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If anyone can explain to me why my e-mail is telling me that it’s receiving messages dated tomorrow (and yes, my time and time zone are correct), I’d love to understand this. New messages are coming in now at the correct time. I had a crash of Entourage (OS X) just before this started happening.

Drop me a line if you have any ideas.

UPDATE: I had many suggestions but no clear resolution. One correspondent’s note made the most sense in this situation. He said:

In UNIX the BIOS clock is typically set to GMT and you tell the system what the local time zone to use. If there is a configuration problem then the system will default to GMT. As GMT is +8 hours, it can look like “tomorrow” from 4PM PST on.

Anyway, whatever did happen, I reset the clock, rebooted and am back to normal receipt of e-mail. Thanks again to all who wrote.

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Open source advocate Bruce Perens has a new deal with the Prentice Hall publishing company. He’s editing a series of books about, guess what, open source technology.

That’s only part of the story. The books themselves are being published under an open source license. Here’s his explanation of the project.

” How do we make money?” he asks. Answer: “People like paper. We put the paper versions in stores several months before the electronic versions come out. Since the retail channel is filled as soon as the paper versions come out, it removes most of the incentive that a second publisher would have to reprint the books while they are new.”

This is known as putting your money where your mouth is. Kudos to all involved.

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You never appreciate your big toe’s contribution to mobility until you break it in two places (and no, this had nothing to do with New Year’s Eve…). Looks like I’ll be in slow motion mode for a few weeks.

It’s a long, long walk from the most distant gate at SFO’s international terminal to the customs area. I’m hoping my plane home, which departs in a few hours, will be parking at a closer-in gate.

UPDATE: Sure enough, we parked all the way at the end of the terminal, gate 102 or something like that. I think this is a corollary to Murphy’s Law.

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I was one of many people to e-mail a photo to Joi Ito’s New Year’s Moblog page. There were glitches, as Joi notes here, but it was a cool experiment.

The major value in this format is its potential, not its current use. Example: I’d like to see news organizations set up sites like this one, and widely publicize the e-mail address. Then invite readers to submit their own postings of important events (and there would need to be a way to post explanatory captions along with photos and titles). You’d need a moderator to make sure the postings were not obscene or otherwise inappropriate.

The future of news is being invented as we speak. This is one way it will happen.

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AP: Tyco’s Kozlowski took hard line against embezzling crimes. In the same year he allegedly began stealing up to $600 million from Tyco International, former Chief Executive Dennis Kozlowski urged a judge to throw the book at an employee who had embezzled a fraction of that amount from a subsidiary.

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