete without a good dash of hypocrisy. More signs that are becoming a rentier state with abandon…
I like John. Of course, he helped found the company I work for, so I do owe him a debt of gratitude.
Do you accept PayPal, John?
Jeff Nolan and I have had our differences, mainly over Prop. 13. But his posting that links to an article listing the reasons why people are fleeing California cities (or the state entirely) is heartening.
Not for California. But for those of us who decided that we couldn’t stay there and live in one of the world’s richest economies, and tolerate a third-world public infrastructure.