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Vaughan-Nichols, who wrote the Washington Post story I dissected, points out that the nature of his assignment precluded broader coverage, and that he&apos;d otherwise gladly have included &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bloglines.com&quot;&gt;bloglines&lt;/a&gt;." />					<outline text="There&apos;s been lots of chatter about bloglines lately -- Chad Dickerson &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/2004/04/05.html#11.54.22&quot;&gt;mentions it today&lt;/a&gt; -- so I was interested to hear from Martin Thornell about another web-based product, &lt;a href=&quot;http://reader.rocketinfo.com&quot;&gt;Rocket RSS reader&lt;/a&gt;." />					<outline text="Doubtless there are others too." />					<outline text="An implementation of one of these licensed for behind-the-firewall use, as Chad suggests, would be handy." />					<outline text="As a matter of fact, that&apos;s how I use Radio UserLand&apos;s reader." />					<outline text="It&apos;s nominally a desktop product, but I run it as a server and authenticate to it over SSL." />					<outline text="&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;" />					<outline text="4/5/2004; 10:54:25 PM" type="link" url="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/04/05.html#a965" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jon's Radio&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/rss.xml" />			</outline>			<outline text="CNET News.com">				<outline text="Spymac follows Google on free gig of storage.">					<outline text="Spymac, a Web hosting company for Apple Computer aficionados, is giving away 1-gigabyte e-mail accounts, mimicking a move search leader Google made last week." />					<outline text="4/5/2004; 10:54:07 PM" type="link" url="http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5185461.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news" />				</outline>				<outline text="MSBlast not to blame for blackout, report says.">					<outline text="The final report task force report on the 2003 outage that darkened New York, Toronto and other areas concludes that computer and human errors, not the virus, are to blame." />					<outline text="4/5/2004; 10:54:07 PM" type="link" url="http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5185457.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news" />				</outline>				<outline text="Yahoo earnings to shine on search.">					<outline text="The portal giant is set to report its financial earnings, capping another quarter dominated by efforts to take on Google and beef up its Web search business." />					<outline text="4/5/2004; 10:54:07 PM" type="link" url="http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5185226.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news" />				</outline>				<outline text="Briefly: Phone customers ready to cut cord.">					<outline text="Plus: EMC unveils &apos;disk library&apos;...Power-line chip firm hooks up to $23.5 million...Bush urges free trade, tech changes." />					<outline text="4/5/2004; 10:54:07 PM" type="link" url="http://news.com.com/2009-1014_3-5103813.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news" />				</outline>				<outline text="EMC unveils &apos;disk library&apos;.">					<outline text="The data storage specialist introduces a hard-drive based product that mimics a tape device." />					<outline text="4/5/2004; 10:54:07 PM" type="link" url="http://news.com.com/2110-1015_3-5185223.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.com.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;CNET News.com&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://news.com.com/2547-1_3-0-5.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Monday, April 05, 2004 - 22:30&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Scripting News">				<outline text="Jon Udell notes that Radio, while nominally a desktop product, also works as a server app.">					<outline text="That&apos;s the advantage of using HTTP and HTML to form the user interface of the desktop app, you can easily separate the user from the app, as the old &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lcarscom.net/fsd/art/1701-d.html&quot;&gt;Starship Enterprise&lt;/a&gt; could decouple." />					<outline text="It was exactly this configuration that I used for the short-lived &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/crimson1/pictures/viewer$1443&quot;&gt;Channel Dean&lt;/a&gt; project." />					<outline text="4/5/2004; 10:30:47 PM" type="link" url="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/04/05.html#a965" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Scripting News&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml" />			</outline>			<outline text="TidBITS">				<outline text="Buying a Laptop Bag (05-Apr-2004; 10.9K)">					<outline text="4/5/2004; 10:29:10 PM" type="link" url="http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07627" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tidbits.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;TidBITS&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://www.tidbits.com/channels/tidbits.rss" />			</outline>			<outline text="The Doc Searls Weblog">				<outline text="Categorial winner.">					<outline text="Thanks to a point made by a reader, somewhere (can&apos;t find it, or I&apos;d point to it), I&apos;m getting hooked on &lt;a href=&quot;http://vivisimo.com/&quot;&gt;Vivisimo&lt;/a&gt;." />					<outline text="I like the categorical clustering it does." />					<outline text="Makes sense &amp; finds lots of stuff." />					<outline text="Actually works as a value-add for Google." />					<outline text="4/5/2004; 10:29:07 PM" type="link" url="http://doc.weblogs.com/2004/04/05#categorialWinner" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://doc.weblogs.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Doc Searls Weblog&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://partners.userland.com/people/docSearls.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Monday, April 05, 2004 - 15:54&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger">				<outline text="My aggregated blog has an RSS 2.0 feed now.">					<outline text="Kunal continues to be awesome." />					<outline text="He just turned on an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kunal.org/scoble/index.xml&quot;&gt;RSS 2.0 feed for my aggregated blog&lt;/a&gt;." />					<outline text="This feed is far more useful than the RDF one that I linked to yesterday." />					<outline text="4/5/2004; 3:54:01 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://scoblecomments.scripting.com/comments?u=1011&amp;p=7167&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0001011%2F2004%2F04%2F05.html%23a7167&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/04/05.html#a7167" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/rss.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Monday, April 05, 2004 - 14:54&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Apple Hot News">				<outline text="iPod Revolutionizing Listening Habits.">					<outline text="Joseph P. Kahn writes for the Boston Globe, “Even more wondrous than its sophisticated technology, though, is how the iPods and their ilk are changing the way music is being experienced, or reexperienced, by all sorts of audiophiles in all sorts of settings, from health clubs and school cafeterias to malls and subway cars.” [Apr 5]" />					<outline text="4/5/2004; 2:54:21 PM" type="link" url="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/04/05/all_shook_up/" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/hotnews/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Apple Hot News&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Monday, April 05, 2004 - 12:35&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Joho the Blog">				<outline text="New blog for a mag too new to read.">					<outline text="Worthwhile Magazine doesn&apos;t exist yet, but that hasn&apos;t stopped it from starting up its blog, under Halley&apos;s editorial eye." />					<outline text="It&apos;s an interesting model for a print magazine aiming at the big time market: Blog first! Worthwhile is about what makes work worthwhile." />					<outline text="Its editors - Anita Sharpe and Kevin Salwen - each with serious editorial experience and credentials, are prepping the first issue." />					<outline text="I&apos;m proud to be a contributor to the Worthwhile blog, along with Tom Peters, Halley, David Batsone, Rebecca Ryan, Kate Yandoh, and Anita and Kevin." />					<outline text="My first three entries are on why massages are like bad jobs,..." />					<outline text="4/5/2004; 12:35:06 PM" type="link" url="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002571.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Joho the Blog&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/index.rdf" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 22:10&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Scripting News">				<outline text="Screen shot of Google&apos;s mail app.">					<outline text="4/3/2004; 10:10:00 PM" type="link" url="http://www.shellen.com/gallery/gmail_expanded.gif" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Scripting News&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml" />			</outline>			<outline text="Tomalak&apos;s Realm">				<outline text="Wired News: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62917,00.html&quot;&gt;Free E-Mail With a Steep Price?&lt;/a&gt; Gmail would only insert ads into incoming mail -- presumably editorializing only incoming mail.">					<outline text="Google already targets ads on its search results pages." />					<outline text="But Richard M. Smith, a privacy and security consultant, said scanning e-mail to seed it with ads is a bad idea." />					<outline text="4/3/2004; 10:09:52 PM" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tomalak.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Tomalak's Realm&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://static.userland.com/tomalak/links2.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 21:54&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="New York Times: Technology">				<outline text="When Your Files Go Astray, Put a Speedy Sleuth to Work.">					<outline text="A large hard drive and a short memory can be a bad combination if you are trying to find a specific file in a sea of gigabytes." />					<outline text="Although the built-in search tool in Windows can help locate files by name, type or date modified, the X1 program from X1 Technologies can drill down further and locate files by specific words or phrases within an e-mail message or document." />					<outline text="By J.d. Biersdorfer." />					<outline text="3/31/2004; 9:54:16 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/technology/circuits/01sear.html?ex=1396155600&en=5e9d57c281674af0&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;New York Times: Technology&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://partners.userland.com/nytRss/technology.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 18:54&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Slate Magazine">				<outline text="This Is SportsCenter?.">					<outline text="The decline and fall of ESPN&apos;s franchise." />					<outline text="3/31/2004; 6:54:10 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://fray.slate.msn.com/id/3936/fr/rss/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://slate.msn.com/id/2098071/fr/rss/" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from Slate Magazine." type="rss" url="http://slate.msn.com/rss/" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 14:54&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Taegan Goddard&apos;s Political Wire">				<outline text="Brazile Tells All.">					<outline text="Cindy Adams had an advance look at Cooking with Grease : Stirring the Pots in American Politics by former Al Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile." />					<outline text="Brazile on Gore: &quot;I enjoyed p---ing him off." />					<outline text="But we now talk several times a month." />					<outline text="I&apos;ve stopped cussing him out.&quot;..." />					<outline text="3/31/2004; 2:54:03 PM" type="link" url="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2004/03/31/brazile_tells_all.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://politicalwire.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Taegan Goddard's Political Wire&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://politicalwire.com/headlines.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 10:54&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Mark Bernstein">				<outline text="Tinderbox for Online Help.">					<outline text="In O&apos;Reilly&apos;s MacDev Center, Matt Neuburg explores &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/30/online_help.html&quot; target=&quot;new&quot; &gt;&lt;b&gt;Creating Online Help With Tinderbox&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Most important, because links are so easy to create, I created lots of them." />					<outline text="It also helped that Tinderbox provides rapid searchability for a document." />					<outline text="Thus I was able to grow an extensive outline-structured, heavily hyperlinked document with amazing speed.&quot; &quot;...Thanks to &lt;a href=http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ target=new &gt;Tinderbox&lt;/a&gt;, the documentation was easy to write quickly, easy to maintain, and easy to render as HTML." />					<outline text="Developers may well wish to consider Tinderbox as their help authoring tool.&quot; " />					<outline text="3/31/2004; 10:54:14 AM" type="link" url="http://markBernstein.org/Mar0401.html#note_35427" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://markBernstein.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Mark Bernstein&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://www.markbernstein.org/news.rss" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 15:54&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="CNET News.com">				<outline text="New wave of Web ads on the way.">					<outline text="Marketers are promising new &quot;lite&quot; online ads that are more effective and less annoying, but they could have a hard time convincing jaded Web surfers that they&apos;re for real." />					<outline text="3/30/2004; 3:54:08 PM" type="link" url="http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5182072.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.com.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;CNET News.com&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://news.com.com/2547-1_3-0-5.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 8:47&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Scripting News">				<outline text="John Battelle &lt;a href=&quot;http://battellemedia.com/archives/000511.php&quot;&gt;details&lt;/a&gt; changes to Google, released today.">					<outline text="3/30/2004; 8:47:22 AM" />				</outline>				<outline text="Dave Pollard explains how to increase your weblog&apos;s traffic.">					<outline text="3/30/2004; 8:47:22 AM" type="link" url="http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2004/03/23.html#a674" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Scripting News&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Sunday, March 28, 2004 - 13:1&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Scripting News">				<outline text="AKMA: &lt;a href=&quot;http://akma.disseminary.org/archives/001255.html&quot;&gt;Why Churches Should Have Websites&lt;/a&gt;.">					<outline text="3/28/2004; 1:01:19 PM" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Scripting News&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml" />			</outline>			<outline text="Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger">				<outline text="Marc posts a list of his favorite new social computing services.">					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.it/0100198/2004/03/26.html#a2453&quot;&gt;Marc Canter posted&lt;/a&gt; the social computing stuff he&apos;s going to show me on Monday." />					<outline text="Can&apos;t wait." />					<outline text="3/28/2004; 1:01:14 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://scoblecomments.scripting.com/comments?u=1011&amp;p=7108&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0001011%2F2004%2F03%2F27.html%23a7108&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/03/27.html#a7108" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/rss.xml" />			</outline>			<outline text="Slate Magazine">				<outline text="The Pledge of Allegiance.">					<outline text="The PowerPoint version." />					<outline text="3/28/2004; 1:01:08 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://fray.slate.msn.com/id/3936/fr/rss/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://slate.msn.com/id/2097842/fr/rss/" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from Slate Magazine." type="rss" url="http://slate.msn.com/rss/" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Friday, March 26, 2004 - 8:54&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Scripting News">				<outline text="Will Richardson: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan04/richardson.shtml&quot;&gt;Blogging and RSS&lt;/a&gt;.">					<outline text="3/26/2004; 8:54:53 AM" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Scripting News&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, March 24, 2004 - 10:54&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="MSDN: Visual Studio">				<outline text="Test-Driven C#: Improve the Design and Flexibility of Your Project with Extreme Programming Techniques.">					<outline text="Find out how test-driven development and extreme programming techniques let you build solid, flexible projects." />					<outline text="3/24/2004; 10:54:07 AM" type="link" url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/04/ExtremeProgramming/" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from MSDN: Visual Studio." type="rss" url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/rss.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, March 24, 2004 - 7:54&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Taegan Goddard&apos;s Political Wire">				<outline text="The Front-Runner&apos;s Fall.">					<outline text="Karl Frisch got an advance copy of a must-read article by Paul Maslin that examines &quot;the Dean implosion up close, from the vantage point of the candidate’s pollster.&quot; &quot;Two things have become clear in the many months since..." />					<outline text="The first is the extent to which Howard Dean based his campaign..." />					<outline text="3/24/2004; 7:54:12 AM" type="link" url="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2004/03/24/the_frontrunners_fall.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://politicalwire.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Taegan Goddard's Political Wire&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://politicalwire.com/headlines.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Monday, March 22, 2004 - 10:52&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Jon&apos;s Radio">				<outline text="Blog/print synergy: my strategies.">					<outline text="For almost a decade I&apos;ve used the Web -- and most recently my blog -- to research, develop, and enhance the articles I write for magazines." />					<outline text="When I ran into &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/&quot;&gt;Dan Gillmor&lt;/a&gt; at SXSW we discussed some of my strategies, and Dan asked me to write them up." />					<outline text="Seems worth doing, so here goes." />					<outline text="Much of this concerns the IT trade pub ecosystem specifically, but I think the principles will generalize." />					<outline text="The basic pattern is simple: a story gestates in blogspace, appears in print and online, and then matures in blogspace." />					<outline text="&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;" />					<outline text="3/22/2004; 10:52:09 AM" type="link" url="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/03/22.html#a950" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jon's Radio&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/rss.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 9:6&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="MSDN: Visual C#">				<outline text="URL Rewriting in ASP.NET.">					<outline text="Scott Mitchell shows how you can dynamically intercept an incoming Web request and automatically redirect it to a different URL." />					<outline text="3/20/2004; 9:06:37 AM" type="link" url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/using/building/web/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/URLRewriting.asp" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;MSDN: Visual C#&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/rss.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 9:34&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Builder.com">				<outline text="Creating sites that meet users&apos; expectations.">					<outline text="The aim of designing a usable Web site is building a site that meets users&apos; expectations." />					<outline text="While working on a client Web site, the author was reminded of how easy it is to lose sight of such usability basics." />					<outline text="He shares his lessons relearned." />					<outline text="3/18/2004; 9:34:19 AM" type="link" url="http://builder.com.com/5100-6371-5168363.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=bldr" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.builder.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Builder.com&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://builder.com.com/5150-22-0.xml" />			</outline>			<outline text="Taegan Goddard&apos;s Political Wire">				<outline text="Who Do Your Neighbors Support?.">					<outline text="Fundrace 2004 has introduced two new interesting and useful features: Neighbor Search -- &quot;Use the location search (on your home address) to find those who live near you that have made presidential campaign contributions." />					<outline text="You can also search for friends or celebrities by name.&quot; City Maps -- &quot;For each of..." />					<outline text="3/18/2004; 9:34:10 AM" type="link" url="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2004/03/17/who_do_your_neighbors_support.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://politicalwire.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Taegan Goddard's Political Wire&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://politicalwire.com/headlines.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 13:53&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger">				<outline text="Why RSS is better than email.">					<outline text="Internally at Microsoft I&apos;ve been getting a ton of questions about RSS." />					<outline text="I figure I&apos;d just post my emails here too so you can see why I like RSS so much." />					<outline text="The first one is what is better about RSS than email." />					<outline text="1) RSS is easier to have search bots visit." />					<outline text="2) RSS is easier to link to (at least if it also spits out an HTML page, like all weblogging software does)." />					<outline text="3) RSS won&apos;t get mixed in with other email (SPAM, other DL traffic, and other email types)." />					<outline text="I&apos;ve been looking at Microsoft employees inboxes, and many people here don&apos;t setup rules to filter their email into separate buckets." />					<outline text="4) RSS is easier to subscribe and unsubscribe from." />					<outline text="5) RSS doesn&apos;t use up any of my Outlook rules spaces (some of my coworkers have so many rules that they can&apos;t add anymore)." />					<outline text="6) RSS is usable not just in an email client (Bloglines, other weblogs, even other Sharepoint sites can subscribe and aggregate it)." />					<outline text="3/13/2004; 1:53:41 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://scoblecomments.scripting.com/comments?u=1011&amp;p=6995&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0001011%2F2004%2F03%2F13.html%23a6995&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/03/13.html#a6995" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/rss.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Monday, March 08, 2004 - 19:54&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger">				<outline text="Get better rankings on Google with weblogs.">					<outline text="Lee LeFever: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000443.html&quot;&gt;Case Study: Using a Weblog to Achieve #1 Rankings in Google&lt;/a&gt;." />					<outline text="Most of this stuff matches my own experiences as well." />					<outline text="3/8/2004; 7:54:18 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://scoblecomments.scripting.com/comments?u=1011&amp;p=6909&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0001011%2F2004%2F03%2F08.html%23a6909&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/03/08.html#a6909" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/rss.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 11:40&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Scripting News">				<outline text="Tim Jarrett: &lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.jarretthousenorth.com/2004/03/03#a3343&quot;&gt;What kind of death march are you on?&lt;/a&gt;">					<outline text="3/3/2004; 11:40:32 AM" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Scripting News&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Monday, March 01, 2004 - 9:54&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Joho the Blog">				<outline text="Dean&apos;s dysfunctional &quot;family&quot;.">					<outline text="Fascinating article in the Washington Post by Howard Kurtz about the dysfunctional nature of the Dean campaign organization." />					<outline text="Reading it makes you realize that the notion that the campaign&apos;s infatuation with the Internet brought it down is a point of view that only someone infatuated with the Internet would propose." />					<outline text="Far more destructive were the personal and organizational frictions caused by a small-town campaign suddenly going national. [Cross-posted at Loose Democracy]..." />					<outline text="3/1/2004; 9:54:19 AM" type="link" url="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002463.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Joho the Blog&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/index.rdf" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 22:14&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="New York Times: Sports">				<outline text="More news from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/index.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;New York Times: Sports&lt;/a&gt;." type="rss" url="http://partners.userland.com/nytRss/sports.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 17:31&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Better Living Through Software">				<outline text="Interview Question.">					<outline text="All of the recent talk about Mr. Tetris had me thinking of a new interview question." />					<outline text="Think of the normal tetris game: a sequence of random shapes appears on the screen, and the user responds with sequences of left, right, down arrow and spacebar until the screen is filled." />					<outline text="Now, suppose that you are given a list of keys pressed in sequence from the beggining to the end of the game." />					<outline text="Can you use this sequence of keypresses to figure out what sequence of shapes appeared in the game? Of course, it&apos;s not possible to know the &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; sequence, but this can serve as an interesting starting point to discuss the problem." />					<outline text="Simplifying steps can be introduced; extra points if the interviewee asks for clarification on these points or others: " />					<outline text="&lt;li&gt; Given a sequence of keystrokes and a sequence of shapes, how would you determine whether the sequence of shapes is a sequence that might match the keys given, or could not possibly match the keys given?&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Suppose that you know every third shape." />					<outline text="How does that change the solution?&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Suppose that you know every point at which a row cleared (and how many rows).&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Suppose that you know every time a shape falls (as if space is always pressed).&lt;/li&gt; " />					<outline text="This interview question is too complicated to be useful for determining the skill of an applicant for designing algorithms, but would be good for determining an applicant&apos;s ability to decompose a problem and discuss possible solution approaches." />					<outline text="12/14/2003; 5:31:24 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=96a9c9d3-9f2c-4dbe-a31a-9b06977ff70f" />				</outline>				<outline text="WinFX Review.">					<outline text="Today we had a checkpoint review of the APIs that our team is working on for WinFX (the Longhorn API)." />					<outline text="The review is an opportunity for people from around the company to look at our API design and comment on usability, security, performance, and generally anything else that needs to be looked at for an API that has aspirations to become the replacement for Win32 for the next decade." />					<outline text="It&apos;s our third such review, but probably the last one before we ship Whidbey." />					<outline text="We had good attendance from the various API design owners around the company, and it went fairly well." />					<outline text="Lots of good discussion, especially around usability where we still have lots of room for improvement." />					<outline text="I couldn&apos;t help but notice that more than half of the people who were in the room have blogs." />					<outline text="I suppose it&apos;s been this way since the DOTNET mailing lists were opened on Developmentor, but it&apos;s still impressive to me to see how involved and publicly accessible the whole frameworks team is on an ongoing basis." />					<outline text="12/14/2003; 5:31:24 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=4ccb12e1-d55f-497e-8729-3a591ee689b8" />				</outline>				<outline text="Tivo 2 and Comcast HDTV.">					<outline text="Some notes from the Comcast HDTV install today." />					<outline text="Maybe this will save someone some time." />					<outline text="The Comcast HD Cable Box is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/products/dct5100/&quot;&gt;Motorola DCT5100&lt;/a&gt;, and doesn&apos;t have the serial remote that the General Instruments had." />					<outline text="Using the Tivo&apos;s IR blaster, you need to configure the Tivo to connect to a General Instruments (that&apos;s right, NOT Motorola) Cable Box, use &quot;enter&quot; to change channels, and use code 1006." />					<outline text="And of course it goes without saying that the Tivo doesn&apos;t take an HD signal yet, so you need to bypass the Tivo when watching HD channels." />					<outline text="12/14/2003; 5:31:24 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=618089fb-c721-499b-94f0-53619a899697" />				</outline>				<outline text="Retiring the Four-Platform Framework.">					<outline text="ZapThink recently offered &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zapthink.com/report.html?id=ZAPFLASH-12032003&quot;&gt;a critique of Gartner&apos;s &quot;Four-Platform Framework&quot; for Web Services&lt;/a&gt;: " />					<outline text="&lt;em&gt;&quot;we have seen a recurring vision for Web Services that has outlived its questionable usefulness at representing how the market is implementing and producing products for real-world Web Services and SOA solutions â€“ namely Gartner&apos;s &lt;b&gt;Four-Platform Framework&lt;/b&gt; of Web Services.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; " />					<outline text="For the most part, I agree with the analysis." />					<outline text="They go into some detailed analysis, but their analysis is summed up by the quote, &lt;em&gt;&quot;the Four-Platform Framework is an example of what ZapThink calls a &quot;horseless carriage&quot; mentality." />					<outline text="That is, the framework applies traditional ways of thinking about existing markets to new, emerging markets.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; " />					<outline text="12/14/2003; 5:31:24 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=f10d9439-9d33-4fa0-ac7b-3d6b7b1f332e" />				</outline>				<outline text="TPC Arms Race Continues.">					<outline text="Oracle has just become the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp?resulttype=noncluster&quot;&gt;first company to break a million tpmC on a single box&lt;/a&gt;." />					<outline text="The price per tpmC is still high, but more disturbing is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp?resulttype=cluster&amp;amp;version=5&quot;&gt;cluster result on linux&lt;/a&gt;, where Oracle also breaks a million, but gets nearly fifty percent more tpmC than SQL Server and at nearly a third the price per tpmC." />					<outline text="To our credit, the Oracle result comes two and a half years after the SQL Server result, but it&apos;s proof that Oracle is still in the game with Oracle 10g, and we need to hurry up and ship something new." />					<outline text="12/14/2003; 5:31:24 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;3&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=277bef55-06c6-4090-9a87-20592598c5cc" />				</outline>				<outline text="Tips for SkyTrain at Newark Airport.">					<outline text="Many people have horror stories about riding the SkyTrain at Newark Airport." />					<outline text="It has a tendency to get stuck between stations, or to lock customers in and shuttle them around endlessly like cows in a claustrophobic boxcar." />					<outline text="Here are my tips: " />					<outline text="&lt;li&gt; The attendants can&apos;t really help you." />					<outline text="They can radio ahead to have the software (Polsoft v1.0) on the trains rebooted, but that doesn&apos;t help.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; The driver can&apos;t help you.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; The emergency call buttons don&apos;t work." />					<outline text="Even when the train is operating smoothly, nobody is going to answer when you push that button." />					<outline text="Try it.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; However, you CAN help yourself." />					<outline text="Each train car has two enclosed brake activators near the bottom of the seats." />					<outline text="Simply break the plastic cover and pull the brake." />					<outline text="When this happens, the train will be unable to move any further, and the doors of the train car can easily be pulled open." />					<outline text="The doors at the station can easily be open by pushing the lever handle and pulling." />					<outline text="Then you can be on your way.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; When the train is mechanically prevented from moving forward, putting an abrupt end to the driver&apos;s joyride, he will probably run away as fast as possible, like a guilty dog who has just peed on your shoe." />					<outline text="The attendants similarly stay as far away as possible from any human contact." />					<outline text="It won&apos;t matter, though, because you&apos;ll be too busy accepting accolades from your grateful fellow passengers to pay attention to the driver and attendants.&lt;/li&gt;" />					<outline text="12/14/2003; 5:31:24 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;4&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=ed674f79-9929-402d-aa35-bdd9ee9a5fee" />				</outline>				<outline text="dasBlog for Enterprise Architects.">					<outline text="Clemens Vasters is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thearchitectjournal.com/Journal/issue1/article6.html&quot;&gt;featured in the new Microsoft EMEA Architects Journal&lt;/a&gt;, talking about his experiences with dasBlog, the blog engine used by this site." />					<outline text="12/14/2003; 5:31:24 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=8baa64d1-32e6-417c-b55a-77a968e88d9e" />				</outline>				<outline text="Software that Doesn&apos;t Stink.">					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/ericli/permalink.aspx/02b90d42-aedc-4ff4-acb1-a50a4a7cd43f&quot;&gt;Eric Lippert&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xulplanet.com/ndeakin/article/226?show=c#comments&quot;&gt;Neil Deakin&lt;/a&gt; are discussing sucky software." />					<outline text="Both make the point that one gets more tolerant of suckage in software when one has spent enough time actually trying to &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; software " />					<outline text="&lt;em&gt;&quot;I failed to appreciate either of those facts until I&apos;d actually done a lot of it myself." />					<outline text="Once I appreciated these things, I understood that we have imperfect software BECAUSE the people who make it are dedicated to writing quality software for end users, not in spite of that fact.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; " />					<outline text="All I can say is that such excuses don&apos;t make software suckage feel any better." />					<outline text="Software tends to attract a lot of idealists, because software has the potential to provide large amounts of value for small initial investment." />					<outline text="But, as Eric points out, writing software that is actually usable, reliable, and valuable involves all sorts of tradeoffs that affect the cost/benefit equation." />					<outline text="I&apos;ve been involved with many software projects over my career, including IT, horizontal, vertical, and shrinkwrap." />					<outline text="And although most of them shipped, and were considered &quot;successful&quot;, I have always been bothered by the disjoint between what I feel &quot;should&quot; be the cost/benefit and the actual cost/benefit results." />					<outline text="We can invent excuses all day long, but at the end of the day I can never convince myself that these are anything other than excuses." />					<outline text="I believe that there is tremendous waste in the process; far more waste in software than in other industries." />					<outline text="This is why I don&apos;t get too excited when people debate about whether Americans work too many hours." />					<outline text="Especially in the software industry, the amount of overhead is so huge it&apos;s a wonder we get paid at all." />					<outline text="The idealist in me says that if people would slow down, spend more time thinking, engage in proper planning, and stop making excuses for the constant fire drills, we&apos;d cut the number of hours worked in half." />					<outline text="The extra hours we work are, IMO, evidence of the software industry&apos;s high margins and tolerance for waste than evidence of any necessity." />					<outline text="To be sure, I&apos;m not saying that poor planning and &quot;fire drills&quot; are the only source of the massive waste that I&apos;m talking about." />					<outline text="In times past when I led development teams, I took great pride in making sure that things were scheduled in a way that nobody was ever required to work overtime." />					<outline text="But doing this is as much a process of padding the schedule for waste, scheduling in appropriately small discrete tasks, and so on." />					<outline text="It certainly didn&apos;t mean that there was no waste." />					<outline text="While Eric may be right that developers tend to have good intentions, we have all sorts of well-known biases which lead us to have skewed priorities." />					<outline text="Developers like to design for extensibility." />					<outline text="Developers like to optimize the crap out of a code loop and ignore the database." />					<outline text="And the list goes on." />					<outline text="We also have a tendency to consider ourselves to be better than we are." />					<outline text="The developer who is optimizing the crap out of his code loop will look with scorn on the developer who doesn&apos;t, while himself being looked down upon by the developer who has more experience to inform his scalability priorities." />					<outline text="And once we have completely mastered a particular aspect of the process, we get promoted or bored." />					<outline text="And even when you have teams full of people who have tons of experience with development, project management, and so on, marketing (as in Marketing 101, not just advertisement) tends to be the high-order bit, and in today&apos;s world that leads to lots of &quot;strategy tax&quot; tradeoffs and randomization." />					<outline text="In any case, this wasn&apos;t meant to be a comprehensive list of the sources of waste in the software industry." />					<outline text="Suffice it to say that I believe there are huge amounts of wasted human energy and precious little legitimate excuse other than the fact that software generates large enough return on investment that we tolerate the waste." />					<outline text="The waste is systemic, IMO, and not something that&apos;s going to be fixed with &quot;XP&quot;, CMM, development tools, or any other quick fix." />					<outline text="For what its&apos;s worth, I think that open-source is no panacea, and in fact is one of the biggest black-holes sucking away human talent needlessly these days." />					<outline text="How many man-hours have been spent building a clone of the 30 year-old Unix operating system? There are many better areas for us to be applying talent." />					<outline text="And I don&apos;t mean to diminish the professionalism of Microsoft developers." />					<outline text="The product teams here are some of the most well-tuned machines I have ever seen, but &quot;best&quot; is not the same as &quot;perfect&quot; or even &quot;as good as possible&quot;." />					<outline text="Who knows? It&apos;s a tough problem, and IMO doesn&apos;t get any easier to stomach with experience." />					<outline text="&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt; " />					<outline text="12/14/2003; 5:31:24 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;6&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=0faab482-dc29-42b3-a2f8-af1bea8ea7ef" />				</outline>				<outline text="Dare, Deem, and Suge.">					<outline text="Strangeness abounds." />					<outline text="We are accused of smearing binary XML and pushing binary XML in the same week, in both cases with insinuation of nefarious motive." />					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/default.aspx?date=2003-11-20&quot;&gt;Dare Obasanjo has the report&lt;/a&gt;." />					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://anopinion.net&quot;&gt;Mike Deem has been keeping up his blog again&lt;/a&gt;, and it&apos;s really good." />					<outline text="I&apos;ve hesitated mentioning it, since last time I got hooked on his blog he stopped for a year and a half to work on WinFS." />					<outline text="If you follow any of the other MSFT blogs, you&apos;ve already seen his comeback." />					<outline text="And if you follow the other MSFT blogs, you probably didn&apos;t have time to read that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=2537&quot;&gt;Big Lurch has been sentenced to life in prison&lt;/a&gt;." />					<outline text="Consider yourself informed; yet more evidence that you should never, ever, ever &lt;a href=&quot;http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/1577.aspx&quot;&gt;mess&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/bands/knight_marion_suge_.jhtml&quot;&gt;Suge Knight&lt;/a&gt;." />					<outline text="12/14/2003; 5:31:24 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=7ca43489-0b6f-496b-8760-827aaaa428c5" />				</outline>				<outline text="Is InfoPath the Next Excel?.">					<outline text="Larry O&apos;Brien at SD Times asks &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sdtimes.com/cols/winwatch_090.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is InfoPath the Next Excel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;? He raises a number of interesting points, some of which I&apos;ll try to respond to." />					<outline text="First, he says: " />					<outline text="&lt;em&gt;&quot;It would be easier to say â€śyesâ€ť if InfoPath were programmable from .NET languages." />					<outline text="Not so." />					<outline text="For some reason, InfoPathâ€™s programming model uses Microsoft Script Editor, which supports only JScript and VBScript.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; " />					<outline text="It&apos;s true that InfoPath uses JavaScript right now, but this is primarily an issue of timing." />					<outline text="InfoPath was actually conceived long before .NET was around, implemented years ago, and much of the recent couple of years has actually been spent polishing the product to be a nice Office citizen rather than doing any drastic new feature work." />					<outline text="And now that InfoPath is shipping, it is part of Office 11, which still relies on script code." />					<outline text="So InfoPath is a very nice complement to the rest of the Office suite, and that&apos;s how things get done inside Microsoft." />					<outline text="Now, it is disappointing to people like me who have been doing .NET development for a few years, but there are still many Office customers who are more conservative and would probably be spooked if we required them to take dependencies on .NET to use Office." />					<outline text="And finally, the next version of InfoPath is planning to support .NET much more fully, just as the rest of the Office suite will." />					<outline text="Next, he says: " />					<outline text="&lt;em&gt;&quot;So the output of this new tool is available for programmatic manipulation, but far from the way that formulas and macros make the power of spreadsheets casually available, spelunking inside InfoPath form files is only for the stout of heart." />					<outline text="No revolutionary power-user capabilities here.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; " />					<outline text="In fact, one key appeal of the InfoPath format is that everything is done using completely non-proprietary formats." />					<outline text="The UI of the form designer is saved as XSLT, the code is all standard JavaScript, and the object model is primarily accessed using XML DOM." />					<outline text="What this means is that I can design a form in InfoPath, crack the XSN, and copy the XSLT directly to an Apache server to use in generating HTML output (for example)." />					<outline text="Or I can borrow JavaScript that I wrote for my Netscape and IE web pages and use directly in InfoPath." />					<outline text="And simple things are fairly straightforward, with no need to delve into code." />					<outline text="I&apos;ll grant that advanced work requires a stout heart -- there are not many people who have expertise in the trifecta of DOM, JavaScript, and XSLT -- but for those who do, the sky is the limit." />					<outline text="Anyway, Larry makes a number of other good observations which InfoPath-watchers may not have seen remarked elsewhere, so it&apos;s good to read the whole article." />					<outline text="12/14/2003; 5:31:24 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=0ecb9a38-0205-4e1a-b0a5-17c8acdc67bd" />				</outline>				<outline text="Simon Guest Sold Out?.">					<outline text="&lt;iframe align=left marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 src=&quot;http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?o=1&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;f=ifr&amp;amp;t=netcrucible-20&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;asins=0735619220&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&quot; frameborder=0 width=120 scrolling=no height=240&gt;&lt;map name=&quot;boxmap-p8&quot;&gt; &lt;area shape=&quot;RECT&quot; coords=&quot;14, 200, 103, 207&quot; href=&quot;http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1&quot; &gt; &lt;area coords=&quot;0,0,10000,10000&quot; href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/netcrucible-20&quot; &gt;&lt;/map&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif&quot; width=&quot;120&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; usemap=&quot;#boxmap-p8&quot; alt=&quot;Shop at Amazon.com&quot;&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt; Simon Guest&apos;s book on J2EE and .NET interop is available now." />					<outline text="Amazon claims to have only five copies left in stock, so you might have to hurry up, or else try &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2TNBKMP9MR&amp;amp;isbn=0735619220&amp;amp;itm=1&quot;&gt;Barnes &amp;amp; Noble&lt;/a&gt;. " />					<outline text="12/14/2003; 5:31:24 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=e0d4a6ee-53c6-4975-b8e7-eaafb2b798be" />				</outline>				<outline text="WordML Schemas Offered.">					<outline text="The &lt;a href=&quot;http://isb.oio.dk/info/news/wordml+published.htm&quot;&gt;Danish ISB has uploaded the schemas for Microsoft Word&lt;/a&gt; offered under a liberal license." />					<outline text="Various people within MSFT, Danish government, and others worked very hard to make this happen, and it&apos;s a very significant announcement." />					<outline text="The biggest news happened when Word began to support XML natively, though, and most people already had the right to create WordML documents dynamically from their own code anyway (because who doesn&apos;t own a copy of Word?)." />					<outline text="But this is a nice step, especially for public sectors around the world." />					<outline text="For people who are not accustomed to looking at schemas, the new schema may appear to be no simpler than the RTF specs published for prior versions." />					<outline text="But I would urge anyone who thinks so to &quot;just try it&quot;." />					<outline text="I was able in a matter of minutes to write code to dynamically generate Word documents." />					<outline text="You can do it in three easy steps: 1) create a template Word document, save as XML, 2) crack the file in notepad and 3) use the sample to drive your own code." />					<outline text="I have been threatening to write an article for MSDN demonstrating this concept, but it seems insultingly remedial." />					<outline text="Since XSLT templates are simply XML, you can even cut-paste a word doc into notepad, wrap with a few &amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; etc. tags, and you&apos;ve got an XSLT that generates Word documents." />					<outline text="Try doing that with RTF (I have, and it is very ugly)." />					<outline text="12/14/2003; 5:31:24 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=08318ed7-19aa-4a8d-8bf7-a7c78769af7c" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from Better Living Through Software." type="rss" url="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 21:1&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="Soapbox 3.0">				<outline text="Scoble on &quot;Group Blogs&quot;.">					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/12/07.html#a5700&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Scoble&lt;/a&gt; seems to have a negative view of group blogs (&amp;ldquo;sucks&amp;rdquo; was the adjective he used)." />					<outline text="I understand some of his points, but I disagree with him on the bigger picture." />					<outline text="I&amp;rsquo;m a developer in a small company in the tiny Boston suburb of Hudson." />					<outline text="For the last 8 years I&amp;rsquo;ve developed commercial shrink-wrap products in a miniscule vertical (independent automotive repair shops)." />					<outline text="I&amp;rsquo;ve never written a book, I have nothing from MIT on my office wall, and I could count the number of close friends in the software industry on my hands." />					<outline text="And yet my blog is read by thousands each month (maybe more)." />					<outline text="Without the collective power of .NET Blogs behind me I would have little chance of gaining such a voice in the community." />					<outline text="I certainly wouldn&amp;rsquo;t have a chance of my comments on Scoble&amp;rsquo;s post read by the man himself." />					<outline text="And while I do risk the signal-to-noise ration drowning me out, I have a greater chance of being heard simply because I share a podium with some rather impressive individuals." />					<outline text="I do agree that communal blogs lend themselves to comparisons with newsgroups, but I disagree that this is a bad thing." />					<outline text="Newsgroups have so much noise that I often wonder if there is any signal in there at all." />					<outline text="Newsgroups are often dominated by rude, obnoxious, and strangely porn obsessed megalomaniacs while the communal blogs are moderated by the site owner and the individual blogers." />					<outline text="And where I once searched newsgroups to find code solutions, I now start with .NET Weblogs." />					<outline text="So yes, they are like newsgroups in many ways." />					<outline text="But I don&amp;rsquo;t see it as a bad thing; I see it more like evolution of the medium." />					<outline text="12/10/2003; 9:01:22 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/41948.aspx#feedback&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/41948.aspx" />				</outline>				<outline text="Empower ISV Program.">					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/frankarr/posts/41163.aspx&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Frank Arrigo&lt;/a&gt; mentioned the &lt;a href=&quot;http://members.microsoft.com/partner/isv/empower/default.aspx&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Microsoft Empower Program&lt;/a&gt; today." />					<outline text="My company just recently applied (and just moments ago was accepted) to the Empower ISV Program." />					<outline text="It is a great place for startups and established ISVs to get partnered with Microsoft." />					<outline text="From a startup&amp;rsquo;s perspective, it is very inexpensive and gives you a lot of tools that would otherwise occupy a good chunk of your budget (5 MSDN licenses are quite expensive)." />					<outline text="And for an established ISV (like us) it gives offers a painless path to a Microsoft partnership with no certification or testing requirements up front." />					<outline text="With Empower, we were able to partner with Microsoft during while migrating off our existing development environment rather than having to wait for our staff to pass certification tests or complete and test our .NET product line up front." />					<outline text="12/10/2003; 9:01:22 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/41209.aspx#feedback&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/41209.aspx" />				</outline>				<outline text="Newgator Posting.">					<outline text="Just to follow up on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/mlafleur/posts/31381.aspx&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;previous post&lt;/a&gt; of mine, the .Text plug-in for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsgator.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NewsGator&lt;/a&gt; is again working perfectly." />					<outline text="&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&apos;; font-style:italic&apos;&gt;For those 3 people who actually care, this should result in more posts from me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;" />					<outline text="12/10/2003; 9:01:22 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/40352.aspx#feedback&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/40352.aspx" />				</outline>				<outline text="Hello from New England, please send heat..">					<outline text="Damn it is cold here today." />					<outline text="Thank god for left over turkey because were it not for my cup of warm turkey soup I might have packed up and followed my dear old dad to Florida." />					<outline text="Burrr. " />					<outline text="12/10/2003; 9:01:21 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/40349.aspx#feedback&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/40349.aspx" />				</outline>				<outline text="ISVs Head Explodes, film at 11.">					<outline text="No, I&apos;m not kidding." />					<outline text="If I even &lt;EM&gt;think&lt;/EM&gt; about thinking about Microsoft&apos;s license options for another second, my head will explode." />					<outline text="Figuring out what license you need is about the most painful thing I&apos;ve ever been though (and am still going though for that matter)." />					<outline text="Is it a CAL? A TS-CAL? Is that a User CAL, Device CAL, User TS-CAL, or Device TS-CAL? Is that a CAL &lt;EM&gt;and&lt;/EM&gt; a TS-CAL that you need? OK then, is it a FPP, Open Business License, Select Open Business License, or FPP Open Select Selective OEM System Builder Excalibur-Is-Cool License? Hello? Sir? Would you like a napkin that gray matter? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............." />					<outline text="12/10/2003; 9:01:21 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/39716.aspx#feedback&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/39716.aspx" />				</outline>				<outline text="Tablet PC Developer Forums. I&apos;m going to take &lt;A href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/jlerman/posts/38393.aspx&quot;&gt;Julia&apos;s&lt;/A&gt; advice and start reading/posting more to the &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.tabletpcdeveloper.com&quot;&gt;www.tabletpcdeveloper.com&lt;/A&gt; forums. There is one thing about those forums that drive me nuts (and a big reason why no one uses them), you cannot search them.">					<outline text="And by that I mean, the search always returns nothing." />					<outline text="At least I assume when I search for &amp;#8220;ink&amp;#8221; I would get something (right now I get nothing). " />					<outline text="12/10/2003; 9:01:21 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/38451.aspx#feedback&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/38451.aspx" />				</outline>				<outline text="Ink Enable The ISV.">					<outline text="&lt;A href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/jlerman/posts/32396.aspx&quot; target=_blank&gt;Julia&lt;/A&gt; talked about it, so has &lt;A href=&quot;http://kstati.com/tabula/posts/775.aspx&quot; target=_blank&gt;Peter&lt;/A&gt;, and recently &lt;A href=&quot;http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000105.html&quot; target=_blank&gt;Dumkey&lt;/A&gt; chimed in as well." />					<outline text="What we&apos;re all talking about of course is developing applications that target the Tablet PC platform." />					<outline text="More specifically, the surprisingly sparse resources available to those of us who want to do so." />					<outline text="While the hardware has made quite a splash, the software community is still struggling to find a footing." />					<outline text="There are a number of obvious reasons why the Tablet PC is so tempting to develop for." />					<outline text="They &lt;I&gt;are&lt;/I&gt; cool, but it is more that just the &quot;new toy&quot; factor at work here." />					<outline text="There are any number of solid business reasons to target the platform as well: &lt;B&gt;Low Learning Curve&lt;/B&gt;." />					<outline text="I, and a number of others, have found that almost anyone can learn to use the Tablet is a matter of minutes." />					<outline text="For folks who use a computer every day, this isn&apos;t surprising; they are very similar in operation after all." />					<outline text="But what &lt;I&gt;is&lt;/I&gt; socking was how well the computer-illiterate and technology-adverse are able to operate it (and even love doing so)." />					<outline text="One of the important things to remember is that for all of our technological advances in the last 30 years, the bottleneck for the average user still remains the keyboard." />					<outline text="By removing the keyboard Microsoft has removed a substantial bottleneck." />					<outline text="&lt;B&gt;Fast User Acceptance." />					<outline text="&lt;/B&gt;A few months ago I took a tablet home to test our." />					<outline text="My wife, who has a completely irrational hate all modern technology, started using it and fell in love with it." />					<outline text="Rather than the usual &quot;when will this thing be out of my house&quot; I got &quot;do you &lt;I&gt;really&lt;/I&gt; have to give this back&quot;." />					<outline text="I&apos;ve told this story to many developers and almost everyone one of them have had received similar reactions." />					<outline text="&lt;B&gt;Extreme Portability." />					<outline text="&lt;/B&gt;Portability has been somewhat of a holy grail in the computer industry for a while now." />					<outline text="The Tablet PC represents a significant step closer to grabbing that grail." />					<outline text="While laptops help bring our desktop with us, it still requires (despite to it&apos;s name) a desk to sit at." />					<outline text="The Pocket PC made the leap to working while standing, but the small screen and limited input options has pretty much limited its use to isolated tasks." />					<outline text="The Tablet PC however gives the user all of the power of a laptop with the portability of the palmtop." />					<outline text="No, it isn&apos;t perfect; but it is a great improvement." />					<outline text="&lt;B&gt;High &quot;Buzz&quot; Value.&lt;/B&gt; When it comes to financing or selling technology solutions, nothing is more important than &quot;buzz&quot;." />					<outline text="And no, I&apos;m not talking about hype." />					<outline text="Hype is the ugly beast that invades the executive offices at Large Company X and suddenly forces development to being integrating Product Y for no legitimate reason." />					<outline text="Buzz on the other hand is quite different." />					<outline text="Buzz is what happens when a new product seems to build a massive audience without anyone noticing it is happening (the Blackberry is a good example)." />					<outline text="Buzz is the sound of synapses firing as someone thinks of every conceivable use for a product." />					<outline text="I&apos;ve experienced Buzz first hand when I demonstrated the Tablet PC to some of my customers." />					<outline text="They simply lit up at the sight of me using it and you could feel the &quot;Buzz&quot; in the air." />					<outline text="At this particular demonstration I showed a Pocket PC with a Barcode scanner, a PC with three 20&quot; LCD screens, an HP laptop with a 17&quot; screen, and previewed the next major release of our software." />					<outline text="I answered questions for an hour and only 2 of them were &lt;I&gt;not &lt;/I&gt;about the Tablet PC." />					<outline text="That my friends is Buzz at its finest." />					<outline text="So there is a lot interest in these devices." />					<outline text="People that own them, love them." />					<outline text="And yet, even after a full year of availability, there is very little development support for them." />					<outline text="And without a solid developer support system in place there will be very little ISV support." />					<outline text="We simply cannot afford to put in the R&amp;amp;D necessary on our own." />					<outline text="It is somewhat confusing that 2 years prior to release we have an MSDN Development Center for Longhorn." />					<outline text="But we still don&apos;t have one for the Tablet PC." />					<outline text="Sure, they have &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.tabletpcdeveloper.com./&quot; target=_top&gt;Tablet PC Developer&lt;/A&gt;." />					<outline text="But I&apos;m pretty sure there are Y2K bug sites out there less devoid of life than that place." />					<outline text="So all we are left with is the SDK (albeit a decent one)." />					<outline text="To be fair, I have only minor issues with the current SDK." />					<outline text="The current SDK ships with 2 controls for developers to use; InkPaint &amp;amp; InkEdit." />					<outline text="They work, but only in the most limited scope imaginable." />					<outline text="InkEdit in particular is cute but completely impractical." />					<outline text="When entering information in ink it either converts it to text or it leaves it as ink." />					<outline text="Most of our users express the desire to keep the ink as ink." />					<outline text="The only issue is that it immediately shrinks that ink to the same size as the current font." />					<outline text="When you ink a smiley face, it is a smiley face." />					<outline text="But when you shrink it to 8.75pt font it is unrecognizable scribble." />					<outline text="And it just isn&apos;t what the end-user expects to have happen." />					<outline text="What I need, and most users want, it to be able to insert ink just like they do in Microsoft Word today." />					<outline text="And by that I mean the ability to draw on my RTF control and have it display that ink exactly as it was originally entered." />					<outline text="If I could have an RTF editor that gave me real support for ink, I would be replacing every single RTF editor in my application today." />					<outline text="So if anyone out there knows of some solid 3rd party controls for Ink, please send them my way." />					<outline text="I&apos;m going to try and get an comprehensive list of Tablet PC options together to post on this site. " />					<outline text="12/10/2003; 9:01:21 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/38374.aspx#feedback&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/38374.aspx" />				</outline>				<outline text="Life... Complicated.">					<outline text="So there you are reading some documentation, every so lightly tapping you pen against your forehead." />					<outline text="You are in the zone when suddenly you realize: &lt;LI&gt;That pen is a Sharpie.&lt;/LI&gt; &lt;LI&gt;The cover for said Sharpie is on the desk in front of you.&lt;/LI&gt; &lt;LI&gt;Your forehead now resembles a Rorschach Ink Blot.&lt;/LI&gt; Sometimes life is complicated...." />					<outline text="12/10/2003; 9:01:21 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/38372.aspx#feedback&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/38372.aspx" />				</outline>				<outline text="Wrongheaded About &apos;Wronghorn&apos;.">					<outline text="&lt;A href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/11/17.html#a5497&quot; target=_blank&gt;Robert Scoble mentioned&lt;/A&gt; an article by Tom McCune today titled &quot;&lt;A href=&quot;http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-5108026.html&quot; target=_blank&gt;Five Myths About &apos;Wronghorn&apos;&lt;/A&gt;&quot; earlier today." />					<outline text="I think Robert was correct in speculating that Mr. McCune was not in attendance at the PDC." />					<outline text="His take on what Longhorn means seems about as misguided as any I&apos;ve heard in recent months." />					<outline text="His statement that purchasing Longhorn isn&apos;t a worthwhile investment because you are paying for features you might not use is poor at best." />					<outline text="And when he states &quot;It&apos;s like going for a fully loaded SUV when only one person will be driving the vehicle to the train station." />					<outline text="A Ford Focus would do, but you&apos;re force to buy a Lincoln Navigator&quot; makes we wonder if he has been to the train station lately." />					<outline text="It is full of vehicles designed for off-road and heavy-hauling being driven by a decidedly on-road, light-hauling, class of driver." />					<outline text="Unless you really believe that fellow in the $3,000 Armani suite spends his off time hauling boulders up Mt. Washington." />					<outline text="Not only is his articles laced with misconceptions and inept observations, it also contains a number of factually incorrect statements." />					<outline text="My favorite is that &quot;Each version [of Visual Studio .NET] has a new framework that cannot be used with previous versions.&quot;." />					<outline text="Really Tom? You sure could have fooled me." />					<outline text="The fact is that the .NET framework is fully backwards compatible with only a few minor exceptions (and none I could not workaround in 15 minutes)." />					<outline text="There seem to be two classes of the anti-Microsoft crowd." />					<outline text="Those who simply don&apos;t like or can&apos;t use the solutions offered by Microsoft and therefore choose a different platform." />					<outline text="And those who so desperately hate Microsoft that they grab hold of any argument they can in a futile attempt to prove they are correct." />					<outline text="These are the same people who continue to use Windows 95 as the bases of every argument against Microsoft even though it is almost a decade old." />					<outline text="So yeah, maybe I should be driving the Ford Focus." />					<outline text="But I just can&apos;t seem to get past the awful breaking system in he Model A. Ford just doesn&apos;t understand brakes." />					<outline text="And have you &lt;I&gt;seen&lt;/I&gt; that Fairmont pile of crap? Anyway, time to hop into my Lincoln Navigator and get going; I&apos;ve got a train to catch. " />					<outline text="12/10/2003; 9:01:21 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/38062.aspx#feedback&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/38062.aspx" />				</outline>				<outline text="Criminally Painful.">					<outline text="Saw the latest Matrix... yep... sure did..." />					<outline text="On the up side; Gorge Lucas can now rest easy knowing that someone else now holds the title for biggest let down in modern sci-fi." />					<outline text="Now if you don&apos;t mind, I&apos;m going to go scrub my eyeballs." />					<outline text="12/10/2003; 9:01:21 PM [&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/36763.aspx#feedback&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]" type="link" url="http://weblogs.asp.net/vsto/posts/36763.aspx" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from Soapbox 3.0." type="rss" url="http://weblogs.asp.net/mlafleur/Rss.aspx" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 22:25&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="The Register">				<outline text="IBM dismisses OpenOffice as child&apos;s play.">					<outline text="Peace, love and Microsoft" />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 10:25:19 PM" type="link" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32461.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from The Register." type="rss" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/tonys/slashdot.rdf" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 21:55&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="CNET News.com">				<outline text="Bystanders caught in spam cross fire.">					<outline text="AOL Time Warner&apos;s Road Runner cable-modem service implements a new policy to block suspected spammers." />					<outline text="But the campaign is running over some innocent victims along the way." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:55:43 PM" type="link" url="http://rss.com.com/2100-1032_3-5066903.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news" />				</outline>				<outline text="Net music pirate faces years in prison.">					<outline text="The U.S. Department of Justice says it has accepted a guilty plea in a criminal copyright case involving the former leader of a Net music piracy group called the Apocalypse Crew." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:55:43 PM" type="link" url="http://rss.com.com/2100-1027_3-5066894.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news" />				</outline>				<outline text="New broadband rules draw criticism.">					<outline text="Regulators release details on controversial new rules that will help shape the future of the high-speed Net and local telephone markets." />					<outline text="But portions of the plan are being challenged by critics." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:55:43 PM" type="link" url="http://rss.com.com/2100-1034_3-5066885.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news" />				</outline>				<outline text="Earnings alert: Novell sees red.">					<outline text="The networking-software maker posts loss, announces job cuts...TiVo raises guidance for the rest of the year...Ciena narrows its losses on rising revenue." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:55:43 PM" type="link" url="http://rss.com.com/2009-1017_3-255584.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from CNET News.com." type="rss" url="http://rss.com.com/2547-12-0-5.xml" />			</outline>		</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 21:19&lt;/b&gt;">			<outline text="New York Times: Business">				<outline text="Internet Advertising.">					<outline text="Internet Advertising." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/media/21ADDE.html?ex=1376798400&en=ecf0e0f96c85b47d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="World Business Breifing. AMERICAS.">					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21fobr.html?ex=1376798400&en=a8d327564b78c9d6&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Technology Briefing: Software.">					<outline text="ORACLE BID FOR PEOPLESOFT DELAYED;." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/technology/20TBRF3.html?ex=1376798400&en=778e7c8fe5a539f9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Technology Briefing: Telecommunications.">					<outline text="NOKIA TO BUY GAMING ASSETS OF SEGA NETWORK; CROSSWAVE SEEKS PROTECTION FROM CREDITORS; JUDGE APPROVES AT&amp;T WIRELESS SETTLEMENT;." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/technology/20TBRF1.html?ex=1376798400&en=ce430c9c26b07035&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Technology Briefing: Internet.">					<outline text="F.T.C. CHIEF DOUBTFUL OF ANTISPAM LEGISLATION;." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/technology/21TBRF2.html?ex=1376798400&en=be2c9e117675752f&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Technology Briefing: Hardware.">					<outline text="DELL CUTS PRICES BY UP TO 22%;." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/technology/19TBRF1.html?ex=1376712000&en=638548ec5d67243d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="At Long Last, the Salarymen Are Given Their Due.">					<outline text="An improbable television hit, &quot;Project X: Challengers&quot; documents successful projects undertaken by Every Salaryman." />					<outline text="By Norimitsu Onishi." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/international/asia/21TOKY.html?ex=1376798400&en=998b11ec8d324b47&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Commentators in Arab World Call Attack a Catastrophe.">					<outline text="Commentators viewed the suicide bombing of the U.N. headquarters as utter madness, yet more proof that the region is spiraling out of control." />					<outline text="By Neil Macfarquhar." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/international/worldspecial/21ARAB.html?ex=1376798400&en=c1c90dea85995052&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Exclusive! It&apos;s Doom for Tabloid Archives!.">					<outline text="Five decades of bizarre photos, notes and clippings from issues of supermarket tabloids will be destroyed along with the anthrax-infested headquarters of American Media Inc. in Florida." />					<outline text="By Abby Goodnough." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/national/21TABL.html?ex=1376884800&en=56fa61cec18a7c6e&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="SARS Keeps Foreign Students Home, Hurting Chinese Businesses.">					<outline text="Small businesses dependent on China&apos;s annual influx of summer students are still reeling from the repercussions of SARS." />					<outline text="By David W. Chen." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/international/asia/21SUMM.html?ex=1376798400&en=4e38f9d95454e8a2&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Strong Franc Helps Reduce Nestle&apos;s Profit.">					<outline text="First-half profits at Nestlé fell by half from the year-ago period, hurt by a strong Swiss franc and comparison with a one-time gain last year." />					<outline text="By Alison Langley." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21nest.html?ex=1376798400&en=8f3cd4438f37a8b5&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Talks Could Push North Korea Forward or Back.">					<outline text="Will billions of dollars in aid in exchange for North Korea ending its nuclear weapons program accelerate or reverse the country&apos;s grudging free market moves? By James Brooke." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/worldbusiness/21nort.html?ex=1376798400&en=350f380c8d56116a&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="World Coffee Exports Rise.">					<outline text="A surge in Brazilian exports lifted global coffee exports by 3.6 percent in the 12 months ended June 30." />					<outline text="By The New York Times." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/worldbusiness/21COFF.html?ex=1376798400&en=66524fd15b6b96e2&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Brazil Cuts Key Interest Rate in Bid to Revive Its Economy.">					<outline text="The move was a sign that Brazil&apos;s left-leaning government is increasingly anxious to get the stalled economy growing again." />					<outline text="By Tony Smith." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/worldbusiness/21rate.html?ex=1376798400&en=562b6be49c6339eb&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Oversight Group Warned Utilities on Power Flows.">					<outline text="Three months ago, the industry group charged with protecting the electrical grid singled out the sections covering Ohio and other parts of the Midwest as particularly vulnerable." />					<outline text="By Andrew C. Revkin and James Glanz." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/national/21POWE.html?ex=1376798400&en=9e47f19cfa4676ad&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="He Dickers, She Doesn&apos;t.">					<outline text="Why are women more likely than men to pay the sticker price? A new book delves into the mystery." />					<outline text="By Alan B. Krueger." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21SCEN.html?ex=1376798400&en=8dc7f940b51b88d5&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Russell Simmons vs. KFC. The hip-hop impresario turned activist is the latest celebrity foot soldier in the publicity war that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is waging against KFC.">					<outline text="By Sherri Day." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/media/21ADCO.html?ex=1376798400&en=cd330d81fb5a3542&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Japan Inc.">					<outline text="Now Just a Memory, Toshiba Retools Its Image." />					<outline text="Toshiba, like other giant Japanese electronics companies, is focusing on fewer product lines and flashy technology." />					<outline text="By Ken Belson." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/worldbusiness/21TOSH.html?ex=1376798400&en=2fecfbc19893d482&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Chief Is Selected at ADC.">					<outline text="By Bloomberg News." />					<outline text="By Bloomberg News." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/technology/21ADC.html?ex=1376798400&en=47467f4d4efceef9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Rates Curb Refinancings.">					<outline text="By Bloomberg News." />					<outline text="By Bloomberg News." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21MBA.html?ex=1376798400&en=582b42c07cb97f85&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Price of Treasuries Tumbles on Fear of Return of Inflation.">					<outline text="By Bloomberg News." />					<outline text="By Bloomberg News." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21BOND.html?ex=1376798400&en=fb0dc407ed2f7aae&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="F.C.C. Lifts Ban on Video for AOL Instant Messaging.">					<outline text="The Federal Communications Commission has granted a request by AOL Time Warner to drop restrictions on adding video to its AOL instant messaging service." />					<outline text="By David D. Kirkpatrick." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/technology/21AOL.html?ex=1376798400&en=75702d27d09819e9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="ABC News Executive Leaves for CBS.">					<outline text="Victor Neufeld, a longtime producer and executive at ABC News, said that he was leaving to become the No. 2 producer of &quot;The Early Show&quot; on CBS." />					<outline text="By Jim Rutenberg." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/media/21TUBE.html?ex=1376798400&en=650b340f5265abf9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Berkshire Loses Bid for Secrecy.">					<outline text="Warren E. Buffett lost a bid for confidentiality from the S.E.C., meaning that the public may learn more about which stocks Mr. Buffett was buying last fall." />					<outline text="By Floyd Norris." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21BUFF.html?ex=1376798400&en=9e058ba86839201a&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="UBS Settles Charges on Broker Supervision.">					<outline text="UBS agreed to pay $500,000 to settle accusations that it failed to supervise a broker who bilked clients out of more than $68 million." />					<outline text="By Bloomberg News." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21BROK.html?ex=1376798400&en=fc0dc407ed2ff2ae&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Foot Locker Second Quarter Earnings Rise 16%.">					<outline text="NEW YORK (AP) -- Foot Locker Inc." />					<outline text="Thursday said its second-quarter earnings rose 16 percent on strong sales from the company&apos;s international and Internet businesses." />					<outline text="By The Associated Press." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Earns-Foot-Locker.html?ex=1376884800&en=0dd49608b50b70f3&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Foot Locker Profits Jump, Sales Take - Off.">					<outline text="NEW YORK (Reuters) - Foot Locker Inc. (FL.N) ,the No. 1 U.S. athletic shoe retailer, on Thursday posted a higher quarterly profit, and said U.S. sales have risen in the current quarter, sending its shares up 4 percent." />					<outline text="By Reuters." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-retail-footlocker-earns.html?ex=1376884800&en=0c72e24276b023fb&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="NBA&apos;s LeBron James Inks Coke Brands Deal.">					<outline text="NEW YORK (Reuters) - Basketball phenomenon LeBron James now will have something to drink after he plays his first National Basketball Association game." />					<outline text="By Reuters." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-food-coke-lebron.html?ex=1376884800&en=9924684d57e207da&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Krispy Kreme Quarterly Profit Up.">					<outline text="NEW YORK (Reuters) - Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. (KKD.N) on Thursday posted a higher quarterly profit as the company picked up the pace of its expansion, but its shares dipped more than 4 percent as investors considered the stock overvalued following a recent rally." />					<outline text="By Reuters." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-leisure-krispykreme-earns.html?ex=1376884800&en=c24823b829784666&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="US Mid-Atlantic Factories Post Surge.">					<outline text="Factory activity in the Mid-Atlantic region jumped unexpectedly in August." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21WIRES-FACTO.html?ex=1376884800&en=b9e34316a185e7a2&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="PNC Expands Reach Into Northeast.">					<outline text="NEW YORK (Reuters) - PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (PNC.N) on Thursday said it agreed to buy United National Bancorp (UNBJ.O) , parent company of UnitedTrust Bank, for about $638 million, bolstering its presence in an affluent U.S. Northeast region." />					<outline text="By Reuters." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-financial-unitednational-pnc.html?ex=1376884800&en=220338228ecab18c&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Under Deregulation, Montana Power Price Soars.">					<outline text="As the Northeast painstakingly ponders what role deregulation might have played in last week&apos;s blackout, a similar soul-searching is in full cry in Montana." />					<outline text="By Jonathan D. Glater." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21MONT.html?ex=1376798400&en=3049fd5150a7e94c&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Clothing Retailers Post Higher Profits.">					<outline text="NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clothing retailers posted mixed quarterly results on Thursday, as men&apos;s suits outshined young women&apos;s fashions and stronger players like Limited Brands Inc. (LTD.N) turned to inventory and cost controls to offset soft sales." />					<outline text="By Reuters." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-retail-apparel.html?ex=1376884800&en=69fd2787c88a4c6d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Roy Disney Agrees to Sell 7.5 Million Shares.">					<outline text="Walt Disney Vice Chairman Roy E. Disney has agreed to a future sale of 7.5 million Disney shares, a transaction that is netting the son of company co-founder Roy O. Disney $125 million." />					<outline text="By The Associated Press." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Disney-Shares.html?ex=1376884800&en=6b9a196168fff5c9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Facing Criticism, F.C.C.">					<outline text="Is Thinking Local." />					<outline text="The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, which has been accused of aiding big media, said a new panel will study the &quot;localism&quot; of radio and television stations." />					<outline text="By Jacques Steinberg." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/media/21FCC.html?ex=1376798400&en=21353c5965844e66&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Spread of &apos;Sobig.F&apos; Virus Is Fastest Ever.">					<outline text="A computer virus that circulated across the Internet this week, hard on the heels of another nasty online infection, has been declared the fastest e-mail outbreak ever." />					<outline text="By The Associated Press." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-E-mail-Virus.html?ex=1376884800&en=f22a7e342ff4f8de&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="After 5 Years, Viagra to Face Competition.">					<outline text="Levitra, a Viagra-like drug for impotence, was approved for sale by the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, and Cialis, from Eli Lilly, is under final review." />					<outline text="By Gardiner Harris." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21DRUG.html?ex=1376884800&en=907092613c282f3d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="FirstEnergy Warns of Rolling Blackouts.">					<outline text="FirstEnergy warned today it may order rolling blackouts later in the day if hot weather and strong air conditioning demand sap available power supplies." />					<outline text="By Reuters." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-utilities-firstenergy-rollingblackout.html?ex=1376884800&en=e60abe27c146a178&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Delta Eases Rules on Ticket Changes.">					<outline text="Delta Air Lines today became the latest U.S. carrier to relax restrictions on nonrefundable tickets, nearly a year after many airlines began enforcing stricter policies to bring in more money." />					<outline text="By Reuters." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-airlines-delta-tickets.html?ex=1376884800&en=eb5a9aef1da118e8&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Pfizer Falls on Concern Over Generic Drug Threat.">					<outline text="Shares of Pfizer fell 3 percent today after Smith Barney cut its rating on the world&apos;s largest drug maker amid concern its cholesterol drug Lipitor may face generic competition." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:03 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21WIRES-PFIZ.html?ex=1376884800&en=de02209700bcf148&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Morgan Stanley Seeks to Change Basis for Award in a Stock Case.">					<outline text="The firm is working hard to convince arbitrators hearing cases brought by aggrieved investors that the research settlement it struck last April is not relevant." />					<outline text="By Gretchen Morgenson." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21PLAC.html?ex=1376798400&en=9ba308c79d65f52e&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Stocks Finish With Gains.">					<outline text="Stocks closed up today, as an unexpectedly strong regional manufacturing sector report and a drop in jobless claims buoyed hopes for an economic recovery." />					<outline text="By Reuters." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-markets-stocks.html?ex=1376884800&en=add798189505d6a4&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from New York Times: Business." type="rss" url="http://partners.userland.com/nytRss/business.xml" />			</outline>			<outline text="New York Times: Health">				<outline text="Prescription Drugs Now, Day of Reckoning Later.">					<outline text="President Bush and Congress have agreed to spend $400 billion on prescription drugs for the elderly, but the government has no budget surplus to pay for the benefits." />					<outline text="By Robert Pear." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/politics/19MEDI.html?ex=1376625600&en=e5e61af0de03b988&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Users Discover Pros and Cons in Stair-Climbing Wheelchair.">					<outline text="The Independence iBOT 3000 Mobility System was designed by Dean Kamen years before he introduced the Segway." />					<outline text="By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/science/19CHAI.html?ex=1376625600&en=56aa1ee421a68e93&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="How Diplomacy in Handling Death Can Save Lives.">					<outline text="The tragedy was that a boy died." />					<outline text="The failure was that the hospital was unable to persuade the parents to donate his organs." />					<outline text="By Randi Hutter Epstein." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/health/19TRAN.html?ex=1376625600&en=13bbac9e917ed994&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Cancer Pioneer Aims to Market a Vaccine.">					<outline text="Despite his accomplishments, the main goal of Dr. Donald L. Morton&apos;s life putting a cancer vaccine on the market has eluded him." />					<outline text="By Andrew Pollack." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/science/19PROF.html?ex=1376625600&en=d641a58a5c506702&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Gene Therapy Used to Treat Patients With Parkinson&apos;s.">					<outline text="Despite the checkered history of gene therapy experiments, the F.D.A. approved a procedure for 12 patients, but some experts expressed concern." />					<outline text="By Denise Grady and Gina Kolata." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/science/19GENE.html?ex=1376625600&en=5b6cf20ce3f388a6&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Merck Completes Spinoff of Medco Health Solutions.">					<outline text="Medco Health Solutions, the nation&apos;s largest manager of drug benefits, became independent in a spinoff to shareholders of Merck &amp; Company." />					<outline text="By Milt Freudenheim." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/business/20MEDC.html?ex=1376798400&en=f4b83ba327a332f3&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Selling the War Against Warts.">					<outline text="There&apos;s a new battle in the competitive world of American marketing among products to freeze warts." />					<outline text="By Stuart Elliott." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/business/media/20ADCO.html?ex=1376798400&en=9b6fc18a1cf177e6&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Heartburn Drug Battle Likely.">					<outline text="Two drug companies plan to sell cheaper versions of Prilosec, a heartburn drug, which could lead to a big fight between managed-care companies and drug makers." />					<outline text="By Gardiner Harris." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/business/20DRUG.html?ex=1376712000&en=9e8180da7086ad1d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Outbreak Near Vancouver Resembles SARS.">					<outline text="Early test results of a small portion of a virus that has spread through a nursing home outside Vancouver is genetically identical to SARS." />					<outline text="By Clifford Krauss." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/health/20SARS.html?ex=1376798400&en=57aa7ce5d66a20fd&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="SARS Keeps Foreign Students Home, Hurting Chinese Businesses.">					<outline text="Small businesses dependent on China&apos;s annual influx of summer students are still reeling from the repercussions of SARS." />					<outline text="By David W. Chen." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/international/asia/21SUMM.html?ex=1376798400&en=4e38f9d95454e8a2&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="After 5 Years, Viagra to Face Competition.">					<outline text="Levitra, a Viagra-like drug for impotence, was approved for sale by the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, and Cialis, from Eli Lilly, is under final review." />					<outline text="By Gardiner Harris." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/business/21DRUG.html?ex=1376884800&en=907092613c282f3d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Medicare to Pay for Major Lung Operation.">					<outline text="Medicare will begin paying for the operation for certain people 65 and over who have severe emphysema with specific traits that make them likely to benefit from the surgery." />					<outline text="By Denise Grady." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/health/21LUNG.html?ex=1376884800&en=ef644304eb319071&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Second Case Like SARS Turns Up in Canada.">					<outline text="A relatively mild upper respiratory ailment that seems to be caused by a SARS-like virus has appeared in a second nursing home in the Vancouver area." />					<outline text="By Lawrence K. Altman." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:19:02 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/health/21VIRU.html?ex=1376798400&en=d2f7a702c777b62d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from New York Times: Health." type="rss" url="http://partners.userland.com/nytRss/health.xml" />			</outline>			<outline text="Dictionary.com Word of the Day">				<outline text="irrefragable: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. irrefragable">					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:59 PM" type="link" url="http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2003/08/21.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from Dictionary.com Word of the Day." type="rss" url="http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/wotd.rss" />			</outline>			<outline text="BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition">				<outline text="UK backs US on Iraq command.">					<outline text="The UK foreign secretary says the US must keep command of forces in Iraq despite pressure for a broader UN role." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/3172433.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Palestinian fury after Gaza strike.">					<outline text="Hamas threatens an &quot;earthquake&quot; of revenge, ending a truce after Israel killed one of its leaders." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/3170115.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="&apos;Chemical Ali&apos; captured.">					<outline text="US troops hold one of Saddam Hussein&apos;s top generals, Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as &quot;Chemical Ali&quot;, officials say." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/3170505.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Kelly spoke of death in the woods.">					<outline text="Dr David Kelly told a senior diplomat in February he would probably be &quot;found dead in the woods&quot; if the UK invaded Iraq, the Hutton inquiry hears." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/uk_politics/3170593.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Ex-marine arrives back in UK.">					<outline text="A former US marine accused of abducting a girl from Greater Manchester arrives back in the UK." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/uk/3169129.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Iran ex-envoy arrested in UK.">					<outline text="A former Iranian ambassador to Argentina, wanted over the bombing of a Jewish centre in 1994, is arrested in the UK." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/americas/3172209.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Tests link US sniper deaths.">					<outline text="Investigators confirm that all three victims shot dead in West Virginia were killed by the same rifle." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/americas/3172425.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="UK police send help to Faliraki.">					<outline text="Blackpool police are sending an officer to the Greek holiday resort of Faliraki to help deal with drunken British tourists." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/uk/3170949.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Sobig is biggest virus of all.">					<outline text="The Sobig F Windows virus has set records for the amount of e-mail messages it infected." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/technology/3169573.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Sampras set to retire.">					<outline text="Pete Sampras will officially announce his retirement at the US Open on Monday." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/sport1/hi/tennis/3172255.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Cricket: Kirsten defies England.">					<outline text="Gary Kirsten leads South Africa&apos;s recovery from 21-4 as they close day one of the fourth Test on 260-7." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/sport1/hi/cricket/eng_v_sa_2003/3165007.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Liberian foes choose leader.">					<outline text="A businessman is chosen to head the post-war authority, as delegates to the talks in Ghana are hurt in a plane accident." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/africa/3163589.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Japan may delay Iraq force.">					<outline text="Japanese troops are unlikely to be sent to Iraq this year, following the bomb attack on Baghdad&apos;s UN headquarters." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3169401.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="US &apos;holy rock&apos; judge stands firm.">					<outline text="Alabama&apos;s chief justice vows to defy new court orders to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/americas/3171287.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Chirac promises health changes.">					<outline text="The French president says the health system will be fixed, as ministers say 10,000 may have died in a summer heatwave." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:58 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/europe/3167925.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition." type="rss" url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/front_page/rss091.xml" />			</outline>			<outline text="New York Times: Education">				<outline text="Professors With a Past.">					<outline text="Ex-convict criminologists say time they spent as prison inmates adds special insight to their research and their teaching." />					<outline text="By Warren St. John." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/09/arts/09CRIM.html?ex=1376539200&en=263bca6f28ea27d9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="City Is Ordered to Reinstate Teacher Arrested for Drugs.">					<outline text="The Staten Island junior high school teacher was suspended without pay after being arrested last year and pleading guilty to a drug charge." />					<outline text="By David M. Herszenhorn." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/09/nyregion/09SCHO.html?ex=1376539200&en=22acc1cb0f4c5c8a&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Princeton Stands in for Beijing: Studies of China Adapt to SARS.">					<outline text="On the Princeton University campus, there are 79 students who have spoken almost nothing but Mandarin Chinese for the last seven weeks." />					<outline text="By Katherine Zoepf." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/nyregion/10SARS.html?ex=1376539200&en=2e264a0ab3a2e473&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="The Perils of Cutbacks in Higher Education.">					<outline text="Forced to cut spending to balance state budgets, legislatures are coming down hardest on higher education." />					<outline text="By Louis Uchitelle." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/business/yourmoney/10VIEW.html?ex=1376539200&en=7753d6b0c57c938e&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Courts Weighing Rights of States to Curb Aid for Religion Majors.">					<outline text="Eleven states prohibit the awarding of financial aid to students who choose to study theology." />					<outline text="By Adam Liptak." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/national/10SCHO.html?ex=1376539200&en=286ca3a60e71dcdf&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="An Update: Selective Public School Helps a Family Stay Put.">					<outline text="Sal Infante had all but decided to head for the expensive suburbs and better schools for his daughter from New York City." />					<outline text="Then he caught a lucky break." />					<outline text="By Anthony Depalma." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/11/nyregion/11UPDA.html?ex=1376625600&en=f5435132a2dd292b&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="President of Rutgers University Is Robbed of Wallet.">					<outline text="Richard L. McCormick was robbed Saturday night as he walked out of a liquor store a few blocks from the campus in New Brunswick, N.J." />					<outline text="By Maria Newman." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/12/nyregion/12RUTG.html?ex=1376712000&en=e89589dc96ff4b41&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Summer Is a Perilous Time for Classroom Pets.">					<outline text="When the doorbell rang recently at a mini-zoo run by the school district in Plano, Tex., workers knew immediately what to expect: another teacher dropping off an unwanted classroom pet." />					<outline text="By Sam Dillon." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/13/education/13CRIT.html?ex=1376798400&en=53c2e9981b8e153b&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Cheer and Challenge, Far From Home.">					<outline text="Under a program sponsored by Roger Williams University and eight other colleges, 12 Afghan women have received four-year scholarships to the United States." />					<outline text="By Julie Flaherty." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/13/education/13COLL.html?ex=1376798400&en=e8681abb8108f0df&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Schools Open More Inquiries on Misconduct by Workers.">					<outline text="The increased inquiries led to 50 percent more recommendations that employees be dismissed than in the previous fiscal year." />					<outline text="By Elissa Gootman." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/13/education/13SCHO.html?ex=1376798400&en=3a22576268965de7&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="With the Apples Arriving by E-Mail, Teachers Adapt.">					<outline text="Teachers learn new tricks as the Internet expands their professional horizons." />					<outline text="By Barnaby J. Feder." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/technology/circuits/14teac.html?ex=1376798400&en=a65044d98ad0953d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="School Issues Pose Problem of Perspective.">					<outline text="There were two interesting stories about the New York City schools in the last week." />					<outline text="Guess which one got all the attention? By Joyce Purnick." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/04/nyregion/04MATT.html?ex=1376625600&en=974a6a2aee25b073&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Off to Freshman Year, a Perfect Score in Hand.">					<outline text="A Kentucky student who scored a perfect 36 on the ACT college admissions test finds himself a local celebrity." />					<outline text="By Michael Winerip." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/education/20EDUC.html?ex=1376712000&en=082f3b3c9c5a2c5b&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Learning to Deal the Way the Pros Do It.">					<outline text="A licensed casino training program the only one in the state, according to the Department of Education blends blandness with possibility." />					<outline text="By Erin Chan." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/nyregion/03casi.html?ex=1376539200&en=3f02737f5914691f&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="New York&apos;s New Approach.">					<outline text="Come September, the city embarks on one of the greatest experiments ever attempted in progressive education - like it or not." />					<outline text="By James Traub." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/edlife/03EDTRAUB.html?ex=1376539200&en=681aedc293c96a84&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Comparing the Campus Health Centers.">					<outline text="Student health centers vary considerably in the range of services they provide, but generally provide good care." />					<outline text="By Sana Siwolop." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/business/yourmoney/10SINS.html?ex=1376539200&en=8e83880ea7007f4e&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="At Yale, Remaking College Cuisine as a Holistic Experience.">					<outline text="Alice Waters, who helped transform the way American chefs think about food through her award-winning restaurant, Chez Panisse, is looking to do the same for college students." />					<outline text="By Marc Santora." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/16/nyregion/16YALE.html?ex=1376366400&en=013e8313e15ccf2d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="A Palmful of Goodies for the Undergrad.">					<outline text="A palmtop can be more convenient than a laptop for many students, but it is only as useful as the programs loaded into it." />					<outline text="By David Pogue." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/technology/circuits/14stat.html?ex=1376798400&en=c8c4edee87d9083f&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="A Young Writers&apos; Round Table, via the Web.">					<outline text="Many young students struggle with writing." />					<outline text="But online technology is helping students improve skills by offering them an audience for their work." />					<outline text="By Lisa Guernsey." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/technology/circuits/14peer.html?ex=1376884800&en=22ba6125d864665d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Among the Ivy, a Campus Tour Guide That Beeps.">					<outline text="An electronic tour of Cornell University is part of a research project that explores the uses of devices that can orient themselves in the real world." />					<outline text="By Jim Carrier." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/technology/circuits/14gpss.html?ex=1376884800&en=13520568c93d8a91&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="As Belated Converts, Schools Keep Vigil for Internet2.">					<outline text="Some educators are looking for ways to take advantage of the speedier data transfers promised by Internet2, the next-generation Internet." />					<outline text="By Jeffrey Selingo." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/technology/circuits/14next.html?ex=1376798400&en=1fdb4334a04d349d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Lawsuit Opposes Expansion of School for Gay Students.">					<outline text="A Bronx senator has filed a lawsuit to block the expansion of a small public high school for gay students, arguing that the school violates antidiscrimination policies." />					<outline text="By David M. Herszenhorn." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/16/education/16SCHO.html?ex=1376452800&en=f66cc83e7a35b253&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Road to a Fairer School Budget Begins With, Well, Confusion.">					<outline text="Principals, parents and others are trying to figure out who wins and who loses under New York City&apos;s new school-financing formula." />					<outline text="By David M. Herszenhorn." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/nyregion/18BUDG.html?ex=1376625600&en=12d6e4103f955e87&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Medical Establishment Hopes to Thwart Residents&apos; Lawsuit.">					<outline text="The suit, filed by several young doctors, contends that residents are forced to participate in a system that ensures they work long hours and receive low pay." />					<outline text="By Neil A. Lewis." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/politics/18RESI.html?ex=1376625600&en=4dc3989e8df57481&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Group Wants the City Charter to Set Limits on Class Sizes.">					<outline text="A coalition of labor unions and nonprofit groups filed petitions aimed at setting legal limits for class size in New York City public schools." />					<outline text="By David M. Herszenhorn." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/education/19EDUC.html?ex=1376712000&en=37310b1da9aba0a9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Skipping a College Course: Weight Gain 101.">					<outline text="When I entered college four and a half decades ago, I was 108 pounds." />					<outline text="By the end of my freshman year I had acquired 12 pounds of flab." />					<outline text="By Jane E. Brody." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/health/nutrition/19BROD.html?ex=1376625600&en=7a01357ff7d474c9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="List of &apos;Dangerous&apos; Schools Lists Few, Puzzling Many.">					<outline text="When the list of New York State schools was released, it prompted more bemusement than horror." />					<outline text="Only two small, little-known Brooklyn schools were named." />					<outline text="By Elissa Gootman." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/education/19SCHO.html?ex=1376712000&en=6ac45770d6e6d6a6&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Foundation to Give $50 Million for Studies of Security Issues.">					<outline text="The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will encourage academic scientists and researchers to devote efforts to anti-terrorism issues." />					<outline text="By Stephanie Strom." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/national/19FOUN.html?ex=1376625600&en=e37ac7233235922a&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Welcome to the Big City.">					<outline text="Beware the Dinosaurs.." />					<outline text="A summer research program at the American Museum of Natural History is a dream come true for out-of-towners with a love of science." />					<outline text="By Marek Fuchs." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/education/20MUSE.html?ex=1376798400&en=81b2fb5a1bc06b47&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Valedictorian Settles Dispute With Schools for $60,000.">					<outline text="The Moorestown (N.J.) School Board announced that it had agreed to pay $60,000 to settle a lawsuit by a disabled high school senior who sued the district to be named sole valedictorian." />					<outline text="By Jill P. Capuzzo." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/education/20GRAD.html?ex=1376798400&en=b52fb61878018a07&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="High School Seniors Weak in Math and Science Tests.">					<outline text="Fewer than half of graduating high school seniors who took the 2003 ACT college entrance exams were adequately prepared for college-level algebra, according to the test results." />					<outline text="By Tamar Lewin." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/education/20ACT.html?ex=1376798400&en=381090d3cdb13ffb&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Florida Board Backs Retreat on Class Size.">					<outline text="Florida&apos;s top education officials are seeking a partial repeal of a disputed plan to lower class size, a move that could cost state taxpayers billions of dollars." />					<outline text="By Abby Goodnough." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/national/20CLAS.html?ex=1376712000&en=d62b7fb855779950&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="3 Women and 3 Paths, 10 Years Later.">					<outline text="Ten years ago, they were freshly minted M.I.T. graduates and, as women, part of a small minority in computer science." />					<outline text="Where are they now? By Katie Hafner." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/technology/circuits/21wome.html?ex=1376798400&en=6af8afc374637c0b&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="Survey of School Offices Finds Answers Scarce.">					<outline text="Officials at the Department of Education&apos;s 10 new regional offices are largely unprepared to answer even the most basic questions that parents might pose about school services." />					<outline text="By David M. Herszenhorn." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/education/21LEAR.html?ex=1376884800&en=4871b341948498a9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="1,200 Parents Prepare to Take on Role as Paid Liaisons in Schools.">					<outline text="This is the first year that each school will have a paid, full-time parent coordinator, charged with serving as liaisons between parents and school officials." />					<outline text="By Elissa Gootman." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:54 PM" type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/education/21SCHO.html?ex=1376884800&en=c9cca2b3a6446bf0&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from New York Times: Education." type="rss" url="http://partners.userland.com/nytRss/education.xml" />			</outline>			<outline text="BBC News | Technology | UK Edition">				<outline text="Sobig is biggest virus of all.">					<outline text="The Sobig F Windows virus has set records for the amount of e-mail messages it infected." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:53 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/technology/3169573.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Hi-tech cards &apos;allay fraud fears&apos;.">					<outline text="Most people in the UK seem comfortable with using hi-tech credit cards instead of current ones that rely on signatures." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:53 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/technology/3169741.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Dell makes grab for market share.">					<outline text="The world&apos;s largest computer maker slashes prices by up to 22%, in an aggressive move to profit from the imminent peak season." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:53 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/business/3169407.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Child porn sites double, say police.">					<outline text="The number of websites showing illegal images of child abuse has risen sharply, according to UK police figures." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:52 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/technology/3170937.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Hutchison upbeat on 3G.">					<outline text="Hutchison Whampoa, owner of Europe&apos;s pioneering new generation mobile network &apos;3,&apos; says it is confident the service will take off." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:52 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/business/3169565.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Sponge could improve telecoms. A deep-sea sponge is showing humans a thing or two about superior fibre-optic technology.">					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:52 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/sci/tech/3168353.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Satellites fight Portugal&apos;s fires.">					<outline text="European space agency satellites are used in disaster relief in Portugal." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:52 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/sci/tech/3165163.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Cost cuts halve QXL losses.">					<outline text="European online auction site QXL Ricardo halves its losses through tight cost controls, but the firm remains short of cash." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:52 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/business/3169371.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Want to be Bill or Gareth Gates?.">					<outline text="A quarter of teens in a poll say they would rather be a tech star than a pop star." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:52 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/technology/3164463.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Nokia increases gaming power.">					<outline text="The mobile phone firm pushes its way further into the gaming market by buying key technology from Japan&apos;s Sega." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:52 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/business/3166843.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Apple fans snap up &apos;fastest&apos; Mac.">					<outline text="Mac fans are rushing to get their hands on what Apple calls the fastest personal computer in the world." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:52 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/technology/3162661.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Song-swappers face new fight.">					<outline text="America&apos;s music industry appeals against a court ruling stopping them from suing file-swapping firms." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:52 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/entertainment/music/3166237.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Camera phone sales set to rocket.">					<outline text="More people than ever will want a mobile phone with attractive features like cameras for their Christmas present." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:52 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/technology/3161251.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="Symbian revenues surge 55%.">					<outline text="Mobile phone software firm Symbian see its revenues more than double as more handsets featuring its technology are shipped." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:52 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/business/3170465.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="New row over US media control.">					<outline text="The US&apos;s chief media regulator outlines plans to keep TV and radio local, but his critics say his new ownership rules make that impossible." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:52 PM" type="link" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/business/3169073.stm" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from BBC News | Technology | UK Edition." type="rss" url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/technology/rss091.xml" />			</outline>			<outline text="Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories">				<outline text="Road map in peril as cease-fire ends.">					<outline text="Prime Minister Abbas&apos;s response to this crisis could well determine his future." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:51 PM" type="link" url="http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0822/p01s04-wome.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="How important is capture of &apos;Ali&apos;?.">					<outline text="Catching key Hussein aide is a coup - but isn&apos;t likely to stem violence." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:51 PM" type="link" url="http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0822/p01s01-woiq.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="50 years later, Iranians remember US-UK coup.">					<outline text="Iranians this week marked the 50th anniversary of a CIA coup that toppled their democratically elected prime minister." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:51 PM" type="link" url="http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0822/p08s01-wome.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="Welfare reform, in times of both boom and bust.">					<outline text="Many welfare leavers are still working at low-wage jobs that don&apos;t provide enough income." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:51 PM" type="link" url="http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0822/p01s03-uspo.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="If quasars could talk: a telescope to help tell their stories.">					<outline text="Infrared observatory, set to launch this weekend, may yield insights into universe." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:51 PM" type="link" url="http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0822/p02s02-ussc.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories." type="rss" url="http://www.csmonitor.com/rss/top.rss" />			</outline>			<outline text="The Register">				<outline text="Bloggers on wheels.">					<outline text="Segway globs unite" />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:49 PM" type="link" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32459.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="Oi, you! Don&apos;t be a &apos;tosser&apos;!.">					<outline text="Bank Holiday warning" />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:49 PM" type="link" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/32458.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="Protesters to march against EU software law. 1-2-3-4, we don&apos;t want no patent law!">					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:49 PM" type="link" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32457.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="RIAA legal threat cuts P2P downloads by 23%.">					<outline text="So the latest market stats suggest" />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:49 PM" type="link" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32456.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="PCFX ships AMD Opteron gaming PC.">					<outline text="Reg Kit Watch Plus: Verbatim ships USB 2.0 Flash drive" />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:49 PM" type="link" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/32455.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="Texting blamed for movie flops.">					<outline text="And not dodgy plots, characters, etc." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:49 PM" type="link" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/32454.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="XML machine the successor to von Neumann?.">					<outline text="Really bring data and programs together" />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:49 PM" type="link" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32452.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="MS releases unholy trinity of security fixes.">					<outline text="IE flaws du jour - and more" />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:48 PM" type="link" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32451.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="Net anonymity service back-doored.">					<outline text="Fed-up Feds get court order" />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:48 PM" type="link" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32450.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="Forget California, it&apos;s time to recall Microsoft.">					<outline text="Enough already with the patching..." />					<outline text="8/21/2003; 9:18:48 PM" type="link" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32449.html" />				</outline>				<outline text="More news from The Register." type="rss" url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/tonys/slashdot.rdf" />			</outline>		</outline>	</body></opml>