• Dejected Yankees Brace for Wrecking Ball – washingtonpost.com
  Who cares? Get a grip, George. It is just a game, and if you are not having fun playing that game, then trust your manager and players, the folks between the lines.

  Let’s go Mets!

  (tags: personal)
• Microsoft is dead – even if they don’t know it yet at wolfgang.lonien.de
  Yet another example of needless MS bashing. What a waste. Write code, not doggerel.
  (tags: open-source microsoft bashing-microsoft)
• Tectonic: Tectonic
  On a package that helps manipulate Firefox tabs. I should take a look when I have the time, so will mark it via this and put it in in my tab-le of things to do
  (tags: open-source firefox programming-tools)
• Groklaw – Nov. 6th hearing time changed to 11 AM in SCO bankruptcy
  Hurry up, please. It’s time!
  (tags: open-source sco dumb-dumbest)
• Photo Matt » S3 News
  If S3 is good enough for Matt, it is good enough for me. I’m going to use it to back up Dave’s data.
  (tags: s3 amazon programming-tools photo-matt via:sogrady)
• Ballmer: All open source dev should happen on Windows | Reg Developer
  Steve, all open source development DOES happen on Windows, the windows with a small W that can be found on the screen of every open-source dev’s machine. There are tens of thousands of them working each and every day to make your worst nightmare — and
  (tags: open-source linux windows microsoft ubuntu steve-balmer patent-nonsense via:lxer)
• Groklaw – Mark Webbink Joins Board of Software Freedom Law Center
  Mark, Welcome aboard the board. This is great news indeed
  (tags: open-source open-source-governance open-source-licenses open-source-volunteers)
• Time breakdown of modern web design – The Net is Dead
  Hilarious.
  (tags: development firefox humor microsoft software time web via:cote)
• DailyTech – RIAA Case Juror Speaks: 2 Jurors Wanted $3.6M Fine
  Yikes! This may embolden RIAA even further, turning their death march into a race to the death. It will be their death, though they are too busy suing mommies to realize it Over the cliff they will go.
  (tags: riaa death-march)
• Groklaw – Sun joins the party in Delaware
  Is Sun’s business so bad that they need to take the pennies from SCO’s eyes? We shall see.
  (tags: sun sco death-march)
• Slashdot | Cracking Go
  Tim Klinger of IBM Research wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on Go while at NYU/CIMS. His mom, Peggy, was my daughter Jen’s violin teacher. His sister is the chef at Al Di La on 5th Ave. in Brooklyn, a great restaurant. I saw John Turturro there during a rece
  (tags: al-di-la yum-yum restaurants bravo)
• Slashdot | Canonical Chases Deal to Ship Ubuntu Server OS
  Ubuntu at your service. Would you like white wine or red as we serve up your bytes?
  (tags: open-source ubuntu linux good-news)
• Slashdot | Linspire Releases Controversial Version 6.0
  Though Linspire may be Controversial, it is certainly not Canonical. I’ll stick with Ubuntu, the only game in town when it comes to taking Linux to the masses. Linspire should take its inspiration from Ubuntu. You too.
  (tags: open-source ubuntu linux)
• Scripting and Programming Languages
  Interesting post on programming languages of interest to astronomers, though the absence of FORTH is notable.
  (tags: open-source astronomy forth programming)
• Slashdot | Get Speed-Booting with an Open BIOS
  Some of these projects use FORTH, a language also favored by some astronomers.
  (tags: open-source forth astronomy bios)
• Slashdot | Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina Hired By Fox News
  Would that be HP as in HyPe? Move over, Bill O. She’s probably been listening to your phone for weeks now.
  (tags: hp carly-fiorina fox-news)
• Slashdot | Businesses Spend 20% of IT Budgets on Security
  19.99999 … per cent of it because of Microsoft, I would expect.
  (tags: security microsoft open-source)