Author: Vince Kimball

New York Times – Editorial Op-Ed: by Marion Berry- free registration required How Patients' Rights Became a Fight. First, our original bill started with the premise that a health insurance company should be treated just like any other person or institution in the health profession. That is, if it makes a decision that results in… Continue reading New York Times

NetSol Scumbags. If you've waited until now to try and transfer your domain away from NetSol's greedy, incompetent little fingers, you're probably out of luck. Someone I host tried to transfer his domains away from NetSol to easyDNS. We responded to the NetSol mailing, replying exactly as they instructed, heard nothing for a week, then… Continue reading NetSol Scumbags

Press release: “NetObjects, Inc. today announced that it will cease operations effective today. The Company intends to sell its assets as expeditiously as circumstances permit.” [Scripting News]

phpMyAdmin 2.2.0 Released. After a long wait, we finally have a new version of this popular MySQL administration software. [PHP Everywhere]

Oliver Wrede explains how to make a Manila site with frames using the hierarchyTemplates Plug-In. 1:48:08 AM   [Jake's Brainpan]

Regulating Minors' Net Access Can Backfire. From SF Gate: “When Chris Manley, a high school senior in South Carolina, started thinking about applying for college, his teachers recommended he use the school library computer to research universities like Duke and Stanford. But he couldn't reach their Web sites. This was hardly a case of computer… Continue reading Regulating Minors' Net Access Can Backfire

Paul Larson on The Motley Fool: Four Hurdles for Microsoft: The European Union is borrowing a page from the Justice Department's book and taking a tough look at the company's competitive practices. The fact that Microsoft was deemed a monopoly and violated the Sherman Antitrust Act has not changed, and there is still an open-ended legal question… Continue reading Four Hurdles for Microsoft

A word from Intuit. Engineering Project Manager for Quicken Mac 2002, Ed Fernandez: “Quicken 2002 [Mac/OS X] uses the same standards as the Quicken 2002 Windows product for communicating with the brokerages.” “While theoretically it should be trivial for them to turn on the switch that accepts Mac users, the reason some of them are… Continue reading A word from Intuit

HailStorm promise and threat remain distant. News.com: HailStorm promise and threat remain distant “Microsoft's HailStorm initiative has been described as everything from a weapon aimed at America Online to a crucial component of the software giant's move to a subscription-based business model. But how, exactly, will HailStorm work, and where does Microsoft make money on… Continue reading HailStorm promise and threat remain distant

I just love it when a plan comes together! Yesterday I met with my friend Peter Ford to finalize our plans for Weblogs In Education. The result is schoolblogs.com. Once again “Userland”'s excellent products made this a snap for this ex-VJ 🙂 First I downloaded Peter's site from the editthispage.com server and installed it on… Continue reading Peter Ford