Ask Tog: Internet Perspective. The DSL system is collapsing. The phone companies want nothing to do with real broadband, which would require laying millions of miles of fiber. Satellites can't help; along with cable, the more subscribers they get, the worse the service gets. [Tomalak's Realm]

phpWebForm 0.1.0 (Default). php form processing script with templates and database capabilities [freshmeat.net]

Compaq Chosen to Equip Starbucks. Compaq Computer Corp. and Starbucks Coffee Co. have cut a five-year, $100 million deal in which Compaq will equip the Seattle-based coffee shop chain's customers with wireless Internet access. [internetnews.com: Product News]

dbXML Core 0.5 debuts. Kimbro Staken announced a new release of dbXML, adding indexing, file storage, and API improvements to the native XML database. [xmlhack]

Best of Berkshire's Annual Meeting. Whitney Tilson on the annual display of wit and wisdom from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. [The Motley Fool]

Imaging Resource: Coolpix 995 Review « What can we say? We were already enamored with the Coolpix 990, and the 995's increased flexibility is even more impressive. Increased zoom range, higher ISO settings, and a bevy of improved features make this camera perfect for any shooting situation. It offers a completely automatic mode for novices, with… Continue reading Coolpix 995 Review

developerWorks: Samba 2.2 « In this article, Daniel Robbins explains how Samba 2.2 improves on the already-excellent Samba 2.0.8 to create an incredibly powerful enterprise-ready Unix/Windows integration solution. The new Samba 2.2 offers a host of new improvements, including Windows 2000 client and Windows NT domain controller support, to name just a few. » [QubeQuorner]

PHPeverywhere: PHP Jobs « Good luck finding a job doing PHP as the principal server side language. It is outnumbered 10:1 by MS-based and Java-based jobs. The achilles heal of PHP is that it's an apache module and can't run on MS-based operating systems without running as a CGI. The fact that it can't run as… Continue reading PHP Jobs

Lighthouse: “Don't Make Me Think”: Classics Illustrated does Web Usability. It makes itself useful to designers by powerfully reinforcing a handful of key ideas that most designers already use. It makes itself useful to the designer's non-designer colleagues by teaching those ideas in a concise but highly engaging style. [Tomalak's Realm]

Slashdot | Canadian Privacy Head Says Work E-mail Private. Employees in Canda have a “fundamental, inherent right” to privacy in the workplace, and this includes the right to private e-mail, says federal Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski. [Privacy Digest]