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Good news Handspring to offer Visor in retail stores

Dot-Com firms are hacking each other — expert

“…the real malicious hacking, which would involve the compromising of crucial data and intellectual property by rivals tech firms, and probably represents the lion’s share of online criminal activity, is kept as a closely-guarded, dirty little secret.”

Corporate digital warfare.

Microsoft is losing its grip

What the hell is a Weblog and why won’t they leave me alone?

” drew my inspiration from the cacophony of personal voices I found online. Here was the mother lode of personal expression � the one place in our lives that we (as people lucky enough to have access) can say whatever we want about anything we want. This was the anti-television. Digital democracy.”

is software testing production or service?

There is mutch rejoicing in the world. I finally got my modem working again after 5 days of no net access form home. (I have had net access but form my 5 year old Mac and but slow modem 🙂

The home of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Ask and you shall receive. Here is a link to a story about former Apple and Macromedia dudes making a consistent user interface for linux using GNOME 2.0. I have fell in love over the past few days with GNOME/E with the AquaE theme (macosx like interface). I am convinced that the opne-source UI is better than even the Mac, it just needs to be cohesive. What i like about the Mac is that it just feels so GOOOOOD to use, because it is a whole environment. Hopefully the dudes at eazel will see the light and make linux even easier to use.

Q&A: Bruce Perens on Patents and Politics

“I know one guy who works as a researcher for law firms, finding prior art for patents – and he finds it 95 percent of the time. So here we have 95 percent of software patents that aren’t inventions at all.”

Happy Valentines Day!(jpeg) from Shane Collinge with lots of other cartoons.