Catching Up With Technical Stuff, Kiddy Scripting, and Why Technorati is DEAD

Today's blog entry is a mishmash of catching up. It is dealing with technical and blogsphere issues.

In my past life as a consultant, I had been faced with a choice between web technologies for dynamic web pages. Microsoft had ASP and Sun had Java and JSP. I always chose JSP because I intuitively felt that it was more robust, had a greater richness of functionality, and was less of a memory pig than the .NET web framework.

Just the other day, my choice was validated. I navigated to an online photo directory and invoked the search function. The webserver threw this error:

If I were the webmaster, this would be highly embarrassing and a complete display of non-robustness. There is a reason why dotNet is called kiddy scripting.

Technorati is REALLY Dead, and I buried it on Cosmological Cabbage

For a long while, I monitored this blog's progress on Technorati. They were the ultimate arbitrators of blog popularity. I gained almost two million places in the blogsphere according to their rating system, and then they imploded. Today, I took off the Technorati links to Cosmological Cabbage.

A few weeks ago, when I googled my blog, I would get this listing in Google. Notice the ranking. It is 1,112,328. When you actually clicked on the link, my ranking was 1,001,xxx which meant that I would soon crack the 1 million mark in blog popularity.
Then Technorati went off the air for months. When they came back on, they lowered my ranking by a half a million places. (Remember this is like golf, the lower the score the better). This was my google search of today:

It was now 1.6 million. When I clicked on it to see how accurate it was, I got this stupid page.

This caused me to pull off all Technorati collateral off this blog. It really is dead. RIP.