Sunday, March 24, 2002

Dori Smith is blogging the Oscars.   [Scripting News] 11:26:13 PM

Louis Rukeyser Is Removed Early as Host of `Wall Street Week'. Louis Rukeyser was removed last night as host of "Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser" by the president of Maryland Public Television, Robert J. Schuman. By David Cay Johnston. [New York Times: Business] 11:24:43 PM

PC World: "I ate your Web page. Forgive me, It was juicy And tart on my tongue." Creative 404 page not found error messages article. [lawrence's notebook] 9:04:08 PM

Just posted! Full Canon EOS-D60 review. 00:00 25/Mar Tokyo: I've just finished uploading the last few images which make up one of the largest reviews ever published here. Our full reiview of a production Canon EOS-D60 is now available. The review is... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] 3:36:41 PM

I noticed a scan by Google of my blog server log and went there to see what they scooped up. By searching by my name, I found a post from 2000. Google has archived a post to a question on a message board of what I ate during a weekend in April, 2000. Yummy memories. 3:20:10 PM

From the 'Anything You Can Do Women Can Do Better' Department Women browse the web better than men? Hmmmm, reminds me of an email I got from a former co-worker a few weeks ago about the differences between men and women processing images. I hope it wasn't an off-shoot of the same research project. The web-browsing story is from [MetaFilter] 2:36:07 PM

An online journal from a lady who works in the same building as the Pacific Stock Exchange that went totally electronic Friday talking about the human side of the move. 2:17:24 PM

I went looking for a picture of Mitch Kapor and dug up this famous picture of Bill Gates, Mitch and Fred Gibbons taken for the 1984 rollout of Apple's Macintosh. This poster was distributed to every developer, our names were on the poster too, so that guaranteed that we'd put it up in our front office. We were proud to be Mac developers. In those days Bill was talent. Fred was a total suit, but an imaginative one who understood users. Mitch was the perfect eclectic and brilliant software designer.   [Scripting News] 1:56:45 PM

Crime-Fighting by Computer Widens Scope. The same sort of statistician's dream used to build efficient crime-fighting is helping New York police silence dogs and loud parties. By William K. Rashbaum. [New York Times: Technology] 10:09:24 AM

ACM Programming Contest Results [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 10:06:05 AM

Robot with a press pass? [CNN] 10:03:33 AM

He Writes Back to Spammers [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 12:42:57 AM

2.56 Tb/s Transmission Record [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 12:41:36 AM

Easier Internet for Older Users. Software and hardware companies, which have traditionally focused on a younger market, are beginning to develop ways of helping seniors surf the net. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] 12:37:20 AM

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