In response to recent attacks, the Army has been working to beef up the security on its Web site. The first thing they did was move their site from Windows NT to a more secure platform … the Macintosh.

Marc Andreesen is out as Chief Technology Officer at AOL. He’s sticking around in some bogus part time position, but that’s not really important. I thought he had such a bright future ahead of him after that Miller Lite commercial.

Upside.com has an interview with Bruce Perens, the former leader of the Debian project. His current project is technocrat.net.

Tired of your spouse spending too much time on the computer? Get one of these.

The Economist has an article on how computing has affected the growing wage gap in America.

Faithful readers might have noticed that my archive has been a few months behind, due to neglect. Basically, I had to manually generate the archive for each month and then add a link to the archive page, and to be honest, I was just too lazy to do that. Lazy programmers write programs to do their grunt work for them, and indeed, that’s what I’ve done. I’ve written a nifty new Perl program which maintains the archive for me. Check it out.

Despite the fact that there seems to be a rift between Microsoft and Intel these days, it seems the two of them are looking to build a Wintel video game console. Microsoft can use knowledge they’ve mined from working with Sega on the Dreamcast to get a jumpstart … they’re like that, you know.

The latest hot online commerce startup? Made especially for you by Monica handbags, by Monica Lewinsky.

Some people are investigating the high prices payed for EverQuest characters and equipment on EBay, and discovering that many of the sales at high prices have been the result of “bid padding,” where one person enters the bidding simply to inflate the price. Since the padder and the seller are in cahoots, if the padder wins the auction, they just cancel the transaction. So, as it turns out, those multi-thousand dollar sales of characters are probably just a myth after all.

Thomas Dolby took some time out to attack the major record labels at a music industry conference. There’s certainly a lot of talk of a music industry revolution these days, and I hope it comes to pass.