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Tim Bray: The Door Is

Tim Bray: The Door Is Ajar Guess I’m not the only one who thinks the browser wars aren’t over.

What interference?

Guess what? Low-power radio stations wouldn’t cause the massive interference that broadcasters predicted, according to a government-mandated study.

Seeking Web app developer

I’m looking to hire someone to build a simple database-driven Web application for my internal business use. Could probably be done in Perl, PHP, or Python, but I’m flexible on the back-end details. If you’re interested, please email me. Please describe your prior experience in the message.

The ghost of browsers past, present, and future

MozillaZine: "[T]he end of Netscape does not mean the end of Mozilla." I’ll never forget the shiver that ran down my back when, eight or so years ago, I got the to the end of the ReadMe file for the first beta of Netscape Navigator, from the fledgling Mosaic Communications Corp. It concluded with the following line: "Yes, this is Mozilla." The Internet was always more than a collection of ...

Media and message

William Safire: "I scorn all polls except those that support my views. According to this week’s Pew Research poll about the FCC plan (to break the ownership barrier and permit media crossover), ‘By roughly 10 to one (70 percent to 6 percent), those who have heard a lot about the rules change say its impact will be negative.’ Nearly half of those polled had heard about this issue, despite conflicted ...

VOIP over WiFi gettting cheaper?

The Register: "Chipmaker Agere Systems today announced plans to integrate wireless LAN and VoIP technology on a single integrated chipset."

My Supernova wrap-up

(photo by Jason De Filippo)

Steve Lohr article on grid computing

New York Times: Teaching Computers to Work in Unison

Computational tradeoffs

Jim Gray of Microsoft Research: Distributed Computing Economics. This was mentioned at “Supernova”.