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World Domination HOWTO After years of complaints about unfair use of their dominant market position to establish new, de facto standards out of closed protocols…

Saturday, September 28th, 2002

World Domination HOWTO

After years of complaints about unfair use of their dominant market position to establish new, de facto standards out of closed protocols and formats, Microsoft seemed to turn over a new leaf. “We’ll stop using private, undocumented protocols; we’ll codevelop SOAP, a human-readable meta-protocol, and use it as the heart of our .NET initiative. That way, you can read the messages our .NET apps are passing between one another, and develop your own replacement for one of those apps if you like. See, no lock-in!”

“Oh, by the way. We had a patent pending covering an almost identical technology, also named SOAP. Yeah, we had started this project, and killed it, before the public SOAP initiative ever got off the ground. But, given the patent system the way it is, we pretty much have license to sue your ass for even thinking about interoperating with our apps. Better luck next time.”

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Don’t change a thing, we love the emo-fest!

Saturday, September 28th, 2002

Don’t change a thing, we love the emo-fest!

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Erin’s started a section on her site for the wonderful world of Alias (summary available; synopses for the new season forthcoming).

Saturday, September 28th, 2002

Erin’s started a section on her site for the wonderful world of Alias (summary available; synopses for the new season forthcoming).

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MacUpdate seems to have discovered that Message 1.3.0 is out.

Saturday, September 28th, 2002

MacUpdate seems to have discovered that Message 1.3.0 is out. Please note that because of this font-rendering bug in 10.2, you need to be using OS X v10.2.1 or later (or, 10.1.5 or earlier).

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Articles about the PalmSource open house event that took place yesterday at the new Sunnyvale campus:

Friday, September 27th, 2002

Articles about the PalmSource open house event that took place yesterday at the new Sunnyvale campus:

OSNews.com: Report from PalmSource’s OpenHouse Day, by Eugenia Loli-Queru
TheRegister.co.uk: Nagel, Sakoman map Palm’s future by Andrew Orlowski

I did not attend. But I heard stories about the chocolate fountain, which just sounds too bizarre (and circa-2000) to contemplate. My friend Ingrid, however, had no trouble contemplating it:

From: ingrid
To: dan & erin

[...]

Thought of chocolate fountain most of last night and today. Had super gooey brownie chased with milk this aft finally, and I gargled the milk slightly for a fountain effect. I miss that sort of bizarre excess! Hearing about it put a smile on my face.

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Apparently the Houston Galleria Apple Store opening was kind of a bust.

Friday, September 27th, 2002

Apparently the Houston Galleria Apple Store opening was kind of a bust. [link source: Marek Behr, Rice MEMS]

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IKEA:

Friday, September 27th, 2002

IKEA: Unböring. [site]

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