17 June 2002

Google Appliance INFOWORLD.com -- Google's search appliance is gaining traction.

E-Bone Shuts Down SLASHDOT.org -- After Slashdot reported the E-Bone/KPNQwest Network was shutdown, two consortia bid for the bulk of the network of bankrupt telecoms firm. The two consortia include telecoms companies, financial investors and some technology providers. A separate deal for the central European network will likely be concluded this week and Lehman Brothers is the most likely buyer. TheE-Bone/KPNQwest network carries between 25% and 50% of European Internet traffic. x: 26121

Sony Camera Small Enough to Sneak Into Anywhere IMAGESTATION.com -- What would you make of an advertisement that heralded a camera "small enough to sneak into any event?" The advertisement claims the megapixel camera packs "hi-end features that'll make the difference between so-so concert bootleg shots and the ones worthy of being printed on giant posters." I like the new Sony DSC-P7. It handles 3.2 MegaPixel for 2048x1536 images,3 MPEG Movie Modes for video, and multi-burst mode.

WOD: perspicacity perspicacity: Dictionary.com Word of the Day.

Programmers are a bit Weird OPEN -- Tom Murphy: "Programmers are also almost always a bit weird. Usually they experiment with drugs, alternative lifestyles, ideologies, sexualities, fashion (or anti-fashion), and music. It's not that they like to break boundaries, in my experience its that they honestly haven't realised there are boundaries."