Tuesday, June 01, 1999

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News.com: AOL Acquires Spinner.Com, Nullsoft. $400 million.

MacWEEK: MacWorld Acquires MacCentral.

Wired: Overheard at the Microsoft Trial. "I don't know if he's referring to pissing on JFC or pissing on JDK 1.2. Nor do I know is what he specifically means by 'pissing on'. I think it's a term of multiple meanings."

Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister, Tony Tan, had breakfast at Buck's recently, along with several Silicon Valley industrial heavyweights.

News.com: Japanese Snap Up Robot Dog. "The 11-inch-tall Aibo can go for walks, wag its tail and be programmed to do tricks, although it cannot answer to its name."

MacWEEK: A Lesson Learned the Hard Way. "The issue here is Apple's increased adoption of non-proprietary technology. Since the late 1980s Macs have seen PCI boot out NuBus, PC Card replace various Apple-designed notebook connectivity technologies, and, more recently, USB replace the Mac's traditional serial and ADB ports. Internally, EIDE and ATAPI have replaced SCSI as the peripheral connection system. Many of those anonymous-looking chips on your Mac's motherboard can also be found on any number of Wintel motherboards."

Christoph Pingel has been working on a Frontier-based website management system for broadcast stations. Beautiful!

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Wired: Ticker Shock Strikes Techies. "Most don't come from money, and many never expected to have much. Suddenly, they're faced with unexpected dilemmas: What would I do if money no longer mattered? What really does matter? Goldbart says that line of inquiry leads inevitably to the basic question: Who am I?"

NY Times: Money Can't Buy Happiness, Or Can It? "Of course, people don't complain about the disappointments of prosperity unless they are prosperous.."

MSNBC: Food.Com Goes Local. "They’re a herd of elephants, and if you get the herd marching down the same path, it becomes a tremendous force" said Rhoades. "But to get those elephants moving in the same direction takes a long time and a lot of work."