vacuum cleaner
Vacuum Cleaner - Gartner reports that companies have wasted one billion dollars since 1998, on high-end java application server capabilities that they didn’t need. One billion seems like a lot, but I think Gartner is being conservative.
We spent the day today in Vancouver B.C.’s Chinatown. Food, shopping, and there was some sort of festival going on outside the “Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Classical Garden”. I like to visit this garden, particularly for their bamboo groves. They have a large grove of purple bamboo — depending on the time of year, stage of growth, and weather, the stalks will appear purple or black. Today they were black. Tomorrow morning is dim-sum at Noble Court. Check out the citysearch user reviews. Comparing to the reviews at seattleinsider, and firsthand experience that Noble Court has the best chicken feet in Seattle, it looks like some heavily-skewed person is poisoning the metadata on the citysearch site. Could it be a competitor? Or maybe someone trying to reduce the time he has to wait for a table on weekends (obviously ignorant of the fact that he could get his party on the list early to bypass the lines)? Yet another examaple of how much work needs to be done before we can fully appreciate the benefits of a globally distributed metadata sharing network.