Just when you thought it was safe to open the browser….

Microsoft breaks with standards effort. The software giant steps down from the W3C choreography working group, reflecting a growing discord between IBM, Microsoft and other companies over standards for Web services. [CNET News.com] Crap! Here we go. Now there’ll be 50 flavors of XML: XML, IBM-XML, XML-scape, X++,x#.

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Look ma, no hands! Look ma, no brains!…

Hey! I’m an ISFJ. In blogging, your journal will always be immaculate and have a touch of style. You may also feel overwhelmed because you want to be a part of everything going on. Because of your wonderful memory, other bloggers may come to you to ask about things you posted months before. I realize…

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Mirth is the third planet from the Sun…

Iraq shows off Apache crew. The Pentagon confirms that two men paraded on Iraqi TV are the crew of a missing helicopter gunship. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] Ok! That headline just sounds…um….ga…hom…alter…BAD! I can see it now… Saddam:”Thith ith our new Apashe crew. Bruth ith wearing thith darling green jumpsuit that…

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Stop yer monkeying around….

Rare, Remote Chimps Found Chimpanzees in a remote Central African rainforest may have had little or no contact with humans until recently, said a report in the April 2003 issue of the International Journal of Primatology. The so-called na?ve chimpanzees were discovered in Goualougo Triangle in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo. The 100-square-mile rainforest…

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Open mouth, insert foot…

Microsoft Pulls Ad Found Misleading. Microsoft has yanked an ad implying its major software packages would render computer hackers as extinct as saber tooth tigers and the dodo bird. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] You know somewhere some 12 year old kid just decided to hack a MS server after reading that…

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A family divided….

I listen intently to the war. Not to revel in the death and destruction of another culture, but to find out where my brother is. You see, my brother is in the 82nd Airborne. Last contact with him he was leaving on a boat for Kuwait with all his gear and equipment. He told my mom…

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