Hixie on Pingback vs Trackback
Hixie's Natural Log: Whitepaper: Pingback vs Trackback... Yet another thing to read soon and contemplate.
Ferry Sinks :-(
AP: Ferry Sinks, Over 760 Believed Dead. Absolutely tragic. It sunk in 3 minutes. I don't see any ferry safety procedures working with essentially 20-30 seconds to get working in full gear, flawlessly.
Great article! BW on the Bush Doctrine
Bruce Nussbaum, Business Week: Bush Is Half Right on Foreign Policy -- The President's national security report to Congress asks good questions but offers the wrong answers -- and the wrong attitude
My apologizes for the long quote. This isn't even the best part of this essay but it's the part that echos (more clearly than I have put it) what I am concerned about.
The notion of conditional sovereignty, introduced by the National Security Strategy paper, may undermine stability as well. Since the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, the sovereignty of states has been sacrosanct. There is international agreement that nations are open to attack only when they do something that threatens or harms others. Under the Bush Doctrine, however, nations that simply amass weapons of mass destruction forfeit their sovereignty.
Iraq, of course, is the first example of this policy. Its case is relatively clear, having violated no fewer than 19 U.N. resolutions to disarm. But who is the second? And what about nations whose citizens help finance terrorism, such as Saudi Arabia? The rules are fuzzy."
This is exactly what I've been talking about over the last week! I also like his conclusion, that if the document wasn't so unclear, a lot of concern would be eliminated and the world could work together on this rather than have duel (and dueling) strategies in the world for security and peace.
Oracle in high schools
I chatted with a teacher at Phoebus High School in Hampton, VA this evening. She teaches database design as part of the Oracle Internet Academy program there.
It was amazing to learn about what they're doing at the high-school level there. If you're 25+ years old right now and employed in the software industry... you better watch your back bub, because these kids are going to crush us.
I suggest you spend as much time as you can learning new technologies, studying software engineering, and computer science theory. Without strong skills in those areas, you're going to be competing with 20-year-olds for work soon.
And people say a CS degree is not needed. Maybe not today, but the CS degree you could have gotten is tomorrow's high school major!
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