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Thu, 01 Aug 2002 03:46:32 GMT

The Who, on a U.S. Tour, Start a Gig at the Garden. Pete Townshend still cares about the Who's songs. His conviction was in the way he attacked one guitar after another at Madison Square Garden last night: windmilling through power chords, wrenching out sustained notes and then slicing them off, machine-gunning harsh tremolos and then speeding and squiggling with manic insistence. The Who had something to prove, and he knew it. By Jon Pareles.

Thu, 01 Aug 2002 02:46:15 GMT

Ernie the Attorney: "I'm more of a 'techblogger' than a 'warblogger'"

Thu, 01 Aug 2002 02:18:24 GMT

G.E. Is Latest to Reconfigure Stock Options. General Electric, the nation's biggest company, has joined a small but growing group of companies that are changing how they account for stock options. By Floyd Norris. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Thu, 01 Aug 2002 02:08:27 GMT

Greg Hanek talks about using a blog as an idea repository, other people do it too, and I do it myself. I have a laptop away from the desktop that's on wireless, and it goes where I am. In the late evening, if I spot something that I want to remember for the next day's Scripting News I note it here, and if I remember the next day to look at DHRB, it gets onto my main weblog.

Along those lines, tonight's West Wing rerun was phenomenal. I had seen it before, but the second time around it was so cool. I cried and laughed so many times. Loosened everything up, made me feel realllly good. The closing scene was something else, the background music which comes up to a crescendo is Brothers in Arms by Dire Straights. Tomorrow I'm going to have to look up the lyrics to see how the words fit in with what's happening on stage.

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:25:00 GMT

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Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:06:18 GMT

Gammatron: "OK, Mark Pilgrim, who must be a pretty smart guy, has to try four times to get debian installed, and even then it's half-broken, but it has a 'social contract,' so he brags about it. What a load of crap. My OS works for me. I installed it once. It doesn't make me come up with lame excuses for its shortcomings."

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:32:58 GMT

Ellison: No funny business at Oracle. Amid the aftermath of the California debacle, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison swears an oath that the database company's financial results are correct--on orders from the SEC.

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:32:13 GMT

Salon: Sour notes. If the industry were smart, it would seize this moment. Instead of trying to hack its customers, it would seduce them with a pitch that goes like this: Getting free music is a dodgy affair -- pay us a little bit, and we'll give you a Napster-like free-for-all. But the music business isn't doing that... [Tomalak's Realm]

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:34:28 GMT

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 03:39:59 GMT

10's Links: "When and if I'm ready, I'll move up to Moveable Type, hire Blogatelle, pay for a server, etc., but for now I enjoy this alternative."

I've seen this too often not to say something. I think Radio has a lot more features than Moveable Type. Sometimes people confuse difficulty with feature richness. MT is designed to run n Unix, which means that it can be difficult for average people, because Unix already presents a high barrier. Radio is designed for Mac and Windows users, not developers (although it has deep features when you lift the hood), so it has to be easy to set up and use to work.

Mon, 29 Jul 2002 02:38:14 GMT

Web Site Lets Visitors Peek at Corporate Carping. The creator of a Web site whose name is a vulgarism for "failed company" said he would roll out a new site called InternalMemos.com. By Bob Tedeschi.

Mon, 29 Jul 2002 02:37:19 GMT

Patent Claim Strikes an Electronics Nerve. A small Texas videoconferencing company claims that it has a patent that covers parts of the JPEG data-compression standard that is used widely in consumer electronics and on the Internet. By John Markoff.

Sun, 28 Jul 2002 21:13:58 GMT

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Sun, 28 Jul 2002 01:48:13 GMT

NINE MINERS ALIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA. "Rescue could take all night."

Sun, 28 Jul 2002 01:36:44 GMT

Venture Capitalists Are Taking the Gloves Off. Venture capitalists are offering the companies they bankroll increasingly hard-knuckled deals that leave little wealth for a start-up's managers or original backers. By Lynnley Browning. [New York Times: Business]

Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:15:40 GMT

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Sat, 27 Jul 2002 00:51:03 GMT

Fairly mindless Slate article about web serivces.

Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:11:47 GMT

Stop everything. William Safire writes up blog. Now it's a real word, in a whole new way.

Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:42:11 GMT

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Fri, 26 Jul 2002 03:05:51 GMT

Bill Would Fight Web Music Piracy. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hollywood escalated its fight against Internet trading of movies and music, successfully urging key lawmakers to consider letting the industry use hacker tactics to stop Americans' exchange of songs and films they didn't buy. By The Associated Press.

Fri, 26 Jul 2002 03:03:26 GMT

Microsoft to Step Up Spending and Hiring. Shrugging off a deep recession in the technology industry, Microsoft said that it planned to accelerate its investment in R&D and increase its work force. By John Markoff.

Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:23:48 GMT

Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:14:50 GMT

NY Times: Setting Up a Weblog. Q. How do I set up a Weblog of my own? By J.d. Biersdorfer.

Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:57:02 GMT

Big Tease Please Don't Read Thanks

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:22:15 GMT

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Mon, 22 Jul 2002 01:24:46 GMT

http://blackholebrain.editthispage.com/2002/07/21

Mon, 22 Jul 2002 01:16:07 GMT

WorldCom Files for Chapter 11. WorldCom filed for bankruptcy protection tonight, almost four weeks after the telecommunications giant disclosed nearly $4 billion in deceptive accounting. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Business]

Mon, 22 Jul 2002 01:15:23 GMT

RealNetworks Poses Challenge to Microsoft. In a significant challenge to Microsoft, RealNetworks plans to announce a new version of its software that can distribute audio and video in a range of formats, including Microsoft's own proprietary Windows Media. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]

Sun, 21 Jul 2002 03:20:51 GMT

A Search for Harmony Within a Feuding AOL. AOL Time Warner faces skepticism as it tries to convince Wall Street that its disparate businesses are worth more together than apart. By David D. Kirkpatrick with Jim Rutenberg. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Sun, 21 Jul 2002 03:17:39 GMT

Corporate Values Trickle Down From the Top. To: Mr. Steven A. Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft Re: Your e-mail memo, "Realizing Potential," sent to employees last month By Jeffrey L. Seglin. [New York Times: Business]

Sun, 21 Jul 2002 03:17:04 GMT

Is the P/E Ratio Becoming Irrelevant?. Some mutual fund managers are thinking twice about using P/E ratios even as a first cut for picking stocks. But what should they — and individual investors use instead? By Daniel Altman. [New York Times: Business]

Sun, 21 Jul 2002 03:16:26 GMT

Regrouped, Yes, but AOL Still Faces a Mountain. Now more than ever, reviving AOL Time Warner means finding a way to reinvigorate America Online. By Steve Lohr and Saul Hansell. [New York Times: Business]

Sat, 20 Jul 2002 18:27:04 GMT

Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:41:40 GMT

http://radio.weblogs.com/0110222/2002/07/20.html

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 03:27:56 GMT

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/07/19.html

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 02:52:10 GMT

Time Warner takes over AOL. Grownups back in charge [The Register]

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:58:00 GMT

Dot-Com Era Notions Guided a Huge Merger. Advertisers and subscribers alike were promised far more than AOL Time Warner could deliver and its biggest problem is to regain credibility with investors and customers. By Saul Hansell. [New York Times: Business]

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:56:42 GMT

Pressure Builds on Case to Take the Lead. Critics say that Stephen M. Case has played too passive a role at AOL Time Warner ever since he persuaded Time Warner to trade its media assets for AOL's Internet-inflated stock. By Geraldine Fabrikant. [New York Times: Business]

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:58:04 GMT

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:25:22 GMT

Test post

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 00:37:08 GMT

This is a test post. For the next sixty seconds this station will conduct a test of the emergency broadcast system.

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:02:12 GMT

Amazon opens Web services shop. The company has set up a program that will allow third-party Web site operators to incorporate features and content from the e-commerce superstore into their sites. [CNET News.com]

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 19:19:16 GMT

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 01:08:02 GMT

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/07/16.html#search_amazon_from_python

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 01:05:04 GMT

http://www.sysonyx.com/products/xmlHack/

Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:53:43 GMT

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Mon, 15 Jul 2002 02:28:29 GMT

Springsteen Protects His New CD's Online in an Old-Fashioned Way. Bruce Springsteen has thwarted prerelease of his music on the Internet not through digital protection or online policing, but with an old-fashioned lock-and-key approach. By Chris Nelson. [New York Times: Technology]

Sun, 14 Jul 2002 04:27:39 GMT

Stocks' Slide Is Playing Havoc With Older Americans' Dreams. To many Americans, the sustained slide in the stock market has been something to fret about. But to many people at or near retirement age, it has been a colossal jolt. By Kate Zernike. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Fri, 12 Jul 2002 02:09:15 GMT

Silicon Valley's New Pessimists Talk of Pain Beyond the PC. Hopes that the second half of 2002 would see a recovery of technology's business decline, led by purchases of personal computers, seem to be retreating. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Business]

Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:53:05 GMT

The Insider Game. The current crisis in American capitalism isn't just about the specific details about tricky accounting, stock options, loans to executives, and so on. It's about the way the game has been rigged on behalf of insiders. By Paul Krugman. [New York Times: Opinion]

Wed, 10 Jul 2002 02:56:43 GMT

Tech Pioneer's Death Called Suicide. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A pioneer of the technology that took Internet file-sharing far beyond Napster, Gene Kan became something of an unofficial spokesman for one of the hottest software developments to survive the Internet boom. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]

Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:54:40 GMT

To Answer Kate Z's Question!. ieSpell - F**kin A Man.

"I urge any serious bloggers out there who haven't tried ieSpell yet to go over to www.iespell.com and do so. Immediately! The newest version now provides support for rich edit tools (like Radio's for instance) as well as AOL and other IE based browsers. Worthy of a micro-donation for sure.

I'm going to suggest the possibility of user-defined short-cuts (or smart tags) to the author. It seems like the perfect tool to provide all those cross-system, bloggers like myself a way to maintain a central list of shortcuts." [...useless miscellany]

[The Shifted Librarian]

Fri, 05 Jul 2002 12:57:52 GMT

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Thu, 04 Jul 2002 02:36:17 GMT

http://www.levien.com/free/tmetric-HOWTO.html

Wed, 03 Jul 2002 14:02:52 GMT