A better architecture for blogging
Radio/Manila DB -> XML-RPC -> XML Parser -> CRSValue -> CMsg
Finally a better way:
CMsg -> CMsg
Three simple tests can diagnose a stroke
How to Recognize a Stroke
This might be a lifesaver if you can remember the following advice, sent by a nurse, whose husband is a medical doctor.
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. A stroke victim may suffer permanent brain damage when people fail to recognize what’s happening. Now, doctors say any bystander can recognize a stroke, simply by asking three questions:
ask the individual to smile.
ask him or her to raise both arms.
ask the person to speak a simple sentence.
If he or she has trouble with any of these tasks, call 911 immediately, and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher. Researchers are urging the general public to learn to ask these three questions quickly, to someone they suspect of having a stroke. Widespread use of this test could result in prompt diagnosis and treatment of a stroke, and prevent permanent brain damage.
The future of software licensing
IDC: Software vendors chart licensing sea change. Software makers are moving toward subscription-based licensing, as changing demands from customers dictate a shift from the paradigm of a one-time sale with upgrades, says a research report. Some 43 percent of the 100 software vendors polled by IDC believe subscription licenses will represent the majority of sales in six years time. [CNET News.com]
[via Scott Young]
If you were going to sell software for say $40 and offer free upgrades, you could instead sell the software for $27.50 and have the software require a new license after 18 months. Sacrificing some short-term revenue for long-term revenue.
Some users may like this, others won’t. Perhaps you will always have to offer multiple choices.
Preventing popups using IE
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Political contribution maps
Neighbor Search can tell you who’s giving, who’s getting and how much. [Via Dan Gillmer]
Cheny on Terrorism and Kerry
“The terrorist enemy holds no territory, defends no population, is unconstrained by rules of warfare, and respects no law of morality. Such an enemy cannot be deterred, contained, appeased, or negotiated with. It can only be destroyed – and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the business at hand”
in twelve months… Saddam went from palace, to bunker, to spider hole, to jail
Spain’s capitulation to terrorism
“Maybe the Socialists will get our troops out of Iraq, and Al Qaeda will forget about Spain, so we will be less frightened.” -A Spanish person who changed his vote at the last second’