The Hottest Tee Shirt in Town -- Gone

Microsoft launched Windows 7 at the technology conference that I spoke at last week. I picked up the hottest tee shirt in town for geeks. It was a bit wrinkled. Was that an omen?

Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to test drive Windows 7. I was stuck in the speakers hall and didn't make it to the workshop on Win7 and what it can do for me. I can tell you one thing. I am no fan of Vista. It has been problematic for me as a developer machine since I got it. I still prefer to do my real technical stuff on XP.

So I get this tee shirt, and I wear it out for an afternoon of shopping. The tropical heat and humidity made the wrinkles fall out. I put it on the butler in the bedroom. The other day, I was going out casually and I thought that I would wear it again before I had to wash it. The tee shirt has disappeared.

I know for a fact that it hasn't left the house. Nobody touched it, as the Lovely One was travelling to Paris and back to Canada. It is strange. But then again, I have used Microsoft Windows for a long time, and I am used to things just disappearing. Once again, Microsoft comes through in fine fashion.

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.