This is mostly knee jerk, sarcasm, and my pessimism with Windows showing through. Take it with a grain of salt.
I don’t like Vista. That system has been a headache for me since day one. I normally build my own systems, but a local reseller had a really good deal on a system that came with Vista. I thought I’d give it a shot. I’m going to have to learn it eventually, right? Two weeks later I went back to XP. Continue reading
As always, you can see all of my Prosper coverage in one place.
Prosper P2P lending as of 10/11/2007:
15,175 loans totaling $92,772,263.54
2,229 loans are late, defaulted, repurchased, or bankrupt for a loss of $11,201,836.00
Wow…just…wow. How can this be anything but a failed model?
Stats courtesy of lendingstats.com
I was recently contacted by Packt Publishing about reviewing two new jQuery books:
The books are on their way and it will take me some time to review them. Once the reviews are posted, look for them on Amazon.com also. I’m excited to have a chance to look these over and share my thoughts. Ever since I started with jQuery I found that I could do more with less code and I can’t imagine using plain ol’ javascript anymore. At the end of the review, I’ll probably be giving the books away to a blog reader. Stay tuned!
Just a couple more weeks to the West Wind Web Connection conference in Mesa, Arizona. As with years past, the WC conference is right before the Southwest Fox conference. I can’t wait! I’ve talked to most of the attendees on the WC forums, and a few by phone, over the last few years. It will be great to finally meet them in person. I’ll be participating this year during the “show and tell” portion of the conference. I’ve built almost 50 apps now with jQuery and the Visual Foxpro/Web connection bundle. My wife Sarah is excited too. This will be her first time on a commercial airliner, ever. She is currently 13 weeks pregnant (due date is 04/06/08) with our next child, so now is a good time to travel and take a vacation before it is to late. We’re bringing lots of barf bags, should be exciting!
Media Temple, the host of SKFox.com and sixteen of my other websites, is having some scalability issues today. If things are slow or look weird, they are working on it. They do an outstanding job keeping us informed, offer a great service, and are easy to work with. Hiccups happen…