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Saturday, January 12, 2002

Name That Worm: How Computer Viruses Get Their Names : "We don't use the name of the virus writer because we don't want to give name recognition for something that's done for publicity, and we don't use the date because there are so many trigger dates and it's such an easy thing to change that it wouldn't make any sense."
3:49:20 PM

Judge Scraps Microsoft School Deal : "It appears to provide a means for flooding a part of the kindergarten through high-school market, in which Microsoft has not traditionally been the strongest player."
3:48:35 PM

Does Advertising Even Work? : "In these days of budget cuts and profit woes, even the most hardened of advertisers are wondering about whether to invest in advertising. Hesitancy stems not only from leaner profits making advertising expenditures less viable, but lack of insight into whether advertising really works, and if so, when and why."
3:47:14 PM

Hot Type Redefined : "It's the enigma, the weird mystery of typography - and of typographers. Because someone, possibly dead five centuries, maybe living a block or two away, has actually designed each one of these letter forms. Agonized, perhaps for years, over the precise bend of the top curlicue of the letter "a," deciding whether to end it with a little round knob or a sharp wedge. You get the idea."
3:46:02 PM

Virus Targets Microsoft Web Services : "...it shows that virus writers are paying close attention to the new .NET architecture from Microsoft and are attempting to understand the framework that eventually will be available on most systems..."
3:43:45 PM

All Hail The iMac : "While the new iMac has maintained some of the trademark design elements of the original, it doesn't look stale - something that's difficult to do when updating an older, successful model."
3:41:00 PM

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