The M7 release of Mozilla is available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. I downloaded the Windows version today, and it’s looking more and more like a real browser. I’m very impressed.

Business media tycoon Michael Bloomberg blasted the Internet stocks during a speech in Singapore yesterday. I quote: “If you want to look at a regular stock you go to either a financial analyst or an economist. If you want to value Internet stock, you go to a psychologist or publicist.” I do think that some sanity needs to be injected into the market for Internet stocks, but I don’t think that his knocks on electronic commerce are completely valid. There are plenty of areas where an electronic commerce site can add value to allow them to compete on terms other than price.

Even though I consider myself more a Unix person than a Mac person, I’ve always wanted to go to MacHack.

The Industry Standard thinks that Fortune editor Henry Goldblatt is pretty fly for a white guy.

Former US Web CEO and noted lunatic Joe Firmage is starting a new company to help fledgling Internet companies get going and cash out for the big bucks. I take issue with the Red Herring article because they refer to US Web’s leadership in the Web design field. US Web is what’s known as a roll-up, a company that gets big by buying as many little companies in their space in as short a time as possible. I have a friend who worked for a roll-up in the valve repair business. It’s just not glamorous, or even interesting. A return to the business world hasn’t put a stop to the whacked-out Firmage’s continuing search for the alien who visited him in his sleep to provide him with the answer to life, the universe, and everything. I just hope that people associated with the business aren’t asked at some point to shed their containers in a creepy mansion somewhere in the suburbs of San Diego.

Robert Bruce Thompson (a computer book author) keeps a journal of his daily writing activity, and one of his recent journals has a lot of good information about how badly the FrontPage extensions suck. Interspersed in the comments about the suckiness of FrontPage are some fascinating comments about dogs as well.

Somehow, EROS (an experimental OS), flew in under my radar. Eric Raymond posted about it on the Linux kernel mailing list (which I don’t have the time or inclination to read), and there’s a Web site describing it at http;//www.eros-os.org. It looks very interesting, but I have yet to wrap my mind around how it works, exactly. Thanks to Wes Felter for the original link.

Bill Gates is the world’s richest man. If you’re bitter, console yourself with the fact that he’s only a paper hundred-billionaire.

Readers may or may not know that I’m a member of the Well. A couple of months ago, another member of the Well disappeared without a trace, and has not been seen or heard from since. Andrew Brown has written an excellent column that captures the feelings of many of us since the disappearance. In so doing, he also answers, in part, the question of whether there is such a thing as “online community.”

James Poniewozik fires off his parting shot as he leaves Salon and its IPO (which closes today) in an article about how the absurd riches of the Internet mint have affected journalism. More importantly, he discusses whether you can rake in a lot of dough and still retain your integrity.