2003 March 26

I don’t like some of the things being said about the upcoming release of Office, so I am considering jumping ship. I was spurred on by the release of OpenOffice beta 1.1. The big challenge will be convincing my co-workers that trying this is a good idea.

Wired and The Register both reported yesterday that the Swedish writer of the Ganda worm had been questioned and arrested, after having admitted during questioning that he was responsible for it, though he has not been named as of yet. The Ganda worm inched it’s way across the internet last week with a war themed [...]

“It appears that the MSN 8.5 Beta Program will be starting up soon. Early Wednesday morning, a large number of MSN subscribers received an e-mail message…”

So, my question is: how come LEGO doesn’t embrace the idea and start creating actual kits?

“I have just spent the last few days playing all manner of online sweepstakes, instant win games, and tests of skill, and I can’t win a free coffee and donut much less a free trip to Paris. I did score a free 3-pack of popcorn, but when it happened I didn’t have a printer hooked [...]

“The core computers that handle online addresses currently understand only the 26 English letters, 10 numerals and a hyphen, along with a period for splitting addresses into sections. Tildes, slashes and other characters are not part of the domain name and are handled by separate computers. Other languages must be converted into a string of [...]

“Mr. Lee has become increasingly uneasy with the enormous media attention his pregnancy is attracting. As a result, he is considering giving birth in private. For the same reason, detailed information following his pregnancy may be limited to the press as well as this web site.”

“Corrects the incompatibility with certain computers that caused occasional errors in transmitting data from the computer to the camera. Corrects the occasional AF errors when using Active Frame Control / FlexiZone AF.”

“On February 14, a Florida Appeals court ruled there is absolutely nothing illegal about lying, concealing or distorting information by a major press organization. The court reversed the $425,000 jury verdict in favor of journalist Jane Akre who charged she was pressured by Fox Television management and lawyers to air what she knew and documented [...]

“Some forums will piggy back off our print publication and our 4 weekly email newsletters. Others are machine-specific. Of particular interest to you might be ‘What’s Happening on the Web,’ ‘New Software and Accessories,’ and ‘Thumbs up, Thumbs down.’”

“Among the base technologies are online chat and something called a Wiki, an extremely lightweight but writeable Web page. Once you’re inside the Wiki, you can edit any page yourself, using tools that make it simple to create new links and annotations.”

“Follow-up observations confirmed that two candidates were distant galaxies with redshifts of 6.58 and 6.54, indicating that the light from them was emitted when the Universe was only about 900 million years old.”

“UPS today unveiled a new logo. Paul Rand’s 1960 design of a string-wrapped parcel sitting above the carrier’s shield is gone, replaced by a larger, sleeker emblem designed by FutureBrand in New York.”

“Mozilla stores all profile information such as bookmarks, cookies, certificates in the profile directory. Basically all of the settings you can change in the preferences are stored inside the profile directory. This is very nice. It makes backing up a easy thing.”

“The service will be based on Propel Software’s Web Accelerator technology, which uses a variety of methods to speed the delivery of Web content. Among other things the technology caches entire Web pages and page elements locally on your PC and downloads newly added text and other elements as the page is updated.”

“New rules at PayPal dictate what users can and can’t purchase using the online payment service. Fruit in X-rated shapes is OK, but mountain lion parts are not.” Apparently renting a chest is still ok.

“Once the narrow domain of geeks and technology journalists, “Web logs” — or diary accounts published online — have gone mainstream, making it possible for even soldiers to transmit daily updates to Web sites about the rigours of battle.”

Featuring an evil Doctor and Nurse! Both have demonic yellow eyes and are dressed in scrubs spattered with blood! The dolls come packaged in a coffin box built for two with a “Death Certificate” of Authenticity.

More than 2 million people have used free tax preparation services offered through the Internal Revenue Service this tax season, surpassing the agency’s goal for the program’s first year.

Groove Collaboration software is the perfect software package for those working on group projects with the need for cohesive communications and sharing of information. It is the ultimate P2P tool very worthy of a download and a test drive. I have been using the professional edition for nearly 6 weeks and have found personal, business [...]