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Tech Memes Without Legs

It's late after a long day, and - of course - I'm still coding.

Night is a good time to reflect, especially as you are watching the tail -f on a script you just fired off for the billionth time.

Quick notes - Tech memes without legs, so I can be on the record as incredibly incorrect:

• Twitter -- I just don't get it. Geek love; I understand. But no legs. Even the younger geeks I talk to dismiss it.


• GreaseMonkey -- Love the concept, but buying into the MS ActiveX camp: Must have X browser with Y extension installed. Nope....


• OMPL -- Dave Winer - whom I respect - is behind this all, but - as with Twitter - no one I know (geeks) get/grok/care about it


• Ruby -- Nice language, the Rails framework is nice. But...why? Slow, based on Python (which is wicked fast) and competes, basically, with PHP (FOSS and fast) and JSP (sorta OSS; compiled fast but a clunky language).

Am I totally wrong?

Of course!

Just jotting down some notes about how I feel right now.

History will judge...