Scripting News

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:59:27 GMT

Good morning. Another cold one. Wind-chill 15 below zero.

Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:15:59 GMT

Washington Post: "Fox doesn't think it's cheating to hire a ghostwriter to compose your personal ad."

Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:43:14 GMT

Some of you may be asking if we belong in space..

Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:02:03 GMT

Michael Earl says Cambridge has spicy noodles. "I strongly recommend Mary Chung's Dun Dun Noodles (in Central Square, Cambridge) -- heavy noodles in a hot peanut-based sauce, shredded chicken optional. The Peking Ravoli and Suan La Chow Shao soup are also fabulous. It's a favorite of the MIT comp-sci culture, interestingly."

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:44:59 GMT

Weird report on CNN about Colin Powell, Osama bin Laden, the people of Iraq, Al-Jazeera and the US Congress.

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:54:58 GMT

Brent Simmons: "It�s times like this when I try very, very hard not to think of the classic DaveNet We Make Shitty Software. (With bugs!)"

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:43:23 GMT

Ed Cone: "Howard Coble ignored a request for a meeting with three Congressmen of Asian descent, who were distressed over remarks Coble made last week endorsing the WWII internment of Japanese-Americans."

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:36:00 GMT

On this day in 1999, My.Netscape rendering of Scripting News in XML.

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:24:53 GMT

Russell Beattie: "There are literally tens of thousands of dead projects out there on Sourceforge."

Please don't read further if you don't find teenage boy humor funny

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:33:37 GMT

Acme License Maker is still up and running and making funny plates.

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:12:28 GMT

Microsoft has filed a patent application for an "application program interface for network software platform." It'll be interesting to see when Microsoft claims to have invented this. We were creating APIs for a network software platform in the late 80s. We eventually worked with Microsoft on this stuff with the understanding that they had not filed any patents in this area. As I write this I'm sitting in a building filled with lawyers.

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:13:12 GMT

John Robb: "I don't want my data on a PC anymore, I want it on a portable hard drive/server. Simplify my life. Make my life portable."

Live blog this evening

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:53:18 GMT

A reminder, tonight we're having a live session here at Harvard. It's not an intro to weblogs for newbies. I'm going to say that right up front. If you don't know what a weblog is, you can hang out, and maybe we'll get around to explaining what they are, and maybe we'll only talk about other stuff. I have a few ideas. But we never know what's going to happen at one of these until it's over. Tonight's session starts at 6:30PM, at Lewis International Law Center 301 on the law school campus, and will run between 1 and 2 hours. After we'll go out and get some food somewhere (cheap) in the Havard Square area. It's a good chance to meet other people in the weblog world in the Boston area. We'll probably do these sessions pretty regularly through 2003 as the blogging activity bootstraps at Harvard.