Ari Pernick: Links Read

Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:58:58 GMT

Iraq-o-meter. The Iraq-o-meter just about sums it up... [Jake's Radio 'Blog]

Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:09:43 GMT

Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:56:09 GMT

discrete vs. continuous [r_transpose_p]
That fired up some dormant math brain cells.

Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:51:55 GMT

Microsoft may go modular with server components [Ars Technica]
This doesn't read correctly, the stuff that they are talking about isn't shipping with windows server 2003, finished or unfinished.

Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:36:10 GMT

New War Onion

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:20:35 GMT

WOW! nntp//rss is an Amazing Piece of Work. [Russell Beattie Notebook]
The problem is that most rss entries are pretty small, and I want to see a number of them at the same time. No nntp reader seems to support that idea.

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:59:45 GMT

Dwight Shih: "Microsoft needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Nothing that they ever do again will match the success of their two great platforms: Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office." [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:57:16 GMT

Microsoft hater Russell Beattie: "ANY company/person who wants to ignore M$ is being stupid." [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:52:55 GMT

Funny quote: "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, and Germany doesn't want to go to war." From Terry Farrell in a newsgroup I frequent. [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:34:08 GMT

So, I did not get arrested... [Closet Exhibitionist]
Adam takes some photos of the SF Anti-War Rally

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:18:17 GMT

This Modern World. When "had no plans" means "was planning all along." [Salon.com]

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:41:34 GMT

FRIEDMAN AGAIN:. - 2:46:58 PM [Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish]
Liberal Hawk and Neo-Conservative Hawk talk to each other.

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:32:15 GMT

ALL THINGS DISTORTED:. More reader disgruntlement:

I'm a lifelong NY Times reader and NPR listener. But no more. Raines has successfully driven me to subscribe to the Post. And this morning I started searching the radio dial for AM news to wake up to. The final nail in the NPR coffin occurred last night (3/21), when they reported on the Palestinian "Peace Protests." No mention of them chanting for "Our beloved Saddam, hit Tel Aviv." Instead, it was about them protesting American aggression. What really got me apoplectic was when they referred to the sympathetic relationship between Hamas and Hussein. As NPR described it, Hussein has helped give aid to Palestinian families who have lost loved ones in the struggle with Israel. This is how they refer to Hussein paying the families of homicide bombers. I'm through with NPR.

Lots of epiphanies all round. This war is clarifying a lot of things, isn't it?
- 1:56:03 PM [Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish]

Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:58:16 GMT

Note to the Security Council: Get Involved. The obstructionism of Some Security Council members where the Oil for Food Program is concerned is hurting the people of Iraq. By David L. Phillips. [New York Times: Opinion]
France and Germany are so bitter about this war that they are blocking UN humnanitarian aid for iraq? This is really sad.

Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:47:35 GMT

Danger hacker Brian Swetland reports. Danger hacker Brian Swetland reports that only leet developers will get to run their apps on their own Hiptops. [Hack the Planet]

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:45:47 GMT

Explaining the Iraq situation in AC terms.

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:19:29 GMT

Reflections on the failed Bush Iraq policies. Newsweek and Slate.

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 05:41:01 GMT

Inflation bites: Kalashnikovs up from $20 to $500: Time to get the hell out of dodge (Baghdad) [Times Online]

Pho Saigon in Redmond

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 05:28:26 GMT

I followed Joshua Allen's advice and went to the new pho place on Leary Way (across from the good Mexican restaurant and Palmers) in Redmond for dinner. Its name is Pho Saigon. Joshua is quite right; the food there is good and cheap. Both the fried and fresh spring rolls were food.

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 04:54:40 GMT

Nouns and verbs. John doesn't get it. Sterling does. It took Sean ten minutes to figure it out. Doug sees the future. Giulio is asking the right questions. Perhaps it is time for another essay. A short one, this time. [Sam Ruby]

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 04:35:14 GMT

Judge Dredd goes to China [jwz]

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 04:28:18 GMT

the commie-pinko case for war [jwz]
Dan Savage explains his position on the war.

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 04:23:19 GMT

only faith can give your life meaning [jwz]
Shiite Muslims cut and beat themselves with swords to mark Ashoura Day.

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:38:22 GMT

Werbach: "Forget what you think about Microsoft in the operating system or PC application market. In telecom today, they are the good guys." [Scripting News]

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:28:22 GMT

NY Times: "A 20-pound carp about to be slaughtered and made into gefilte fish for Sabbath dinner began speaking in Hebrew, shouting apocalyptic warnings and claiming to be the troubled soul of a revered community elder who recently died." [Scripting News]

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:37:26 GMT

STRANGE OMEN:. Why has France ordered its diplomatic staff to leave Israel before Baghdad? Do they know more about what Saddam has in store than we do? Or did they just sell him the means to do it? - 11:40:45 AM [Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish]
Andrew fails to mention that the US has pulled out our nonessential staff too.

Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:49:49 GMT

Netscape, Apocalypse, and Pho. Others have commented on Charles Cooper's speculations about "What if Netscape had Won?" In my opinion, this was never a zero-sum game, where one person has to lose for the other to win. A zero-sum mentality is a huge waste of resources and diverts energy away from productive innovation toward "attacking the other guy's base". Ever since the software industry fell victim to the politics of polarization, and assumptions like Cooper's go unchallenged, I am afraid that we are all falling incredibly short of our full potential. If, as he implies (and many youngsters seem to think), the best opportunities left in software are to build yet another operating system to replace Microsoft, then it's time to take up gardening. Luckily that mentality is a lie, and the real question is "How fantastic would things be if we could all stop griping about the past and write cool programs?"[Better Living Through Software]

100 Words

Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:46:41 GMT

Education and Words. And speaking of literacy, here is a nice little story about the "100 words you should know". This list has provoked some disagreement recently, with some people violently rejecting the idea that flowery words are evidence of intellectual horsepower. It is true that people sometimes use intimidating words as a sort of facade to dazzle and deflect away from real intellectual deficiencies. But that is not the same as saying that a rich vocabulary is not worth acquiring. Words are the atoms of language, and language is the substrate of thinking (especially abstract, higher-level thinking). Words lubricate the brain. On the other hand, I have a hard time taking seriously a list which considers "Ziggurat" a sign of intelligence. I suspect they mixed up the "words that help you think" with "words that are good for Jr. High spelling-bee finals". [Better Living Through Software]
I think I know 47 of thoose real well, with another two or three that I'm not sure about. I'll have to work on it.

Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:34:07 GMT

Inspectors urged to leave Iraq. The US advises weapons inspectors to leave Iraq, as President Bush's final attempt to win UN backing for war is spurned by France and Russia. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:51:34 GMT

Revised Economics 210a Spring 2003 Home Page.

Home Page for Economics 210a, Introduction to Economic History, Spring 2003, Barry Eichengreen and Brad DeLong, for first-year Ph.D. students in Economics at U.C. Berkeley

[Semi-Daily Journal]

Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:07:23 GMT

MS Makes It Official: iSCSI Driver Due in June. After nixing the inclusion of iSCSI support in Windows Server 2003 last year, Microsoft today announced it will make available for download in June its iSCSI driver for Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]

Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:06:30 GMT

Nice article on Office 2003, Research, and Google API. Only in C# of course because it's new technology :-) [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog]

Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:59:55 GMT

The myth of interference. Internet architect David Reed explains how bad science created the broadcast industry. [Salon.com]

Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:42:24 GMT

Waiting in Line: How Economists Think. [Semi-Daily Journal]
Brad talks about economic modeling, and how different economists model differently.

Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:14:48 GMT

Synthetic brain! sequel to Memento in jeopardy. [jwz]

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:40:29 GMT

Bush Calls for Mandatory Vote on Nominees. President Bush called today for a ban on judicial filibusters and a mandatory vote on all court nominations he and future presidents send to the Senate. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Politics]

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:38:49 GMT

map of the dino-crater [jwz]

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:11:50 GMT

Lawmaker apologizes to Jewish groups for Iraq remarks.

[Google Top Stories]

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 01:41:57 GMT

United Press International: Anglosphere: Time for a declaration [lnk.to]

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 01:35:39 GMT

Infringe This. This reduced-size image is from the work of Perry Hoberman, an artist who lampoons today's world with real wit.... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
Perry Hoberman's "Infringement" series.

Learning about SOAP

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:20:35 GMT

Clemens Vasters teaches what the utility of SOAP is.

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:17:02 GMT

xcopy command lines. dreck qdickher fredikys [michaelw.net]

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:56:42 GMT

Interesting point from The Economist: Nelson Mandela had a lawyer and due process in South Africa under apartheid rule; Jose Padilla doesn't have have either in the US. [John Lambert]

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:54:08 GMT

"If you mod me down I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." -- MisterFancypants [John Lambert]

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:33:37 GMT

RadioStation Recommended!!. After just a few minute of using RadioStation, I can say I LOVE IT despite some GUI akwardness. Go try it folks. I recommend it heartily. One more GUI change suggestion. I frequently edit my posts, but there was no visual hint telling me how to edit old posts. Put a button on the post view (the bottom pane) and add context menus. Double-clicking a post to edit is not obvious.[Don Park's Blog]

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:07:15 GMT

Blix pressure on key Iraq questions. The chief UN arms inspector issues a list of key disarmament questions for Iraq, as the UK presses for a 17 March deadline for war. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 18:37:09 GMT

ieHTTPheaders gets even MORE useful. One of my favorite tools certainly high on my list of things I use all the time is Jonas Blunck's ieHTTPheaders. It's a fantastically elegant solution to an irritating problem...I want to see the HTTP headers, but I don't feel like using a sniffer...can't this be integrated in with IE? Well, it is. But, it's never supported HTTPS before, which put me in a bad spot since EVERYTHING we do in the banking industry uses HTTPS. So, now ieHTTPheaders supports SSL. Fabulous. [Scott Hanselman's Weblog]

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 18:02:36 GMT

Scorched3D. Scorched3D. A 3D version of a scorched eath style game. Except that it GPFs on me after setting up all the options and starting the game. [The Flangy News]

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:59:59 GMT

Andrew Northrup Is an International Treasure. The Poor Man: Oh, Dear:

Shorter Camille Paglia - I believe that Madonna is the most original philosopher of the millennium, for reasons so self-consciously contrarian that I must surely be the Smartest Girl In The Whole Wide World. My obsessive desire to draw attention to myself and approvingly recite my resume apropos of nothing speaks volumes about my screwed-up psychology, much like the many volumes of Aristotle which I have read in the original Greek.

Shorter Noam Chomsky - Whatever someone said recently is pretty rich, considering East Timor.

Shorter The Nation - If the inspiring story of a few dozen douche bags pointing out that there is no difference between anyone to the right of late period Mao Tse-Tung doesn't totally get your chub on, get up against the wall.

Shorter National Review - We are in danger of letting another priceless opportunity to use our tactical nuclear weapons pass us by, largely due to the corrupting influence of gays, women, and Muslims on our precious bodily fluids. [Semi-Daily Journal]

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:51:53 GMT

I actually worked for more than 8 solid [recursive]
Mike had a good day. (I need one of those)

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:48:53 GMT

G.O.P. Loses Filibuster Vote on Judicial Nominee. Republicans fell short of the votes needed to end a Democratic filibuster blocking a vote on Miguel Estrada's nomination to the federal appeals court in Washington. By Neil A. Lewis. [New York Times: Politics]

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:46:42 GMT

The Arab World Tunes In. Thanks to independent satellite news in the Middle East, political pressure develops quickly from the ground up. By Tom Brokaw. [New York Times: Opinion]

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:41:14 GMT

Internet Infidels Discussion Forums - If you have set yourself on fire, do not run [lnk.to]

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:39:30 GMT

Hellraiser PC [jwz]

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:31:28 GMT

The Horror Of Blimps. Warning: Only read in an environment where you laughing out loudly won't make your boss fire you. The Horror Of Blimps: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=160851&;;perpage=50&pagenumber=1 [Ingo Rammer's DotNetCentric] [John Lambert]

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:18:05 GMT

"QUEERS FOR PALESTINE":. Yes, there actually is a group that goes by that name. They'd be more accurate calling themselves, "Turkeys For Thanksgiving." Maybe they haven't seen stories like this one. Like many Arab mobocracies, the Palestinian Authority, so beloved of the hyper-tolerant Europeans, is viciously homophobic - to the point of imprisonment and execution and the habitual response of tyrannies to gay people - accusing them of treachery. Yet the gay left continues to appease and make excuses for these thugs. Why? Is their hatred of America that deep? Or are they that stupid? [Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish]

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:05:02 GMT

Chris Mooney talks about a WSJ editorial about the pledge ruling [tapped]

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:02:10 GMT

American Prospect: Close Encounter - Americans and Europeans aren't as far apart as everyone thinks. [Tapped]

Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:53:33 GMT

Well I'll tell you what I think - I thin [recursive]

Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:45:05 GMT

Ridiculously cool.. DbCombo.Net is insanely cool. If your a geek, then you'll be interested to know that its a ASP.NET server control that creates client side, databound, auto-completing combo-drop down box, with virtual item filling. If your not a geek, then just smile and nod.... [Objective]

Better Bandwidth Utilization on Slow Links

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 19:05:18 GMT

Better Bandwidth Utilization. jtorin writes "Daniel Hartmeier (of OpenBSD fame) has written a short but interesting article which explains how to better utilize available bandwidth. In ... [Slashdot]
This is sounds like a different way to solve a problem we worked on for Windows XP. Part of the problem is the big buffers that fill up on the modem that don't allow new connections to get to the stable state fast enough. We solved this with DRR Fair Queing. These folks are doing it via the acks. I think the Windows XP technique is more general, but I wonder which works better. UPDATE: They are somewhat unrelated in that the bsd work is for faster asymetrical links, while the xp stuff is for 56K and lower.

Onion: Bush Offers Taxpayers Another $300 If We Go To War

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:48:56 GMT

Bush Offers Taxpayers Another $300 If We Go To War [The Onion] The onion does a brillent job tying together three major political threads in to a really funny article.

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:38:56 GMT

Crash Different. Absolutely hysterical! For those who haven't seen it yet, this is without a doubt the funniest Apple Mac Switcher Parody yet. from Derek's Rantings and MusingsBy chrisca208@msn.com. [Objective]

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 01:22:44 GMT

How bad is it getting? This Bad.

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 22:09:39 GMT

News of Note From Microsoft. The company shows notable progress outside of Windows -- and the stock may be cheap, too. [The Motley Fool]
For those who believe Microsoft's long-term future holds promise, the stock may be worth a look at current levels. At around $23.30, the company has a market cap of $253.6 billion. If you back out its cash hoard of $56.1 billion, you get an enterprise value (EV) of $197.5 billion. Comparing that figure to free cash flow over the past year of $14.1 billion reveals an EV-to-FCF multiple of only 14. That's significantly cheaper than the S&P 500's average price-to-free cash flow of 20.3

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 21:40:22 GMT

MARRIED BY AMERICA:. Check out this website from Fox advertizing their newest (and not too successful) reality television show. This is how Fox views the sacredness of marriage. And yet the same network routinely features speakers and pundits who bemoan gay people's sincere attempt to commit to one another as an assault on civilization. Moats and beams, don't you think? Or just more double standards from those who claim to support the institution of marriage, but, in reality, just want to keep homosexual citizens permanently stigmatized? - 2:53:50 PM [Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish]

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:39:37 GMT

White House Unveils Plan for Medicare. The White House's plan would offer comprehensive coverage of prescription drugs and preventive services to people who join private insurance plans. By Robert Pear. [New York Times: Politics]

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:38:08 GMT

THE REAL AGENDAS:. And one reason to pay only limited attention to the howls of outrage as the U.S. and U.K. do what is necessary is the fact that very little of the opposition to this war is actually about this war. For some it's about "war" in general - a newly empowered new age pacifism. For France, it's about ... France, and its eclipse as a power of any significance. France's crisis is deepened by the fact that a successful war against Saddam could also accelerate the end of the Franco-German bloc as the power-house of the European Union. For Russia, it's about money. For the Germans, it's about a new national identity. The Germans have never been able to sustain a moderate polity on their own. They veer from extreme romantic militarism to romantic pacifism. Their current abdication of all strategic responsibility for Europe or the wider world is just another all-too-familiar spasm from German history. For the broader anti-war forces in Europe, it's about American uni-polar power - and the need to counteract it, even if it's being put to good use. For still others, especially in the Vatican and France, it's the old Jew-hatred again. For the Democrats, it's about getting back to prescription drugs. For the anti-war left in America, it's really about Bush. The pent-up fury they felt after Florida never found expression or even validation in the wider culture. It was repressed in the first months of a new presidency - and then made irrelevant by 9/11. Finally, they have a chance to demonstrate their hate - which is why so much of the demonstrations' focus has not been on Saddam, Iraq or even war, but on Bush. The anti-Bush left knows that a successful war will only strengthen the president further and marginalize them even more - hence their utter desperation and viciousness today. This is their moment; and the demonstrations are their therapy. Meanwhile, a real and actual problem in global security is being addressed. Thank heavens that for some, this moment really is about Saddam.
- 12:57:20 AM [Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish]

4008 Leaked

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:28:01 GMT

Longhorn M4 Build Review. Gsurface writes "I finally got my hands on the new Longhorn build, 4008, that was announced two days ago. After installing it and looking around through it, I ... [Slashdot]
It's way too early to look at longhorn at see anything really new. There is a different theme, a cleaner installer and the giant sucking sound of winfs's 150 mb. The project is still mostly architecture and low level stuff rather then end visible features.

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:19:03 GMT

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:11:40 GMT

jury duty for ex-presidents! [jwz]

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:08:00 GMT

nature's self-regulating effects in action? [jwz]
Fast-falling birth rates and rising AIDS deaths are stifling the population explosion - and could lead to a decline in global population in the second half of the 21^st century. [new scientist]

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:50:33 GMT

Inspectors 'no deterrent to Iraq'. The US defence chief says Iraq could build new weapons even with inspectors in the country, as Russia refuses to rule out use of its veto. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:48:57 GMT

Aceh's Sharia court opens. The Indonesian province of Aceh inaugurates its first Islamic law court with a pledge of moderation. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 04:25:45 GMT

All talk, no compassion. After promising a bold new investment in AmeriCorps, the White House has let the volunteer program and its crucial services fall into crisis. [Salon.com]

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 04:06:40 GMT

Yahoo! News - Turkey's Markets Down on U.S. Troop Vote [lnk.to]

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 00:17:20 GMT

More Astroturf. Google for "taking a courageous stand against Saddam" [michaelw.net]

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 00:03:34 GMT

Microsoft quits OpenGL board [The Register]

Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:48:53 GMT

USA Today: Microsoft 'science fair' offers glimpse at technology's future. "It's a backup to your brain," said Bell, a senior researcher for Microsoft Research in the company's Bay Area center, who exhibited his project at Microsoft Research's annual TechFest Wednesday and Thursday. Referring to the popular Internet search engine, he called it technology to "Google your life." [Tomalak's Realm]
This is the myLifeBits project, where a dude is recording everything that happens to him. The article also mentions the Stuff I've Seen tool.

Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:43:18 GMT

Letting you know when it's time to duck and cover. The Homeland Security Threat Monitor is a small Windows application that runs in your system tray, showing the current terrorism threat level. It periodically checks to make sure the information is up to date by contacting the White House web server. [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog]

Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:38:55 GMT

Israel captures Hamas founder. A senior member of militant group Hamas is detained by Israeli troops in a raid that killed eight Palestinians. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

Sat, 01 Mar 2003 02:42:31 GMT

C# Futures. The C# Programming Language Future Features [via Jeff Key's .net blog] [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog]

Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:52:39 GMT

PAYBACK FOR FRANCE:. As regular readers know, I've long advocated cutting France out of any post-war Iraqi settlement. No oil contracts, no peace-keepers, no influence as far as we can help it. Charles Krauthammer makes the same point today. After what the French have tried to do to destroy American diplomacy, wreck Tony Blair, and delay a war until it might actually be more dangerous for American troops, they deserve more than indifference. [Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish]

Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:08:35 GMT

The Plan. Here is a description of the post-war Iraq plan. Liberals will like this. Conservatives opposed to "international social work" won't. Too bad. [Michael J. Totten]

Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:23:46 GMT

AFGHANISTAN HAS GONE TO HELL:. You've heard all the nay-sayers. Now read a reporter - 12:25:50 AM [Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish]

Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:22:29 GMT

SecurityFocus On MS Security "Hole". friday2k writes "There is an interesting writeup at SecurityFocus that puts the latest security 'hole' in XP into perspective. It is a worthy read and should ... [Slashdot]

Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:13:27 GMT

Of course the people don't want war. "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." [michaelw.net]

Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:58:09 GMT

SOAP With Attachments/WS-Attachments Considered.... Six guys stand up for XML and the Infoset [in this paper] [Don Box's Spoutlet]

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:26:56 GMT

Here is the Press Release for the P2P stuff.

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:08:37 GMT

InfoPath and XForms. Several folks have written to ask the same question about InfoPath: why no XForms support? [Jon's Radio]

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 02:18:34 GMT

InfoWorld: IM has identity crisis, Microsoft says. Speaking at the Instant Messaging Planet Spring 2003 Conference and Expo here Tuesday, Gurle told attendees that IM is often misunderstood, and that for its true potential to be realized, service providers will have to undergo a tremendous shift in their business models. [Tomalak's Realm]
David Gurle sounds busy.

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:34:56 GMT

India figures high in MS dev outsourcing plans. Redmond is not the centre of the universe... [The Register]

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:42:59 GMT

Joshua Hoover steps up to the plate and tells us what he'd like to see Microsoft do to improve its standing in his eyes. That's a great list. Anyone else want to come to the plate? [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:22:47 GMT

Google + Blogger = Stigmergy. Matt Webb: Imagine, searching at Google, and then:

this trail is highly followed
do you only want to see what people suggest, or where people went?
here's a worn track in the interweb. Follow the Google Pixie!
this trail is uncommon, but made by someone we see (by your weblog) that you value

Or, more succinctly, stigmergy. [Sam Ruby]

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:15:27 GMT

No Divorce of Hardware and Software Is Planned at Sun. For Sun Microsystems to survive, it must win one of Silicon Valley's fiercest technology wars. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:36:19 GMT

Hosted Windows Apps Coming Online with Linux [InternetNews]
Codeweavers are trying to create a product to work around terminal server and it's CALs

Threedegree went live

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:20:55 GMT

Get threedegrees here. Over here is my description of it.

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:14:35 GMT

Who would Jesus bomb?: I try to read the Seattle Weekly every weekend with some coffee (I am trying to act the part of a Seattleite). This paper often offers somewhat funny insights into current events. This article is one such example. Regardless of your view about the possible military action in Iraq or your political leanings/affiliation, some of these slogans are just plain funny. [meta-douglasp]

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:09:53 GMT

Usenet Kooks never die! [jwz]
cute mozilla logo pics

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:08:29 GMT

A Shoggoth on the Roof [jwz]