PeopleSoft Decision is a Watershed Event for Linux. PeopleSoft's announcement that it will port all of its apps to Linux marks a watershed for Linux. [DennisKennedy.blog]

The Rising Cost of Patriot Act Compliance. More unintended and expensive consequences from well-intentioned legislation raise the cost of doing business in an already tough market. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Hey Tim, I've been programming in a dynamic language since 1990, and I'd never turn back. And going dynamic is just the beginning. Add an integrated object store to the language and you really start flying. Don't forget cross-network scripting. Progress didn't stop just because so many went ga-ga over Ja-va. [Scripting News]

Jurors' web-surfing is a problem. Not because they are wasting time, but because jurors are not supposed to independently investigate the case that is being presented to them.  This month's Litigation News (an ABA publication) has a short blurb about the increasing incidence of jurors doing Internet research at home in multi-day trials.  Why shouldn't… Continue reading Jurors' web-surfing is a problem

Matt update….. More about k-collector. A little bit of background about the k-collector client. k-collector client for Radio Userland is really a totally stripped down version of liveTopics.  Out go tables of contents, local databases of topics, lots of macros, XFML, XTM and a raft of other stuff i'm like. What you end up with… Continue reading Matt update….

VW standard metadata format for reviews. Alf Eaton has a proposal for a Reviews metadata format standard (I assume) based upon his totaly cool blaxm! tool.  <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=”http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#”         xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”         xmlns:rvw=”http://purl.org/net/rvw”><rdf:Description rdf:about=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156027321/”    dc:identifier=”ASIN:0156027321″    dc:type=”Text”    dc:title=”Life of Pi”    dc:creator=”Yann Martel”    dc:publisher=”Harvest Books”    dc:date=”2003-05″    rvw:reviewer=”HubLog”    rvw:reviewerLocation=”http://www.pmbrowser.info/hublog”    rvw:reviewTitle=”The review headline goes here”    rvw:reviewDate=”2003-04-08″    rvw:rating=”7″    rvw:review=”The body of the review… Continue reading VW standard metadata format for reviews

ThreadsML. Here's some base case, first level of functionality set of goals for a ThreadsML deployment. Broadband Mechanics will contribute our on-line outliner – WebOutliner – while Steve Yost is working on making QuickTopic compatible.  Like the process that Matt and Paolo followed with ENT and K-collector – we're hoping to put together a critical… Continue reading ThreadsML

Spectacular Microsoft Passport vulnerability. It was apparently trivial to hack Passport accounts: The flaw allowed a single Web address – or URL – to be used to request a password reset from the Passport servers. The URL contains the e-mail address of the account to be changed and the address where the attacker would like… Continue reading Spectacular Microsoft Passport vulnerability

SpamBayes rocks. SpamBayes with Outlook Addin In an upcoming InfoWorld article, which will post next Friday and appear in print the following week, I review the SpamBayes filtering engine and Mark Hammond's brilliant Outlook addin. Thanks to this remarkable open source duo, I am ready to declare victory on spam. … [Jon's Radio]

So Much Religion.  An early review of the Longhorn UI, and all three comments are from Mac advocates saying “OS X already does this!”.  Obviously they haven't seen the product.  Just wait until they actually see Longhorn UI, and their jaws drop permanently agape.  Longhorn UI is the coolest freekin' thing to happen to Windows UI since Windows 3.0,… Continue reading So Much Religion