Rich Sharples' Blog » Mars http://blog.softwhere.org Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:03:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tab Sweep http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/197 http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/197#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:00:03 +0000 sharps http://blog.softwhere.org/?p=197 Surely the most important Tweet of the decade :

Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!! about 2 hours ago from web

What do you do when you’ve established yourself as one of the largest, most sucessful software companies on the planet, with millions of customers who depend on your technology and billions in revenue – yeh – increase your prices. Thanks Oracle; great move; great timing.

The Mentos and Coke trick isn’t exactly new but this is a pretty funny – note this is probably dangerous – if you take one of your friend’s eyes out doing this – don’t blame me.

Beautiful visualization of an Open Source project via code_swarm.

Bill Burke is experimenting with JMS (Java Message Service) and REST – pretty interesting stuff.

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