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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.msnbc.com/news/600072.asp&quot;&gt;MSNBC&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The Justice Department asked the U.S. Appeals Court Friday to fast track the new hearings in the Microsoft antitrust trial, and immediately send the case back to the lower court to decide whether Microsoft should be broken up.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://blackholebrain.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$808&quot;&gt;Mike Donnelan&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Why aren't writers suing the public libraries? Maybe the more important question is why do people still buy books?&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fsomm.com/&quot;&gt;Oliver Breidenbach&lt;/a&gt; is running his own Mac OS X server and Manila and his weblog. "/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.evhead.com/archives/2001_07_01_arch.asp#4527918&quot;&gt;Evan Williams&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I wasn't terribly surprised to learn that 83.6% of Blogger visitors use IE5.x.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html&quot;&gt;Portable.Net&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The goal of this project is to build a suite of open source tools to build and execute .NET applications, including a C# compiler, assembler, disassembler, and runtime engine.  The initial target platform is Linux, with other platforms to follow in the future.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1775&quot;&gt;A question&lt;/a&gt; for people who know Perl and Python. "/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1776?mode=day&quot;&gt;Kenyett Avery&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;XML-RPC is important not because it offers new features, but because it makes using the existing features painless. Sure, I could write a CGI script and a custom client, and it wouldn't even be hard. But I don't *want* to. I'd much rather write a couple of procedures and let the XML-RPC library handle the details, leaving me free to concentrate on the real work.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="The Perl community is considering integrating XML-RPC into its standard installation. I've been emailing with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/03/nat.html&quot;&gt;Nathan Torkington&lt;/a&gt; who's leading the discussion on behalf of XML-RPC. We're also updating the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/directory/1568/services&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; of deployed Web services implemented in XML-RPC. To be clear, we would like to see Perl support &lt;i&gt;both&lt;/i&gt; XML-RPC and SOAP 1.1. Choosing one over the other is largely a religious matter, both have substantial installed bases, and Perl developers are likely to want to use both in the future. "/>
		<outline text="I also learned that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.php.net/&quot;&gt;PHP&lt;/a&gt; includes &quot;XML-RPC&quot; support in its standard installation. Add to the list, which includes our own Frontier and Radio UserLand, and (coming soon) Python. It would be great to add Perl."/>
		<outline text="Sjoerd: &lt;a href=&quot;http://w3future.com/html/stories/hop.html&quot;&gt;Higher order programming in JavaScript&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://fourstones.net/blog/2001_07_01_blogarchives.html#4523024&quot;&gt;Victor Stone&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I worked in the recording industry for huge record companies for 12 years before I worked for huge software companies for 15 years. I feel confident in saying that (with the possible exception of campaign financing) few arrangement are a better example of legalized corruption than a recording contract. A lot of civil disobedience is required to get back to sanity.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.go-mono.com/passport.html&quot;&gt;Miguel de Icaza&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Microsoft Passport is a centralized database hosted by Microsoft that enhances the consumer experience with the Web by providing a single logon system that they can use across a number of participant web sites.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml;jsessionid=I4H1QZJ2R42UAQAMEHSSFFCABQQ4MIV1?column=Alsop+on+Infotech&amp;channel=artcol.jhtml&amp;_D%3Achannel=+&amp;_DARGS=%2Ffragments%2Ffrg_columnist_blurb.jhtml.1&quot;&gt;Stewart Alsop&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Insidiously, incrementally, Microsoft is getting more and more of me.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/11967.html&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; on OS Opinion is likely to start a valuable discussion. Can you compete in a world with Microsoft with no roadmap, no articulated vision, and no product marketing? Miguel's piece on Passport, linked above, is a beginning for product marketing for open source. I wrote an &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2001/07/09&quot;&gt;essay&lt;/a&gt; earlier this week that gets the ball rolling too."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/misc/halloweenMemo.html&quot;&gt;The Halloween memo&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;When describing this problem to JimAll, he provided the perfect analogy of 'chasing tail lights.' The easiest way to get coordinated behavior from a large, semi-organized mob is to point them at a known target. Having the taillights provides concreteness to a fuzzy vision. In such situations, having a taillight to follow is a proxy for having strong central leadership.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="I sent Miguel an email yesterday saying (among other things) that we owe a debt of gratitude to Microsoft for helping us find a way to work together. We all have some taillight-chasing to do now, but there is a zig to Microsoft's zag. One more time, with feeling, Let's Work Together, that's the zig."/>
		<outline text="Interestingly all the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/whatIsScriptingNews&quot;&gt;mottos&lt;/a&gt; apply. Let's Have Fun; Ask not what the Internet can do for you, ask what you can do for the Internet; It's even worse than it appears; and There's no time like now."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.multimania.com/acappella/lyrics/Eurythmics/Diva/Money%20Can't%20Buy%20It.txt&quot;&gt;Annie Lenox&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;You can have it all but you still won't be satisfied.&quot; This is the perfect song. I could have quoted eighteen different lines. They all add up to the same thing. Jump off the cliff, leave the parachute behind. "/>
		<outline text="It's worth noting that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/13/opinion/13FRI2.html&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt; has finally said something on its editorial page about Smart Tags, but they haven't told their readers &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; they are so alarming. Again, the Times has taken a back seat, and also gotten the facts wrong. Smart Tags are not an &quot;aspect of Windows XP&quot; and they are not an &quot;application&quot; -- they are a feature of IE 6, their withdrawal has been promised, but I'm from Missouri, until they're actually out I'm not a believer."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010712/od/playboy_dc_1.html&quot;&gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Brazil's most famous playboy -- a bon vivant who in his heyday seduced beauties like Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth -- is on the skids and taking his first job at the age of 85.&quot;"/>
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