Moonbase

This interesting interview with Sister Judith Zoebelein, head of the Vatican’s web group, has been making the rounds lately.

Among other things, I’m rather glad to learn they’ve finally ditched IIS in favor of Apache:

Trying 212.77.1.246...
Connected to www.vatican.va.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:21:16 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Mon, 09 May 2005 11:14:21 GMT
ETag: "1cd-143b-427f460d" 
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 5179
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Connection closed by foreign host.

(Hat Tip: Whispers in the Loggia)