Doubt's Log

VC watch: This week's funding wins. Softricity receives $14.6 million...HyPerformix gets $12 million...Antenova raises $9.4 million. [CNET News.com]

So that is why salon is still afloat?

Windows CE .NET 4.1. Download the latest Emulation Edition, get the Evaluation Kit, and check out the latest technical content on Mobile and Embedded Development. [MSDN]

note to self: Go play with this when you have some spare play time.

Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System [lnk.to]

A journal by some guy at MS. [TheFlangyNews News]

Dear god, someone linked back. Is this thing on?
Tap. Tap.
Hmm... It appears that Adam's rss file isn't showing some of his log.
If your still watching, I keep most links in my LinkLog

Braving the Badwater Ultramarathon
Hard-Core Athletes Run 135-Mile Death Valley Road Race [npr]

Clemens Vasters: Attributes rock!  Agreed. [Sam Ruby]

This is a page that shows how to use attributes to do cools things in asp.net.

Alphabet Soup: Tradeoffs Between 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g : self-extracting zipped word document [Microsoft WinHEC 2002]

acts of volition: Windows XP: rough around the edges [TheFlangyNews News]

Microsoft's Out the Window. When a company buys back more than $9 billion in overvalued stock, it's time to move on. [The Motley Fool]

Senate Panel Approves Treaty Banning Bias Against Women. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved an international treaty on Tuesday that is intended to eliminate discrimination against women. By James Dao. [New York Times: Politics]

Kevin Werbach: "As its now being deployed, 'broadband' is too slow, too expensive, too asymmetric, and too restricted to be the driver of economic growth." [Scripting News]

Ellison Goes With the Wind. Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO, is pursuing a new challenge: bringing the America's Cup home to the San Francisco Bay. By Sharael Feist. [Wired News]

Open BSD now has a non executable stack in it's current builds [lnk.to]

Speed Metal for Gender Bending Fiction. Theresa Nielsen Hayden notes the Seattle "Literate Metal" band Blöödhag, who sing songs about James Tiptree, Jr. and Ursula K. Le Guin, and other writers. [More Like This WebLog]

The Shame of Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt describes himself as America's leading Arab ally. Yet his anti-democratic behavior is an embarrassment to Washington and an affront to his own people. [New York Times: Opinion]

HP Uses DMCA To Quash Vulnerability Publication [Slashdot]

Dude, our traffic camera's have video clips now!

Arcata Eye's weekly police log [Gnosis]

I listened to Paul Collins talk today on "How to be Obscure". It's an entertaining talk on people who were almost famous, or should have been famous, but are now unremebered. Stories told included N-Rays, studies of the effects of opium and how an inventor managed to automate a process and then make a fortune from it by not patenting it and keeping the process a secret.Collins edits the Collins' library and is the author of Banvard's Folly: Thirteen People Who Didn't Change the World.

ACLU, consumer groups push open access. The Internet's status as an open forum for ideas will come under attack if cable companies aren't forced to open up their broadband networks to rivals, the groups say. [CNET News.com]

The Battle Over Contraversial Bush Judcial Nominee Priscilla Owen : Why An Ideological Selection Deserves An Ideological Confirmation Process [FindLaw via Salon]

Microsoft backs away from InfiniBand. The software maker--one of the early InfiniBand backers--reverses an earlier plan to build support for the high-speed networking technology into its next server version of Windows. [CNET News.com]

Bush Energy Proposal Seeks to 'Clear Skies' by 2018. President Bush announced on Monday that he had submitted to Congress legislation that he said would reduce most power plant emissions by 70 percent by 2018. By Christopher Marquis. [New York Times: Politics]

Microsoft Announces Update to Windows CE .NET [Microsoft Press Releases]

More about the new Windows CE .NET Release

Will Real feast where Apple failed? [CNET News.com]

Microsoft upgrade plan gets cold shoulder [CNET News.com]

EXCLUSIVE: MSN Explorer 8.0 Screenshots [NeoWin]

Microsoft gives more power to the small [CNET News.com]

IPV6 support in Win CE .Net avaliable

States spar over stalled software act. A controversial initiative to standardize U.S. state laws on software licensing faces a crucial vote this week at a legal gathering in Arizona. [CNET News.com]

GUIs for Everyone [Slashdot]

The Register: Microsoft man seeks US Net Radio reprieve. A bill to protect grassroots Internet radio has been offered before Congress. The Internet Radio Fairness Act would exempt webcasters with less than $6 million in annual revenues from the additional RIAA royalty and from future royalty requirements. [Tomalak's Realm]

Two years ago on this day: "The best standard is the one with the most users." [Scripting News]

This Modern World. The history of the dot-com economy and the history of the war on terror -- recounted in a single cartoon! [Salon.com]

Universities Collaborate with Microsoft on Cutting-Edge Technologies.  Leading universities are working with Microsoft Research to create new technologies, based on .NET-connected software, that help people do everything from predicting and responding to failed network connections to teaching abstract mathematical concepts through visualization. [Microsoft Press Pass]

The Conferencing Experience Project, ConferenceXP, is a research and development initiative of Microsoft Research Learning Sciences and Technology group.

ConferenceXP integrates recent advances in high performance audio, video and network technologies to seamlessly connect multiple distant participants in a rich immersive environment for distance conferencing, instruction and collaboration. ConferenceXP provides an extensible foundation for interactive collaborative environments, and serves as a research platform for designing and implementing distance conferencing and learning applications.

This last weekend was the company picnic. The food was okay. The activities fun. The large group of friends to enjoy it with was great. The mountain, Beautiful.

In related events, last thursday was the  windows .net server rc1 ship party. I got there pretty late at which point it was dangerous to be outside. Water ballons were constantly being flung into the air at any constentration of bodies. Beer was tossed at any daring to come outside the caffiteria door.

Opinion - Steve Gillmor: .Net Insecurity Days

But backstage it's a different message: Microsoft .NotYet. Trust us -- we're patenting the HailStorm schemas. Trust us -- but we're not rewriting our apps in .Net. Trust us -- we're locking you in with licenses for upgrades that will never happen because -- trust us -- we're going to change our minds. [Scripting News]

Nation-Building Lite. The Bush administration is trying to reconstruct Afghanistan on the cheap. But empires come heavy, or not at all. By Michael Ignatieff. [New York Times: Politics]

It's Republican vs. Republican on Cuba. President Bush's senior adviser, Karl Rove, has been pressuring Republican lawmakers from farm states not to ease restrictions on travel to Cuba. By Christopher Marquis. [New York Times: Politics]

Analysts question mass move to .Net Server. Are the software giant's customers hungry for the next version of its server operating system? The company is banking on it, but industry watchers aren't so sure. [CNET News.com]

Valenti backs away from P2P hack bill. Not good enough for Hollywood [The Register]

Paul Andrews: "I'd feel more optimistic about R&D at Microsoft if the company could point to a single successful original product to emerge from R&D expenditure." [Scripting News]

Microsoft Tries to Explain What Its .Net Plans Are About. Two years into its quest to create a new kind of Internet-enabled computing it describes as .Net, Microsoft found it necessary to pause Wednesday and try to explain what it meant. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]

Xbox breaks US sales records. Blockbuster launch titles [The Register]

Thestar.com/Ex-Sierra Leone dictator broke, living with mom [lnk.to]

Gates: Slow going for .Net. Microsoft acknowledges that its key software plan has been slow to catch on and lays out an agenda to move it ahead. [CNET News.com]

Roma posted to channel a neat soviet map of where I went to college.

Congress to turn hacks into hackers. Thanks guys! [The Register]

New perk of being a content author. Thanks from me to Dave Winer.

I noticed that neowin has a story with a screenshot of sideshow. (This is not the longhorn one). I do suggest that people check it out, but check out this research paper instead of thier silly screenshot. The research paper has a number of screenshots. Sideshow has been one of my distractions at microsoft over the last year. I've written a ticket that tells me what's being served at my cafiterria; one that hooks into my test machine automation informing me of when automated tasks are completed and the overall status of my machines; and even one that (with some hacking around in radio userland) tells me how many news items are waiting in the aggergator with a popup of the top ten. Double click the ticket and I get the web page or application to do more in. And there is still more that I have an itching to create.

RealNetworks Launches Versatile Streaming Server. SEATTLE (Reuters) - RealNetworks Inc. (RNWK.O) on Monday unveiled a new server capable of sending music and video over the Internet in all formats, including those of its digital media rivals Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) and Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O). By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]