Entries for April 2003
Proving only that he hasn’t talked to an actual software developer in a coon’s age, Larry Ellison predicts that Linux is going to eventually eat Microsoft for lunch. On the desktop, except for a few dedicated followers of the Church of Apple and Unix-lovin’ software developers, Microsoft owns this space and will for a long time.
In developer land, having been recently reintroduced to the ins and out of Microsoft development, I’m reminded how differently Unix developers and Microsoft developers approach software development. If Unix development philosophy is small pieces loosely joined, Microsoft’s philosophy is big chunks tightly coupled. Microsoft developers aren’t going to suddenly jump ship to a completely different platform and way of developing…there’s a lot of friction and inertia there (not to mention Microsoft’s considerable marketing efforts) that will tend to prevent that.
Paul Nixon took all the band names from the recent music post and compiled them into a neat text file:
Downside of this list: Little to no context to the musician or musical style is given on this list. Some context may or may not be gathered from reading the actual commentary. Also, formatting and duplication errors abound.
Organizational note: The alphabetized list ignores the “The” bands by alphabetizing the band based on the second word in the name (e.g. White Stripes, The). Unfortunately trying to alphabetize the band “The The” ended in a vicious, never ending cycle from which I have yet to escape.
Above quote is from this post.
The Secrets of Drudge, Inc.. although the success of Drudge is not easily reproducible
In no particular order: Interpol, Digweed’s Stark Raving Mad, new Radiohead, Wilco (I was the last person in American to hear Yankee Hotel Foxtrot), The Postal Service, new White Stripes, Mirwais, Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack remixed, Schneider TM, Boards of Canada (still and probably always), Doves, Dntel, Major Tom cover by Dealership, and Around the World by Daft Punk (this is my desert island song…I will never ever get tired of this song).
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