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Best wishes to Ric Ford and family. Ric runs MacInTouch, the authoritative Macintosh weblog. According to the site, "There has been a death in our immediate family, which has prevented us from maintaining regular updates over the past few days. We'll attempt to update the page on a semi-regular basis this week, and we appreciate your patience and understanding during this time." David Brown: "The problem with Communism was that there wasn't any money in it." After posting this pithy comment, David also joined the Leading Users Club. Coool!  This has got to be one of the strangest screen shots ever. I got my wish, now Radio UserLand/Win is an HTML browser. The background of the MDI window is the screen. The URL points wherever you want, including into the HTTP server that's built into Radio UserLand. Exactly where will we go with this? I don't know. Is it a Mind Bomb? Yes it is! I am now glad that I put the picture of TBL next to James Kirk in that pic. I'm going to need a lot of help figuring this out. (I bet Mike will have some ideas.)Ooops, I just leaked.  Matthew Barger is working with Andrew Wooldridge on a Radio UserLand node for Mozilla. The project is called Lute. I'm not sure exactly what it does. Must be a mind bomb. I'll let you know when I figure it out. I had a great phone talk this morning with Paul Everitt at Digital Creations, the leader of the Zope community. We both want to write using Radio UserLand for each others' servers. I want to do a weblog on a Zope server, and Paul wants to do one on a Manila server. We call this project "Golden Spike", we've wanted to connect our worlds for a long time, now it seems closer than it's ever been. Salon: Four Little Words. "It was very sinister at its root," says former Eagles leader Don Henley. "We never should have had to go through this. But the RIAA thought they had enough clout in Congress to make it stick. And they almost did." WSJ: "Mr. Pool's case is a dramatic example of a controversial new type of patent involving 'business methods.' Such patents, which cover a business process rather than a physical invention or a software program, leapt in popularity after a 1998 federal appeals-court ruling upheld their validity. The fastest-growing category of these patents involves the Internet, as companies race to get a lock on nearly every type of supposed innovation. Amazon.com Inc., for example, has patented 'one-click' shopping, and has successfully sued to keep archrival Barnes & Noble.com Inc. from using it." NY Times: "In a new report, the group, known as the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, will recommend that the federal government back 'open source software as an alternate path for software development,' according to a draft copy of the report, which will be sent to the White House and published in a matter of weeks." Tucker Goodrich points out that the US government has been using open source for decades. He says "This is a great example of a reporter with no context or grasp of history."
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