Looks like blogosphere topic of the day seems to be Amanda Congdon leaving RocketBoom. Hmm. How the heck does one link to a TechMeme article/link-collection?

She is pretty alright but, frankly, I never enjoyed her videocasts because pretty girls making funny faces all the time like Jim Carey is not attractive to me. She has talent and zillions of fans though so I think she'll land on her feet famously within days, maybe a co-starring role with Jim Carey himself. She'll have to choose between the videocasting business and the movie industry though.

I wish her luck. Update: well, after reading this I don't think she deserve any good luck wishes from me. Tsk tsk. I would also advise Scoble and Jason to stay clear because I think her irresponsible unboomed videocast will create quite a mess that could take the shine off her fame real soon.

Screw the missiles, here is something new for my son and I to try on our next camping trip! If it'll burn North Korean flags, it'll be great for lighting up firelogs.

BTW, I don't think the situation in North Korea has anything to do with communism. Kims just make crazy tyrants. I say bring on the Parks. We tend to be kinder, gentler dictators. We don't butcher with axes nor starve you to death, we just sit on your face til you suffocate.

Neko is a promising portable/tiny/fast VM which Haxe, a C/C++/C# like language, uses. Neko is plenty fast already but the next version will make it even faster with a builtin JIT. Neko uses a C-like language as well as an XML-based language for intermediate language format. For Ruby-fans, there is an ongoing ruby-to-neko compiler project.

Haxe is interesting in that its compiler can turn Haxe code into Flash file (SWF) and JavaScript as well as Neko using a mix of implicit generator and explicit library calls. I haven't look at it's dynamic generation capability though so I don't know if it can be used to generate SWF bytecode or javascript dynamically.

Current expectation is that Neko with JIT will be even faster than LuaJIT which, along with Lua 5.1, is resparking interest in Lua.

Eclipse 3.2 is out (Callisto too). Unfortunately, MyEclipse support is still at milestone 1 stage which means I can't use Eclipse 3.2 for work yet.

If we can't get network neutrality through laws, why not get it the old fashion way? What I am suggest is that, if we create a logo-program for network neutrality and educate the public, through zillions of blogs, we can influence users' choice significantly enough to force network operators into adopting network neutrality even if they are granted the right to collect fees.

IMHO, market forces are stronger than any force masses of special-interest lobbyists can muster.

Since April, my PassMark Security shares were exchanged for RSA Security shares which then lost 25% of it's value over SEC stock option grant investigation but had since recovered much of the loss. Today, I read that EMC is buying RSA Security at $28 per share which means I'll end up with EMC shares now. Hey, I kinda like this crazy M&A rollercoaster ride. Let's do it again! 😉

Quentin Clark delivered the news, wrapped in flowery non-sense. Frankly, I don't understand why they insisted on doing it the hard way, raising an entire building to add a new floor.

I am of the opinion that great teachers are as rare as geniuses and most teachers tend to do more harm than help by spoiling the joy of learning into pointless drudgery: gems of enlightments and lessons smashed into a field of useless litter. So, with my son's education, I've let him fend for himself from the start in order to force him to learn how to learn like how a mountaineer would learn how to climb, with only occasional basecamp-level advices from me.

All is well except my son didn't do so well in algebra this year. Egads. It was time for another basecamp talk. So I spent 10 minutes showing him the bareass simplicity of algebra. It's really all about nothing except common sense and tossing cowchips over fences for fun and convenience, I pounded. He seemed to take that well.

Encouraged, I spent another 10 minutes on the huge store of fun waiting to be had in mathematics. It's as fun as video games if not more, I said jumping up and down. Oh oh. I think I overdosed him this time. I'll just have to wait for the next opportunity…

Parenthood sure is hard. I am still learning.

Joe Gregorio is apparently back in the job market. If you need a smart experienced web developer, hire Joe. He doesn't need to REST. 😉

IMHO, it is natural for communities, real or virtual and small or large, to fracture over time. It doesn't really matter what, nor why, nor who causes splits and forks. The important thing is that social software needs to have built-in support for fracture. This is why I think Wikipedia should think about supporting perspectives instead of limiting 'anyone can edit' policy.

Perspectives may be just multiple views on one or more topics. Visually, perspectives can be listed textually or iconically. Perspectives done right allows unpopular perspectives to die and new perspectives to gain popularity. Popularity of a perspective could be measure by country and used as the default perspective for that country. Supporting othogonal editorial communities would work well with perspectives I think.

Note that, with perspectives, objective views can be just another perspective or thrown out entirely in favor of biased views which tend to be easier to write and, IMHO, more enjoyable to read.