Curious About Everything
I’ve always enjoyed reading the blog of Eric Sink, the founder of SourceGear and the creator of the AbiWord project. The latest was particularly funny, explaining why he sometimes hates technology. Reminds me of my travails - setting up such a cool, unbreakable password that I forget it in a day or two :).
Here’s wishing you all Hearty Season’s Greetings and Happy Holidays. Enjoy!
No company should be in an unenviable position that Yahoo is these days. The company is under relentless pressure from Google which seems like it can do no wrong, while Yahoo’s executive team is being re-shuffled, under ever-increasing pressure from Wall St. to do some kind of acquisition, most probably Facebook, it’s developers write sad blog posts and even it’s christmas parties suck. Boy. Bad times.
Only a few months back, maybe an year, I thought Yahoo is giving Google a good fight. It has done some excellent acquisitions like Flickr, del.icio.us, etc. Sadly, I see no focus, because Yahoo Photos still exists, and was re-vamped recently. The new Yahoo Mail Beta is hardly usable. Sigh. There’s got to be a good competitor to Google, at least to keep it from slacking off on innovation. Here’s hoping 2007 will be a much better year for Yahoo.
Apart from that, Happy Holidays, everyone!
This validates what I always felt, and keep telling to anyone who would listen: PostgreSQL is a much, much better database than MySQL. Not just performance-wise. Rails has done a lot of disservice to PostgreSQL by making MySQL the “recommended” database. I say, take back the database!
Check this out:
Spyced: Benchmark: PostgreSQL beats the stuffing out of MySQL: Jonathans Python Blog
