Monthly Archives: August 2001

This is the famous Regina Mundi Catholic church in Soweto, South Africa, the black township next to Johannesburg. The church was the site of political meetings during the anti-apartheid revolution here. It’s also the place where students fled on June … Continue reading →

This is a week mostly of vacation, but if you read the papers you can’t ignore the real world. Today’s newspapers are blaring the depressing story of a shipload of refugees no one wants. A Norweigan ship saved more than … Continue reading →

The front pages here have been consumed all week with the saga of the unwanted refugees that has captivated the world and shamed humanity. To recap: The Norwegian ship rescued more than 400 refugees, most from Afghanistan, when the boat … Continue reading →

If dead people can vote in Chicago, East St. Louis and Miami, why can’t they express political support for Microsoft? That seems like a reasonable question in wake of Thursday’s Los Angeles Times report that lobbyists had orchestrated a “grass-roots” … Continue reading →

I’ll be traveling most of the weekend. Look for the next update on Monday. Comments

Dave Farber took a picture of me standing in front of the opera house. Concidentally, he and GG are here on vacation. We’re going to have dinner tonight. Dave and I are being interviewed later today by an Australian technology … Continue reading →

Los Angeles Times: Lobbyists Tied to Microsoft Wrote Citizens’ Letters. Letters purportedly written by at least two dead people landed on the desk of Utah Atty. Gen. Mark Shurtleff earlier this year, imploring him to go easy on Microsoft Corp. … Continue reading →

John Balzar (Los Angeles Times): Bill Gates’ Way or No Way. Long ago, the hammer and chisel yielded to charcoal, which led to the quill pen, the pencil, the ballpoint, the typewriter–the purposes of which, to record and share information, … Continue reading →

If I weren’t just a couple of days away from departing on an around-the-world reporting and speaking trip, I’d be in Colorado this week at the Jabbercon conference. It’s where some of the vital infrastructure of tomorrow’s Internet is taking … Continue reading →

Jesse Helms won term after term in the U.S. Senate by resorting to race-baiting advertising and otherwise using race as a wedge. The media coverage of his announced retirement is sickening, because it generally glosses over his ugly record. Comments