Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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interesting post about FastCGI and SCGI and why they might be better than mod_php/perl/blah. I think it actually makes a stronger case for application servers than it does FastCGI, but this guy makes several good points. (this comes up often when discussing why Ruby may not be ready for high-traffic sites)
March 6th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Note that making a stronger case for app servers was sort of my intention.
On the Ruby front, Mongrel looks very promising, BTW.
March 6th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Ah, well then, I guess I passed the test.
Thanks for writing this, it really got me thinking about this stuff a bit differently.