Thursday, June 11, 1998

MSIE 5.0 developer release. Registration required to download software. News.com summarizes features.

If this really works, it's the product of the year.

David Chun, a UCLA student, tried to buy a computer without buying Windows. No deal.

Due to a LAN glitch, the DaveNet home page had the wrong piece for the last 18 hours or so. I'm starting to get email on it. It's OK, it was a good piece, written a little less than a month ago, and it's worth a re-read. The network gods were at work here!

Amazon opens its music store; Reuters story.

Thinking about Alan Greenspan's evaluation of the US economy yesterday made me want to re-read this DaveNet piece from 1995. Remember Murphy's Law.

Four things that could spoil US economic prosperity:

1. The Asian depression.
2. US limits on privacy software.
3. Y2K.
4. Nuclear war.