Tim Bray wonders if he should let his kid go into IT?

It's all supply and demand. Personally, I'm trying to get my son to learn Chinese. Why? Because China is going to be more and more of a world power and very few Americans learn to speak Chinese and those that do will have a great job being middle-men between Chinese and Americans.

Tim Bray looks at the current state of the art in email clients. Yeah, he's trying to show there's some alternatives to Outlook.

Mark Pilgrim links to "everything considered harmful."

Yesterday we went to Mt. Rainier for a nice hike, and on the way back stopped at Ikea for some Swedish Meatballs. They are great. Now we'll do that everytime we go to Mt. Rainier.

Oh, I learned another trick: getting through Ikea is much nicer five minutes before closing. Far fewer people! Especially on Saturday night.

BoingBoing says that the BBC will put its entire archives online.

Douglas Purdy: "Let me repeat, remoting is not going away."

Dare has released a new version of RSS Bandit.

Ash Javari is an intern and writes about his experiences during the famous intern BBQ with Bill Gates.

ExtremeTech reviews six RSS news aggregators.

Heh, Google's Brin jokes about buying Microsoft on Evan Williams' weblog: "There are a lot of liabilities in acquiring Microsoft."

That's for sure! They'd need to figure out what to do with me. ;-)

John Robb wants an easy-to-use P2P system for Windows.

Chris Coulter tracks the rumors in the Tablet PC industry.

I've always wondered what happened to the time zone in Windows, Raymond Chen gives us the answer.

Raymond Chen has all the luck. He went in the other day to help out on the help lines and sitting next to him was Microsoft's top security expert.

Halley Suitt: "So to answer the question I started with "Is Scoble Microsoft's Glove Girl?" I say, not at all. His blog is informative, honest, reasonable, circumspect, measured and may be the best thing to happen at Microsoft in a long long time. He's got a conversation going with the world that Microsoft itself can't seem to pull off."

Heh. Maybe the anthill needs a weblog.

Larry, in my comments, "the angle that no one seems to mention is the fact that they were, indeed, out of complaince and breaking the law."