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Jybe: CoSurfing re-invented - links browsers together, to surf together.

This feature has always been available within Groove. I guess that's what they mean by 're-invented'.
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A blog site that makes you hungry. It's run by a talented chef (Madman Madhu) who also happens to be a geek. His photo gallery can make your mouth water.
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From the gallery of uncanny resemblances - Al Capone and Madhu 'Madman' Menon.
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Donald Knuth's Magnum Opus is getting another volume - The Art of Computer Programming Vol 4 and it should be out soon. One of my favorite bookstores (BookPool) has an excerpt from it. The AoCP is the source for computer science algorithms and data structures -

If you think you're a really good programmer. . . read [Knuth's] Art of Computer Programming.... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing. -Bill Gates

Joe Stagner has a good little piece -  'Dork of the Week Award goes to - eWeek's David Coursey'.

I concur and that Dork is another Dvorak in the making and quite simple doesn't get it albeit Coursey still professes that he is "strongly in favor of stopping software pirates".

I believe that most of the hackers who create the viruses, trojans and other maladies to attack MSFT products use bootleg copies anyways. So it's about time they start paying for it.  Hopefully, this will bring down the maladies from hereon.

Dare Obasanjo asks why Microsoft Won't Bundle Desktop Search with Windows. I think it may have to do with non-technical issues like European Union's "supposedly-competitive" trigger-happy bureaucratic lawyers.

I think MSFT is being cautious and not feeding their new nemesis - the political technocrats in the EU. I had a related posting recently.

SourceGear recently introduced 'Dragnet' - I think this directly competes with FogBugz. I got to use FogBuz in a fairly large project last year and I was quite impressed by its simplicity. Except for the annoying 'picture of the day', it performed remarkably well but I'll certainly check out DragNet. In addition to JoelOnSoftware, I have been an avid reader of *Eric Sink's writings and I am sure Eric's counter-attack is part of a well-thought out plan. Such competition benefits the end-user, i.e., the development team and that is good.


*highly recommend taking a look at Eric's 'Not A Legend' movie

Matt Warren has a very thoughtful piece regarding the current EU rulings against Microsoft. I replied to his posting but would like to repost it here -

Keep in mind that the anti-Microsoft decision came from the EU's judicial system - a "country" which is still having a very difficult time formulating a constitution and they call themselves a democracy!

Regarding EU's own software - there is the huge monster system called SAP which is in need of an aenama and there's Linux which is a ripped-off version of Unix/Xinu that was freely available in educational institutions back in the 70s and 80s.

So much for EU innovation.