Friday, March 01, 2002

11:43:56 AM   "It would also provide sweet irony as a punishment--Microsoft would be forced to compete with the very monster it created. "- Put Windows code in public domain -  [ZDNet]  //  The very monster it created.

1:56:56 AM   Analysts, investors frown on Gateway. Analysts are wary after the company warns that it expects to lose money all year as it tries to reverse a trend of declining sales. [CNET News.com]  //  More bad news for our friend in the business

1:51:34 AM   Book closes on Excite@Home. The nation's largest broadband provider is closing shop at midnight in an outcome that few employees or customers could have imagined when they signed on with the company. [CNET News.com]  //  This truly a sad day for what was once a great broadband company and the premiere portal.  The portal is now being driven in the ground by Iwon.  Why didn't someone snatch up the portal side ? Microsoft could surely have used the base of portal users ?  I never dreamed I'd want Microsoft to buy anything I liked but man leaving it to Iwon pains me so.

1:36:30 AM   I love Google, but I don't like where it's going. When it started it had a minimalist approach. The home page was stark and fast, in contrast to the jumbles that the early search engines were turning into. That made a strong statement. I liked it. When they hired a CEO, an exec who had presided over the demise of Novell, I started watching for what I feared was coming -- that Google would become just another diluted and inanely-run Silicon Valley company. Maybe Google-the-Company was never that good, it's hard to know, but Google-the-Search-Engine was and is perfect. As long as they don't screw with that I'm happy, I guess. But truth be told, I wanted them to be more like the Web, not less. I feel the same way about Google Compute as I did when Amazon went from being the Earth's Largest Bookstore, to being Earth's Largest Everything, and then (of course) Nothing Interesting At All.  [Scripting News]  //  This is Dave on Google, things do appear to be headed the wrong direction.  Also like the teal above on Amazon.   Dave has a way with words and I have been collecting these to post together one of these days.  For now I'll just make them green until I get some of them together.

1:04:41 AM   My dog hates OSX: "What we need is a killer application which returns us to the good old days of the occasional system crash, spinning cursor of doom, or the half-hour recompile." [the Jer Zone] via [Phil Ackley's Radio Thingumabob]

12:57:55 AM   "The battle of the bad girls" - Tonya Harding, Amy Fisher to spar on Fox's 'Celebrity Boxing'[nandotimes]  //  Hey, who needs Mike Tyson ? Though not a boxing fan I think we'll make one exception for this little piece of classic Fox television.  Danny Bonaduce and Barry Williams scheduled to appear here too :-)