• License Manager errors for individual licenses that were caused by file ownership or dynamic hostname issues have been improved.
• The problem caused by typing any characters along with the Option Key has been fixed.
• The problem of the Simulink Simulation Diagnostics window not brought to the foreground when a block error was detected has been fixed.
• If a License Manager error occurs, an error message window will now display.

I realized that few people outside individual projects really follow the progress of other research projects. As companies grow and as the amount of information generated increases, fewer people have time to read the literature or are able to personally interact with those outside their particular program. This results in isolated projects, the inability to stay current, and the repetition of effort. Information flow stagnates, knowledge is only fitfully created and poor decisions get made due to lack of knowledge.

The following report looks at research describing how knowledge is created from information. A unifying principle in much of the work is that people must interact to create knowledge. Simply examining a database can not do it. Information must be dispersed in order for knowledge to be created. A company has some hope, then, if it can create an environment that fosters personal interaction. This is easy in small companies but becomes much harder as they increase in size. Luckily, technology may help attack this problem, providing a way for people to interact much more efficiently, allowing much larger groups of people to come together to create knowledge.

Perhaps Microsoft should organize an MS Switcher competition?

Dave Winer and others are doing a great job of following the story of Microsoft's fake switcher story that ran earlier today. MS posted a page about a woman who supposedly switched from the Mac to Windows XP, but it has since been discovered that the woman pictured on the page, which has since been removed from Microsoft's site, is a model and the photo appears in a image library. Check Scripting News for links to the ugly truth in all of its Microsoft goodness...

Links: Google's cache, and a thread about the fake switch on Slashdot.

This is how I felt after a bomb exploded at the Myyrmanni shopping center. This splitting of the world is easy to understand for everybody who has experienced a traumatic event: death of a close friend or a relative, a grave injury, or a serious crime.

It takes time to absorb the mental pain of living in two worlds. In the end, the new world will consume the old one. Only now and then you notice the old world surfacing, and you feel the pain once again.