Since weekends should be more lighthearted than weekdays, I offer you this funny article about breakfast cereal.

At first I thought that Al Gore’s open source web site wouldn’t attract much interest from the community. Clearly I was wrong.

I added another email message I received from a reader to the reader comments page for TYCGI today.

NTK reports on scary stuff going on in the Open Source movement. Is this a “tribe” you’d really want to be a member of?

Ed Muth spins Microsoft’s open source talk.

An AP wire story is now reporting that Al Gore’s campaign web site was built using Microsoft products by the halfwits at US Web. I wonder if Joe Firmage is serving the campaign in a technical advisory role, he’ll help Gore know what to do when the aliens visit again. (In truth, I know that Al Gore has absolutely nothing to do with his Web site, it has all been speced out and designed by campaign flacks who have time on their hands, but I still like to make fun.)

I redesigned the home page for the CGI book.

I was a bit confused about some things, and I was thankful that Microsoft was willing to help me get things straight.

The Perl Institute board has voted to dissolve. Maybe these guys should consider going a similar route.

RFC 2555, “30 Years of RFCs.” For those of you who don’t know, all of the standards upon which the Internet is based are documented by the IETF in RFCs (Request for Comments documents). Unlike many more formal standards organizations, the IETF has based its standards on documenting things that work in practice, instead of creating pie in the sky guidelines that are never implemented. “Rough consensus and running code” is a credo which has served the IETF from the birth of the Internet to today’s wildfire growth, and I congratulate the volunteers who’ve supported this effort for 30 years of incredible work.