Monthly Archives: June 2001

Reuters: Supreme Court rules for freelance writers. “Unfortunately, today’s decision means that everyone loses,” New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. said. “The Times has lost this case and will now undertake the difficult and sad process of removing significant … Continue reading →

I just put a 60-gigabyte hard drive and another 256 megabytes of RAM in my home-brew PC this weekend. What a difference the latter makes with VMWare, which lets you run more than one OS at the same time, hot-keying … Continue reading →

The greatest feature of the Web is its distributed nature. When people come together to solve a problem, they do incredible things. There are more examples than I can name, but the unraveling of recent Kaycee Nicole death hoax is … Continue reading →

Just got a note from a Microsoft PR guy who tells me that another statement made to me about Smart Taga is untrue. A product Smart Tag product manager had told me that site owners wishing to stop display of … Continue reading →

Dave Winer: Don’t Be A Deer. It’s time for us to re-think, geographically and inclusively — to work with other technology centers around the world, and offer a great alternative to Microsoft’s lock-in. It’s totally possible, there are no real … Continue reading →

Yesterday I asked if anyone knew how to open up multiple main windows in the Opera Web browser. It turns out that you can’t do it. Because Opera uses multiple document interface, or MDI, I’m stuck with running all open … Continue reading →

Washington Post: Judges Overturn Airwave Auction. “The tragedy here is that by welshing on its promise to pay the U.S. government, NextWave could walk away with billions,” based on the value of the rights, said former FCC chairman William E. … Continue reading →

A List Apart: Much Ado About Smart Tags. Smart tags aren’t about empowering the user. They are about turning the web into yet another proprietary platform for Microsoft to dominate. Pretty much sums it up. Read this article, because it’s … Continue reading →

The latest from Microsoft on how Smart Tags will work when Windows XP is released (doesn’t seem to be changed much from last week): They will be turned off by default. A user’s decision to turn on Smart Tags will … Continue reading →

With Microsoft’s Smart Tags, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address might have begun this way: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are … Continue reading →