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Friday, June 18, 2004
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} On vacation next week -- Comment()
I'll be on vacation next week, and most probably will skip updating this weblog as well. I'm sure the family has lots of ideas for keeping me busy.
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Are Windows-only web services the new trend? -- Comment()
How Microsoft Lost the API War: "[The] Web user interface is about 80% there, and even without new web browsers we can probably get 95% there. This is Good Enough for most people and it's certainly good enough for developers, who have voted to develop almost every significant new application as a web application. Which means, suddenly, Microsoft's API doesn't matter so much. Web applications don't require Windows." But many web services are written in such a way that Windows is required. For example, here in Finland a lot of public discussion has been going on about the web site of the air carrier Finnair. A representative from the company stated in the biggest Finnish newspaper that you have to use a Windows client, "because it is the standard". I wonder this is a policy decision (cut costs by serving the biggest user group), or is this just a misunderstanding about what a standard means?
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Was the man who shot Governor-General Bobrikov a terrorist? -- Comment()
I has now been a hundred years since Eugen Schauman assassinated the Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov. This even has generated discussion in Finland. Was Schauman a terrorist (cf. the actions in Iraq or Israel), or a justified nationalist getting rid of a dictator? First, some background. In 1808, Finland was conquered by the armies of Russian Emperor Alexander I. In 1898 Nicholas II appointed Bobrikov as the Governor-General of Finland. Bobrikov was both hated and feared by the Finnish population as he thought that Finland was still a foreign country that threatened Russia. Schauman worked as a clerk in the Senate in Helsinki. When Bobrikov came to the Senate house on June 16 Schauman shot him three times and then himself twice. Schauman died instantly. Bobrikov died the same night in a hospital. [Thanks to |
