Widget Watch: The Rijkswidget

I'd say it wouldn't improve quality, and that one has to give credit where it is due. TUAW is a great site. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 with ASP.Net make for very good servers, so do XServe and Apache... Content rules the Internet, technology is just there to serve it !

Come on, this is one site in a big blog network, where only this weblog is aimed towards Apple users. Chances are that the Weblogs, Inc top people don't even have much interest at Apple, it's just another blog like the ones about cars or scuba diving. After all, it's the content and community around it what makes this site great. Network management of the Weblogs, Inc network shouldn't be really a care of the blog writers here, so why blame them. Ok it would be nice to have it running on a Xserve, but really, would it improve the quality of this site?

I second James' surprise at seeing that this site is served by IIS (just verified using telnet). Is that a weblogs inc standard? Phew. Something smells.

I, for one, am upset that when I got a page load error earlier from TUAW it identified the server as a Microsoft Windows IIS server. Is this true? TUAW can't use an XServe? You can't use OS X Server? You can't use APACHE? Oh, and as for paintings on my dashboard--I have the space that could be used for such dashboard applet used by an applet that gives me snowboarding pictures. That's more interesting to me. Now, if you could get one that showed works from more than one gallery (especially if said galleries were nearby so I could go see the works in question in person) I'd be interested. But really. IIS? IIS? C'mon! What self-respecting Mac site runs on Windows? Ew.