PeopleSoft President and CEO Craig Conway has described Microsoft's .Net initiative as the information technology equivalent of asbestos. ZDNet May 19 2003 2:31PM ET [via Moreover - ZDNet] What an interesting analogy. His point is that .NET is a “bad thing” because it assumes that code will be executed by PC's. He goes on to [...]
Cool! I want one of these! Sony takes leash off robot dog The Japanese electronics giant unveils software that will allow Aibo owners to control the robot dog through e-mail commands. [via CNET News.com]
This can't be good…The Register is reporting that the .org registry disappeared sometime this weekend. UPDATE: Apparently it's back up and running (according to this post on Slashdot).
Yikes! Looks like I'll need to update the virus scanners again, although I suspect we'll catch this one already since we trap emails with .PIF-type attachments. Fake Microsoft e-mail spreads new worm ZDNet May 19 2003 7:24AM ET [via Moreover - ZDNet]
Interesting… The Fizzer worm: Why you should be worried ZDNet May 18 2003 8:15PM ET [via Moreover - ZDNet] Fortunately, I'm not a Kazaa user, and I updated the virus scanner on my mail servers the day that Fizzer broke. Still…
Playing with Newzcrawler, and I was completely stumped about how to get the BlogThis! menu option to work properly with my Movable Type installation. Sadly, the MT documentation details what aspects of the Bloggar API are supported, but it doesn't specify what the “endpoint” should be for an XML-RPC client. Two minutes with Google, and [...]
Oh, look, now I know what my Enneagram type is: Conscious self Overall self Take Free Enneagram Test (by way of Just as I thought, by way of Movable Type's recently updated log)
Another great nugget from Doc Searls, this one dates all the way back to January of 1995, and is still exquisitely relevant today (by way of Doc's REALITY 2.0 page).
Verse:
John 3:16; Jn 3:16; John 3
Keyword:
Salvation, Jesus, Gospel
With Operators:
AND, OR, NOT, “ â€
