Happy Holidays

Okay, it's late. But Merry Christmas!!!

Also, Happy New Year!!!

John Spencer (12/20/46 - 12/16/2005)

Nice Memoriam to John Spencer (Leo McGarry) over at westwingnews...

I am truly sorry for his friends and family... The wacked out west wing fanatic in me wondered immediately what they were going to do with the show, with him being the VP candidate and all. It seems to wrong to think that, however, I did anyway...

I'm a man...

I never doubted my masculinity (I can even wear pink without worry), but to others who may occasionally question my manhood (because of the aforementioned pink shirts)... this test proves my manliness. Any more questions?

Blame Scott at Transformatum for me taking this test...

Masculine You scored 93 masculinity and 40 femininity!

You scored high on masculinity and low on femininity. You have a traditionally masculine personality.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 97% on masculinity You scored higher than 8% on femininity

Link: The Bem Sex Role Inventory Test written by weirdscience on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Open Source Software

I occasionally use and enjoy open source products... But I can't stand the sanctimonious bull **** of open source zealots. In their opinion everything should be free... seriously, this is still a capitalist economy. I hope they only own stock in companies that don't own any intellectual property, because heaven forbid someone actually make money for their hard work and IP.

I wrote a comment on David Coursey's blog on e-week in response to the assisine statements by some of these idiots, below is my comment (which basically represents my utter disgust with these communists):

I love reading the comments when anyone at eweek actually writes an article that has a slight notion of not bashing microsoft. In a previous comment someone said it was "immoral" for microsoft not to use a public standard. This is ludicrous. I've taken my business ethics classes and holding onto intellectual property that has become a de-facto standard and industry leader is a sound business practice.

Why would MS care if other office software packages do or do not work with Office? If 90%+ people are using it, what's their incentive for using an open standard? So the people who don't buy their product can view / edit office documents? Why should they give away their advantage. This is still a capitalist economy and if someone comes out with a vastly superior and groundbreaking office suite (and don't tell me openoffice or star office are either of those, I've used them and they aren't) they will start taking market share from MS and maybe then will a open standard become a larger issue.

Firefox is the perfect example of a superior product that is rapidly being adopted right now. MS isn't agile enough to respond to it yet and they are losing their market dominance in the browser wars.

I use some open source products (and other open standards as well) and enjoy it. However, the world market is just that a "market". Things are to be bought and sold... All you open source zealots enjoy building free software and see how long you can pay the mortgage in doing so... Personally, I'm working on software that gets me paid.