Blog Stock Exchange!

Blogshares is for blogs as NYSE is for stocks. Joi Ito says:
It is a site where you can trade shares of blogs using fake money. The price is based on trading and a valuation of sorts is derived from links weighted by how valuable the links are. (Kind of like google page rank.) This price/value spread is sort of a P/E. Obviously, this fuels the "popularity content" aspect of blogging. Having said that, it's fun. I wish I could short sell blogs. ;-) It will be interesting to see whether the blog prices predict new popular blogs accurately since people should buy blogs that are new and cool but people don't know about yet.

Its so cool. Why just blogs, why not popular websites too.. Who knows, some day one might be taking future position on google.com ;-)

Give me better Error Messages!

The other day I received a message "Fatal Error". We spent quite a lot of time before we could trace out the problem to a width problem in one of the field!

A little more effort from the side of the programmer could have saved us (many like us), quite some man-hours. And that saved hours could have been used for more productive work ;)

My browser has generated errors and will close now.

looking..still not looking
Picked up Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig today. excerpt:

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go Away, I am looking for the truth,'' and so it goes away. Puzzling."

Thats a true fact, but unfortunately one realises it when its long gone and it is already too late.

What's the good word ?

Every major event in the history adds new words to our dictionary. "slacker", "no man's land","jeep", "snafu" etc. The list is endless. Snafu being my favourite which was coined during world war II stands for Situation Normal All Fucked up

Which words and phrases will Gulf War II inject into our lexicon? bloghdad (blog on baghdad) may be..

Slate article adds to it