Somehow, EROS (an experimental OS), flew in under my radar. Eric Raymond posted about it on the Linux kernel mailing list (which I don’t have the time or inclination to read), and there’s a Web site describing it at http;//www.eros-os.org. It looks very interesting, but I have yet to wrap my mind around how it works, exactly. Thanks to Wes Felter for the original link.
Robert Bruce Thompson (a computer book author) keeps a journal of his daily writing activity, and one of his recent journals has a lot of good information about how badly the FrontPage extensions suck. Interspersed in the comments about the suckiness of FrontPage are some fascinating comments about dogs as well.
Former US Web CEO and noted lunatic Joe Firmage is starting a new company to help fledgling Internet companies get going and cash out for the big bucks. I take issue with the Red Herring article because they refer to US Web’s leadership in the Web design field. US Web is what’s known as a roll-up, a company that gets big by buying as many little companies in their space in as short a time as possible. I have a friend who worked for a roll-up in the valve repair business. It’s just not glamorous, or even interesting. A return to the business world hasn’t put a stop to the whacked-out Firmage’s continuing search for the alien who visited him in his sleep to provide him with the answer to life, the universe, and everything. I just hope that people associated with the business aren’t asked at some point to shed their containers in a creepy mansion somewhere in the suburbs of San Diego.
The Industry Standard thinks that Fortune editor Henry Goldblatt is pretty fly for a white guy.
Even though I consider myself more a Unix person than a Mac person, I’ve always wanted to go to MacHack.