Mental notes to myself

I’ve read this interesting email conversation between a recruiter and an engineer.
I loved this guy. Good thinking.
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It seems like del.icio.us is suffering from failing harddrives :).
Excuse the smiley but it seems that because of a power shortage it’s a total shame to take a site like del.icio.us down.
Maybe they would have invested in some redundency.

Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. We’ve taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything. I apologize and hope to have this resolved as soon as possible. Thank you for your continued patience.
Updates will be posted on our blog as we have them.

It is reported that entertainment media groups are accepting Blu-Ray.

slashdot reports

It’s said that MySQL 5 production version will be out on November.

Kim Goodwin’s nice article about killing a design reminded me that these analysis can be applied to any kind of software project.

Here is the killer 10:
1. Poor choice of pilot project
2. Not having one consistent project owner
3. Incomplete design or insufficient design communication
4. Not getting buy-in from top executives
5. The wrong people doing design
6. Not committing resources to design
7. Failure to separate innovation from renovation
8. The inmates are running the asylum
9. Unrealistic expectations
10. Unhealthy corporate culture

read the rest here: link

MySQL 5.0 RC is out. It’s so exciting for me to say that because waiting 3 years for MySQL 5 and finally we have an RC.

Wow. I wonder when the prod version will be out. They better release it soon.

TCPA: Trusted Computing Platform Alliance is defining what is trusted computing.

Here is another point of view Trusted Computing in this video.

Watch the video and decide if you like to take control of your computer in terms of trusting…

also : What is tcpa?

Update: Official page for the video

TCPA: Trusted Computing Platform Alliance is defining what is trusted computing.

Here is another point of view Trusted Computing in this video.

Watch the video and decide if you like to take control of your computer in terms of trusting…

also : What is tcpa?

1 and 1 is now offering $5.99 domain names for .com , .net, .org, .us, .info and .name
also .biz and .ws at $8.99, .cc at $19.99 and .tv at $29.99 and amazingly includes free domain privacy. You can registrer your domain privately.
It also includes

It seems they are trying hard to compete with GoDaddy and Yahoo!

Here is Link: 1 and 1

Joel has a nice article about recruiting programmers

How to attract people to your business:

1. Make the workplace attractive
2. Eliminate obstacles
3. Provide benefits which are more valuable than the money they cost

More here