http://www.notsobighouse.com offers an interesting alternative to conspicuous consumption. Now what we need is notsogasguzzlingcar.com and notmoreinterestedindaytradingthandoingwork.com.
In his wrapup of events in the “open source” software world, Andrew Leonard discusses the controversy surrounding the term “open source” itself. Apparently, two groups are arguing over which one owns the trademark for the name. Ironic isn’t it?
Microsoft has formed a group internally to counter Linux. What’s the matter? Afraid of a few sleep deprived college students and European hackers? If Microsoft had real guts, they’d be working with Linux instead of trying to kill it. It would be foolish to expect any kind of leadership from Microsoft though; they really don’t care about the industry, other than as a group of competitors they have crushed or will crush.
Jon Katz has written about weblogs for Free!. The bad news is he didn’t mention rc3.org. The good news is, he didn’t say rc3.org was kind of boring. He did speak well of friends of rc3.org PeterMe (who’s back online, by the way, after some DNS troubles), and CamWorld.
Apropos of nothing: I now subscribe to 16 unofficial channels at My Netscape. I don’t subscribe to any of the official channels, I still use My Yahoo to check on the weather, sports scores, and the latest headlines. By the way, the list of unofficial channels is growing rather nicely.
There’s another romance novel out there with Rafe in the title – The Return of Rafe MacKade. Again, not about me.