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Sunday, July 27, 2003
 I just finished Moneyball. Fascinating premise -- baseball insiders are idiots. They spend money to buy speed and drama, but money doesn't buy wins, and wins are what get you into postseason play. Instead, Oakland general manager Billy Beane hired a number-crunching Harvard grad who had never played the game, and together with information harvested by irascible pundits and fans, reinvented baseball science and then economics, with stunning results. As in the software industry, conventional wisdom that money buys power, was only true if you believed it to be true. Games were actually won by taking pitches, getting walked, not sacrificing, and resisting steal attempts. Defense matters much less than getting on base. Personal computers and then the Internet made all the difference. [Scripting News]comments < 9:06:06 AM 
>SETI@Home Publishes Skymap [Slashdot] comments < 9:04:35 AM
>Good Morning! This has to be the funniest thing I have seen in months (thanks Mark! -- that graphic is a real hoot). [John Robb's Weblog] comments < 9:03:26 AM
>Radio Free Blogistan: Robb's Law. [John Robb's Weblog] comments < 9:02:36 AM
>SFExaminer. Microsoft will spend $6.8 b a year on R&D in 2004 (they have routinely spent ~$5 b a year prior to this). Perhaps I am missing something, but I haven't seen anything new in Windows over the last 4 years that justifies this research budget. If a tenth of this budget was spent acquiring innovative ISVs (independent software vendors), we would have real improvement. Perhaps Microsoft's approach to this is like IBM's: to build a patent machine that they can use to pummel competitors. -or- Perhaps we will see these innovations in Longhorn. [John Robb's Weblog] comments < 8:59:01 AM
>Just a quick note on FTP hosting for those who haven't done it before. Here are the instructions I used to publish to my site using Radio (for those of you who know what they are doing technically, please disregard this post): First, I bought a domain at Network Solutions (cost: $75 for three years). I then used the account manager at Network Solutions to put in the location of Digital-Crocus' (my hosting company) DNS servers for the domain I just bought (Note: Network Solutions defaults to their own servers, so you need to change them): primary: ns1.digital-crocus.com and the secondary: ns2.digital-crocus.com OK, now that I did that, the new location of my domain will take 24-48 hours to percolate through the Internet's domain system. In the meantime, I published my weblog to the new location. First, using Digital-Crocus' domain manager to register my domain www.mindplex.org. I waited a bit until it showed up and then I created a subdomain: jrobb.mindplex.org I then went to my FTP preference in Radio (with Radio running click this link): http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/prefs?page=1.5 and put in the following information:
After submitting that information, I then republished my entire weblog from Radio. To do this, I right clicked on the Radio icon in the system tray (near the clock) and selected "Open Radio." Next, I selected from the menu in the application: Radio>Publish>Entire Website. I set down the computer and waited, 30 minutes later it was done. A final note: I did use Radio's category feature to publish additional category weblogs to different locations on my domain. More on how I did that later. [John Robb's Weblog] comments < 8:58:03 AM
>U.S.: 3 more troops killed [CNN: World] Did a little back of the envelope calculation on this with my an ex-military buddy of mine. The recent average of US combat related deaths in Iraq is ~2 a day right now, or ~700 a year. With ~140,000 troops in theater and ~13 to 1 tooth to tail ratio in theater (estimates vary on this ratio, Hackworth has one for the entire US military circa 1998 -- "we have 1.4 million military personnel on the books, but we have only 29,000 trigger pullers -- the indispensable rifleman who put holes in enemy soldiers."), there are 10,000 actual trigger pullers in the front line in Iraq. With 700 killed a year, that is a %7 chance of getting killed in Iraq over the course of a year. Sure, some support people are going to get killed, but the vast majority of recent casualties are among riflemen. Deaths in Vietnam were 21 a day from all causes (including accidents) over the course of 8 years with on average twice the number of men in theater. [John Robb's Weblog] comments < 8:56:20 AM
> Wired: Are you on the RIAAs black list? EFF: here's how to check. Hmmm... I wonder if this list will ever be used to deny a person Internet connectivity. [John Robb's Weblog]comments < 8:55:00 AM
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