July 2008 Archives
"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841)
Continue reading Emerson for the Day.
Snapshots in the harsh life of a 21st-century, Internet-based business, a common kind of unprofitable operation found all over the Western world:
- Making technology decisions based on a snake-oil salesman's mentality - EPIC FAIL.
- Putting all your eggs in one basket - CLASSIC FAIL.
- Dressing and acting as if you're stuck in the early 70s - FASHION FAIL.
- Running a hosting operation without sys admin - PREDICTABLE FAIL.
- Giggling when sabotaging someone's work - MORAL COMPASS FAIL.
- Running a hosting operation without network admin - EXCITABLE FAIL.
- Shouting instead of communicating - PERSONAL FAIL.
- Always failing to learn from failure - DARWINIAN FAIL.
Mises Institute: The only nations who have a higher corporate tax rate than [the USA] are Suriname, Pakistan, Togo, Benin, Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Chad, Libya, and Vietnam.
Easy and safe prediction: President ObaMcCain, in His Awesome Statist Wisdom, will vastly improve this record -- by spending more, encouraging further inflation, and raising taxes.
JavaScript has long been held --wrongly-- to be an uninteresting programming tool (dismissively muttering "scripting").
Now it's been re-branded as Ajax (more correctly spelled "AJAX"). A brand new name, effective by subliminal association!
Continue reading Rebranding.
