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Linux has saved Amazon $17 million.

You can hack into MS Passport. And just today, BCG decided to move us all into a passport ID using .Net. Still, MSN Messenger 4.5 is pretty good.

Windows XP is good at fixing itself. (But don’t upgrade yet!)

I saw an old MPEG of Red’s Dream in 1995. In a sense, graphics hasn’t changed much in the last decade. It’s just become more accessible.

Just what I needed. A google toolbar, except that it’s not by Google. Wonder why they didn’t think of it…

Preliminary indications are good. DeCSS is legal (so far.)

Now I can watch DivX movies on my laptop.

I wonder what caused this…

From: civics@geocities.com
Subject: Your Data Transfer Status

Congratulations, your website seems to be very popular and has been receiving a large amount of traffic. Our records indicate that you’re using more than the allotted amount of data transfer we provide for a free web site, which is 3 gigabytes per month (measured on an hourly basis). That means that during the past few days we had to temporarily turn your site off to keep the bandwidth within this limit.

Idealine. Net art.

They say it is possible. Living without Microsoft.