Friday, March 22, 2002

My wife thinks the new Cadillac XLR is the hottest looking car since VW brought back the Beetle. She never stops surprising me. 8:25:28 PM     Soviet Moon Rocket Secret Revealed 5:27:08 PM     Last year on this day, Vignette was worth $1.5 billion, Interwoven $1.3 billion, Allaire was $185 million and Marimba $81 million. "I see no rhyme or reason here." Today they are worth $830 million, $546 million, Allaire merged with Macromedia and Marimba is worth $74 million.   [Scripting News] 5:09:22 PM     Google Restores Church Links. As free-speech advocates squawked, the popular search engine restored links critical of the Church of Scientology, which had warned the search engine to remove them. [Wired News] 5:07:20 PM     Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders. Sen. Fritz Hollings' new bill embeds copy-protection tech in digital hardware devices. But the proposal would have an even bigger impact on the software industry. Programmers, look out. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News] 5:06:21 PM     NY-Times: Ex-Gateway executive outlines how MS bullied the company after it had developed an inexpensive internet gateway / file server using Linux.  (I remember the machine. It was a 5 in x 5 in cube that had Apache, SMTP, Samba and few other goodies. I thought it was a really neat little box. Too bad about MS.) 9:25:50 AM

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