Friday, June 14, 2002

Sun plays catch up with Web services. The company, sensing it has fallen behind rivals Microsoft and IBM in Web services leadership, is launching a renewed strategy in an attempt to play catch up. [CNET News.com] 3:27:19 PM

Steve Gillmor: Memo to Bill Gates. [Scripting News] 3:20:07 PM

Bush Set to Offer Plan for Palestinian State. President Bush indicated on Thursday that he had made up his mind to announce a plan to support the creation of a Palestinian state. By Patrick E. Tyler. [New York Times: Politics] 3:19:30 PM

Bush: Be "aggressive" on broadband. With some 100 tech CEOs and luminaries in attendance, President George W. Bush says technology is a priority--and he's got the budget to prove it. [CNET News.com] 3:16:50 PM

White House Vandalized in Transition, G.A.O. Finds Great, $16K of damage in pranks that is no worse or better then the last administration change. And how much money did we spend to find out what the current administration was lying about? This is sad beyond compare. 10:25:59 AM

'Killer' bees make killer coffee [CNN] 10:06:53 AM

ShadowMarch, a Tad Williams online experiement in publishing, is ending. I thought I had registered for updates on this site for once they started publishing anything, but I guess I hadn't, and it dipped below the radar. 9:53:41 AM

Walmart Ships PCs with Lindows OS [Slashdot] The Story here is that they are advertizing it as compatable with windows applications, which it doesn't do a great job doing, so the end result is a really negative impression of linux in the general community. Other comments remark on Walmart having the "power" to stand up against Microsoft. 9:49:10 AM