The LA Times has an article today about how some homeless people are benefitting from access to the Internet.

gamasutra.com is a resource for people who are in the business of creating computer games.

Anybody who plays EverQuest will love this song.

The M11 release of Mozilla is ready for download. I’m running it on both my Linux box and my Windows NT box, and it’s looking pretty sweet on both platforms. The layout engine is incredibly fast as well, especially under Windows NT. Unsurprisingly, the home page for boo.com causes it to hang.

Maynard Keynes would love this: people in Oregon aren’t allowed to pump their own gas. The article mentions that New Jersey also has a prohibition on self service gas stations. (I bought gas in New Jersey once, and the gas station was indeed full service, but I didn’t think anything of it. One thing I did notice though was that late at night, you couldn’t find an open gas station anywhere in the stupid state.)

The current issue of SunWorld has an introductory article on the grep utilities for Unix. grep is used to find strings matching a certain pattern within a text file. The best thing about the article is that it provides a good introduction to regular expressions, the pattern matching language for Unix that’s been added to the search and replace functions of many text editors.

At Salon today, Tim O’Reilly writes about Microsoft’s efforts to dominate the Web on the server side. It was Tim who initially alerted the world to Microsoft’s evil license terms for Web servers running on Windows NT Workstation in order to force people to use Windows NT Server, which ships with Internet Information Server preinstalled. O’Reilly’s article recounts that miserable episode, refreshing my memory on one of the dirtiest tricks Microsoft ever played.

Robert X. Cringely takes to his bully pulpit to mine interesting tidbits from the FOF this week, and agree with Judge Jackson on most counts. But hey, Mr. Cringely and I have both been taking Microsoft to task for as long as I can remember, so I’m not surprised by his take on the matter.

Today Salon compares and contrasts Fox’s “Greed” and ABC’s “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” I’ve watched every episode of Millionaire even though Regis Philbin drives me nuts. I’ve never watched “Greed” under the assumption that it’s a derivative piece of crap. I hate it when the networks try to get in the ballgame with weak shows modelled after popular shows on other networks. Joyce Millman’s article validates my decision not to watch in a big way.

First Philips, now Everex. Another Windows CE licensee is bailing out.