Some shorts for the end of the year:
- The Telecom Riot Act of 2004 — 29 Reasons To Not Celebrate The 20th Anniversary Of The Baby Bells
- The State of the Economy as seen through eBay auctions and trends — summary: If there’s a recovery on, we’re not seeing it…
- According to my 2004 Farmer’s Almanac, sunrise will be at 7:14am here with the tide still high, and the FBI will now be eying me more suspiciously. Yes they actually released a warning brief to their offices and police nation wide that almanacs are a probable terrorism tools and to “watch for suspects carrying almanacs, especially if they include suspicious notations or marks.” Add all that to the fact that I am a library card carrying, scuba-certified veteran….
- WikiPedia the excellent online open encyclopedia –along with it’s spin-off projects are in financial need. There have been some outages recently caused mainly by the fact that they have no spare hardware to cope with routine failures. As with any similar system, when a failure occurs the load on the rest of the system increases and as their system is already heavily taxed, results in cascading failures. WikiMedia is looking to raise at least $20,000 to get new hardware so they can continue their growth and provide redundancy in the system. This is a great resource that I use on average every other day. WikiMedia is a Non-Profit organization and appears to qualify any donation as tax deductible, although of course IANALFAOTABSOMFAFA(I Am Not A Lawyer, Financial Adviser or Tax Adviser But Some Of My Friends And Family Are)
