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Unsurprisingly, ICANN has decided to eliminate the elected board positions that were created two years ago, and Karl Auerbach along with them. Granted, Auerbach is a hard ass, but removing all public accountability from ICANN is a poor decision. More importantly, Auerbach passionately and more importantly, accurately represented the views of many, many longtime [...]

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Over the weekend, Russell Beattie Notebook and Dave Johnson had some things to say about the upcoming battle between .NET and Java. There’s no doubt about it, .NET has some aspects that are big improvements over Java. That’s the benefit of competition — .NET has some new innovations, but it’s also a huge ripoff [...]

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If anybody has any interest in testing out a version of the XML::RSS module for Perl that generates valid RSS 2.0, please send email. I’ve got it working (and producing valid RSS 2.0), but I need more testers to put it through its paces. I also haven’t updated the module installer or the [...]

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I discovered a new toy tonight — Jonathan Eisenzopf’s XML-RSS module for Perl. It produces RSS 1.0, 0.9, and 0.91 feeds with relative ease. It’s certainly a lot better than my cobbled together RSS “generator”. It doesn’t support RSS 2.0, and doesn’t look like it’s under active maintenance, but I bet it could [...]

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Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife, daughter, and five other people died today in a plane crash in Minnesota. What a shame. This Congressional Quarterly article has some details.

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It appears as though Blogger was hacked sometime today. Anil Dash was on the scene, announcing it publicly first. Danny O’Brien has set up QuickTopic for posting announcements. Blogger is currently down, so don’t bother going there and trying to change your password. The thing that sucks for me is I had to [...]

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As you know, one of my minor obsessions is making fonts look as good as possible under Linux. One of the nice benefits of Gentoo’s “build it all from source” model is that everything looked pretty darn good font-wise right out of the box, although I later made some tweaks to improve things. For those [...]

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So Best Buy has a house brand laptop designed for them by Porsche, and all they can do is rip off the TiBook? Color me unimpressed.

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Anybody else getting emails inviting them to join the Illuminati Order? I’ve gotten several in the past few days, here’s one of them. I’m puzzled as to who’s forwarding these things to me (and I don’t think they’re spam based on the email address they’re going to), especially considering that the organization’s purported philosophy [...]

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Obviously it’s all over the news today that John Allen Muhammad and his stepson John Lee Malvo were arrested last night as suspects in the sniper case. Several stories mention that Muhammad converted to Islam years ago, and this CBS story discusses his background in detail. I’m somewhat curious as to whether Muhammad was a [...]

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