Thanks to Daniel Bowen for scanning it and for CathyE to mentioning I was in it! There’s another benefit of Twitter! Oh and thanks to whomever it was at MX who gave me the plug. You know you’ve made it when you’re in MX. All those people riding home on trains, looking for the latest news on Paris Hilton… I’m sure I’ll convert all of them to the goodness of G’Day World. Pretty awesome to be on the same page as the Nick Cave and Xzibit!
Nick Hodge (aka Uncle Nick from episode ##) sent me this link (edit 2014: link removed due to malware on the linked site) to a story about a couple of rapscallions who infiltrated Ken Ham’s “intellectually depravity: The Creation Museum.”
Ken Ham, for those of you who don’t know, grew up in my home state of Queensland (there’s something I don’t often admit) and who is one of the main forces behind the creationist movement in the USA. In May 2007 he opened his $27 million “museum” which depicts humans living alongside dinosaurs. It’s a theme park for fundamentalists to further warp the minds of their children.
The question I am left with though is whether or not this guy is the real deal or a fabulous charlatan? I have to admit that quite a few times over the years I’ve thought about how easy it would be to fleece the gullible. Whenever I see a Benny Hinn or a Ken Ham I have to wonder… are they deliberately preying on the weak-minded and the gullible? Ever see that Steve Martin film “Leap Of Faith“? Something like that. It would be so easy to do. Much easier than trying to convince the world to prefer rational thinking over mythology.
And keep it? Apparently they gave G’Day World a plug. I’d love a copy or a scan.
According to an article in Infoworld today:
A survey this spring of more than 400 developers and IT managers in North America found that the number of developers targeting Windows for their applications declined 12 percent from a year ago. Just 64.8 percent targeted the platform as opposed to 74 percent in 2006.
(source)
That’s a HUGE YOY decline. Now – it isn’t the complete collapse that the Java community were predicting a decade ago, but they are numbers that Microsoft’s DPE group should be VERY worried about. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at Sanjay‘s review with Bill and Steve. Note that the people surveyed weren’t “Web 2.0 developers trying to build massively scalable applications on the smell of an oily rag and hence using the freely available LAMP stack”. They were “developers at enterprises and solution providers”.
So why the decline? The article points to Vista being delayed and open source maturation. Frank? Kordahi? Any insights into why 12% of the developers abandoned you?
According to the BBC, “the authorities” have finally killed AllOfMp3… about a year after everyone stopped using it and migrated to other services. Apparently MP3Sparks.com is run by the same folks who brought you AllOfMp3. They do look very similar….
