It seems Jeff Papows, the head of Lotus, may have a few skeletons in his closet. And you thought only politicians had to worry about their private lives being on display.

I read a message from David Farber’s Interesting People list that said DejaNews is tracking all of the links in newsgroup messages that people click on. So, not only do they track which newsgroups you search, and which articles you read, but also which Web links you follow, and which email addresses you click on to send mail. Icky.

Java. Open? No, closed. I don’t think this should surprise anyone. I’m a bit disappointed that Sun is trying to blame this on Microsoft, though.

Thanks to The Stuffed Dog for linking to my author’s journal. Work continues on the book …

An interesting article explaining how you can contribute to free operating system projects, even if you don’t code.

SCO’s CEO tears down Linux. News flash to SCO: you’re already dead, you just don’t know it yet.

Here’s a pointer to a silly article about Linux from the Chicago Tribune. It seems to me that the author just doesn’t feel like he gets enough email from disgruntled readers, and realized that tweaking Linux users would get him the thousands of angry email messages he must covet.

Geeks will appreciate the fact that gcc has unforked. The team behind egcs now owns gcc, and will be responsible for maintaining it.

I’m surprised it took so long to completely fail, but the shoe has finally dropped and Time-Warner’s mega-site Pathfinder has bit the dust.

The PC Bible web site is a really cool book support Web site. I’d like to do something like it for my next book, although I’d just open the kimono and let everyone see everything.