There seems to be a crime wave at Champion Farms, the apartment complex where I currently live in Louisville, Kentucky (and where I'm anxiously ready to move away from), and I'm very concerned about the safety and security here.
Last Thursday night when I came home police cars were all over the Champion Farms parking lot. I didn't stop to talk to any of them; I just went straight to my apartment and locked the doors.
I just read that a judge rejected AT&T's request to pull Verizon's ads off the airwaves. The judge said the ads might be sneaky, but they're not misleading.
Even funnier to me, the judge offered this quote:
"Most people who are watching TV are semi-catatonic"
Google will be providing a preview of their Chrome OS to the media today. If you'll recall, Google first announced the Chrome OS back in July, but we haven't heard much about it since then.
I was wondering about the #1 reliability ranking Asus received earlier this year for their netbooks. I've never used one, so I wondered if they were really great, or if the data was skewed because their netbooks were so new.
According to a PC World report, their quality rating took a big nose-dive, and Rescuecom's CEO says it's because their products have been out there for a while now. In March, Asus was #1 on the Rescuecom reliability list, but now their score has taken a swan dive from a high of 972 to the current value of 166.
For anyone interested in web browser statistics -- specifically the people that visit the devdaily.com website -- here's a chart that shows the web browser usage data for the devdaily.com website over the last 30 days (late November through early December, 2009):
From the web browser news desk ... the people at Net Applications released their browser Market Share report recently, and here's a quick look at their numbers:
If you haven't seen it, w3.org offers an HTML Validation Service for free that is pretty cool. Give it a URL, and it calls the URL and checks the document for errors and HTML validity. Of course this page bombed the big one, but I'm still in a major rebuild process here, so I'm not sweating too much as long as it renders in IE and Mozilla. They also offer a CSS Validator that I haven't had a chance to test yet. That one also appears to offer a download.
Too busy with work, I missed the news that Borland purchased TogetherSoft, and that TogetherSoft had earlier purchased WebGain. Doing a little simple math, this seems to mean that Borland now owns the rights to their own product, JBuilder, as well as their former competitor, VisualCafe. While this means little to the rest of the world, I find it amusing, in that I officially started my Java career writing for two Ziff-Davis publications, Inside JBuilder and Inside VisualCafe.
I guess it's pretty serious when the Department of Homeland Security says "Don't use Internet Explorer":
Wow, if only 10% of the comments on this page are accurate, there is a huge amount of trouble and turmoil at Microsoft on the Vista project. This blog posting makes me feel even better that I just made the switch to the Mac world.
This post is terrific:
What's the difference between OS X and Vista?
Microsoft employees are excited about OS X...
Ouch.
In this article, "Do You Yahoo?", CNNMoney.com states that Yahoo and Google have roughly the same number of visitors, but Google makes 11 times as much money as Yahoo does. Since the early days of advertising I've known that advertising on search results pages pays a lot more than advertising on content-display pages, but I've never seen it compared at 11 times higher. Here's a deeper look at the numbers.
Two recent tech news stories: Google's brain drain, and Motorola's new "social" phone, based on the Android operating system.
The Huffington Post offers four reasons that many talented people are leaving Google. While Google is losing only about 2% of their staff every year, the people they're losing are going on to be Presidents and CEOs and VPs of other companies.
After doing some shopping today, it really hit me how out-of-whack expensive some things are in the world today, especially when you put them in comparison to other products.
To that end, I compiled a short list of "liquid" items, and did the math (normalization) so we can compare everything at the same level -- in this case, the "one gallon" mark.
Here then are the costs of one gallon of various liquid items:
I was just reading the online version of the Chicago Tribune sports section this morning, and I wrote a friend that I'd probably be willing to pay a small amount to read the Trib online. I wouldn't pay very much ... maybe $1 or $2 a month ... but I grew up in Chicago, so it's nice to read deeper stories about Chicago sports than I can find without looking around harder.
I've been on vacation recently, and I'll be back to work Tuesday morning. I know I'm way behind on responding to your comments, but I promise I'll get to all of them as soon as possible. WiFi access here has been hit or miss, and I finally decided to give up until I get back.
