Mike Little’s Journalized

Wow! I can hardly believe it but Journalized is two years old! Especially has it has been negelected for a large part of the last 12 months I am slowly getting into a state where I feel I can write here again.
In celebration there is now a ‘two years ago’ section on the left!

Twelve months ago:

• Matt and I were working on WordPress but had not released anything. There has been incredible progress since then.
• I was having trouble with my new hosting service for zed1.net. No change there then: just this month I have dumped that service for another!
• and my simple page counter had just passed the 250,000 mark. I think it will pass the 1 million mark before the end of this month!

I wasn’t going to, but I couldn’t resist! The instructions are:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence on your blog along with these instructions.

Here’s mine:

There were enough exiles, it was reckoned, to support a journal in any one of these languages, not to mention the new floods that were coming in every week.

Does anyone recognise the book? It is not the one I am reading now, but the one I finished yesterday. Yes, I know that doesn’t help.
Hat tip to Matt

Sun Enters Microsoft’s Orbit

Struggling Sun Microsystems reached a sweeping, $1.6 billion settlement with Microsoft and said Friday it plans to cooperate with its longtime nemesis, a company it had branded an unrepentant monopolist

Although I’d hardly call the agreement entering their orbit. More like agreeing to stop fighting.

“Our companies will continue to compete hard, but this agreement creates a new basis for cooperation that will benefit the customers of both companies,” said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive officer.

This, however, is beyond my comprehension:

Sun, once a shining star of Silicon Valley, also said it expects revenue for the quarter ended March 28 to be approximately $2.65 billion. The net loss will be between $750 million and $810 million, or 23 cents to 25 cents per share.

How can you take $2.65 billion in a quarter and still lose money?

Happy Birthday Carole

Lots of Love from Mike, Jan, and Jamie
XOXOX