Sunday, June 13, 1999

NY Times: Illness as a Metaphor for Networks. "I believe that we are indeed living in a computational ecosystem which is more and more globally cross-linked," he said. Or to put it more simply, "It's an amazing system, and it's very vulnerable."

BTW, we cracked a barrier to web-hosting a few weeks ago. Lots more comments on this page. The question is how to deploy our new software. It's puzzling!

It's not surprising that Marc Canter's channel has interesting stuff on it! I like this a lot. One of my best friends is playing around on the other side of the My.UserLand.Com interface.

If you generate pages with scripts, you can include Marc's channel in your home page by reading this static file.

Here's what you get when you set Marc loose with an outliner that renders to the web.

I'm reading an early release of Paul Andrews' history of the Internet at Microsoft. The book is not out yet.

It was immediately interesting to me because it includes excerpts of a DaveNet piece from 1994 and Bill Gates' response.

That got me thinking about whether Gates is reliving Ken Olson's career (he's founder of DEC). Thought some more and I postulate that Office 97 is fairly analogous to the PS/2, which was a disaster of proprietariness for IBM. More on that later.

News.Com: McNealy Critical of Microsoft Investments. "I have yet to see a customer who is disappointed when there's interoperability between two different pieces of technology," McNealy said. "I've yet to hear them say, 'Oh darn, I plugged it in and it worked. I hate that.'"