I got more spam from Network Solutions today, this time trying to get me to host my site with DellHost. What makes these losers better than Sanford Wallace or other two bit spammer that scrapes the whois database is beyond me.
Information Systems Journal is looking for papers on Open Source software.
Scott Rosenberg revisits the well worn topic of Al Gore’s much-distorted statement about taking the initiative in creating the Internet (that’s right, he never used the word “invent”). Scott does a great job of tracking the history of this story and opining on how we got from the original quote to the brazen distortions of it that are common today.
Netscape 6 Preview Release 3 is now out. Supposedly it’s the final beta. That kind of scares me.
I haven’t read Wired magazine in awhile, but I picked up a copy this month because I didn’t want to wait for the article on the Perl cruise to appear online. I haven’t finished the issue yet, but I’ve already read several good articles. I let my subscription lapse at least a year ago, but if all of the issues these days are as good as this one, I may have to pick the subscription back up. Anyway, one of the good articles this month is an interview with David Boies, who is currently defending Napster. I thought Napster was sunk in their current court case before I read the interview. Boies is amazingly persuasive.