T. S. Eliot. "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." [Quotes of the Day]

AMD shuffles numbers with new Athlon. CNET Oct 8 2001 7:54PM ET [CNET]

New Pocket PCs arrive. CNET Oct 8 2001 7:54PM ET [CNET]

Microsoft Answers Common Questions Regarding .NET Services [BetaNews.Com]

Loudcloud CTO identifies disaster-recovery best practices. IDG Sep 19 2001 9:00PM ET [Internet consultancies news]

Bob Brinker: Refinancing In This Mkt Listen Here

If you are looking to refinance your mortgage, rates are looking good right now with 15-year rates around 6.25%, 30-year jumbo rates around 7%, and 30-year fixed rates around 6.7%. If you want to find out more on mortgages, check out one of the best websites around with that information, www.hsh.com.

Borland sees earnings growth. CNET Oct 8 2001 5:32PM ET [CNET]

Microsoft pulls stealth release of Java for .NET.. The Register: Microsoft pulls stealth release of Java for .NET. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

AMD shuffles numbers with new Athlon. New Athlon XP processors come out on Tuesday, and the question remains as to whether the company's desire to get the public to forget about megahertz will work. [CNET News.com]

Microsoft's J# goes where the Sun doesn't shine [Webservices.org]

Load 2.0 scalability test utility goes final. Frank Cohen writes, Load 2.0 is now final, having finished the past 6 months of alpha and beta testing. The final release adds SSL and HTTPS datasources for testing secure Web apps. Javadoc documentation is also now included with the code. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Rush Limbaugh has gone deaf.. While he can recognize sound, he cannot understand it, including callers to his radio show. He's working around it now (somehow), but may have to change his format in the near future. Rush's site is being hit hard, but you can find a transcript of his monologue here. (comments) [MetaFilter by Stapler]

Tinker with Web tools to make life easier. Chicago Tribune Oct 1 2001 2:01AM ET [Web developer news]

Just testing my new weblog.

K-logs: knowledge management blogs. ** A new discussion group about intrablogs (Intranet web logs). [Web Voice - Because people speak out on the web]

Visionary lays into the web. Ted Nelson is a visionary who is credited with coining the term hypertext, but he is highly critical of what the internet has become. [BBC News: sci/tech]

Andy Sylvester: Rules in Radio UserLand.  [Scripting News]

New Riders Interview: Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir. A wide-ranging interview with the authors of the upcoming book, "Homepage Usability." From New Riders. 1008 [WebReference News]

Microsoft Launches .NET Alerts Preview. More than 20 companies, including eBAY, McAfee.com and VeriSign have implemented beta versions of the .NET My Services feature. [internetnews.com: Top News]

The Worst Black Sheep Ever? -- Osama's Brother Speaks [Plastic]

Talk Radio Just Won't Shut Up. Despite the humbling of some of its most outrageous personalities, talk radio remains tremendously popular, capturing 17 percent of all listeners during any given quarter hour. Now the format is expanding even further, embracing the young, the foreign -- and the open-minded. [Inside.com]

Strikes were 'successful', says US. 2.45pm:• US hails strikes as 'success'• Action may continue for 'weeks' [Guardian Unlimited]

2001 Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded [bottomquark]