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File this article: Why Do Java Developers Like to Make Things So Hard? in the “lost on me” category. Yeah, there are some bad API designs out there in the Java world, but I’ve gotten to a point with Java where doing things in PHP or Perl is like pulling teeth. Right now [...]

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Google is a bit different today. As a Firefox user, I rarely hit the Google home page (control-K to get to the search box built into the browser is much quicker) and I was surprised at the new results page. Froogle takes the place of the old Google implementation of DMOZ in the list of [...]

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I don’t know if you, like me, are following all the grisly details of the vicious battle between the Bush administration and its supporters and Richard Clarke, but on Friday things hit a low when Senate majority leader Bill Frist accused Clarke of perjuring himself either in his public testimony last week or in his [...]

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Tim Bray’s trip report from his visit to StarOffice in Hamburg is pretty interesting. I didn’t know that OpenOffice stored its documents in a way that’s pleasing to XML purists, that’s pretty cool from an interoperability perspective. I’ve been using OpenOffice as my desktop suite (and I forced it on my wife) when [...]

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Eclipse 3.0 M8 is out. Seems like this release includes a number of spiffy new features.

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The one question all of us trying to figure out what’s going on have to ask every say is, “How bad is it?” The title of Nir Rosen’s Reason article, It’s All Bad News, should give you some clue. Rosen is a freelancer living in Iraq, and paints a picture of constant violent [...]

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If you, like me, detest David Brooks, you’ll revel in this piece that skewers the assertions that made him famous with aplomb.

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Everybody seems to have not only noted a throwaway bit in a New York Times article that mentioned that Condoleeza Rice is leaving her job at the end of the year, but also to have taken it as proof that they’re out of the loop. See Wonkette, Josh Marshall, and Slate’s Today’s Papers.

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Cory Doctorow explains why DRM really does suck. In this case, it’s Apple’s DRM that’s the issue, but all DRM schemes present similar quandries.

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Ed Foster notes that purchasers of the dreaded SCO license are not granted the right to modify or even recompile applications covered under that license (which, according to SCO, is all of Linux). In other words, you’re not even allowed to build a custom kernel for your servers once you’ve submitted to SCO’s extortion. [...]

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