I saw this on the Daily Show and got a good laugh out of it, so I wanted to make sure that this little gem of a graphic was preserved for future reference before FEMA wakes up and removes it from their website. Notice how FEMA’s six stage process for dealing with disaster actually leads [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2005
IBM Mainframe Pricing Models
9/27/2005 – 10:56 am
The pricing model for owning and operating an IBM mainframe is quite stunning. It’s probably the most lopsided pricing scheme that anybody has ever managed to sell… ever. Buyer: “Hi, I need a Ford Escort. Please sell me one” Seller : “Sure, I hear your need. Since you’re an On Demand business that must respond [...]
NY Times sends incorrect mime-type header for their OPML feed
9/27/2005 – 10:40 am
The NY Times provides an OPML feed that lists their RSS feeds, but they are currently sending the wrong Content-Type with the HTTP response: Content-Type: text/plain According to the OPML spec (and, believe me, I’m using the term “spec” loosely), the correct Content-Type should be text/xml, text/x-opml or text/html depending on what the client says [...]
Yahoo Tries to Kill del.icio.us
9/25/2005 – 2:16 pm
I bumped into Yahoo’s new My Web 2.0 service today. It’s basically their del.icio.us-like social tagging and bookmarking service. Their new UI looks… well, alright, but it’s clear that they’re miles ahead of del.icio.us in terms of bringing this idea into the mainstream. One feature of the Yahoo service is that it allows you to [...]
Flickr Sends Goofy HTTP Headers
9/24/2005 – 10:17 am
Flickr is sending the following HTTP headers when I request an image from their site: http://static.flickr.com/25/45701618_b33d84770b_s.jpg GET /25/45701618_b33d84770b_s.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host: static.flickr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Cookie: cookie_epass=9df5184c71b811e5bf1081de83e24d51; cookie_accid=16665; cookie_session=16665%3A9df5184c71b811e5bf1081de83e24d51; use_master_until=1127567132 Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-cache HTTP/1.x 200 [...]