Joyce Millman has a preview of the new season of the Sopranos, which begins on Sunday night. If you don’t have HBO yet, it’s probably too late for you. Definitely start asking around the office to find somewhere to watch the show.
The government is making a half-assed effort to ease up on crypto in order to get rid of some pesky lawsuits, but it seems like the plaintiffs are going to press on. I fall firmly into the camp that believes restricting the distribution of cryptography software is a clear violation of our first amendment rights, and so far the courts have agreed. Why give up now?
InfoWorld polls the analysts for reactions to the change at the top at Microsoft. One analyst speculates (accurately, I’m sure) that once Windows 2000 is released there will be a wave of executive departures at Microsoft. Could Jim Allchin be the next big name Microserf to hit the dusty trail?
Have you noticed that the number of gigantic movie theaters has grown rapidly in the past few years? Guess what, now it looks like a bunch of them will probably go out of business.