November 18, 2005
Links of 18 Nov. 2005
For real-time collaboration look at wiki and blog. Business Week article predicts the ratio of e-waste to legitimate email to drop from 12% to 8%
Google the largest XML database
Posted by Hazi at 10:39 AM | Comments (0)
November 03, 2005
Dick Cheney I don’t know anymore
New Yorker profile of Scowcroft is now available on-line
I have always contended Bush senior's re-election failure of 1992 was a tragedy for Middle East. Bernard Lewis has wielded too much power over US administration policy over the last 20 years and the following quote from the above article is most revealing:
Scowcroft suggested that the White House was taking the wrong advice, and listening to a severely limited circle. He singled out the Princeton Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis, who was consulted by Vice-President Cheney and others after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. Lewis, Scowcroft said, fed a feeling in the White House that the United States must assert itself. “It’s that idea that we’ve got to hit somebody hard,” Scowcroft said. “And Bernard Lewis says, ‘I believe that one of the things you’ve got to do to Arabs is hit them between the eyes with a big stick. They respect power.’ ” Cheney, in particular, Scowcroft thinks, accepted Lewis’s view of Middle East politics. “The real anomaly in the Administration is Cheney,” Scowcroft said. “I consider Cheney a good friend—I’ve known him for thirty years. But Dick Cheney I don’t know anymore.”
Posted by Hazi at 11:31 AM | Comments (0)
November 01, 2005
The latest buzz is Ruby on Rails
A few years ago I switched to scripting languages and I haven't looked
back since. I always wondered of why Java has become so popular (did
anybody buy the motto write once run anywhere). I dabbled with Python and TCL and by popular demand I started looking at PHP which I still don't understand why it has also become so in.
Programming problems still plague my life and the search for the next product making
everything easier still a life long goal. So I am going to try Ruby on
Rails and will keep a log on how things are moving in the next couple of
weeks.
Posted by Hazi at 02:34 PM | Comments (0)