Mozilla trips up ZoneAlarm because it has a built in proxy server that it uses to connect to secure sites. A reader sent along that link to a thread in one of the public Mozilla newsgroups.

Awhile back, I was forwarded a list of rules kids won’t learn in school, allegedly written by Bill Gates. I knew that it was an urban legend, but was exited to see that it’s been “officially” debunked at the Urban Legends Reference Pages.

I finally got around to installing Zone Alarm on my home PC last night, not because I’m particularly worried about security, but rather because I was curious about incoming and outgoing Internet traffic. Anyway, one curious thing I noticed is that Mozilla 0.9.2 wants to act as an Internet server as well as an Internet client. I have no idea what sort of server is built in, but Zone Alarm warned me about it when I started up Mozilla. Anyone have any clues?

NPR ran a story today on successes and failures from the world of Web media. Pretty banal.

The troubles that Robert Scoble seems to have run into with his weblog, his employer, and Microsoft illustrate why you never see me talking about my employer on this site. It also helps not to get very much attention.

It’s kind of cute that companies outside the computer industry are finding out what it’s like to work with Microsoft. What’s not cute is that they’re not as loathe to go running to the government as companies in the computer industry are.

I just read that Napster is down. I’m surprised anybody noticed. In the meantime, Limewire tells me that there are 57 terabytes of files available on the network.

I’m not very enthused about all of the reality shows that have been cropping up lately, but The Amazing Race actually looks pretty interesting. They don’t say much about the show’s rules or competition on the site, but travelling around the world in a race actually sounds pretty fun to me.

Was Brett Glass dumped by InfoWorld due to pressure from Microsoft? Your guess is as good as mine.

Elliotte Rusty Harold is writing a new book called Processing XML with Java, and he’s publishing the whole thing on the Web as he works on it. I’ve already read Brett McLaughlin’s book Java and XML, but I’ll probably read this one too, since my professional life seems to revolve around, well, Java and XML these days.