yawn.

Why someone would shell out $99 - $250 for some eye candy and other features that OSX and Linux already have is beyond me.

Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick with what I've got....

Microsoft to secure IE for XP only: Affirms plan to make browser upgrades available only through XP updates, while half the Windows world operates with older OSes.

{from CNET News.com}

I guess since XP sales are floundering and Longhorn won't be out until 2006/7/8, they have to come up with new and creative ways to jumpstart their OS sales. Firefox anyone?

Student faces suit over key to CD locks: Antipiracy technology developer SunnComm says it will likely sue a Princeton student who showed how to break its CD copy protection by pushing the Shift key.

{from CNET News.com}

What a joke. The company even acknowledged that it knew about this flaw and hoped no one would find out. morons...

By they way, if you tell anybody you can open that door by turning the knob and pushing at the same time, i'll sue you...

Developers gripe about IE standards inaction: Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company's Internet Explorer browser, but they can't seem to spark a flame.

{from CNET News.com}

Once again M$ rests on its "illegal" monopoly. IE is about as innovative as a VCR. Web standards and ideas are constantly moving forward, whereas IE is standing still. With M$ saying you'll have to buy the next version of windows to upgrade IE and no longer making IE for the Mac, it makes you wonder how long it will be before people start switching to Mozilla or another browser.

ICANN to VeriSign: Stop mucking around:

Reacting to widespread criticism of VeriSign plans, the organization, which regulates how Internet addresses are assigned and reserved, asked VeriSign to halt its SiteFinder service. The ICANN is studying whether the SiteFinder service--a bypass of the portion of the Internet that VeriSign controls--will break how the Internet responds to errors.

{from CNET News.com}

What's going on in corporate america these days? Does everyone lose their common sense as soon as a dollar is waved in front of their face? Seems to be that way...

SCO to send out Linux invoices: The SCO Group is turning up the heat in its attempt to impose Unix license fees for Linux use: It plans to begin sending invoices to companies before the month is out.

{from CNET News.com}

it still amazes me how they can get away with trying to extort money from people for something that they "claim" to have ownership of. is it just me, or so you need actual proof and a decision by a judge before you can do all this? i guess this is $CO's new revenue model since they don't have any real products that people will buy

i'm posting to my blog from a desktop application called w.Bloggar. we've built an implementation of the BloggerAPI and MetaWeblogAPI into MPB(my blog software that i wrote, with some help) to allow us to do this.....

good stuff

webhack has been moved to the new server, although some folks may still be getting the old site on the old server during the DNS propagation. if you post a comment and then i magically disappears, let me know.