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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://slate.msn.com/?id=2072037&quot;&gt;Slate&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;First movers get creamed more often than not, but they leave behind much-beloved corpses.&quot;" created="Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:28:53 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/09/business/media/09CND-COURT.html?ex=1034827200&amp;en=1b8533902647d496&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND&quot;&gt;NY Times report&lt;/a&gt; on Eldred v Ashcroft." created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 22:18:48 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,614882,00.asp&quot;&gt;Jim Seymour&lt;/a&gt;, a long-time contributor to PC Magazine, died yesterday. Best wishes to his family and colleagues." created="Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:44:04 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://doc.weblogs.com/discuss/msgReader$2557&quot;&gt;Here's a new version&lt;/a&gt; of Doc Searls's RSS feed, it's based on the OPML version, and it should work, fingers crossed, knock on Murphy, praise wood. " created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 23:53:34 GMT"/>
		<outline text="InfoWorld: &lt;a href=&quot;http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/09/021009hnmsmedia.xml?Template=/storypages/printfriendly.html&quot;&gt;Microsoft eases copy protection in XP&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 22:21:29 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/10/09/fatprogrammer.gif&quot; width=&quot;45&quot; height=&quot;64&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture of a .NET programmer circa 2002.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Microsoft's XDocs product, &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;q=xdocs&quot;&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt; sometime this week, sure is confusing. Isn't stuff like this supposed to happen in the Web browser, so it can be cross-network, cross-browser and cross-platform? A News.Com &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.com.com/2100-1001-961313.html&quot;&gt;report&lt;/a&gt; doesn't shed much light. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,609996,00.asp&quot;&gt;eWeek reports&lt;/a&gt; that XDocs comes from NetDocs, which we remember hearing about a couple of years ago before it was swallowed up in the Office group at Microsoft. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/office/xdocs/default.asp&quot;&gt;Screen shot&lt;/a&gt; of XDocs on Microsoft's website." created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 18:30:14 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Sidenote. It's interesting that the Google News search for XDocs didn't turn up the FAQ page on Microsoft's website. " created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 18:48:54 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/2002/10/09.html#a82&quot;&gt;Don Park&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Microsoft's XDocs sounds very similar to the product I have been building.&quot;" created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 18:51:17 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://organica.us/about&quot;&gt;Organica&lt;/a&gt; crawls weblogs and &quot;makes statistics on what's popular right now, related sites, who links to who, which tools are being used, webservers being used for weblogs and so on.&quot;" created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 18:33:13 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://reiter.weblogger.com/2002/10/09&quot;&gt;Alan Reiter&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The hardest substance on Earth isn't a diamond, but the thick, dense skulls of wireless data marketing executives at cellular companies.&quot;" created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 18:14:31 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Thanks to Cory Doctorow for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://boingboing.net/#85543733&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=392&quot;&gt;Yale LawMeme report&lt;/a&gt; on the US Supreme Court argument in Eldred v Ashcroft, earlier today in Washington." created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 17:40:34 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Thanks to TiVO I was able to catch up on the season premiere of Law and Order. The new District Attorney is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/28/entertainment/main520010.shtml&quot;&gt;played&lt;/a&gt; by a sitting US Senator from Tennessee, &lt;a href=&quot;http://thompson.senate.gov/about/about.htm&quot;&gt;Fred Thompson&lt;/a&gt;. A real politician playing the role of a politician. Hmmmm. " created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 17:27:40 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2309671.stm&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The number of users taking advantage of illegal file-sharing on the net is on the rise, according to new figures from analyst firm Jupiter Media.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Illegal?&lt;/i&gt;" created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:57:51 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/09/politics/09TUBE.html?ex=1034740800&amp;en=8628409bd1dcb6b8&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;ABC, CBS and NBC may not have covered the president's speech in Cincinnati on Monday night, but it was still one of the most-watched television events of the evening.&quot;" created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:02:07 GMT"/>
		<outline text="You say potato and I say potato. You say tomato and I say tomato. Potato, potato, tomato, tomato, let's call the whole thing off!" created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:16:13 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Lots of great &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/10/08#brainTrust&quot;&gt;suggestions&lt;/a&gt; for the software designer nomination for Wired. Thanks. " created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:17:23 GMT"/>
		<outline text="When I was a kid" created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 17:00:48 GMT">
			<outline text="My parents had two friends Alice and Ralph (not their real names). Alice was from Missouri and Ralph from France. They were married and had three kids, two boys and a girl, and lived in the same apartment complex we did in Queens. " created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 17:00:52 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Ralph was a wannabe magnate. He was going to pattern his family after the Rothschilds, who like Ralph were from France and Jewish. Now I was just a kid, but I thought he was silly bordering on pathetic. I wanted to tell him, hey schmuck, you live in an apartment in Queens. You aren't a Rothschild. You aren't the alpha male in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rothschildarchive.org/gallery/default.asp&quot;&gt;dynasty&lt;/a&gt; of rich French Jews. But I didn't say it, because who was I to piss on his dream. I was just a kid. Back then they slapped kids with attitudes. Heh." created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 17:01:44 GMT"/>
			<outline text="I hadn't thought of him in this way for many years until I was reminded by another almost-broke Jew with dreams of grandeur. It's okay to have dreams, but don't get arrogant about it until you achieve them, and even then, there's nothing worse than a sore winner. " created="Wed, 09 Oct 2002 17:03:23 GMT"/>
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