NetNewWire now has 5061 unread items and counting. And it’s randomly dropping read items despite my protestations (preferences set to not delete). non-suck RSS reader is definitely moving up the priority list.
- Matt Webb comments on ‘Normalization is for sisses’ – unnormalized data is typially for masochists, but that’s b/c data management tools (read: rdbms) are too brittle. Now if we had some efficient way to make those structures more late-binding/morphable…
- Firefox is on the move – must run stats on campus soon. My Mozilla stats have been going down on my blog, but recently lots more ‘normal’ people have been dropping by
- The Descent of the American Empire
The American military is without equal. That sounds good, until you realize that a massive military without an equal means you have an irrelevant army. America is building a missile defense system after being attacked with domestic civilian aircraft. America sees the world in need of policing, while the world sees America as something from which you should protect yourself.
Insightful, although (and this makes his statements more telling before), as a nit, bush has been pushing his Faith-Based Missile Defense program since he came into office, before 9/11