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Compounding the problem is that Michigan is the only state to levy a de facto value added tax on its businesses. (That’s another similarity to Old Europe.) Called the Single Business Tax (SBT), this levy is applied to production. This means that any company that loses money or just manages to break even still often pays a hefty sum to the tax man just for the privilege of operating in Michigan. Hence, many don’t.

Change the Michigan tax law, please. For now any other corporations I start are going to be based in Nevada where there is no corporate tax. As an added benefit:

Your name never needs to appear on any public record relating to a corporation over which you might exert pretty much complete control, if only as the “whisper in the ear” of the Board of Directors.

I’m attempting to put together a series of web service versioning patterns. So far I have:

• No Version Pattern: Screw versioning!
• Namespace Pattern: For each version change the namespace.
• Version Parameter Pattern: Make the user submit the version of the service they’re accessing.
• New Endpoint Pattern: For each version create a new endpoint.

Please read, add, change, comment, etc! Next up, I’ll be writing about how to implement these patterns using XFire.

On a lark, I’ve booked tickets to Paris next week for March 30th to April 6th via a steal of a deal on AirFrance. Meghan and I will be going together. We picked up the Rick Steve’s book yesterday and we’re thorougly excited. Yay!

Nature just launched connotea. “Organise your references. Share them with others. Discover new leads.” Basically its del.icio.us for biologists. Its pretty neat. When you bookmark a piece of literature it will find the DOI, PubMed ID, original journal, page number, etc.

How much of this is due to the fact the “long tail” bloggers stopped blogging and hence people started unsubscribing? I think a lot. Blogging caught on, everyone started doing it, then it got old and now only some people do it.

Another possible explanation: people can only be inundated with so much information. For instance, while in theory I could listen to thousands of bands on Real Rhapsody, I really only listen to a couple dozen. I lose track of them all. Same with blogs. I’m sure there are lots that I would like, but I simply can’t process that many of them. Maybe people have just realized they can’t realistically subscribe to a lot of feeds. I’ve found my tolerance is about 125ish.