Monthly Archives: February 2003

I’m taking a few days off, and don’t plan too many postings before the latter part of next week. Comments

I visited Dave Sifry yesterday at his office. By day he’s deep into one of the more interesting wireless experiments, Sputnik, and in his copious (not) free time he’s put together Technorati, a service that keeps track of weblog links … Continue reading →

Los Angeles Times: Koufax Shuts Out Dodgers. Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax, whose brilliance on the mound captivated fans in the 1960s and defined the Dodgers’ greatest era in Los Angeles, has severed ties with the club in protest … Continue reading →

A reader alerts me that the domain registrar everyone loves to hate, Verisign’s Network Solutions, has cut prices on renewals. My informant says he asked NSI for a lower price but was told no way. He then started the switch-registrar … Continue reading →

The Hill: GOP threats halted GAO Cheney suit. The controversy with Cheney came to a head in December after U.S. District Court Judge John Bates, citing separation of powers, ruled that Walker lacked sufficient grounds to compel Cheney to disclose … Continue reading →

AP: Death row case raises insanity defense paradox. In the latest bizarre turn in a nearly 25-year-old death row case, a federal appeals court ruled that a mentally ill inmate can be put to death even though he would be … Continue reading →

Register: MS patents .Everything. Historically Microsoft has not used patents to protect its business, preferring to tinker with the APIs themselves. Quite explicitly, as Brad Silverberg told Andrew Schulman in 1993: if Microsoft stops “evolving” the APIs they become commoditized. … Continue reading →

Cnet: Office for Macs to get Exchange update. The update will give Mac customers access to corporate calendar and contact information stored on a server running the software giant’s Exchange software. This is long overdue, but for many people it … Continue reading →

Washington Post: In Europe, Microsoft Faces a Harder Sell. An investigating team working for Monti, the competition commissioner for the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, is putting the finishing touches on a formal recommendation in the case. It is … Continue reading →

Doc Searls (Linux Journal): Tale of Two Stories. “Use value” (as opposed to “sale value”) applications are dark matter to everybody outside the teams doing the work. Changes in those applications don’t call for press releases, no matter how profound … Continue reading →