Lance Knobel isn’t surprised at today’s economic shakeup in the Bush cabinet. “After the smarts of the Rubin and Summers tenures in the ’90s, O’Neill’s two years of bumbling has been a particular let down. Lindsay has inspired as much confidence as O’Neill.” [Scripting News]
A farewell to arms, specifically, economic loose cannons. The only possible question that can be asked about the resignations of Treasury Secretary Paul OâNeill and White House economic advisor Lawrence Lindsey today is: what took so long? Did our president wake up this morning and say, ãThe economy is in the toilet. Guess I better do somethingä? Was that news to him? I like the New York Timesâ coverage best, including the list of OâNeillâs gaffes. ãIf you set aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good.ä Is that like saying, If you set aside unemployment, deficit spending, and recession, the economic record of the second Bush administration is really very good? [Jarrett House North]
Jeremy gets to hang with the coolest people…
Or Not?. Had dinner last night with Jim and James, the creators of HotOrNot.com at The Tied House in Mountain View. Interesting discussions about Yahoo’s former practice of assimilating other companies, weblogs, TiVo, and lots of other stuff. They’re good guys. I… [Jeremy Zawodny’s blog]
Oooh, this will make Bryan happy. Of course, the rest of us just laugh… New Mac OS X betas of Radio and Frontier. New beta releases of both Frontier and Radio UserLand for Mac OS X are now available. These releases fix a crashing bug introduced with Apple’s release of Mac OS X 10.2.2, and also include bug fixes and performance improvements for the DLL interface, thanks to Andre Radke. [Jake’s Radio ‘Blog] [Kerri Hicks’ Work Blog]
Bought a Powermac G4 earlier this week, anxiously awaiting its delivery…. and waiting.. and waiting….
Apple Store Serves Millionth Customer. Appleâs online store had its millionth customer this week. Featuring extensive build-to-order capabilities and easy 1-Click shopping, the Apple Store currently operates in 20 countries and eight languages, offering Appleâs entire product line plus third-party software and solutions. [Dec 6] [Apple Hot News]
I’m waiting on my call… 😉
US economy chiefs resign. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill and White House aide Larry Lindsey quit, in a major shake-up of the Bush economic team. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]
Tower Records Security hole – c|net – This one is really bad security flaw and the write up tells you how it happened. This is a REALLY good example of having a code review AND a set of best practices that you adhere to ABSOLUTELY…. Lots of caps there, but I think you will agree.
The problem… They had their order information form set to method=”get” and that puts the arguments into the URL. When the user saw that, they could enter different order numbers and volia! They are in another customer’s order profile.
[Matt Brown’s Radio Weblog]