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Internet Sales Show Big Gains Over Holidays. Online retailers experienced a stellar holiday season, as stores like Wal-Mart and Target cemented their place on the Web. By MICHAEL BARBARO. [NYT > Technology]

Boutique Software. Gus Mueller, author of VoodooPad, writes a report on three years of building a small Macintosh software business. One thing he misses — or at least doesn't mention — is that the software business is seasonal: sales decline in the summer. The effect can be swamped by other factors — good news, major… Continue reading Boutique Software

Galileo begins to break US military lock on GPS Up it goes . Six non-EU nations _ China, India, Israel, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine _ have joined the program set up by the European Commission and European Space Agency, and discussions are underway with other countries to take part. Good sign that even our… Continue reading Galileo begins to break US military lock on GPS

Bush's Lewinsky Moment. While the claim that “Bush lied” has been overused, here is one you can take to the bank: Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about… Continue reading Bush's Lewinsky Moment

How to deploy a Rails application on lighttpd. James Duncan Davidson has started a great series of recipes on deploying Rails applications. In Real Lessons for Rails Deployment, he examined the different options you have and some of the pitfalls you should watch out for. In Deploying Rails with LightTPD, James goes specific and tells… Continue reading How to deploy a Rails application on lighttpd

Apache gets serious about FastCGI. Brian McCallister reports that the Apache team has decided to revive mod_fcgi as mod_proxy_fcgi with intentions of proper support for external FCGIs and a place in the core Apache distribution. This is fantastic news! Paul Querna and Garrett Rooney deserves much praise for embarking on this important quest to restore… Continue reading Apache gets serious about FastCGI

Project Shamrock. Decades before 9/11, and the subsequent Bush order that directed the NSA to eavesdrop on every phone call, e-mail message, and who-knows-what-else going into or out of the United States, U.S. citizens included, they did the same thing with telegrams. It was called Project Shamrock, and anyone who thinks this is new legal… Continue reading Project Shamrock

Let creatives be creative.  In the always amazing Creating Passionate Users, there’s a new post about micromanagement, and its effects on employee productivity. They start the post out with one of the most interesting (and true) remarks I’ve seen lately: The most important function for a manager is X = -Y, where X is employee… Continue reading Let creatives be creative

Library Firefox Plugins. Jenny Levine points us to some neat Firefox plug-ins that allow you to do library catalog searches right from the Firefox search toolbar. Nice!… [LibrarianInBlack]

Omnidrive – Online Storage Perfection. I’ve been testing Omnidrive’s very early beta product over the last few days. Omnidrive will be launching in January, 2006. I’ve spent hours with it (and previously posted a brief mention) – significantly more than I spend with most products. The reason? This is a product that I and millions… Continue reading Omnidrive – Online Storage Perfection