http://thebitt.com Thinking about things Fri, 16 May 2008 05:36:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have long wanted to see some benchmarking about state spending and taxes.  Does California spend more or less than other states?  What do we spend our money on and how does it compare to other states?  In business you benchmark, in government you obfuscate. The reason I had to look ... http://thebitt.com/2008/05/15/spending-or-revenue-whats-the-problem-with-californias-government/ Obama lost to Clinton tonight in PA. The post election discussion by the candidates is most interesting. I got this email (see below) from the Obama campaign tonight with th subject "What this means". This email came from Barack himself, not one of his campaign guys. He ... http://thebitt.com/2008/04/22/what-this-means/ Mobile post sent by alexnesbitt using Utterz.  Replies.  mp3 http://thebitt.com/2008/04/20/hanging-out-waiting-for-next-game/ Mobile post sent by alexnesbitt using Utterz.  Replies.  mp3 http://thebitt.com/2008/04/19/soccer-in-san-bernardino-game-1/ I just got this in an an email this morning. It's a welcome development. Dear Amazon EC2 Developer, Many Amazon EC2 customers have been requesting that we let them know ahead of time about features that are currently under development so that they can better plan for how that functionality might ... http://thebitt.com/2008/04/14/amazon-ec2-persistence-on-its-way/ There is some interesting discussion going on about Google's new App Engine and Amazon's EC2 service. Both of these services let you run web sites up in the cloud. This from Brad Feld is a good run down on the two services. 1. The Google App Engine Q&A - an in-depth ... http://thebitt.com/2008/04/14/google-app-engine-and-amazons-ec2-compared/ Kobe jumps over a speeding car - amazing, but stupid and irresponsible for someone with his fan base. Even if it's fake, which it probably is, how many kids see if they can do it too and get hurt or worse trying? One dead kid and all the ... http://thebitt.com/2008/04/11/kobes-stunt-is-stupid-and-irresponsible/ The TechCrunch/Popsugar event last night was good fun. I liked the way the integrated demos around the room. It gave everybody something to do in addition to chatting and drinking. I'm sure it took a lot of work to put together so thanks to Techcrunch and Popsugar ... http://thebitt.com/2008/04/11/techcrunch-parties-with-popsugar/ Just for kicks I thought I would see what Google, Yahoo and MS search sites would reveal when I typed in their respective names and the work sucks. Google was probably the most even treatment. Yahoo seem to have a lot of results from Yahoo sites. MS takes the ... http://thebitt.com/2008/03/28/microsoft-sucks-is-the-best/ Robert Scoble describes some "real roadblocks to data portability". He makes some good points that may make it challenging to implement automated data portability. In short he says, So, the story is, doing the simplest of data portability (for instance, making all systems understand when I changed my email address) is ... http://thebitt.com/2008/03/26/we-need-a-data-portability-feed/