Wednesday, March 20, 2002

While goofing around with my Item Template in Radio, I managed to dork it up to the point where it not only had some garbage in it, but it took forever for browsers to figure out how to render my page, making it look like the download from the Radio cloud took forever.  D'oh!  It's fixed now. 6:15:30 PM      comment [] I'm reading a great article by Noam Chomsky on the War on Drugs (thanks to Miguel de Icaza for the link).  My favorite quote so far (emphasis is mine): "There exists a very close correlation that holds over a long period of time between human rights violations and US military aid and training. It's not that the US likes to torture people; it's that it basically doesn't care." Spot on. 6:09:57 PM      comment [] more wrath from ganesh is finally back on the air!  I got off my ass and finally bought Radio; despite my cash flow issues, problems with some of the implementation decisions, and general distate for Dave Winer's attitude, I think it's a fantastic product that deserves to be supported and used. 5:02:43 PM      comment [] Ken's working on yet another badass .NET project: "ASP.NET is very interesting, but its reliance on IIS limits its usefulness. NetServ is a HTTP web server for .NET i'm working on that allows ASP.NET applications to be executed without Microsoft IIS. NetServ is built on top of Imtiaz Alam's excellent MyWebServer, using ideas from Scott Guthrie." This is, of course, exceedingly cool, and another sign both of Ken's prowess and the power of the .NET platform.  However, I have to take umbrage with the statement that "...IIS limits its usefulness."  Is this because of the security problems Microsoft's had? I'll go out on a limb and say that a properly-patched IIS system is equal to any other web server out there.  Every major security problem in IIS that's taken place has exploited holes that Microsoft had advertised patches for months previous.  I also have to say that I like using a web server that doesn't require me to learn yet another set of configuration languages to dork around in many different text files to set up.  But that's just my opinion :) 4:57:37 PM      comment []

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