This is a graph of the Apache.org Public Mailing lists Posts:
Every dot on there is the number of posts per month. We started with in 699 in March 1995, and now have 73,473 in the month of November 2006
I made the graph this morning with a little mod_mbox+ python + matplotlib
magic.
EDIT: See also Ken’s graphs of ASF committers and members from earlier this year. Yup. The ASF is growing, quickly.
I turned 22 years old today…..
But, here are some pictures of me, starting with 21 years ago:
I guess I didn’t understand Santa=Presents back then.
By Age 2, I wasn’t so scared:
For my 3rd Santa experience, my sister joined me:
And, by age 4 (my sister is 2), we have nice matching Sweaters:
Thanks to my Mom for digging these old pictures up.
I think there will be a post about it on the Ask.com Blog in the morning.
UPDATE: Links to first posts about AskX:
I think I missed the PR kit. Is it supposed to be “AskX” or “Ask X”?
I went to the local Target at about 5:00am this morning, and was 7th in line for the Wii. This store had 26 to release today.
Now it’s time for part two of my Wii-adventure; The search for controllers. So far every store I’ve contacted has been completely out of controllers 
I’ve proposed a new Apache Labs project: dworker.
My goal is to make it something like Brad’s gearman, but with less perl and more C. In the long run I want to add bindings to PHP and Python, (er, and Perl if someone else writes a patch), so that you could connect to it both with a scripting language client, but also write a task in a scripting language.