Ken Layne strikes back! His latest OJR column savages the perpetually downtrodden Salon, as only he can. Personally, I think he’s too hard on Salon, which has a lot more quality material than he gives it credit for. It’s the kind of column, though, that people working at Salon should read and take stock of, because I imagine that Layne is saying what a lot of other people in the media are thinking: “If you’re so smart, how come you ain’t rich.”
Several computers at Netscape have been infected by Code Red. I imagine they’re either Windows servers that people turned on and didn’t secure, leaving a crackable IIS installation on by default, or servers set up for testing something or another.
You know what, Ken Layne is also publishing some sort of bloggish thing on his Web site these days. Now that all the reputable journalists are doing it, I don’t know if it’s safe for nimrods such as myself any more. (Closer examination reveals that Layne has been blogging for about a year, which pretty much exposes me as being completely out of touch.)
You know your life is becoming truly pedestrian when one of your greatest immediate concerns is that TruGreen Chemlawn overfertilized your yard and killed a couple of big patches of grass.