Author: Vince Kimball

BBC: “The suicide pilots struck not only at innocent civilians, but at the heart of what has been buoying America's struggling economy: the innate confidence of the country's people. By undermining that, the terrorists hope to destroy much more than one of the world's tallest buildings. They want to bring down the Western world's financial… Continue reading BBC

Wes Felter says: “I didn't understand how they could have collapsed; the buildings didn't look damaged below the crash sites.” NPR interviewed a Berkeley engineering professor, he explained what happened. Basically the steel in the top 20 stories got very hot and softened, and collapsed on the lower 90 stories. They couldn't handle that kind… Continue reading Wes Felter

My thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by today's tragic events in New York City, Washington, and Pennsylvania: the victims on the aircraft and on the ground, their families and loved ones, and the emergency services and medical personnel who respond to these events. It's certainly shocking to think that two of the… Continue reading Untitled

John Robb's Weblog: – PC Format (courtesy of Lawrence Lee). Microsoft Homestation: This is a home entertainment server that coordinates home automation. “The broadband device puts the company's .NET strategy into your front room. “They'll sell it cheap, with the revenues coming from online services and profiling,” revealed one source.” This hardware strategy makes the… Continue reading John Robb's Weblog:

Dave Winer's Scripting News Weblog – NY Times: “Some of the leading state attorneys general in the Microsoft antitrust case said yesterday that they would press for tough sanctions against the software maker, including ones that apply to the company's new operating system, Windows XP.” They're still fumbling the remedy. Talk with a few developers,… Continue reading Dave Winer's Scripting News Weblog

Great Bridge, PostgreSQL vendor, ceases operations. During its 16 months of operations, Great Bridge recorded an impressive list of accomplishments, including assembling the industry's deepest talent pool of PostgreSQL expertise; releasing the first-ever commercially distributed version of PostgreSQL; … and being named to FORTUNE magazine's 25 Coolest Global Companies. The company was not able, however,… Continue reading Great Bridge, PostgreSQL vendor, ceases operations

Business 2.0: How to Beat Corporate Alzheimer's. Today, KM is making a comeback on the strength of better solutions — namely, the humble search engine. In the last few years, search engines, originally developed to comb through the sprawling expanses of the Web, have become remarkably effective at finding bits of data wherever they lie.… Continue reading How to Beat Corporate Alzheimer's

Washington Post: AOL Seeks Big Stake In AT&T Cable Unit. AOL Time Warner Inc. is stepping up efforts to acquire a major stake in AT&T Corp.'s cable system, offering a deal that would give the media company control of the combined operations, according to sources familiar with the proposal. [Tomalak's Realm]

September is Love Manila Month at UserLand. We're following the lead of Susan Kitchens and Bryan Bell, both of whom patiently put together a list of features and fixes they want to see. We're also working on Radio 7.1, which is due out pretty soon (which means we haven't picked a date yet). [Scripting News]

Scripting for IE 5 Macintosh Edition. Danny Goodman: Scripting for IE 5 Macintosh Edition “Windows-centric developers might expect compatibility problems with non-Microsoft browsers, such as Netscape Navigator, Opera, and others. What trips up many developers, however, is that the IE/Windows DOM includes many proprietary features that rely on the internal architecture of IE/Windows and the… Continue reading Scripting for IE 5 Macintosh Edition