Friday, April 26, 2002

May be quiet here for awhile. We'll see what kind of e-mail updates will take place from Cancun. First, though, we'll have to see if I even care to update anything. I figure this'll be the schedule (roughly): wake up, eat, beach or pool, drink, eat, sleep, wake up, eat, beach or pool, drink, eat (or, for a little variety, eat, drink), sleep. Sounds like a good day. Repeat six times. 2:43:13 PM

Microsoft Exec Warns Court of Windows Frustration "Consumers would be confused and frustrated if products marketed as Windows operating systems were incapable of running Windows applications because blocks of software code relied on by those applications had been removed," he said in written testimony. Hmm. Or maybe they'd start looking a little harder for alternatives... it's beginning to sound like not-so-subtle threats from Microsoft. As in "you can't break us up, because if you do, we'll make life miserable for our consumers." Tell you what: here's one consumer that won't be "confused and frustrated." Now that the days of consulting are over, there's absolutely no reason for me to keep running Windows at home. Time for a Mac? We'll see... 1:09:58 PM

From The Register: MS exec argues for right to break rivals' software. 8:03:31 AM

Good morning. Jasmine is home sick today, plus I need to wrap up documentation for two projects, conduct an exit interview with my manager (basically hand over laptop and keys), spend some time at a happy hour for myself and another departing colleague (urgh - twist me arm), run through a couple loads of laundry, and finish packing for vacation. I'm guessing a few things will fall through the cracks. 8:00:52 AM