Screaming Penguin

We haven't posted anything new here in a while, for several reasons.

First we've had some server issues that have caused difficulty (like loss of article formatting) and we've decided to look for/write a new platform for blogging. We tried a few of the common ones, but they don't seem to take to kindly to importing 5K posts. So, it's a little complicated.

A RAID mirror blew up at TotSP headquarters last week. This brought the penguin down. I had backups, and extra hard drives, so I spent a few hours on it last week. After looking at Drupal code and trying to makes heads or tails of anything logical, I ended up just kicking a big dent in the cabinet and walking away.

I'm a relative newb to Git. I like it, but I'm sure I'm still missing a lot. Anyway, I recently had to work out a way to create remote tracking branches, because I like branches, and I want them backed up and shareable. Here's how I did it, in case anyone else might find it useful (or in case anyone can let me know what I'm doing wrong and improve my workflow). (Taken from Google Doc notes I made whilst working this out.)

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Git is distributed, so there is no real “true” source. All repos are equal.

I am writing to you with a sense of dismay right now. We certainly all understand the fiscal problems that face our nation at this point in time, but recent actions by the House Appropriations Committee are deeply troubling. Specifically, zeroing out the budget for the James Webb Space Telescope.

So a number of places are reporting that HP is looking to license WebOS. Don't do it! Seriously, I think HP is way underestimated right now and their PC dominance could be a thing, but they don't need to get into licensing their OS. What they need to be doing is starting to drive specs. Get HP Touchstone on iOS and Android. Negotiate the come to jesus meeting on installable HTML5 apps with Mozilla, Google, RIM and Microsoft.

So I guess the buzz, pun intended, is about Google+. GOOG's boil the ocean, pun intended, social product code named Emerald Sea. Steven Levy has a huge write up at Wired about the product. He is a good story teller, but I think he misses the point. He misses a lot of stuff. He talks about the failure of Wave and Buzz to set the world on fire, but he misses WHY exactly. On Wave he says:

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Just because Chuck hasn't posted it yet. WTG MOVL.