Bill Gates emailed all his friends, except me. Reaction was not all positive.
James Gleick, author of What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier, spoke on New Hampshire Public Radio this morning. Gleick’s books “Chaos” and “Genius” are among my favorites.
This article on window repair gets added to the HoneyDew list.
Rasterman says “Windows has won. Face it.” in this article[Updated link to an archived version.]
Happy Birthday, Anne. My baby sister.
Spent the day working on the screen restoration for the home I’m starting to think of as “The Bungalow Project.” I can’t approach the million dollar restoration of “This Old House,” or even hope to be featured on “American Bungalow,” but I’m hoping I can make this a better place to live.
Midday, Steve and I saw “K-19: The WidowMaker” Great flick. War heroes, the Russians on the first nuclear sub. Well done. As a former bubblehead, had my adreneline flowing.
I discovered that IAYFT.com hasn’t been registered. Hmmm.
Ars Technica published this “blackpaper” on wireless security.
Forbes is publishing a special report on Linux.
Digital Consumer is another site fighting the poorly-thought-out, over-reaching efforts of the music, movie and tech industries, in controlling piracy by crippling our fair use.
This Seattle Times article details the lifelong avocation – violin collecting – of Dr. Dave Fulton, the genius who ran Fox Software and sold it to Microsoft. [Ed: original article lost. Here’s an update on the collection: Highly successful violin collector finds that it’s time to let go
Andy Kramek pointed out this handy Win32 resource for VFP Developers in a posting on CompuServe.
Are Mac users smarter, richer and have less cavities? This article thinks so. They may be right. I like the iMacs. The idea, the design, appeals to me.
Darn! Lost a bunch of links and good prose.
http://nightheronmusic.com
Ross Anderson’s Palladium FAW
Wired’s article on Palladium