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Stardate 9820.04
Week eight, the munchies.
Now we’re cooking
Kitchen cabinets on tap this week. They’re old, but strong as anything they make these days. Used this wonderful cleaner called TSP to wipe off the grease, sanded them down lightly to get some texture, and applied a fresh coat of black. Finished it off with brushed nickeled knobs.
I really like my kitchen, it’s old school, swinging doors to get in, the heat and smells stay contained. It’s huge for today’s standards, nowadays a kitchen is a hallway stuck between the family room and bathroom, where you go during commercials. America don’t cook, they eat out, and snack.
Also coding
Sailor Jerry paid us a visit yesterday, wonderful fellow, love his tattoos.
You know it’s slow going when you start noticing stains in the carpet – I’m going to cut that dog’s … off. But like anything you embark on, there’s always the awkward start. That lonely feeling you get on that isolated stretch of motorway, until you turn the radio up and gas it.
But mostly reading
I do an enormous amount of research, Google is indeed my friend. I have the enviable position of going after, seeing what worked or didn’t on successful open source projects. Why do something that’s already been tried and failed, or it’s been implemented and become a maintenance nightmare?
Open Source, the apropos words of these last 8 weeks. In my research, I’ve come to the conclusion that you can’t stop an Open Source licensed project from gaining traction, you can only slow it down.
Have you ever read about?
- Linus not looking to compete with Windows NT.
- Brian saying that IIS on NT 3.51 was good enough for him.
- Monty bowing down to the power of SQL Server.
- Rasmus not wanting to step on ASP’s toes.
Imagine a world of Blue Web Screens of 404 Death, and getting support from Microsoft Engineers that copy/paste the same freaking canned answer into every thread. The horror!
With all the money and manpower at Microsoft’s disposal, why are you reading these words being rendered by a PHP app, talking to a MySQL database, served up by Apache, running on Linux?
Welcome to the world of Open Source, try and stop us.
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