Microsoft Backoffice Evaluation: “Exercise 2: Control User Access to Internet Sites … What You Will Learn … In this exercise you will add a filter to the Web Proxy Service that will deny users Internet access to www.netscape.com.”

I’d just like to point out at this time that Microsoft’s support site is the most confusing morass that I’ve ever attempted to navigate. All I wanted to do was search their Knowledge Base, and it took me forever to figure out how to get to the search interface. Ugh.

Netscaper Steve Dagley tells Macintouch that even without jwz, the Mozilla show will go on.

This guy has a hit counter on his résumé.

Here’s a list of resources that provide information about what’s going on in Yugoslavia through Web and email updates.

In other O’Reilly news, www.oreilly.com was hacked and defaced today, perhaps along with some other Web sites.

Wired News reports that Amazon.com has dropped the ball on the auction front.

McPaper spills some ink on behalf of the O’Reilly animals.

Salon redesigned! And grabbed the domain name salon.com! And trashed their NT servers for Web servers running Linux! And moved to a continuous publishing model! And added a real content management system! Most of this stuff is explained in this letter.

The webtechs.com domain has been hijacked by porn purveyors from Denmark (no link due to offensive material). The porn company found a site that was already linked to from all over the web (webtechs provided a very useful HTML validation service), and sent a bogus fax to Network Solutions requesting a modification of the domain name. The modification was put through, and voila, now the URL points to a porn site. Yet another example of the incompetence of the people in charge of the most fundamental infrastructural component of the Internet.