my health status. Some people have heard all about this. Some people (who should) haven't heard anything at all. I'm too wiped to remember who's in which category at the moment (and my apologies for that), so here's an attempt to put it all in one place: my health status. It'll be updated as necessary. [Backup Brain] Wow, Dori, I wish you all the best (I know Dori, she's quality people). I hope she comes to the Weblogger User Group meeting next week.

Thank goodnes for Frontier. Having just 'recompiled' my uni web pages for an archival/distribution CD, I thank my lucky stars that I use Frontier to create my static site web pages. I have just updated over 950 individual files that run to over 7.5MB. It was a doddle with Frontier... [Duncan's Jotter]

WindowBlinds XP Beta 8 Released [BetaNews.Com]

Excite@Home turning away new customers. CNET Oct 10 2001 4:51PM ET... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Microsoft Visual J# .NET Beta 1 Released [BetaNews.Com]

Web standards debate raises ire. Sydney Morning Herald Oct 10 2001 4:11PM ET [Website owner news]

Microsoft previews .NET Alerts Service. CNN Oct 10 2001 3:16PM ET... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

MobileStar Down But Starbucks Still Committed. UPDATE: Mobilestar has laid off nearly all its staff and is seeking to sell its assets; however, its largest customer says it is working on alternatives. [internetnews.com: Top News]

RealNetworks Launches Streaming Video Game Service. In a move with implications for broadband and paid content, the Seattle firm, with help from Into Networks of Cambridge, Mass., lets users rent and play titles via streaming media rather than download. [Product News]

FMC. It's FMC. Food Machinery Corporation. Started back when Silicon Valley was orchards and they made tractors and plows and stuff. Hey, check out the tank train pics on the Scobleizer! "Tanks for the memories." [Scobleizer]

Simon Kittle: Outlining with Manila under Linux.  [Scripting News]

CNN - Using the videophone. CNN's images from the air war over Afghanistan are being made possible by a new high-tech device. [Lockergnome Bytes]

CMS Watch interviews InfoWorld's Chad Dickerson.  [Scripting News]

New Kabul raids under way. US jets attack targets near the Afghan capital Kabul for a fourth night, triggering heavy anti-aircraft fire. [BBC News: world]

Torvalds Tells All [Slashdot]

Microsoft announced this week that its controversial Product Activation technology, included in Windows XP, Office XP, and Visio 2002, has passed an independent security audit conducted by Deloitte & Touche LLP... [more] [WinInformant by Stapler]

Alan Cooper: Navigating isn't fun. To the user, each successive screen is the equivalent of a new window or dialog in conventional software. My axiom is: "A window is another room. Have a good reason to go there." If the user is working on information on one screen, don't send her to another screen to work on that same information. [Tomalak's Realm]

Five Lessons From the Correction. Paul Larson highlights five lessons the market has taught us over the past several months. [The Motley Fool]

Tech: Microsoft's Ballmer Dismisses Rival Project. 09:39 ET - Reuters [NewsBlip.com]

Almost all of MIT's course materials will be made .... Almost all of MIT's course materials will be made available for free, online. Link Discuss (via /.) posted by Cory Doctorow at 08:42 permanent link to this entry [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Fry's backs out of Egghead.com acquisition [Dotcom Scoop]

High Tech mints FINALLY coming to America [Geeknews]

Another reason not to use Kazaa [Geeknews]

MS confirms Xbox disk downgrade. Spec. trimmed from 10GB to 8GB [The Register]

BBC: USA airdrops wind-up radios w/only one station [Robot Wisdom]

AOL protocol revealed [Geeknews]

High speed hoax:. Taking advantage of a bug in CNN's "mail this story" mechanism, a guy created a hoax page looking like a CNN news story which claimed that Britney Spears had died in a car crash. (She's fine.) He seeded the story by giving it to just three people in a chat room -- and within 12 hours it had been downloaded 150,000 times. The Internet appears to permit extremely efficient distribution of disinformation. (comments) [MetaFilter by Stapler]

Major Changes To MySQL Coming Soon [Slashdot]

Microsoft Eyes P2P Software with Stake in Groove Networks. The software giant takes a minority stake in a collaboration software leader. [internetnews.com: Top News]

Dave Winer. TidBITS supports RSS [syndication]

Chip wars heat up again. CNET Oct 10 2001 6:02AM ET [CNET]

EU: Microsoft obstructed investigation. CNET Oct 10 2001 7:57AM ET [CNET]

PowerPoint/Excel Update Fixes Macro Vulnerability (08-Oct-2001; 1.9K) [TidBITS]

Piss on Bin Laden. Just the thing your men's bathroom needs. Ahh, Americans, we can figure out how to make money with anything! Heheh.

Why Apple Can't Pull The Plug On OS 9 : The new OS X operating system is a triumph, but Jobs & cCo. need to keep its predecessor on life support until Mac heads get the message. (BusinessWeek via Applesurf) [Applesurf]

US claims air supremacy. US forces carry out a second wave of daylight air raids on Afghanistan after Washington says it has taken control of the skies. [BBC News: world]

Thomas A. Edison. "There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!" [Quotes of the Day]

Did Linux miss its window?. Kelly McNeill writes "Linux has not aggressively exploited the nearly two-year gap between the release of Windows 2000 and the release of Windows XP. With the Home Edition of XP now the standard operating system shipped with most PCs, Linux advocates can no longer use the instability of Windows 95/98/Me as an argument for Linux. Linux advocates missed a golden opportunity to evangelize their platform to these third-party ... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]