--- title: links for 2008-01-15 date: 2008-01-15T05:21:11Z modified: 2008-01-15T05:21:11Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/14/links-for-2008-01-15/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1918 categories: - Links timestamp: 2008-01-15T05:21:11Z tags: - Links --- - [pmuellr: why couchdb](http://pmuellr.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-couchdb.html) excellent write up of why CouchDB is interesting, from pmueller. not necessarily on boad w/ the collapsing of the web server and the DB, but still, it’s compelling. (tags: [couchdb](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/couchdb) [databases](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/databases) [programming](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/programming) [apache](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/apache)) - [Enough predictions – rc3.org](http://rc3.org/2008/01/enough-predicti.php) +1 (tags: [predictions](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/predictions) [forecasting](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/forecasting) [rafecolburn](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rafecolburn) [future](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/future) [expectations](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/expectations) [accuracy](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/accuracy)) - [Ford: Car owners are pirates if they distribute pictures of their own cars at Churbuck.com](http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=1514) i wonder if CafePress did this on their own, or if Ford got involved. either way, Ford’s brand suffers. (tags: [cafepress](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cafepress) [ford](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ford) [brand](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/brand) [trademark](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/trademark) [community](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/community) [enthusiasts](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/enthusiasts)) - [Luis Villa’s Blog / wesabe ‘data bill of rights’](http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/01/14/wesabe-data-bill-of-rights/) “My intuition is that this is a really good start in the right direction for web apps; he himself notes, though, that it isn’t legally binding. They are considering doing that- will be very interesting to see that if/when it happens.” (tags: [luisvilla](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/luisvilla) [billofrights](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/billofrights) [customer](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/customer) [data](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/data) [cloud](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cloud) [webapps](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/webapps)) - [MMP » Blog Archive » Welcome to Hell](http://www.ozskier.com/mmp/?p=1622) “Just as a special advisory to everyone in this state… If you have a SUV or all wheel drive vehicle, you are not invincible” – a. men. (tags: [driving](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/driving) [suvs](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/suvs) [snow](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/snow) [winter](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/winter) [ice](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ice) [speed](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/speed)) - [Discovery News : Discovery Channel](http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/10/ants-trees-ecology.html?dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000) “It turns out that without animals eating their leaves the trees no longer bothered to take care of their ants — they reduced nectar production and made fewer swollen thorns that the ants could live in.” – who knew? even mutualism is about incentive (tags: [nature](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/nature) [science](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/science) [ants](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ants) [acacias](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/acacias) [mutalism](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mutalism) [symbiosis](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/symbiosis) [incentive](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/incentive)) - [How to Brew – By John Palmer – Contents](http://www.howtobrew.com/sitemap.html) by giving this book away online, Palmer’s pretty much ensured that when – not if – i buy texts, he’s going to be the first choice (tags: [johnpalmer](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/johnpalmer) [beer](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/beer) [homebrew](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/homebrew) [brewing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/brewing) [howto](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/howto) [reference](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/reference) [free](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/free)) - [SharePoint\_History.jpg (JPEG Image, 765×1081 pixels)](http://www.joiningdots.net/downloads/SharePoint_History.jpg) interesting visualization of the history of Sharepoint (tags: [history](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/history) [visual](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/visual) [sharepoint](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sharepoint) [via:sam](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:sam)) - [Matusow’s Blog : There are NO intellectual property rights issues with Open XML](http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmatusow/comments/7068820.aspx) fascinating. note especially the discussion in the comments. (tags: [jasonmatusow](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/jasonmatusow) [ip](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ip) [ooxml](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ooxml) [references](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/references) [standards](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/standards)) - [The truth about Rails – rc3.org](http://rc3.org/2008/01/the-truth-about.php) some pushback to the recent backlash against Rails. i tend to agree. it is really eye opening how quickly you can go from a dataset to skeleton application. (tags: [rafecolburn](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rafecolburn) [rails](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rails) [ruby](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ruby) [programming](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/programming) [extensions](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/extensions)) - [collectd – The system statistics collection daemon](http://collectd.org/) interesting systems metrics collection daemon. i hear they’ve been getting some interesting contributions of late. (tags: [collectd](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/collectd) [sysadmin](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sysadmin) [statistics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/statistics) [monitoring](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/monitoring) [linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/linux) [via:jdub](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:jdub))