Marco (extending the game to a common “business as usual” friend) has restricted an old meme of mine to a single point… the old one was about our worst predictions: that’s a good choice because trying to guess when Crude Oil would be exchanged at around 150 USD/barrel is both sad and hard. It’s sad because it’s like predicting when you will stop breathing while being hanged (!) and it’s hard as well because even Prof. Ugo Bardi (Italian text) showed his surprise about the rate at which the price is increasing.
And? I don’t know, really… but a meme is just a game so let’s play it! 
After a twenty seconds thought, my bet is: it would reach that price around the second half of next July… but please, don’t give me a prize because there is not a final winner here.
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The TPCI May Headline is
PowerShell on its way to the top 20
As you know, I don’t code on Windows regularly but after a quick look at this sample screenshot, PowerShell seems to me very… powerful. Perhaps a good part of its power resides on its blendable, UNIX-like nature.
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Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for
Is Nick Drake really dead?
I’ve got three words to say: shame on you.
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I think that I can list five main reasons to explain why good suggestions are so hard to follow (and it doesn’t matter if we are talking about the economy of a country or the settings of a GNU/Linux server).
- we are lazy
- we are unskilled
- we would like to make clear to everybody that the work of many people is useless
- we would like to stop someone from making easy money (someone that we support or whose support we need)
- we’ve built, through the years, a monster system that we don’t understand completely and we are very reluctant to change anything in it
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In a few years, some survivors, roaming through the ruins of our cities, could find the front page of an old daily newspaper, printed during November 2007, the day that the price of crude oil reached 100 USD/barrel…
The price of the row material that keeps this civilization going has increased by more than 50 percent since last year. Did you find something about that on the mainstream media? Let’s go dying, wearing a brand new headset.
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Edublogs is “the largest education community on the internet” (a multi-user WordPress powered website, to be brief) and, according to my logs, they provide at least one of my plugins to their users. A few days ago I discovered that, technically speaking, there is a website close to Edublogs but committed to pornographical subjects: an unpredictable consequence of releasing GPL software.
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How many (supposed) content editors does it take to completely throw away a CMS? Just one… with a stolen upload account.
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After two weeks of training, I’m glad to announce that yesterday Dr. Kawashima stated that my brain is one year younger than my real age… and I’m still not seduced by non-free-software.
Update (2007-09-28): four years younger.
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Yes, like Candide, we’ve learnt that we do not live in the “best of all possible worlds”: there are so many PCs seduced by dark sided OSes that we have to deal with them… because, as I’ve already written, customers, friends and relatives use them.
This book might help you when the problem that you are trying to solve is certainly not obvious: it covers in detail most OS internals that, in a few cases, would be better referred to as bowels. The author doesn’t hesitate to use perl or other tools coming from the correct side so, even if you do not use the OS that this book evokes, you won’t feel completely lost.
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Ho appena scritto sul distacco storico e, forse per dar forza al post precedente :), guardo ora la fotografia che Cristiano ci propone: vedo un estintore e una pistola: un ipotetico convegno “La pistola come strumento di pace”, con un titolo simmetricamente provocatorio, organizzato dallo schieramento opposto ma nello stesso luogo, quanti post nei blog avrebbe generato? Ecco, appunto.
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