A picked up these two links from NC Young
Anyway… Sooo, like, the first is like, this totally 80’s script which presents your site in like, 80’s valley speak. It totally messes up the stylesheet, but like, what-everrr!
The second, foo!, rewrites your darn site in BA Baracus stylee. Also messes up the darn stylesheet. Update: This second site seems to be dead now.

This story on the Linux Kernel Mailing List: The Linux Kernel and Castle Technology Ltd, UK looks like trouble brewing.

Castle Software are here.

Here’s a very interesting take on the whole ‘Peer-to-peer files sharing is costing us billions’ thing: Share and Snare.

Hunter’s company has developed software that helps content providers put their legitimate versions of material being pirated onto the file-share networks in such a way that it overwhelms the pirated versions of the same material.

“If 15 percent of the roughly 150 million people on these networks are willing to pay for the content, that’s 20 million customers,” Hunter said. “It’s foolish of any business to deny themselves the opportunity to make that sale.”

City summons 106-year-old Norwegian to start first grade at school.

Born in 1897, computers in Os township, near the west coast city of Bergen, misread the ’97’ in her birth date as 1997. Thinking her to be just six-years-old, she was sent a letter about her new school.

Thanks to Claire for the link.

I found this today; the Brick Testament. It’s a selection of stories from the bible illustrated in Lego. Pretty cool.

Some people have way too much time on their hands 🙂

I can’t report on my monthly statics for last month. 🙁 My hosting service are upgrading their stats package(s). They assure me that no data will have been lost when it finally comes on line, but in the meantime I’ve had no stats updates since the 18th.
I have managed (thanks to gzip and a cron job) capture all my log files (they are re-started daily). I think I only missed one day, so I am going to look around for a stand alone stats package which will allow me to do off-line analysis from a series of Apache log files. Maybe I’ll have some figures soon.
One rough figure: This page has had more than 49,000 page views this month! Cool!

Bad, Bad, Bad! ReferBomb

Thanks to Matt for the head up.

There is a nice article over at NewsForge called Making a Living Saving the Government Money about how a small company, Devis are making a modest profit developing large scale solutions for the US government based almost entirely on Open Source applications.

Peter Gallagher is president of devIS (AKA Development Infostructure), a Virginia-based company that designs, develops, hosts, and operates large-scale custom Internet applications for government agencies and private consultants. He says devIS saves its clients a minimum of $100,000 per contract by using Open Source Software. Gallagher also claims none of the Web sites or Web applications devIS has produced have ever been hacked. And here’s the real clincher: devIS makes money.

The devIS business model is one Open Source and Free Software proponents have been advocating for years, namely selling software services instead of selling software products.