For future reference: Georgi Guninski Security Research.

John Markoff covers Dave Winer’s battle with Microsoft over SOAP in the New York Times. I don’t know what to say about that.

Gamespot’s Final Hours series has been uniformly good. Their latest installment is the Final Hours of Black & White. Great stuff.

Call me Mr. Responsibility. Today, instead of messing around playing computer games, I cleaned up the public_html directory for rc3.org and got rid of a bunch of old, crufty files. I also moved some things around so that they’re better organized. Hopefully this will enable me to get off my butt and build some new stuff for the site in the very near future. I have a ton of ideas floaring around that I’ve not yet found the initiative to implement.

George Friedman of Stratfor has some theories on the motivations of the Chinese in instigating and intensifying the airplane collision crisis. I have no idea whether he’s right, it’s just another data point.

RMS storms England.

SourceXchange has been exiled to the land of failed business plans.

AltaVista has a new system that prevents software from spamming their search engine. When I loaded the page, the ad on the right was for a service that spams search engines. That’s funny.

Wind River has acquired the software assets of BSDi, meaning that they now own BSDi’s BSD OS version of Unix, and they are now the stewards of FreeBSD. Jordan K. Hubbard, the head honcho of the FreeBSD project, is now an employee of Wind River. I’m not very plugged into the BSD community, so I don’t know what precipitated this move or what it means in the larger scheme of things.

The issue of the utility of spy missions aside, the Chinese are really starting to piss me off. Their continued demands for an apology are enraging me, and the fact that they claim our slow, prop-driven aircraft intentionally rammed a jet fighter are as offensive as they are ludicrous. Yeah, we were spying on them, but as has been pointed out in the media, that’s a game with set rules that great powers have been playing for half a century. I really don’t understand why they don’t just release the crew of the plane. All of their posturing seems completely pointless.