Remix some Peter Gabriel...

You can get the samples at realworldremixed.com right now.

I did not make this one, but it is the first Shock The Monkey one that I found and it is pretty good.

So, Earth Hour is about keeping lights off...

...so why are so many people now saying that keeping your lights on is the better idea? This is an idea that appears to have originated with the Objectivists. That, by itself, is a good reason to be very skeptical and just about reject it out of hand.

Turn off the lights. Take the opportunity to prove a point. Don't derail a good concept simply because you have a crummy attitude that causes you to rebel against anything that isn't based on selfishness. I have been there. I have done that. It doesn't prove anything, beyond you being an asshole.

Earth Hour 20:30 - 21:30, Saturday, March 28, 2009

C64 Longplay - Yie ar Kung Fu

I used to play this game a lot, back about 20 years or so.

Happy Birthday says Elvis

Hot damn right!

Disney is changing things up for somebody special?

What do you think of that?

Cheesus Loves me

Good stuff.

Glen Beck is a douchebag...

So, this guy is carrying on about what Benjamin Franklin and George Washington had to say about religion.

I am left wondering why it really matters. We know that these gentlemen are pre-Darwin, so they definitely had less to work with. Sometime I will try to get something more coherent together about the idiocy of Glen Beck.

Embracing Open Source Software for the Enterprise

There are many companies out there today that are willing to embrace Open Source Software for a lot of their production services. They will run servers on them, often using Linux. They will run their web services on them, through Apache, JBOSS, and other products. They will run their instant message services through a Jabber derivative. They run production monitoring/alert systems through OSS as well, using things like Zenoss and Big Brother. However, how many really try to take this to the next level? How many run their desktops on Linux? How many put it on their laptops?

In this current environment, where businesses are trying to cut costs at every turn. Wouldn't it be better to keep more employees on the payroll in exchange for dropping Microsoft? Don't use Microsoft Office, instead opting for Open Office. I would love to see more companies going this route. A lot of people in a lot of offices think they cannot function without Windows, but they can learn something new. As long as you provide them everything they need to get their job done, they will be fine on any operating system using any kind of tools. They will learn some new transferable skills that will help them land on their feet somewhere else, should the bottom still fall out of your company anyway. Beyond that, they will be part of something new and fantastic. A company that is not paying royalty/license fees to anyone. A company that can even give back to the Open Source community via the bug reports, feature requests, etc, that an entire enterprise running OSS could provide. In house development patches, fixes, etc, could be released to the Open Source community that would help even more enterprises go down this same road. It is a win-win for everyone involved...

So why won't a large enterprise make this switch? Or have some large ones already done it, from the top to the bottom, and I just have not managed to read about it somehow?