“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
— The Continental Congress, July 4, 1776
“The task of statesmanship has always been the re-definition of these rights in terms of a changing and growing social order.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commonwealth Club Address, 1932)
“Roosevelt was wrong! The principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence are the principles of individual liberty. Our unalienable rights, given to us by God are given to us as individuals. Our rights do not come from society or the government, and they cannot be redefined by politicians. The nature of these rights carries with it the implication of individual responsibility, without which we surrender them.”
— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008
The problem with mashups
Published Sun, Jun 3 2007 1:08 PM
Technorati Tags: Computers and Internet, Software Development
The weather pages are currently down... again because I am using a third party service that has gone on the fritz. 
I use Terraserver to look up location names by geographic coordinates, and geographic coordinates by location names. Currently they are having problems with their database connections. Since I rely on their service my weather pages are down.
The last time the weather pages were down was because the National Weather Service had bandwidth problems on their ndfdXML web services and had shut them down. Now it's the other service I use.
I've seen two or three hits on the weather pages per hour failing because of this problem. It looks like its time to work on a failover plan...
Update: The Terraserver database seems to be back online. The weather pages are once again functioning normally.
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