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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/doYouSupportTheBushAdministration&quot;&gt;Survey&lt;/a&gt;: \&quot;Do you support the Bush Administration &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7076177.html&quot;&gt;decision&lt;/a&gt; not to pursue the breakup of Microsoft for antitrust violations?\&quot;"/>
		<outline text="A cool new feature is coming tomorrow for all Manila sites, UserLand-hosted and otherwise. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"/>
		<outline text="About the Bush decision to let MS off, I bet there's a settlement and this is the first stage of the execution. Microsoft wants some way to negate that they were found guilty of breaking the law re Netscape. The government dropping that part of the case gives them a way to confuse people later even though eight judges found them guilty. Next week there will be an announcement of a settlement along the lines the goverment laid out today. A behavioral remedy. Nothing too onerous for Bill and his BigCo. And a new reason to be cynical about government. Oy."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/65378&quot;&gt;Cydney Gillis&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Most companies have to pay for advertising. Not Microsoft Corp. All the world's largest software maker has to do is stage an event and invite the media.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://seybold2001.manilasites.com/directory/14&quot;&gt;A directory&lt;/a&gt; of vision statements for Seybold. Thanks to everyone for participating. We're getting ready to mail to all the registered attendees. The room holds 2500 people. I want to fill it with minds on Sept 26. We're serious about building flow for these ideas."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seybold2001/message/63&quot;&gt;David Hess&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;With this application, you don't write your story  chronologically, from beginning to end.  You write your story one  memory at a time.  The application takes care of inserting the memory  on your 'memory map' based on the date it took place.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Betsy Martens: &lt;a href=&quot;http://seybold2001.manilasites.com/discuss/msgReader$18&quot;&gt;Painless Mammography&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seybold2001/message/62&quot;&gt;I'm thinking&lt;/a&gt; about doing painless &lt;i&gt;techno&lt;/i&gt;graphy at Seybold."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://openacs.org/sdm/package-repository.tcl?package_id=12&quot;&gt;Here's the 46th&lt;/a&gt; XML-RPC &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/directory/1568/implementations&quot;&gt;implementation&lt;/a&gt;, for AOLserver."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://seybold2001.manilasites.com/discuss/msgReader$33&quot;&gt;Michael Rose&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Electronic paper will combine the best that different media have to offer the written word. We will have the physical form factor of a notepad, which is great for writing or sketching at a cafe, or perhaps a book, which is perfect for reading in bed. And yet the words will be digital, network enabled.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cfo.com/magazinearticle/1,4598,0|83|4818,00.html&quot;&gt;CFO.Com&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Linux software may be free, but does that mean you don't have to pay for it?&quot;"/>
		<outline text="After a week without refrigeration, I'm enjoying an ice cold quart of Calistoga right now. What a pleasure!"/>
		<outline text="Just say yes (and shut up)">
			<outline text="Let's say you invite a friend to go to the amusement park. The friend says &quot;I can't go because I've learned from experience that you have to ride a bike to go there, and then take the subway, and walk the last five blocks. I find myself once again bowing out of what could be a wonderful opportunity.&quot; "/>
			<outline text="A scene out of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.daylight.com/~jj/humor/dunces.html&quot;&gt;A Confederacy of Dunces&lt;/a&gt;. "/>
			<outline text="What's wrong with this picture? First, maybe I already know that the bike-subway-walk way is the right way to go, and planned to do exactly that. Second, even if I didn't plan it that way, is it possible that I might be willing to do it that way? Of course, if what I really want to do is go to the amusement park with my friend. Why not?"/>
			<outline text="This is the foundation of a piece I've gotta write entitled Just Say Yes. Too much time is wasted &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; doing things. Like playing tennis with someone who always hits the ball into the net. Is your default answer always no? If so, there's an easy algorithm to spice up your life. When you're about to say no, for the eighteenth time in a day, think about it. Could you say yes instead? "/>
			<outline text="PS: Fear is frozen fun."/>
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		<outline text="No Microsoft breakup">
			<outline text="News.Com: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7076177.html&quot;&gt;Justice Dept won't pursue Microsoft breakup&lt;/a&gt;."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010906/ts/microsoft_antitrust_33.html&quot;&gt;AP&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The Bush administration, reversing the Clinton White House legal strategy against Microsoft, told the software manufacturer Thursday it no longer seeks to have the company broken up.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.siliconvalley.com/content/sv/2001/09/06/opinion/dgillmor/weblog/index.htm#ms&quot;&gt;Dan Gillmor&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;What a disheartening development.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="BBC: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1529000/1529036.stm&quot;&gt;US U-Turn on Microsoft break-up&lt;/a&gt;."/>
			<outline text="Net-net, this is bad news for independent developers. "/>
			<outline text="Net-net-net, this is good news for independent developers because it gives us one more reason to work together."/>
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		<outline text="Learning about ICQ">
			<outline text="In 1981 and 1982 I used CompuServe's CB Radio, which was early chatroom software, maybe the first, and for two years I actively participated in the CB Radio community. I had just left Personal Software, had plenty of money (for those days) and was writing and running &lt;a href=&quot;http://dave.editthispage.com/outlinersProgramming#lbbs&quot;&gt;LBBS&lt;/a&gt; and developing user interfaces that took advantage of the power of the personal computer. I did a program called CB Mama, which was a graphic app that allowed you to talk to as many as a dozen people at one time, each in a separate window. (Windows were the big thing then, the Xerox Star was hot, kind of like P2P was last year.)"/>
			<outline text="We had CB Radio dinners in SF, just like the Scripting News dinners we have now. I wanted to run my BBS software in the CompuServe cloud, but they were deaf to such inquiries. Much later the Web would come around and open the cloud to everyone and now there are all kinds of connections between the Web and IRC, ICQ, IM, etc, all of which are descendents of CB Radio on CompuServe."/>
			<outline text="Last night I decided to find out what ICQ is like. My number is 130183294. It's supposedly the richest instant messaging software and community. &lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.manilasites.com/&quot;&gt;Scoble&lt;/a&gt;, who was one of the first ICQ users (his number is 163561) guided me through the software on the telephone. I chatted for a bit with Aaron Swartz. And we looked all over the place to get a quick idea of all the things they do in ICQ today."/>
			<outline text="Anyway, I'm turning on my client now. If you want to chat let's give it a whirl. I can't promise I'll stay on very long, I have a programming project I want to do this morning. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"/>
			<outline text="PS: My handle is Uncle Gravy. Don't ask why!"/>
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		<outline text="Sun is back at it again">
			<outline text="A few months ago a &lt;a href=&quot;http://jcp.org/jsr/detail/101.jsp&quot;&gt;document&lt;/a&gt; appeared entitled &lt;i&gt;Java APIs for XML RPC.&lt;/i&gt; I sent an email to Anne Thomas-Manes, strenuously objecting. The document didn't point to &quot;XML-RPC&quot;, although it attempts to survey the landscape in XML-over-HTTP protocols. XML-RPC was the first such protocol, and arguably is the most used, with 45 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/directory/1568/implementations&quot;&gt;implementations&lt;/a&gt; (including Java), a frozen spec, and a very active developer community. "/>
			<outline text="Their lawyers got in the loop and claimed that they had the &lt;i&gt;right&lt;/i&gt; to confuse developers and users, however, as a &quot;courtesy to Dave Winer,&quot; they changed the document and the crisis was over. Yesterday &lt;a href=&quot;http://mynakada.weblogs.com/2001/09/05&quot;&gt;Paul Nakada&lt;/a&gt; discovered that the document is back in its original form, with support from lots of companies you've heard of. This is disturbing. It isn't about me, forget the courtesy, try self-respect and support for independent developers. "/>
			<outline text="People who work at Big Companies tend only to respect people who work at other BigCo's. We could help them stay in the market if they just worked with us -- instead they pick on us. Unbelievable.  "/>
			<outline text="BTW, I got an email from Anne saying she had left Sun to work at Idoox. Perhaps that has something to do with this nasty reversal."/>
			<outline text="Bottom-line, if you work at Sun, or work at one of their partner companies, especially if your company is listed as a supporter on that &lt;a href=&quot;http://jcp.org/jsr/detail/101.jsp&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt;, get in touch with the people responsible for this work and ask them to get in touch with the XML-RPC community. Instead of trying to roll us over (why?) -- work with us. We want a multi-party system. We don't want to get in the trunk with Microsoft. We want our independence, and for that, we want to see Java stay strong. Be intellectually honest. The term XML-RPC means something. Respect that, and enhance it. Thanks for listening."/>
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