Commercial loans tightening up along with the rest of the loan types means that more small biz owners are turning to credit cards for "loans". Hello 30% interest! Who needs loan sharks?

Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools' 08-09 budget request. Interesting to see how our schools plan to spend money.

This is cool: "Starting with a Chicago-area facility due to open later this year, Microsoft will use an approach in which servers arrive at the data center in a sealed container, already networked together and ready to go. The container itself is then hooked up to power, networking, and air conditioning. "The trucks back 'em in, rack 'em, and stack 'em," Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie told CNET News. And the containers remain sealed, Ozzie said. Once a certain number of servers in the container have failed, it will be pulled out and sent back to the manufacturer and a new container loaded in."

I know enough about databases to know I don't know much. Still this online database service seems to be exactly what I was looking for 10 years ago when I was trying to figure out how to use Access for my small publishing company's subscription management system. Gonna have to try it out.

Firefox extension that allows you to right click on any file and send it to google docs.