Allison over at O'Reilly Radar wrote a little note to Google for the international feature.

By Allison Randal

Dear Google,

I applaud the enlightened international perspective that led you to provide your site in multiple languages and to detect a user's country and language preferences by their IP address. You'd be surprised how much French I remember from studying it as a child, and how much Dutch I can read as a result of studying Afrikaans the past 3 months. However, perhaps you should consider providing an option to change languages, or set a language preference, so your users aren't all forced to be so linguistically nimble when traveling. If there is such an option, I haven't been able to find it yet while navigating my account preferences in Dutch. I'm curious to experience Google Docs & Spreadsheets in Japanese, but maybe not that curious.

Love,
Allison

I post this as proof.  "Google guesses your language based on your IP address." and you doubted me!

Jeff Atwood over at Coding Horror is at it once more FizzBuzz: the Programmer's Stairway to Heaven In His second blog post he left out the FizzBuzz test so as not to distract his programmer brethren.  As with the last article Jeff addresses the surprisingly high ratio of weak programmers to interview candidates.

Jeff once again asserts his readers superiority

The whole point of the original article was to think about why we have to ask people to write FizzBuzz. The mechanical part of writing and solving FizzBuzz, however cleverly, is irrelevant. Any programmer who cares enough to read programming blogs is already far beyond such a simple problem. FizzBuzz isn't meant for us. It's the ones we can't reach-- the programmers who don't read anything-- that we're forced to give the FizzBuzz test to

In yesterdays post Why Can't Programmers.. Program? I thought Jeff ment if you read  programing blogs, you are competent.

I now realize Jeff is just trying not to offend his readers. 

The Moth broke the Orcas News fist.  The Orcas March CTP is available for download.

Install or VPC image

After numerous articles about MySpace's scalability it would appear the camels back broke today.

Perhaps not  the best message to great hundreds of thousands of teenagers after school. 

In the past Eric Sink has discuss the idea that there is some thing wrong with Google when his name comes up before Eric Clampton(who ever that is.)  I have to agree. I have a small blog it's just wrong that a Google search for 2008 epa estimates is the first search result.  I know there is a delicate art form to constructing a Google query to limit this noise but..  There is something flawed with the system and we need to fix it.  Maybe the search game isn't over, Yahoo, Search.MSN and Google really don't provide search results but rather link results.  I think there is still room for a new search king to emerge.

Jeff Atwood at codinghorror.com writes Programmers can't.. Program? 

In comment Jeff says

Any programmer who cares enough to read programming blogs is already far beyond such a simple problem. It's the ones we can't rerach-- the programmers who don't read anything-- that we have to give the FizzBuzz test to.

winch brings to mind.

Phillip Haack at Haacked.com response Why Can't Programmers.. Read?

Trouble is there are many Specs that are not well constructed just as there are many Developers that need a little better reading comprehension. Why this idea that blog authors and readers are some how better then others in this industry?  Where is your proof?  There are quite a few wanabes that hang around the proverbial water cooler trying to blend in because they want it.  This is the reason you see Programmers that cannot program.  Look around programing forms or myspace.  Jeff also  observed.

it's amusing to me that any reference to a programming problem-- in this case, FizzBuzz-- immediately prompts developers to feverishly begin posting solutions.

Why do "pProgrammers" feel the need to prove themselves?  Is it because any one that uses a formula in Excel can self proclame themselves a "Programer"? 

At any rate what we are left with are a group of "Programers" that can't read, can't write but are desperate to prove otherwise to the world, typicaly in the most public forum they can find!

Did I miss something when did it become popular to be a Programer?  Were's the glamor?

Take a look at Wells Fargo's next generation ATM, witch uses WPF.  Pretty cool

Microsoft's Case Study

Thanks Somasgar for pointing this out.

I have found a new low to my procrastination. I have reached the end of the Internet.

Ok people blog something I don't want EOTI as my home page for ever.

Question What is a social network? 

Google Says:

Definitions of Social Network on the Web:

• The personal or professional set of relationships between individuals. Social networks represent both a collection of ties between people and the strength of those ties. Often used as a measure of social “connectedness”, recognising social networks assists in determining how information moves throughout groups, and how trust can be established and fostered.
  www.parliament.vic.gov.au/sarc/E-Democracy/Final_Report/Glossary.htm
• refers to structural characteristics such as proximity to others, frequency of social contact and the type of relationship (eg spouse, confidant, relative, friend, group).
  www.therubins.com/geninfo/Definit.htm
• A web of interconnected people who directly or indirectly interact with or influence the student and family. May include but is not limited to family, teachers and other school staff, friends, neighbors, community contacts, and professional support.
  rrtcpbs.fmhi.usf.edu/rrtcpbsweb/glossary.htm
• A social network is a map of the relationships between individuals, indicating the ways in which they are connected through various social familiarities ranging from casual acquaintance to close familial bonds. The term was first coined in 1954 by J. A. Barnes (in: Class and Committees in a Norwegian Island Parish, "Human Relations").
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network

So what purpose does MySpace or the others with this type of social networking website format really provide that a personal blog would not?  After all those that run the Internet, you and me the small development community really isn't the whole of the Internet our Social Network?  For example take a look at what happens when Dare Obasanjo nags about functionality in Google Reader and Feed burner.  Blog Rants as Bug Reports.  So you can notice that with the advent of RSS and RSS aggregator like Google Reader our little Geekdom has cemented itself.  Developers of feedburner and Google subscribe to Dare and now their respected peer, thus they respond promptly his criticism.

I wouldn't call WordPress a Social Network but it does provide the bare free foundation.  You can start a conversation with the world add resource pages. Is there any thing missing from this equation except some one specifically telling you "you are not part of a social network called the Internet."?

Last night I asked do I really exist without any readers?  But I know I have at least three constant reader Google, MSN Search and Yahoo.  So perhaps the better question is do you really exist if you don't blog?  If you don't there is no real potential for your view points and insight to propagate through the Internet and to others in our little Geekdom.  I think blogging for Geeks is the equivalent to all of the more "Social networking" that is done in other businesses ie lunches and dinner parties.  But that's just my two since what do you think? and yes a blog with comments enabled begets conversation.

I have seen a few people point out that along with SQL 2005 SP2 there was also a update to the online book documentation.  It looks to be a nice set of documentation maybe when I have a free week I'll read through it all.

SQL Server 2005 Books Online