Month: <span>April 2001</span>

Make Your Own Steve Jobs Keynote
11:59:37 PM  

CNET: Tellme cuts 10 percent in strategy shift. The voice portal cuts 29 workers as part of a reorganization plan to focus on business customers rather than consumers.
5:37:17 PM  

Social Security and the big bad bear. Will an imploding stock market kill off plans to privatize our national safety net? [Salon.com]
3:50:03 PM  

Glenn Fleishman: “Dan Gillmor read a rant by Joel Spolsky about misleading direct mail behavior engaged in by Earthlink Networks. Dan followed up with Earthlink and found them unrepetent.” Not surprised here.
2:55:34 PM  

Turning the Tables. A day after 3 big labels scored points for a licensing deal with online firm MusicNet, the recording industry gets grilled in Washington for shutting artists out of negotiations. [TheStandard]
2:54:10 PM  

A random quote seen on Eric Kidd’s xmlrpc-c-devel mailing list: “When you stand on the precipice of change, you have two options: You can plunge down into the depths of despair, or you can discover the fine art of flying.” Seems apropos at the moment, at least to me.
2:58:32 AM  

CNET: eBay changes customer privacy policy. The online auction powerhouse is telling users their personal data would be shared if eBay is bought out or merges with another company. This is what sucks about Hailstorm, and why SOAP interop is important.
12:31:49 AM  

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Daniel Anderson: Quit Playing With The SOAP!
9:03:34 PM  

Bug fix: Frontier’s SOAP implementation was incorrectly decoding booleans which were false, and represented as “0”, as true. Now it correctly decodes to a boolean, false. [Jake’s SOAP Journal]
6:57:47 PM  

BBC News: Music giants form Napster rival. Three leading record companies have agreed on a joint venture to create a subscription-based online music platform. Oh yeah, that loop again.
3:57:26 PM  

Executive Pay Up in a Down Year. How much are your companies paying their executives? [The Motley Fool]
3:56:43 PM  

Demand for U.S. Tech Workers Down 44 Percent. Those laid off are taking longer to find new jobs – and settle on what used to be their second and third choices, according to a new survey [TheStandard]
3:56:25 PM  

Doubts over water on Mars. A new theory suggests that it was liquid carbon dioxide and not water that carved gullies on Mars. [BBC News]
3:56:04 PM  

Wired: Are Dead People Really Dead?.
3:55:24 PM  

MailToTheFuture now has a SOAP interface. [Scripting News]
3:16:25 AM  

Today is opening day for the Giants! [Jeff’s Weblog]
3:15:32 AM  

Dictionary.com Word of the Day: galvanic.
3:15:11 AM  

Jeff: “Congratulations to Dave on the fourth anniversary of Scripting News!
3:14:10 AM  

Scripting News: April fools. Oh yeah, I know it’s lame.
3:11:55 AM  

Looks like I’ve broken something, my RSS feed is empty.
[Simon’s SOAP Scratchpad] Not broken here. ;->
3:10:51 AM  

CNN.com: Plane crew safe, China assures U.S.
3:09:49 AM  

CNN.com: U.S. spy plane, Chinese fighter collide
3:09:24 AM  

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