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Yahoo Buys Overture…

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cidR8&ncidR8&e=1&u=/ap/ 20030714/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_overture 2 hours, 37 minutes ago Add Technology – AP to My Yahoo! By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo! Inc...

WiFi Here To Stay…

http://www.iht.com/articles/102711.html Wi-Fi’s true believers see powerful ‘grass-roots’ force John Markoff NYT Monday, July 14, 2003   SUN VALLEY, Idaho Is the Wi-Fi boom about to bust? Even though that has lately become the fashionable view, the...

Open Source Takes Aim At Exchange..

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cidt&ncids8&e=9&u=/cmp/ 20030712/tc_cmp/12800236 Open Source Group Developing Competitor For Microsoft Exchange Sat Jul 12, 3:35 AM ET Add Technology – TechWeb to My Yahoo!...

The Metrosexual..

http://www.wordspy.com/words/metrosexual.asp (MET.roh.sek.shoo.ul) n. A dandyish narcissist in love with not only himself, but also his urban lifestyle. —metrosexuality n. Example Citation: The only problem facing the metrosexual in an otherwise carefree existence...

Thou Shalt Not Layoff

Now, I don’t know where I sit on this… laying off workers because of administration’s poor planning and lackluster leadership (note the alliteration, arts graduates!) is morally reprehensible, but is mandating that a company re-hire those people...

Hook Up With a Convicted Child Killer…

Online Dating is so cool! Y’all might remember Susan Smith, who felt a little depressed one day and decided to strap her two kids into their child seats in the family SUV and roll it into a lake, drowning them. As she watched the truck gurgle to the bottom of...

Open-Source Crime Fighting…

Yes I’m still busy but seeing a lot of interesting stuff today…. What do people think about this? Should every responsible citizen become a RoboCop? -Ian.

Bush & Blair

As the world watches Tony Blair twist in the wind as his political career wanes with accusations of Dodgy Dossiers and his misleading of parliament, the domino drops onto the Bush administration as accusations begin to fly on this side of the Atlantic. The precedent...

Apple’s Dodgy Dossier…

Squint hard enough at a lightbulb and it looks like the sun. It appears Apple’s claim that the G5 is the “World’s Fastest Personal Computer” may be as baseless as other similar claims in the past few years. In the very least, given that they...

The Department of Homeland Security Ate My Homework…

GMU grad student compiles extensive map of US fiber optic networks, starts people worrying: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23689- 2003Jul7.html?nav=hptop_tb washingtonpost.com Dissertation Could Be Security Threat Student’s Maps Illustrate...