Hillary runs Windows 2003, for example, while Guiliani trusts his website to a CentOS+Apache install. An exception seem to be Barrack Obama and C. Todd, who are the only ones to run FreeBSD on their webservers.
The percentage difference between Linux/Apache (48%) and Windows/IIS (43%), seems to reflect the Internet not too badly (which is about 50% Apache vs. 35% IIS), but when you look at the two parties, there is a much more clear bias:
It’s fascinating to me that the Dems are predominantly Open Source… except for Hillary Clinton and the Republicans are predominantly Microsoft with the exception of Ron Paul, Jim Gilmore, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney.
I wonder what makes Republican candidates go so strongly for closed source products, but I’ll leave this up to your speculations .
When I look at the hosting companies, I don’t recognize many names — only one came to sight: Republican candidate Jim Gilmore gets his Linux box from 1&1 Internet, Inc., a subsidiary of 1 und 1, one of Germany’s largest internet companies who have big facilities in my university town Karlsruhe. /me waves from here.
Will this knowledge influence where the average geek’s makes their cross on the ballot? Probably (or rather, hopefully) not. Yet it is interesting to see what technologies the candidates trust into. Now I’d only like to find out which browser they are using. But this will likely remain unresolved forever…
Johnny Lee from CMU shows off a low-cost digital whiteboard built from a WiiMote and a pen with an infrared tip.
I so want this (hint, hint, readers looking for a Christmas present ). Also, if I was still on-site, I’d absolutely volunteer to build one of these for Mozilla
Heute rief eine Frau im Auftrag eines großen deutschen Autobauers an.
Das Gespräch lief in etwa so:
Anruferin: Hallo, mein Name ist Valentina Winter (Name geändert) von (Name der Firma). Kann ich mit der Dame des Hauses sprechen?
Ich: Die ist bei der Arbeit; kann ich was ausrichten?
V.W.: Spreche ich mit dem Ehemann oder dem Sohnemann?
Ich: Mit ihrem Sohn.
V.W.: Wann kommt die Mama denn wieder?
Ich: Das kann Ihnen der Sohnemann nicht sagen. Da müssen Sie nochmal anrufen. Auf wiederhör’n.
Sprachs und legte auf…
Lieber großer Autobauer. Ich weiß ja nicht, was ihr euren Callcenter-Mitarbeitern so beibringt. Aber bei einem bin ich mir ziemlich sicher: Einen mittzwanziger “Sohnemann” nach seiner “Mama” zu fragen ist nicht gerade eine Strategie, die die Seriösität Ihres Unternehmens unterstreicht.
Den unbändigen Wunsch, eines Ihrer Autos zu kaufen, hat das jedenfalls nicht in mir hervorgerufen.
It seems to me like some people have a little too much time at their hands: I recently notice a bunch of hand-crafted spam coming in to my blog, mainly as comments to the famous (infamous?) cake article.
The comments look something like this:
Some hand-crafted wordpress spam, notice how the comment makes sense but the supplied URL is quite apparently promoting spam content.
Interestingly, most of these comments actually link to pages that promote some sort of shady pyramid scheme. Looks like these people desperately surf the web searching for well-visited blog posts and drop spam in there — by hand.
Yet, even if they manage to get through comment moderation, they are not likely to squeeze any “search engine juice” out of it, since Wordpress marks commenters’ homepage links as nofollow by default.
And though I would like to tell them they can save their keystrokes and that they are wasting their time (and, more importantly, mine too), I can probably drop that, since chances are, none of these people will ever actually read the blogs they are spamming…
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