--- title: links for 2008-03-05 date: 2008-03-05T05:18:12Z modified: 2008-03-05T05:18:12Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/03/04/links-for-2008-03-05/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1982 categories: - Links timestamp: 2008-03-05T05:18:12Z tags: - Links --- - [Who are these models and what have they done with Steve Ballmer? | The Social – CNET News.com](http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9884976-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial) “Oh, well–thanks for the invite and the free Stella Artois, Microsoft. I had a decent time, and I know you guys in Redmond like to put on a big spectacle, but seriously it’s OK to invite nerds to parties. We’re very social, honestly.” (tags: [microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/microsoft) [launch](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/launch) [party](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/party) [event](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/event) [carolinemccarthy](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/carolinemccarthy)) - [Inside the Box » Blog Archive » Swapping the Bay Device on a ThinkPad X300](http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=139) “Linux support? The team is studying this.” – if you guys want help with this, you know where to find me. (tags: [linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/linux) [x300](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/x300) [thinkpad](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/thinkpad) [lenovo](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/lenovo)) - [rc3.org — Neutral Milk Hotel](http://rc3.org/2008/03/02/neutral-milk-hotel/) Rafe’s right: this album is tremendous (tags: [intheaeroplaneoverthesea](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/intheaeroplaneoverthesea) [neutralmilkhotel](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/neutralmilkhotel) [music](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/music) [rafecolburn](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rafecolburn)) - [The Adoption-Led Market \[on Simon Phipps, SunMink\]](http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/the_adoption_led_market) why volume is important. really could have done without the bats, though. i hate bats. (tags: [adoption](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/adoption) [volume](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/volume) [ubiquity](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ubiquity) [software](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/software) [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics)) - [The Sun is going to shine on Python at Ted Leung on the Air](http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/03/03/the-sun-is-going-to-shine-on-python/) congrats to Ted. very interested to see what he and the rest of Tim’s dynamic language rangers can drive within Sun (tags: [tedleung](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/tedleung) [sun](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sun) [python](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/python) [hiring](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hiring) [dynamic](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/dynamic) [languages](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/languages) [jython](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/jython)) - [What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? – WSJ.com](http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120425355065601997-7Bp8YFw7Yy1n9bdKtVyP7KBAcJA_20080330.html) this explains a lot about MySQL’s success… (tags: [finland](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/finland) [intelligence](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/intelligence) [children](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/children) [education](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/education) [family](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/family) [culture](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/culture)) - [Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books – New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/business/media/03audiobook.html?ex=1362286800&en=532c5990a945bffd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss) ” ‘Our feeling is that D.R.M. is not actually doing anything to prevent piracy,’ said Ms. McIntosh of Random House Audio.” – finally (tags: [drm](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/drm) [audiobooks](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/audiobooks) [piracy](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/piracy) [publishing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/publishing) [books](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/books) [amazon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/amazon) [randomhouse](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/randomhouse) [barnesandnoble](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/barnesandnoble)) - [When Will We Have Our First Valleywag Suicide?](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/02/when-will-we-have-our-first-valleywag-suicide/) a good question to ask. really wish media in every industry could take a few steps back regarding personal privacy and boundaries. (tags: [privacy](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/privacy) [blogs](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/blogs) [internet](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/internet) [siliconvalley](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/siliconvalley) [startups](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/startups) [techcrunch](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/techcrunch) [valleywag](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/valleywag) [culture](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/culture)) - [Google’s Engineering Philosophy](http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/googles-engineering-philosophy.html) interesting look at the guiding engineering principles (tags: [agile](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/agile) [code](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/code) [methodology](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/methodology) [process](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/process) [programming](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/programming) [engineering](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/engineering)) - [Me](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803315_pf.html) “A couple comes in…and they ask me, ‘Are we happy enough?’ Somebody’s at a job they like, but are they successful enough? People have to make that choice…Advertising constantly creates the notion that whatever we have is not enough.” (tags: [advice](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/advice) [culture](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/culture) [entitlement](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/entitlement) [happiness](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/happiness) [me](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/me) [selfish](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/selfish) [psychology](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/psychology) [materialism](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/materialism)) - [Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Rumor: Microsoft set for vast data-center push](http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/03/rumor_microsoft_1.php) this isn’t what we got, really, but it’s still interesting. certainly this is where i think Microsoft has to go. (tags: [nicholascarr](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/nicholascarr) [cloud](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cloud) [computing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/computing) [data](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/data) [datacenter](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/datacenter) [microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/microsoft)) - [BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The Times better change](http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/01/the-times-better-change/) not my industry, but interesting thoughts on what the Times should do. a bit rough on the Globe, however, which is my paper. (tags: [advertising](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/advertising) [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics) [journalism](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/journalism) [newspapers](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/newspapers) [newyorktimes](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/newyorktimes) [bostonglobe](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/bostonglobe)) - [Social Media 201 at Churbuck.com](http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=1573) very difficult questions indeed, hinging as they do on personal responsibility, accountability and anonymity (tags: [socialmedia](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/socialmedia) [davidchurbuck](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/davidchurbuck) [interaction](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/interaction) [community](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/community)) - [Innovation comes cheap, says Google engineer Kevin Marks | The Social – CNET News.com](http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9883792-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial) solid interview with a Google engineer (tags: [carolinemccarthy](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/carolinemccarthy) [innovation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/innovation) [google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/google) [engineer](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/engineer) [kevinmarks](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/kevinmarks)) - [Microsoft expands hosted software offering for business | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-03 | By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service](http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/03/Microsoft-expands-hosted-software-offering_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/03/Microsoft-expands-hosted-software-offering_1.html) “Microsoft is trying not to alienate existing customers paying for what some call a pricey insurance plan, called Software Assurance…Microsoft is offering Online Services at a discount for those who pay for Software Assurance. “ (tags: [microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/microsoft) [saas](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/saas) [exchange](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/exchange) [hosted](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hosted) [sharepoint](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sharepoint) [via:cote](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:cote)) - [GigaOm Launches Ostatic Resource For Open Source Community](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/03/gigaom-launches-ostatic-resource-for-open-source-community/) appreciate the pointer from Arrington – too kind (tags: [michaelarrington](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/michaelarrington) [redmonk](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redmonk) [gigaom](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gigaom) [ostatic](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ostatic)) - [Ajaxian » Firefox 3 Performance Numbers](http://ajaxian.com/archives/firefox-3-performance-numbers) i love browser competition. also, Firefox 3.0 performance (mostly). (tags: [browser](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/browser) [firefox](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/firefox) [performance](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/performance) [speed](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/speed) [stats](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/stats) [webkit](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/webkit) [ie](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ie)) - [nanocr.eu » Blog Archive » Air in Barcelona](http://nanocr.eu/2008/03/04/air-in-barcelona/) Jon likes his MacBook Air, but negatively compares it to Thinkpads in a couple of cases (tags: [thinkpads](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/thinkpads) [macbook](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/macbook) [air](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/air) [dvdjon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/dvdjon)) - [Is H-Store the future of database management systems? — Too much information](http://blogs.the451group.com/information_management/2008/03/04/is-h-store-the-future-of-database-management-systems/) part of the future of OLTP, maybe, but dbms, generally? i don’t see it, based on the workload volumes. (tags: [oltp](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/oltp) [h-store](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/h-store) [dbms](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/dbms) [451group](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/451group) [matthewaslett](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/matthewaslett)) - [Open Parenthesis » Fluid – like Prism, but webkit based (Mac OS X only)](http://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/04/fluid) very interesting. as i said above, i love browser competition. (tags: [webkit](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/webkit) [fluid](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/fluid) [prism](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/prism) [mozilla](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mozilla) [browser](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/browser) [ria](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ria)) - [On-time arrivals up at DIA – The Denver Post](http://www.denverpost.com/ci_8450577?source=rss) “Among airlines, United Airlines ranked No. 20 for on-time arrival performance with 62.1 percent of flights arriving on time in January, lowest among the carriers ranked. ” – i am 100% not shocked by this news (tags: [united](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/united) [dia](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/dia) [denver](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/denver) [ontime](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ontime) [flying](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/flying) [airlines](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/airlines)) - [eMusic making good money from back catalog](http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080304-emusic-making-good-money-from-back-catalog.html) “The audiobooks were watermarked and Random House monitored file-swapping networks for evidence that eMusic customers were swapping the material. They found almost no piracy, something that Pakman attributes to targeting an older audience.” (tags: [emusic](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/emusic) [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics) [longtail](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/longtail) [mp3](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mp3) [music](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/music) [drm](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/drm) [audiobooks](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/audiobooks)) - [SourceForge.net: Open Discussion](http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1957777&forum_id=626697) have an open inquiry to IBM on the subject now (tags: [solid](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/solid) [storageengine](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/storageengine) [mysql](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mysql) [inmemory](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/inmemory) [ibm](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ibm) [via:matt](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:matt)) - [State of the Computer Book Market, part 4 — The Lanugages – O’Reilly Radar](http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/03/state-of-the-computer-book-mar-22.html) never authoritative, but always interesting (tags: [oreilly](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/oreilly) [programming](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/programming) [statistics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/statistics) [trends](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/trends) [javascript](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/javascript) [php](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/php) [c#](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/c#) [java](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/java)) - [Creating rich Internet applications on Linux with WebKit](http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080303-creating-rich-internet-applications-on-linux-with-webkit.html) “We noted that [AIR’s] lack of support for exposing native libraries…imposes serious limitations on scalability. Using embedded WebKit components in native GTK and Qt applications is an approach that offers more flexibility and permits broad use of nati (tags: [gtk](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gtk) [programming](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/programming) [qt](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/qt) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [air](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/air) [adobe](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/adobe) [cross-platform](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cross-platform) [native](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/native)) - [xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe](http://xkcd.com/323/) programming skill as a function of B.A.C: comedy (tags: [humor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/humor) [xkcd](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/xkcd) [programming](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/programming) [microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/microsoft) [windows](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/windows) [me](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/me) [alcohol](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/alcohol)) - [Page 4 – Adobe Floating on AIR](http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Adobe-Floating-on-AIR/3/) “With the applications on top, I think we can really help with AIR and bring a lot of applications to Linux where people developing those apps will not even expect that they will run on Linux, but it will just work.” – assuming that AIR for Linux is avail (tags: [linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/linux) [air](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/air) [adobe](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/adobe) [kevinlynch](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/kevinlynch) [darryltaft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/darryltaft)) - [Capturing The Demand Curve « Cheaper than therapy](http://benjaminlipman.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/capturing-the-demand-curve/) good piece on NIN’s economic model for it’s release (tags: [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics) [music](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/music) [drm](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/drm) [nin](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/nin) [trentreznor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/trentreznor) [via:david](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:david)) - [Do Not Buy: Anti-Shark Device Eaten by Irony-Loving Great White](http://gizmodo.com/363620/anti+shark-device-eaten-by-irony+loving-great-white) i’ve yet to see an effective shark repellent of any kind: electronic, chemical, or otherwise. about the only things that are effective are cages, which are a bit unwieldy. (tags: [antishark](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/antishark) [shark](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/shark) [device](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/device) [gizmodo](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gizmodo))