This picture takes home offices to a new extreme.

MSN is getting a new logo and identity that’s more distinct from Microsoft itself. The most interesting thing about the story is that it appears on the MSNBC Web site. Those guys must love breaking a Microsoft-related story.

For some reason, my Palm IIIx went from 66% battery life available yesterday to 1% this morning. Why? Fortunately, I got a sync in before the stupid thing crapped out.

One story that rolled in over the holidays but didn’t get much play was the acquisition of Thawte by VeriSign. Both Thawte and and VeriSign are both in the business of providing certificates for secure Web servers. VeriSign just eliminated their only real competition. Bad news for us customers.

From a mailing list: the new NSI domain name dispute policy.

You might not need to read Matthew Haughey’s article on email etiquette for mailing lists, but someone you know does.

Mozilla M12 was released on 12/21. According to the most recent status report, they’re almost at “dogfood” level, which means that the features and stability are at a point where the browser can be used for everyday tasks by Netscape’s engineering team. Hopefully the beta is four to six weeks away.

When a company has a blurb on its home page entitled “Help our people find jobs,” things aren’t going well.

Now that the millenium is less than five short days away, I thought I’d try to figure out what I need to do to make sure that Windows 98 and Office 97 work after we ring in the new year. Heading over to the Microsoft site, I wanted hardcore technical information and found myself redirected to some stupid article on the MSN Computing Central Web site. I really appreciate it when companies leverage their inadequacy by forcing me to their portal site where I can view some annoying advertising. As a paying customer, don’t I deserve real support? As best as I can tell, if you want to find out whether you computer is going to work after 1/1/2000, you need this program.

If you were outraged by the whole Etoy debacle, this story submitted by a reader will really make your blood boil. In this case, a company in France is abusing the legal system to crack down on a scholarly non-profit organization.