Monthly Archives: July 2003

Great column by Doc Searls — Saving the Net — in the latest Linux Journal. He asks: “Who Owns What? “That’s the fundamental question, and it’s going to get more fundamental as we roll toward the next presidential election here … Continue reading →

LA Times: In Cycling, Winning With Honor Means Everything. “Cycling is a pretty potent allegory for life. A well-lived, honorable victory is what you want. Anything else? That’s not a good win.” The sound you hear is snickering from Bill … Continue reading →

We’ve had a few problems in the past several days, and hope to be back to normal soon. Sorry about the troubles for those who’ve tried to stop by… Comments

As many of you have noted in e-mails to me, we are having difficulties with the comment-posting feature here. I apologize for this, and our tech folks are working to resolve it. It looks as though some people are having … Continue reading →

Via Dave Farber’s mail list, John Gilmore tells how British Air took him off a plane for wearing a political button, at least one expressing the wrong sentiments, in the opinion of the staff. Another victory for Western civilization in … Continue reading →

NYT: White House E-Mail System Becomes Less User-Friendly. Under a system deployed on the White House Web site for the first time last week, those who want to send a message to President Bush must now navigate as many as … Continue reading →

Washington Post: Hong Kong’s Chief Ousts 2 Key Aides Targeted in Protests . The resignations of Regina Ip, the security secretary, and Anthony Leung, the financial secretary, marked another embarrassing defeat for Tung and his backers in Beijing little more … Continue reading →

Danny Goodman tells me that the following items showed up, one right after the other, in his RSS newsreader yesterday: Microsoft Awarded Homeland Security Contract. “The five-year contract, which the new department announced Tuesday, establishes Microsoft as the primary technology … Continue reading →

Scott Rosenberg: Nice, clean, surgical lies. Between the deficit forecast, the continuing doubletalk on WMD and the worsening situation on the ground in Iraq, shouldn’t Bush and his team begin to be held accountable for their deceptions? Comments Posted by: … Continue reading →