What's up with the Dallas Morning News anyway? Their problem with people "deep linking" to them makes no sense at all. The inner pages are full of advertising and have complete site navigation, so how can one be hurting them by linking to any of their site's pages? Don't they want [revenue-generating] traffic?

By the way, I won't link to them at all because I absolutely hate pop-under advertising (I'm apparently in the minority as far as that goes).  I don't mind advertising, but leave my desktop out of it, bastards! 

Adobe wins Macromedia patent suit.  The suit alleged that the user interface of Macromedia's Flash Web animation tool infringed on Adobe's patent. A court agreed and awarded Adobe $2.8 million.  [CNET News.com] 

something I missed yesterday...
Melissa virus author jailed for 20 months.  Long time coming  [The Register]

'Melissa' Creator Gets 20 Months.  David Smith, whose 'colossal mistake' caused untold millions in damages around the world, was sentenced Wednesday.  [internetnews.com: Top News] 

Rob Jorgensen implemented a nice variation of the simplicity1 theme. 

Up-to-date at both URLs... 

Priest arrested on child rape charges.  Detained in San Diego, Shanley at center of Boston church scandal  [SunSpot.net News Headlines] 

Jeremy Hedley (Antipixel) points out that Tom Waits has 2 albums scheduled to be released on May 7th.  What's great is that several songs are now available (mp3) for download (1|2) plus you can listen to a RealAudio stream of the complete albums, prior to their release, now at the publisher's site.  Very cool - thanks Jeremy! 

Dark side of cyberlife.  Services catering to consumer demands for convenience are rising all over the Web, but they may pose some of the weakest security links of all.  [CNET News.com] 

Dave Winer:  "Outage update. The static server is still not connected to the community server. Looks like we're going to have to go down to Exodus and rewire things so that the static machine is on the same subnet as the community machine. Jake didn't finish work until 4AM, so it's going to be a while before we get started on that. Between a rock and a hard place."

Happy birthday Dave!  And good luck with getting things back together quickly - we know it's not easy... 

We're back up and running at http://coolstop.com/radio/ as it appears the Radio Userland static server will take some time to restore to full functionality.  The next step will be setting up my public outline to upstream to the community server instead of to coolstop.com to prevent the bandwidth issues I experienced previously... 

May 2002

 


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